The Knight Soul of the Community 2010 study of "Why People Love Where They live and Why It Matters: A National Perspective" concluded that what attaches resident to their communities doesn't change much from place to place:
- Social Offerings - Places for people to meet each other and the feeling that people in the community care about each other.
- Openness - How welcoming the community is to different types of people, including families with young children, minorities and talented college graduates, and
- Aesthetics - the physical beauty of the community including the availability of parks and green spaces.
Peter Block's book Community: The Structure of Belonging encourages us to focus on the possibilities and ask the question, "What can we create together?"
Questions are more transforming than answers - they create the space for something new to emerge. Some other questions are:
Questions are more transforming than answers - they create the space for something new to emerge. Some other questions are:
- What is the commitment you hold that brought you into this room?
- What is the price you or others pay for being here today?
- How valuable do you plan for this effort to be?
- Whom would we like to join us?
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