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The Abundant Community

Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

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The Abundant Community

By: John McKnight, Peter Block
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Best-selling authors John McKnight and Peter Block offer compelling, new understanding of how and why the spirit of "community" has been lost in our neighborhoods, cities, and society, and what ordinary citizens, leaders, and professionals can do to restore it.

We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us.

The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction - right in our neighborhood and community.

This audiobook reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts, value hospitality, and the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way, we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all!

©2010 John L. McKnight and Peter Block (P)2020 John L. McKnight and Peter Block Social Sciences Sociology
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The first part of this book is rather depressing as it highlight the problem that we currently face with the deliberate destruction of local community in our consumer-driven socities. However, the second part is very inspring as it gives practice examples and solutions for building true community at the local level.

Wow, this is an eye opening book and very helpful

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I have had dreams and ideas for helping to create communities for a long time but this really helps you dive into all of the facets and dynamics to assist with this.
I've been listening to it over and over without getting tired of it learning new things everytime.
I can't wait to take what I learned from this and contribute a heart beat back into communities.

A must read for modern society!

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If you have read bowling alone, be sure to read this book.
There are a lot of good ideas here that we need to figure out how to implement as a society. I’m not suggesting that we create a system, but I am suggesting that we need to be talking about this in many different formats, including in our situation comedies.

A big part of what is not working in our culture has to do with the amount of time we spend watching television. In order to keep the viewers attention television has figured out how important it is to create conflict or to find conflict. If you have read anything about screen writing Conflict is King. And so we have grown to be afraid of our neighbors, etc. etc.. We need new stories and new narratives along the lines of building community. Getting to know one another. We need to figure out how to make this interesting and compelling. Think about it the only narratives we have are about conflict competition is essentially a form of conflict. How do we make this interesting, interesting enough to hold our attention?

This book is fascinating and important. It begins to give us some ideas of how to rebuild community.

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