 Creating
Community Anywhere:
Finding Support and Connection in a Fragmented World
by Carolyn R. Shaffer and Kristin Anundsen
Foreword by M. Scott Peck, author of the bestselling The Road Less
Traveled
This book gives you the tools, guidance and inspiration
to start now to create the kind of connectedness you desire—whether
you yearn to:
• expand and deepen your circle of friends
• enliven your neighborhood
• revitalize your city
• build the shared-living community of your dreams
“Americans want to connect. We just don't
know how. This book helps us discover possibilities right in our
own backyard.”
—Frances
Moore Lappe, author of Democracy's Edge
and Diet for a
Small Planet
Creating Community Anywhere will help you
discover:
- how connected and resourceful you already
are
- the many forms community can take—and
which suits you best
- what successful communities look like in
cities, towns, suburbs, rural areas and workplaces
- the common
pitfalls of community-building and how to avoid them
- practical
skills you need to better communicate, run meetings, deal
with conflict and make effective group decisions
- ways to renew and
celebrate your community
- how beginning can be as simple as making
a single phone call
Rich with inspiring and humorous anecdotes, quotations and cartoons,
Creating Community Anywhere also includes 17 black-and-white photographs.
(Originally published by Tarcher/Putnam, it was reissued in 2005
by CCC Press.)
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Forms Community Can Take
Creating Community Anywhere tells you how people
are connecting and supporting one another in dozens of ways, including:
• neighborhood
communities
• support groups of every kind
• cohousing and other forms of shared living
• workplace teams
• webs of chosen family and friends
• new forms of community for seniors
• book clubs and intellectual salons
• citizens' groups
• electronic networks and gatherings
• men's and women's groups
• spirit- and creativity-focused circles
• sport and recreation clubs
• ecovillages and other visionary communities
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