UK

www.communitybuilding.co.uk

USA

www.fce-community.org

The process was first described by best-selling author, Dr. M. Scott Peck, in his book, The Different Drum. He presented further information in a later book, A World Waiting To Be Born.

Participants sit in a circle. Facilitators offer brief instruction regarding the guidelines for interaction. The group begins to interact with persons speaking as they are moved to do so. The work of Community Building belongs to the group as a whole. No one is there to teach or provide answers.

Generally, a group will cycle through four distinct stages. In the stage of Pseudo-Community, the group is characterized by polite interaction as individuals “test the waters” of relationship, operating on the assumption that group members have few differences that divide them.

As the group continues to talk, the previously unspoken differences begin to emerge. Typically, participants deal with the discomfort caused by the discovery of difference by seeking to “fix” others or to “convert” people to their point of view. In this stage, there is often limited listening, high emotional energy, and a significant level of frustration. This stage has been labelled chaos.

Groups regularly deal with the confusion of chaos by retreating to the stage of pseudo-community or by attempting to organize in some way. Neither of these avenues leads to a deep level of connection with others. A difficult, but effective way to transcend the barriers to relationship lies through emptiness. Emptying happens when individuals begin to notice what they are carrying within themselves that prevents them from being authentically present with the group and fully accepting of others. As people begin to share what is real for them personal experience of the present moment in the group, prejudices, stories of past pain or joy, unfulfilled expectations group members begin to come together in a new way. In this stage, a group will often feel like it is dying but, in the painful struggle to let go of the barriers to relationship, there is opportunity for something new to emerge.

The process of emptying provides room for a group to receive the gift of Community. In this stage people experience a deep acceptance of others and find themselves accepted as well. Individuals come to know themselves and others in new ways. Differences still exist but they are transcended and celebrated rather than suppressed. The group is characterized by a sense of profound respect, appreciation and joy.

Each of these stages is part of healthy community. A group will not rest undisturbed in the fourth stage but continue to cycle through all the stages. A gift of this process is that people acquire skills to enable continued movement through the stages instead of being stuck in places of division. Community Building provides an opportunity for people to learn how to come together authentically and truthfully in ways that encourage wholeness in relationship.

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Willing Change uses specially designed experiential workshops to encourage and discover new and better ways for your group, organisation or business to be together and experience tells us these can have a significant effect on individual growth and group effectiveness.

Willing Change serves as a catalyst for individuals, groups, and organizations to:

•  Communicate with authenticity
•  Deal with tough and difficult issues
•  Welcome and affirm diversity
•  Bridge differences with integrity
•  Relate with love and respect

Willing Change’s approach encourages tolerance of ambiguity and the experience of discovery.

What we know …

There is a yearning in the heart for peace and because of hurt and rejections we have received in past relationships, we are often frightened by the risk of letting down our guard. In our fear, we disregard the dream of authentic communication and connection as merely visionary. But we have learnt and discovered that there are rules by which people can come back together, the defensive guards can be removed and the old wounds healed. Willing Change’s goal and hope is that these new communication boundaries and rules can be taught through community building workshops nationally and worldwide.

For further information or for bookings please go to our contact us page

‘A community building workshop is a group of people who get together to try and accept and transcend their differences regardless of the diversity of their backgrounds (social, spiritual, educational, ethnic, economic, political, etc.). This enables them to communicate effectively and openly and to work together toward goals identified as being for their common good’

During the workshop through observation and participation, you will be challenged to:-

· Communicate with authenticity

· Deal with difficult issues

· Welcome and affirm diversity

· Bridge differences with integrity

· Relate with compassion and respect

If you are interested in personal growth and have longed for more authenticity in yourself and in your relationships with others this empowering workshop is for you.

We look forward to welcoming you to one!

My business coaching is of the highest calibre and I am well used to dealing with a huge range of issues and blockages including conflict resolution and authentic communications in the board room!

Helping you discover and build Community

What is Community building? ‘

A community is a group of two or more people who have been able to accept and transcend their differences regardless of the diversity of their backgrounds (social, spiritual, educational, ethnic, economic, political, etc.). This enables them to communicate effectively and openly and to work together toward goals identified as being for their common good’

During the workshop through observation and participation, you will be challenged to:-

·       Communicate with authenticity

·       Deal with difficult issues

·       Welcome and affirm diversity

·       Bridge differences with integrity

·       Relate with compassion and respect

If you are interested in personal growth and have longed for more authenticity­ in yourself and in your relationships with others this empowering workshop is for you.

We look forward to welcoming you to one of our empowering workshops.