Category Archives: community development

(Issue #459) Resilience: Where Can You Make Changes?

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

This week’s blog post draws on the seventh, and final, core value from Community as a Safe Place to Land (2019). Resilience: The ability to connect adaptability, recovery, growth, and discovery. The Seven Core Values for Purpose and Growth provide … Continue reading →

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(Issue #458) Reflection As A Non-Luxury Good

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

This week’s blog post draws on the sixth core value from Community as a Safe Place to Land (2019): Taking time to consider, ponder, remember, analyze, evaluate, and appreciate the various connections of life. It sounds logical, commonsensical, and a … Continue reading →

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(#456) Rainbows

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

This week’s blog post draws on the fourth core value from Community as a Safe Place to Land (2019):  Give voice to our RAINBOWS—our dreams and aspirations—and act to move toward them. Goals represent hopes for a brighter future. Research … Continue reading →

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(#455) Resources: Find, Learn, and Use

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

This week’s blog post draws on the third core value from Community as a Safe Place to Land (2019):  Discover and use RESOURCES to increase chances for progress, growth, learning, and connections. “Knowledge is power.”  But if acquired knowledge is … Continue reading →

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(#454) Recognize The Stories In The Room

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

No matter how far-sighted leaders may be on an issue, if they cannot connect to the emotional responses of their constituents, relevance is missed and opportunity squandered. This past week I attended and spoke at our city commission meeting. The … Continue reading →

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(#450) Respectful Relationships

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Steve Piscitelli

Respectful relationships help build lasting, meaningful, accepting, loving, nurturing, and sustaining communities. As I wrote Community as a Safe Place to Land, I had the opportunity to speak with transformational people in communities from Savannah, Georgia to Celebration, Florida.  Each … Continue reading →

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(#447) Resistance Bubbles

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

How do we get the two groups to the table to capitalize on the 10% they agree on—to start a conversation and maybe educate one another to each resistance bubble’s beliefs and core values? Is this a worthy goal—and, is … Continue reading →

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(#443) Why Did We Form This Band?

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

There are some things that really matter, like a shared vision. If the singer wants to be a star, the guitarist wants to play a different style and the bassist and drummer are in it to smoke weed and jam… … Continue reading →

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(#442) Community Building: Beyond Why to How

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

The question, in my mind, moves beyond why we need community to how we go about building and sustaining it. While dichotomies can be simplistic, they can also help frame a conversation. When you seek a community, toward which end … Continue reading →

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(#435) Community Requires Respectful Communication

Posted on September 23, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

You better think. A few of the reviewers for my forthcoming book, Community as a Safe Place to Land, noted that a community will be hard pressed to exist without respectful communication. Respectful. Indicative of politeness or deference. Communication. Communication … Continue reading →

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