The Abundant Community Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
by McKnight, John; Block, Peter
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Summary
Author Biography
Peter Block is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed by Block to build the skills outlined in his books. He is the author of Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Answer to How Is Yes, and Community. He is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Organization Development Network’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Table of Contents
Welcome | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Elements of Satisfaction | p. 2 |
The Universal Properties | p. 4 |
The Shift from Citizen to Consumer | p. 7 |
The Limits of Consumption | p. 9 |
The Consumer Way: Lives of Scarcity and Consumption | p. 11 |
The Citizen Way: Lives of Abundance and Cooperation | p. 14 |
A Choice of Culture | p. 15 |
Neighborhood Necessities | p. 18 |
Community Possibilities | p. 25 |
What Did We Lose and Where Did It Co? | p. 26 |
The Origin of Dissatisfaction | p. 27 |
The Growth of Systems and Their Managers | p. 29 |
Outsourcing Care to Professionals | p. 36 |
Seduction by the Promise of Satisfaction | p. 42 |
Effects ofLiving in a Consumer World | p. 46 |
Living by the Rules | p. 47 |
The Cost to Society | p. 49 |
The Cost to Neighborhoods | p. 54 |
The Wired Life | p. 57 |
The Heart of the Matter | p. 62 |
Choosing a Satisfied Life | p. 63 |
The Abundant Community | p. 65 |
The Structure of Abundance | p. 65 |
Gift-Mindedness | p. 70 |
Associational Life | p. 71 |
Hospitality | p. 78 |
The Invisible Structures of Community | p. 81 |
Community Abundance in Action | p. 83 |
The Capacities of an Abundant Community | p. 83 |
The Culture of Abundance | p. 91 |
The Citizen Economy | p. 96 |
Policies That Support Abundant Community | p. 99 |
Democracy and the Abundant Community | p. 109 |
Creating Abundance | p. 113 |
Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods | p. 115 |
Competence within Reach | p. 115 |
Community Abundance Is Its Gifts | p. 119 |
Connected Gifts Create Associations | p. 123 |
The Power of Connectors | p. 132 |
The Vital Role of Connectors | p. 132 |
A Table for Connectors | p. 134 |
Welcoming Strangers | p. 137 |
Finding'Our Own Way | p. 140 |
The Story of an Abundant Community | p. 145 |
Notes | p. 149 |
Resources | p. 153 |
Pioneers: People Who Are Creating Abundant Communities | p. 153 |
Website | p. 159 |
References | p. 159 |
Acknowledgments | p. 163 |
Index | p. 165 |
About the Authors | p. 171 |
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