Building an authentic community...

Building an authentic community...

"Conscious community building" is a process of building a shared
story, and consensual decision making - made by mutual consent without any further act (as in writing), built upon respect for all individuals and embracing or inclusivity of differences...

This process goes through four stages:

First stage is called Pseudo-community: Where participants are "nice with each other", playing-safe, and presenting what they feel is the most favorable sides of their personalities. being careful with their words and postings...

The second stage is Chaos: When people move beyond the inauthenticity of pseudo-community and feel safe enough to present their "shadow" selves. This stage places great demands upon the facilitator for greater leadership and organization. as we are all mature person...

The third is Emptying: This stage moves beyond the attempts to fix, heal and convert of the chaos stage, when all people become capable of acknowledging their own woundedness and brokenness, or even powerlesness or helplessness common to us all as human beings. Out of this emptying comes the final stage called

Authentic community: the process of deep respect and true listening for the needs of the other people in this community. This stage can only be described as "glory" and reflects a deep yearning in every human soul for compassionate understanding from one's fellows. "A unity of will" of face-to-face or virtual personal interaction governed by sentiments of trust, co-operation, and altruism - "unselfish concern and devotion to the welfare of others" The proportion of, and degree to which, individuals are ready to sacrifice benefits to themselves for the benefit of the organization as a whole (reflected in degrees of generosity, individual humility, communal pride, mutual supportiveness, loyalty, concern, camaraderie, sister/brotherhood etc.)

Community is virtue or moral excellence of its creative,
it is regulative and ennobling or dignifying energies.
1. It can changed the hearts of its adherents or members,
2. burned away our prejudices, biases,
3. stilled our passions or excitements,
4. exalted our conceptions & apprehensions,
5. ennobled or elevate our motives,
6. coordinate and correspond our efforts,
7. preserving patriotism and safeguarding lesser loyalties,
8. we will made our community a lovers of mankind especially the weak & powerless, and the determined upholders of its best and truest interests,
9. to recognize our interdependence, our wholeness and unity,
10. and to acknowledge the bond that vitally links us as our experience in living the ideals of Community growth and evolvement.

Beyond our sense of friendship and fellowship and social interaction there is the reality unity... Service to humanity and a commitment to a deeper level of engagement with each other, the families and the problems of culion in general…

Culion is in deep divisions until now....

and we're in the process of healing it...


then, it is natural that we bump up with all those conflicts
we just have to be matured enough to accept things in good perspective... it seems irrelevant or unconnected but it'll help also in other ways like we're learning more about our members. they are revealing their true selves and identity... it's nice to know other members!
so
reminder for the portrait or pictures of the members please post them now!
para masaya...


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medyo anihan itong nakaraang mga araw
masyadong maalon ang paglalayag
wala naman yatang bagyo amihan lang yun
kailangang ibaba muna ang layag
para hindi tumaob.
medyo maganda na ang hangin ngayon
laglag na ulit ang layag...
basta deretso lang tayo. tama ba ang daan natin.
malalim na dito wala na sigurong bahura.
ingat lang baka may mga nakaharang na tabla sa dinadaanan.
timbang lang lagi.
ang mga katig matibay pa ba. talian ng husto baka mabali.
malayo-layo na rin tayo sa pampang.
ang taga-timon patatagin para hindi tayo
paikot-ikot lang. bantayan ang hangin.
baka salungat tayo. tingin sa malayo
para alam ang direksiyon natin.
baka may pasalubong na ibang naglalayag sa harap.
mabangga tayo.
medyo madilim ang langit sa banda doon
baka umulan. handa lang ang mga kapote.
ok lang mabasa basta matatag ang layag.
pag sobrang hangin baba muna ang layag
ganon lang...
maya-maya lang may araw na naman.
pwede na sigurong mag pahila ng pang tulingan
or baka makahuli tayo ng rumpi or talakitok or lapulapu...
mangisda muna kaya tayo...



:)


tuloy-tuloy

na

naglalakbay...



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COMMUNITY

slogan: “we do it ourselves”

OBJECTIVE
community empowerment:


1. Altruism: unselfish concern and devotion to the welfare of others

The proportion of, and degree to which, individuals are ready to sacrifice benefits to themselves for the benefit of the organization as a whole (reflected in degrees of generosity, individual humility, communal pride, mutual supportiveness, loyalty, concern, camaraderie, sister/brotherhood etc.). .

As an organization or community develops more altruism, it develops more capacity. (Where individuals, families or factions are allowed to be greedy and selfish at the expense of the organization, this weakens the organization).

2. Unity: oneness as whole body with its unique function and cannot be separated

Unity means a shared sense of belonging to a known entity (ie the group composing the organization). Although every organization has divisions or schisms (religious, class, status, income, age, gender, ethnicity, family etc), the degree to which its members are willing to tolerate the differences and variations among each other and are willing to cooperate and work together, a sense of a common purpose or vision, shared values.

3. Communal Services: share of common goods

An organization's facilities and services (all materials of members), their upkeep (dependable maintenance and repair), sustainability, and the degree to which all the organization's members have access to them. .

The more that members have access to needed communal (group) facilities, the greater their capacity of the organization.

4. Leadership: Guidance, direction

Leaders have power, influence, and the ability to move the organization. The more effective its leadership, the more stronger is an organization. The most effective and sustainable leadership (for strengthening the organization, not just strengthening the leaders) is one that operates so as to follow the decisions and desires of the organization as a whole, to take an enabling and facilitating role. As simple as coordinating.

Leaders must possess skills, willingness, dedication and some charisma. The more effective the leadership, the more capacity has the organization. (Lack of good leadership weakens it).

5. Confidence: belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing

While expressed in individuals, how much confidence is shared among the organization as a whole? eg. an understanding that the organization can achieve what ever it wishes to do.

Positive attitudes, willingness, self-motivation, enthusiasm, optimism, self-reliant rather than dependency attitudes, willingness to fight for its rights, avoidance of apathy and fatalism, a vision of what is possible. Increased strength includes increased confidence.

6. Communications: to impart knowledge and to give to another

Within an organization, and between itself and outside, communication includes speaking, electronic methods (eg cellphones, Internet, etc.), printed media (newspapers, magazines, brochures, newsletters), networks, mutually understandable languages, literacy and the willingness and ability to communicate (which implies tact, diplomacy, willingness to listen as well as to talk) in general.

As an organization gets better communication, it gets stronger. Poor communication means a weak organization.

7. Trust: adherence to moral and ethical principles, reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc.

The degree to which members of the organization trust each other, especially their leaders, which in turn is a reflection of the degree of integrity (honesty, integrity, dependability, openness, transparency, trustworthiness) within the organization. .

More trust and dependability within an organization reflects its increased capacity. (Dishonesty, corruption, embezzlement and diversion of organizational resources all contribute to organizational weakness).

8. Organization: the state or manner of being organized.

The degree to which different members of the organization see themselves as each having a role in supporting the whole (in contrast to being a mere collection of separate individuals), including (in the sociological sense) organizational integrity, structure, procedures, decision making processes, effectiveness, division of labour and complementary roles and functions.

The more organized, or the more effectively organized, an organization is, the more capacity or strength it has.

9. Common Values: Values in life, Moral

The degree to which members of the organization share values, especially the idea that they belong to a common entity that supersedes the interest of members within it.

The more that an organization's members share, or at least understand and tolerate, each other values and attitudes, the stronger their organization will be. (discrimination, prejudice and bigotry weaken a community or organization).

10. Networking: a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common interest

It is not just "what you know," but also "who you know" that can be a source of strength. (As is often joked, not only "know-how," but also "know-who" gets jobs). What is the extent to which the organization's members, especially leaders, know persons (other agencies or organizations) who can provide useful resources that will strengthen the organization as a whole?

The useful linkages, potential and realized, that exist within the organization and with others outside it. The more effective the network, the stronger the community. (Isolation produces weakness).

11. Intervention: To involve oneself

What is the extent and effectiveness of animation, of involvements (understanding, management, awareness, stimulation, motivations etc.) aimed at strengthening the organization? Do outside or internal powers increase the level of dependency and weaken the organization, or do they challenge the organization's members to act and therefore become stronger?

Is the intervention sustainable or does it depend upon decisions by outside donors who have different goals and agendas than the organization itself? When an organization has more sources of stimulation to develop, it has more strength.

12. Political Power: participations in local or decisions

The degree to which the organization can participate in national and district decision-making. Just as individuals have varying power within an organization, so organizations have varying power and influence within the district and nation. .

The more political power and influence that an organization can exercise, the higher level of capacity it has.

13. Skills: A developed talent or ability, Proficiency

The ability manifested in individuals, that will contribute to the organization and the ability of it to get things done that it wants to get done, technical skills, management skills, organizational skills, mobilization skills etc.

The more skills (group or individual) that an organization can obtain and use, the more empowered is that organization.

14. Information: "knowledge communicated"

More than just having or receiving unprocessed information, the strength of the organization depends upon the ability to process and analyze that information, the level of awareness, knowledge and wisdom found among key individuals and within the group as a whole.

When information is more effective and more useful, not just more in volume, the organization will have more strength. (this is related to, but differs from, the communication element).

15. Wealth: All goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use

The degree to which the organization as a whole (in contrast to individuals within it) has control over actual and potential resources and the production and distribution of scarce and useful goods and services, monetary and non-monetary (including labour, land, equipment, supplies, knowledge, skills).

The more wealthy an organization, the stronger it is. (When greedy individuals, families or factions accrue wealth at the expense of the organization as a whole that weakens the organization).

16. Context (aPolitical and Administrative):

An organization will be stronger, more able to get stronger and sustain its strength, the more it exists in an environment that supports that strengthening. This environment includes
(1) political (including the values and attitudes of the leaders, laws and legislation) and
(2) administrative (attitudes of civil servants and technicians, as well as Governmental regulations and procedures) elements. The legal environment.

When politicians, leaders, technocrats and civil servants, as well as their laws and regulations, take a patronizing approach, the organization is weak, while if they take an enabling approach to the organization acting on a self-managed basis, the organization will be stronger. No political patronage.