2. Community is Defined by Circle of Relationships
Economic
Exchange
Participation
Friendship
Intimacy
3. YOUR TURN:
-What is your name?
-How are you involved in
Belltown?
-What would you like to
get out of this workshop?
4. POWER OF COMMUNITY
• Create Great Places
• Care for the Earth
• Care for One Another
• Prevent Crime
• Emergency Response
• Health and Welfare
• Happiness
• Social Justice
• Democracy
5. Power to Care for the Earth
Ballard Neighborhood, Seattle
68. Power of Community
Care for the Earth
Prevent Crime
Respond to Disasters
Care for One Another
Advance Social Justice
Promote Health
Instill Happiness
Create Great Places
Strengthen Democracy
79. Community in Crisis
Single-purpose land
use
Increased mobility
More time working
Fear
Electronic screens
Consumerism
Globalization
Specialization
Professionalization
83. We all say that it takes a village to raise a child. And
yet, in modernized societies, this is rarely true. Instead, we
pay systems to raise our children – teachers, counselors,
coaches, youth workers, nutritionists, doctors, and
McDonald’s.
We are often reduced as families to being
responsible for paying others to teach, watch, and know our
children, and to transport them to their paid child raisers.
Our villages have often become useless – our neighburs
responsible for neither their children nor ours. As a result,
everywhere we talk about the local “youth problem.” There
is no “youth problem.” There is a neighborhood problem:
adults who have forgone their responsibility and capacity to
join their neighbors in sharing the wealth of children. It is our
greatest challenge and our most hopeful possibility.
-John McKnight and Peter Block
The Abundant Community
84. Keys to Opening Your Community
to Broad and Inclusive Participation
275. YOUR TURN:
-What is the unique identity
of Belltown?
-What are your cultural and
historical assets?
276. Every place has:
• Gifts of individuals
• Voluntary associations
• Built and natural environment
• Local economy
• Culture and identity
• Local agencies
296. Do Learning Conversations
CREDENTIAL
WARM UP TALK
MOTIVATION TO ACT
● Gifts/talents to contribute
● Dreams to realize
● Concerns/needs to address
WILL THEY PARTICIPATE?
WHO ELSE DO THEY KNOW?
337. SUGGESTIONS FOR BLOCK/BUILDING ACTION GROUPS
Crime prevention
Emergency preparedness
Block parties
Skills exchanges
Share tools, pickup truck, camping equipment, etc.
Buy in bulk
Policy discussions
Support for latchkey kids
Support for housebound seniors
Support for one another
Rideshares
Improve/maintain common spaces:
Paint mural in intersection
Plant street trees
Provide broad base for neighborhood association
Create website for block/buildiing
Create a manifesto of block/building values and commitments to one another
Create a directory of available expertise (recycling, technology, etc)
Create a green block/building in which each household commits to reducing carbon footprint
Conduct a talent show
Show outdoor movies on side of a building
Celebrate Neighbor Appreciation Day by recognizing good deeds
348. Actions from Initial Gatherings
Neighborhood walking map
Planning for senior co-housing
Gay/lesbian community projects
A one-stop lifelong learning website
365. YOUR TURN:
What is your vision for Belltown?
(What would a healthy Belltown
look like, both physically and
socially? What would you keep,
change and add?)
366. Use Open Space Technology
High Point Neighborhood House
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384. YOUR TURN:
Brainstorm actions that would
utilize Belltown’s strengths and
move towards your vision
of a healthy community?
