Thoughts on Community

Belonging

Belonging is threefold: You belong to it, it belongs to you and you having a longing for it. We belong to community either by circumstance (through shared history, experience, traits) or choice (by way of affinities, practices, actions). Community belongs to us when we contribute and co-create and change our perspective from me to we. Our longing for community comes naturally, deeply biological need for connection, which allows us to live happier and healthier lives.

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Sascha Mombartz

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How Vulnerability Matters

Vulnerability is terrifying; it leaves us open to attack and to painful criticism. But it’s also a powerful way to grow, build connections, and create together.

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Sascha Mombartz

What Silence Means

What is it about silence that makes us feel awkward sometimes and really connected other times? Just being present without words can be a powerful gesture.

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Sascha Mombartz

Community Built Futures

A deep dive into our thinking on how community and society interact, what our challenges are and approaches to solve them.

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Sascha Mombartz

Future, City, Community

André Campbell, host of the Building Future Cities Podcast, interviews me about the future city and what role community building plays in it.

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Sascha Mombartz

Community Leadership: Energy, Space & The Pendulum

A Conversation with Gillian Davis about what it means to lead a community, how it effects your energy and a powerful dynamic that can help manage it all.

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Sascha Mombartz

Memories of Place

Our collective memory of places can strengthen us, bond us together and give us a place to move forward from. But how can we keep memory from becoming overly sentimental and exclusionary?

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Sascha Mombartz

Forging Trust & Friendship

As we get older, forging close friendships becomes significantly harder. But that changes when we redesign our lives so that we are actively seeking out purpose and meaning.

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Sascha Mombartz

The Individual Collective

Collectively we can harness a lot of strength and possibilities. But a collective is made up of many individuals and ensuring that the wants and needs are aligned between individuals and the larger collective can be a challenging negotiation.

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Sascha Mombartz

We don’t need Heroes. We need Collective Victory.

It's not as obvious as it seems that together we can be and do more.

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Sascha Mombartz

Community Profiles

Nick McGirl from ChangemakersXchange

A conversation with the Director at ChangemakerXchange on some of their learnings and challenges.

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Sascha Mombartz

Models of Relating

A brief exploration into different models and modes of Relationship.

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Sascha Mombartz

Community Work is Self Work

Working with others also means working on our own attitudes and ideas.

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Sascha Mombartz

Fairness is Overrated

and bragging is underrated.

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