The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods by John Mcknight

The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods by John Mcknight

We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us.

The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community.

This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all.

PETER BLOCK is a partner in the consulting firm Block-Petrella-Weisbord, Inc. and an organization development consultant. He has more than twenty years of expertise in consulting, as well as planning and organizing training programs. He is a charter member of Certified Consultants International. His earlier book, Flawless Consulting, received a lot of positive feedback.

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ISBN 13	9781609940812
ISBN 10	1609940814
Title	The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
Author	John Mcknight
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler
Year published	2012-03-05
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.