Creating Community Anywhere
Book (signed copy)
Creating Community Anywhere:
Finding Support and Connection in a Fragmented World
An inspiring and practical compendium of tools, tips and resources for ending isolation and building communal bonds that endure. Includes examples of how people of all ages and backgrounds are forging nourishing connections through everything from book clubs, baseball teams and electronic affinity groups to cohousing, ecovillages and other forms of shared living and cooperatively designed neighborhoods.
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Creating Community Anywhere:
Finding Support and Connection in a Fragmented World
by Carolyn R. Shaffer and Kristin Anundsen
Foreword by M. Scott Peck, author of the bestselling The Road Less Traveled
This book gives you the tools, guidance and inspiration to start now to create the kind of connectedness you desire—whether you yearn to:
- expand and deepen your circle of friends
- enliven your neighborhood
- revitalize your city
- build the shared-living community of your dreams
“Americans want to connect. We just don’t know how. This book helps us discover possibilities right in our own backyard.”
—Frances Moore Lappe, author of Democracy’s Edge
and Diet for a Small Planet
Creating Community Anywhere will help you discover:
- how connected and resourceful you already are
- the many forms community can take—and which suits you best
- what successful communities look like in cities, towns, suburbs, rural areas and workplaces
- the common pitfalls of community-building and how to avoid them
- practical skills you need to better communicate, run meetings, deal with conflict and make effective group decisions
- ways to renew and celebrate your community
- how beginning can be as simple as making a single phone call
“Rich with inspiring and humorous anecdotes, quotations and cartoons, Creating Community Anywhere also includes 17 black-and-white photographs. (Originally published by Tarcher/Putnam, it was reissued in 2005 by CCC Press.)”
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(Carolyn inscribes each book but at this point cannot address her message to the recipient by name.)
The most comprehensive book about the community movement in all its variety.”
— M. Scott Peck, M.D., author of the bestselling
The Road Less Traveled, in his foreword to the book
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