VII. Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-Being The key challenge of community is developing and maintaining healthy relationships-ones that are based on compassion, emotional depth, and authenticity. In community the emphasis is on quality of connection, not the ability to fit relationships and identities neatly into the traditional categories of nuclear family, kids raised solely by their biological parents (joined in wedlock), or crisp lines around gender identity. In community there are both traditional relationships and considerable experimentation. The Relationships, Intimacy,...
VII. Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-Being The key challenge of community is developing and maintaining healthy relationships-ones that are ...
Agreements, Conflict, and Communication Most of us didn't grow up learning good ways to work with conflict or strong emotional expression. For most of us it's just plain scary, and we bring that naivete and scarring into our community lives. Many groups mistakenly think that the frequency of conflict is a barometer of community health, but it isn't. The litmus test is how you handle conflict; not how much you have. The Agreements, Conflict, and Communication bundle offers a handful of articles about working constructively with distress and conflict, as well as a smorgasbord of information...
Agreements, Conflict, and Communication Most of us didn't grow up learning good ways to work with conflict or strong emotional expression. For most of...
