{"id":3059,"date":"2010-12-07T05:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2010-12-06T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:22:48","slug":"peter-block-on-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/peter-block-on-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Block on community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CwahGcEiAr0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>One of the most useful books of the past five years in terms of the work I do is Peter Block&#8217;s Community: The Structure of Belonging.  \u00a0In it he aggregates the wisdom of those of us who have been practicing participatory process for the last 30 years in North America.  \u00a0The essence of the work is that social fabric, created through conversations that produce relationships, is the foundation for improvement in communities and the fundamental pre-requisite for effective and sustainable problem solving.<\/p>\n<p>This set of videos is a great introduction to Peter&#8217;s work.  \u00a0View parts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CwahGcEiAr0&amp;feature=related\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MTpSLKr7xao&amp;feature=related\">two<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7rGEgZpQiI&amp;feature=related\">three<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most useful books of the past five years in terms of the work I do is Peter Block&#8217;s Community: The Structure of Belonging. \u00a0In it he aggregates the wisdom of those of us who have been practicing participatory process for the last 30 years in North America. \u00a0The essence of the work is that social fabric, created through conversations that produce relationships, is the foundation for improvement in communities and the fundamental pre-requisite for effective and sustainable problem solving. This set of videos is a great introduction to Peter&#8217;s work. \u00a0View parts one, two and three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[48,6,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-facilitation","category-leadership","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-Nl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}