Comments - Community needs leaders worth their salt - Community life competence2024-03-29T15:15:05Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2028109%3ABlogPost%3A106491&xn_auth=noSALT is a most meaningful acr…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-13:2028109:Comment:1067132012-10-13T15:59:38.696ZRobyn Stratton-Berkesselhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RobynStrattonBerkessel
SALT is a most meaningful acronym. Thank you for sharing your experience and your wisdom. Experiencing a sense of belonging, ownership, contribution are other factors that come to mind about being in community. I remember years ago when I was in a leadership role and drew my org chart as a circle. My boss challenged my leadership capacity, as I did not follow the conventional hierarchical model.
SALT is a most meaningful acronym. Thank you for sharing your experience and your wisdom. Experiencing a sense of belonging, ownership, contribution are other factors that come to mind about being in community. I remember years ago when I was in a leadership role and drew my org chart as a circle. My boss challenged my leadership capacity, as I did not follow the conventional hierarchical model. Thank you for these inspiring…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-13:2028109:Comment:1066022012-10-13T06:05:45.950ZJan Somershttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JanSomers
<p>Thank you for these inspiring, triggering words Gerard. </p>
<p>Will you be attending the Global Learning Festival in Chennai shortly?</p>
<p>Thank you for these inspiring, triggering words Gerard. </p>
<p>Will you be attending the Global Learning Festival in Chennai shortly?</p> Beautifully written! Gerard,…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-12:2028109:Comment:1068312012-10-12T20:49:25.024ZOlivia Munoruhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Olivia
<p>Beautifully written! Gerard, you have triggered many thoughts which I will carry with me for a long time. The term Community Workplace - this is very interesting to me and something which resonates. Here in London, I am part of a community of entrepreneurs - and indeed it is somewhat a "systematic" community, still only just beginning to build the deeper qualities like those that you list. But the value of belonging - simply BELONGING to something, that is, in itself, very…</p>
<p>Beautifully written! Gerard, you have triggered many thoughts which I will carry with me for a long time. The term Community Workplace - this is very interesting to me and something which resonates. Here in London, I am part of a community of entrepreneurs - and indeed it is somewhat a "systematic" community, still only just beginning to build the deeper qualities like those that you list. But the value of belonging - simply BELONGING to something, that is, in itself, very encouraging.</p>
<p>You mentioned one of my favourites - John McKnight. His critiques of the over-professionalised services really resonate with me. Have you read Illich? I am sure you have - his work "DeSchooling Society" is another great commentary which speaks to what you mention here - the creation of need, where perhaps that need could have been avoided / accepted / percieved differently. </p>
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<p>Well - there's so much here that I just wish I could come back to visit your wonderful COmmunity Workplace and chat and chat! Instead... please keep writing - I love your blogs. </p>
<p></p> I like this post so very enco…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-12:2028109:Comment:1067872012-10-12T17:01:58.284ZAdrian Daisleyhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/DrAdrianDaisley
<p>I like this post so very encouraging.</p>
<p>I like this post so very encouraging.</p> Gerard,
I read this yesterda…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-12:2028109:Comment:1066872012-10-12T08:03:52.906ZPhilhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Phil
<p>Gerard, </p>
<p>I read this yesterday and I have kept coming back to it and reading it again. There is so much to reflect on that I really don' t know where to begin. </p>
<p>The phrase 'Community Workplace' is new to me, but I think that what you discuss is relevant to all work places. </p>
<p>At the moment, what I take from your text is a tension that sits between the idea of Community and Workplace. So can a Workplace be like a Community? And I guess, equally relevant, can a Community be…</p>
<p>Gerard, </p>
<p>I read this yesterday and I have kept coming back to it and reading it again. There is so much to reflect on that I really don' t know where to begin. </p>
<p>The phrase 'Community Workplace' is new to me, but I think that what you discuss is relevant to all work places. </p>
<p>At the moment, what I take from your text is a tension that sits between the idea of Community and Workplace. So can a Workplace be like a Community? And I guess, equally relevant, can a Community be like a Workplace? </p>
<p>One sub-tension that you discuss is between Independence and Interdependence and I found that a challenging idea to reflect on at a personal level. (I am reminded of the angry debate over Barack Obama's sentence, 'You did not build that?'. The tension exists at a national level too!)</p>
<p>You describe other tensions around systems and operational logic and I think all of them arise within the Community Life Competence process. They are challenges for the 'communities' as well as workplace communities. Perhaps we should be exploring them more directly within CLCP? </p>
<p>Earlier this week I was listening to a small group of people as they discussed the challenges of impending or recent retirement. After a while there was a willingness to discuss the fear and apprehension that this event was inspiring in them. When we discussed what they were losing by the loss of a 'workplace' I don't think that the word love would have been out of place. But I am not sure that I would have had the courage to use the word explicitly. Sometimes love has to remain unstated. </p>
<p>Thank you so much for these ideas. I will continue to think about them. </p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>Phil</p> Thanks Gerard, I have printed…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-11:2028109:Comment:1065032012-10-11T10:57:45.376ZNAMARA ARTHUR ARAALIhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/NAMARAARTHUR
<p>Thanks Gerard, I have printed it out for my volunteers to read</p>
<p>Thanks Gerard, I have printed it out for my volunteers to read</p> Gerard, i am so pleased - spa…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-10-10:2028109:Comment:1066722012-10-10T20:42:28.767ZOnesmus Mutukuhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/OnesmusMutuku402
<p>Gerard, i am so pleased - spared 10 minutes to read this! I like the way you articulate what defines a community, including foundations for expansion.</p>
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<p>Gerard, i am so pleased - spared 10 minutes to read this! I like the way you articulate what defines a community, including foundations for expansion.</p>
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<p>Onesmus</p>