Community Building Patterns

Together is both the means and the end.

Building community is ancient technology. I have a dream of writing about some critical patters I have used in my life to build community at various scales, from the intra-personal to groups of thousands of people. I’ll also write about patterns I’ve learned about that could operate at much larger scales.

At the moment, this section is a placeholder for essays I’m planning on writing.

Through my travels and adventures, I have developed an extensive cookbook of community-building recipes, including:

Ital Bread Movement
Lao Tzu dinner party
Cocktail Gardening
Three-person Hike
Community Medicine Hikes
Ritualize Parties
Asking for Help
Wandering Spaces
Mingas (work parties)
Taking The Third Side Seriously
Relentlessly Checking In
Clarity of Needs (Explicit the implicit)
Maitreya Buddha

I’m currently working on writing up each of these patterns in greater detail to make them more accessible. If there’s one that piques your interest, write to me about it and I’ll bump it in the priority queue.

For larger-scale communities, Omni-partiality and Interest-Based Processes are the most promising avenues I’ve seen.