Given my path as an out social worker for more the 30 years I’ve struggled with the paradoxes community making creates. The roots of my wrestling match ping-pongs between an awareness of:
- strengths and related deficits of creating and maintaining a healthy tribe and
- how our tribal nature nurtures cycles of harmony and strife.
What one perceives as harmony (growing social acceptance that feed illusions of identity integration, cultural maturation and increased safety) another perceives as strife (loss of identity, culture, safety, et. al.).
As we more fully awaken to ancient calls to genuinely embrace grace, compassion and gratitude what happens to centuries-old programing?
True a solid community based on a healthy balance between the needs of the one with the needs of the many enriches all lives. Equally true is the awareness our species continues to value tribal success at the cost of other tribes.
As we learn from the efforts of Don, Morris and similar visionaries we are less likely to repeat lessons already learned.
