Nature Trail

Squishy

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Emptiness (Emptying)

Links from today's class

Validation Video

Chaos -
Bring the Toy Back to the Carpet
12 Angry Men

Emptying (Emptiness) -
The Climb

The Courage to be a Constructivist

Link to the article:  The Courage to be a Constructivist

Scott Peck - Community links

Four Stages of Community #1

Four Stages of Community #2

Images with Explanations

Article

Looked at for larger-scale groups, Tuckman's (norming, storming, performing...) stages of group development are similar to those developed by M. Scott Peck and set out in his (1987) book, The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace. Peck describes the stages of a community as:

• Pseudo-community
• Chaos
• Emptiness
• True Community

Communities may be distinguished from other types of groups, in Peck's view, by the need for members to eliminate barriers to communication in order to be able to form true community. Examples of common barriers are: expectations and preconceptions; prejudices; ideology, theology and solutions; the need to heal, convert, fix or solve and the need to control. A community is born when its members reach a stage of "emptiness" or peace (Peck: 95-103).

Day One

Homework:  Use this link to complete the Briggs-Myers Personality Test.  Bring your results to class on Sunday, August 15th.