Social health is essential to mutual flourishing! We rely on one another for everything we have! See: interdependence.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
~John Donne
We are a gathering of the kindnesses of others. ~Khandro Rinpoche
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Facets of Healthy Collective Life
- mutual aid
- rooted in the view of interdependence!
- taking responsibility, stepping up for one another
- first, needing to ourselves be well-resourced in mental health and physical health (self care for other care).
- Solidarity economics & rethinking scarcity:
- gift economies, Sacred Economics
- Really Really Free Markets
- Buy Nothing, Freecycle
- http://www.socioeco.org
- https://designforsustainability.medium.com/thriving-communities-the-solidarity-economy-464ef874f51f
- Once again, the important message is that we are not trying to reinvent economics with ecology and community in mind from scratch. There are many time-tested strategies and tools already available to us today. They have been developed on the innovation-rich fringes of the mainstream.
- Community Economies
- postwork
- anarchy
- Everyday anarchism is praxis. How are we available and present for one another (inclusively) each day? How are we practicing mutual aid in our everyday lives?
- Continually forging and adapting agreements with one another.
- community
- spiritual friendship meetings
- importance of social connection
- Tools for Community Building
- evaluating tools for communities
- communication
- Liturgy for modern times
- Collective practice and ritual for Envisioning and Dreaming a New World
- Healthy collective engagement: work as practice
- Siddhartha’s Intent Liturgies Library
Pro-social activities
Activities that are great forenvironmentmental-healthphysical-healthsocial-health :
- singing, dancing and theater
- community gardening!
Few emissions or material needs, lots of social collaboration, joy, and movement.
Pitfalls
- Societal Death Spiral