Nurturing Communities    Compassionate Pioneers   
Connectedness     Building Community & Peace

• Expect everyone to contribute; 

• Enable everyone to grow.

• Learn by teaching;
  Grow by giving.

• Respect everyone’s needs, skills, and wisdom.

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Compassionate Pioneers

• Compassionate Pioneers are those who not only reach beyond their own limits and lead the way in developing or trying new options, but who also encourage and help their colleagues to take the same path.  Perhaps only a few of us can be “Compassionate Pioneers,” but most of us can engage occasionally in acts of  “Compassionate Pioneering” – and we should do so as often as we can.    

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Connectedness
"What is connectedness?  It is a sense of being a part of something larger than oneself.  It is a sense of belonging, or a sense of accompaniment.  It is that feeling in your  bones that you are not alone.  It is a sense that, no matter how scary things may become, there is a hand for you in the dark.  While ambition drives us to achieve, connectedness is my word for the force that urges us to ally, to affiliate, to enter into mutual relationships, to take strength and to grow through cooperative behavior." [p. 196] 

This is Edward M. Hallowell’s definition of “connectedness”

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