People aren’t looking to own your goals or objectives…It’s more profound than that!

People seek significant connection. They search to belong.

Most of us have always believed that a person could “belong” as long as their definition of belonging agreed with ours. Most of us have been raised on a healthy dose of believing before belonging. For others to belong, to “join the club,” it was a prerequisite that the person subscribes to our belief system.

Belonging happens when you identify with another entity — a person or organization, or perhaps a species, culture, or ethnic group. Belonging need not be reciprocal. You can feel a sense of belonging — and in fact, can belong — without the other party’s knowledge or sharing the experience.

There are many who consider themselves part of the community until they are confronted by someone who tells them otherwise. Our culture wonders — with some confusion — “Why don’t/can’t I belong.”

Make it easy for people to connect and belong and they will. Language may be the key element for developing and nurturing community. As people search for community, they are listening with their eyes, ears, and emotions.

They are keenly aware of how we tell them they belong or don’t belong. It once seemed simpler. There were only two categories — members and nonmembers. Membership required contracts, beliefs, commitments, and rituals. There was a clearer line that determined when someone was “in.” Now we struggle to build a community of believers in a culture that wants to experience belonging over believing.

This book equips leaders with tools to:

• Discern the key ingredients people look for in community

• Understand the use of space as a key element for experiencing belonging and community

• Develop a system that produces an environment for community to spontaneously emerge

• Discover how language promotes specific spatial belonging and then use this knowledge to build an effective vocabulary for community development

• Create an assessment tool for evaluating organizational and personal community health

“Joseph R. Myers will challenge your thinking about community in these pages. He not only raises the bar on the topic, he brings it to life like nothing I’ve ever read on the topic before. I highly recommend this book to everyone seeking to grow In the area of community.”

– Steve Sjogren

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