This is one of 3 posts I created describing the explorations around Community Purpose in 2024 – the others are Reflections on Purpose and Post Partum Reflections on Purpose.
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Last Sunday, at another community gathering, we moved on from exploring Purpose to defining Primary Aims.
Guided by Gordon McAlpine/NFA and Tessa Brock/EF, we welcomed back 55 Questors including 11 Harvest Hosts.
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- photos by Mark Richards
In groups of 5 we took the challenge to identify key Aims that revealed how to live our Community Purpose.
Using the 5 Themes described in Post Partum Reflections on Purpose affirmed on 3rd June 2024, we discovered 15 Aims.
Summarized in the table below, with the votes each received, we have used colours to group 5 related topics:
1. Spiritual Community (yellow)
2. Connect with Intelligences of Nature (blue)
3. Evolve and Support One Another (green)
4. Regeneration and Resilience (beige)
5. Service to World (white)
The Visioning Team will now collaborate with the NFA Council and Ecovillage Findhorn Community Benefits Society (EF) Board how to progress this work of agreeing on a set of Common Aims for our community (and integrate them into our Local Place Plan).
I am founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. and author of Integral City Book Series. I have created several communities of practice, social enterprises and Masters level learning programs. I am called to reimagine cities as complex, adaptive, living systems (human hives) in service as Gaia’s Reflective Organs.
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