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Capacities of Abundance

Capacities of Abundance. Based on The Abundant Community By John McKnight and Peter Block 2014. Capacities of Abundant Communities. Kindness Generosity Cooperation Forgiveness Acceptance of Fallibility Mystery. Kindness. Kindness is a relationship embedded with love, care and respect

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Capacities of Abundance

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  1. Capacities of Abundance Based on The Abundant Community By John McKnight and Peter Block 2014

  2. Capacities of Abundant Communities Kindness Generosity Cooperation Forgiveness Acceptance of Fallibility Mystery

  3. Kindness • Kindness is a relationship embedded with love, care and respect • It overlooks or accepts the frailties of the human condition. • Building blocks of kindness: music, dance, story telling

  4. Generosity • Generosity is to make an offer for its own sake • Generosity emerges from the ground (properties) of abundance • Community abundance depends on generosity

  5. Cooperation • Cooperation: “For me to win, you must win.” • Competition is a core value of scarcity. Cooperation is based on the belief that there is enough for each of us. • Caring for the whole and commitment to work something out.

  6. Forgiveness • Forgiveness is the willingness to come to terms with having been wounded, to let it go and rebuild • We find a way to accept the dark side of our own past and somehow complete it

  7. Fallibility • Acceptance of human limitations • We pray, do rituals, cultural ways of dealing with fallibility and tragedy • Frees us to use our gifts without fear

  8. Mystery • Creating space for what is unknowable • Freedom from the burden of answers • Art, music, and ritual are ways to grasp the mystery in our lives

  9. Assessing Capacities

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