Moving Forward to Healthy Community

## What Moving Forward To Community means In Action DO-ing Living Working Together Creating and Prospering

**Structure**

**7 skill sets The Pod/Extended Family, Village, Community,  Perspective**

**It has been my observation that when persons group together and from non-pre-selected groupings, a neighborhood, a family gathering, parents of the kids our kids hang out with, (pre-selected would be a corporate department, say accounting) the opportunity for the grouping to succeed at its venture, irrespective of purpose, greatly increases when the grouping is in the 7 range (5 getting there 6 – 8 good, 9 very difficult).**

**Another pattern evolved in my observations; a similar synchronicity occurred at the sweet spot of 15 persons. Again, the harmony occurred, the venture, be it group outing, ad hoc committee, seminar, or training event has a greater/smoother chance of a successful enterprise within these parameters.**

**Does it scale, 30-60, I think so, then sharing/governance comes in and that’s another chapter.**

**My attention/attending to this leads me down several lines of reading/listening/sharing investigation that I feel are ‘the same stuff’: Our indigenous roots, The structure of our religious and governmental bodies, and the order and form in nature – from which we humans come, and the “We/Our Earth/Solar System/Galaxy/Universe Are All One” thing.**

**There are many corollaries within my observations of historic and contemporary materials whether, or not, we choose to accept it.**

**Back to the human scale, we have grouped ourselves in these sizes for quite a while, as long as we have been using any form of durable accounting for sure. We also have a continuingly evolving body of our history – evolution. At present our direct ancestors are 400,000 old, there is 900,000-year-old evidence of village (like?) life and humanoids are 4,500,000 years old for sure, 6 probably and there is speculation there are a million or so years of our history.**

**My speculation is that we have had a long time to figure out what skill sets are necessary for survival, yes even prospering. Further I feel that our very human beings have for all this time have naturally been able to fulfill these 'imperatives' as a natural (the universe thing) process. SO, all the corollaries are not coincidental, rather they are natural.**

**In this light I present a speculative list of specific skills than when placed together form a cohesive group of humans, an extended family, a village – tribe, a body of people. The list is seven sets and a single. The sets are a complement to each other and to the whole as the group approaches the 15 number. The Dreamer role can be double duties in smaller groups and becomes a necessary entity in the 15 range and plays as an administrator/facilitator/manager role.**

**These juxtapositions are necessarily in-concrete – for it is humans that we are discussing, and we are adaptive - just as the Universe (thing) itself.**

**As in the fractal perspective this human process model scales and maintains the same 'observable' structure, therefor if healthy group, village, tribe structure exist then it would stand to a test that there will be successful larger iterations as in township city, state, nation and globe – as it is with the rest of life on earth.**

**Now additional observations as I begin to 'see' the culture I live in through this lens.**

**Age and gender are not requisites for any particular role or acknowledgment – or lack for a person to be this role – it is something that “Is” the individual. Certainly, the position of child, youth, adult and elder are real and a necessary component. What happens in age difference is that the complementary roles which have interchangeability will move to mentor student relationships. This is also natural and observable in other parts of the 'life system'.**

**The other side of the coin – Our ability to survive / prosper is predicated on the deep commitment to this system, the failure to follow this process results in judgment against each other, fear and greed and disillusion of Humanity (the concept – our history – the parallel with that which bore us our Earth Home.**

**You can explain things to people, but you can’t understand things to people**

**Understanding comes through the building on - working with, people in relationships**

**Develop Durable Sustainable Relationships, Neighborhoods and Communities, do this NOW.**