Tag: Belonging

Free Download The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging by Charles Vogl, Tom Dheere, Berrett-Koehler ✅Publishers
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01JDZ9XXC | Format: MP3 / 3 hours and 50 minutes | 105 Mb
This book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a community, to strengthen the community they already have, or who may not think of themselves as community leaders but who are envisioning a group they hope to create. These communities can be formal, with official memberships and administrations, or informal, tied by shared values and commitments. Some people think communities happen by accident, or have to emerge organically, but Charles Vogl emphasizes that there are solid, time-honored principles for consciously building them.
Drawing on 3,000 years of tradition, Vogl lays out seven enduring principles that every community of every kind must master to be effective and supportive. He describes each principle’s purpose and provides extensive hands-on tools for implementing them. He also helps leaders ensure that their communities remain healthy and life-affirming and not degenerate into rigid cults.

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Free Download Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities (Stanford d.school Library) by Susie Wise, Stanford d.school, Wise Susie
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09HN3VC32 | Format: MP3 / 3 hours and 23 minutes + PDF | 96 Mb
A practical, illustrated guide to using the tools of design to create feelings of inclusion, collaboration, and respect in groups of any type or size – a classroom, a work team, an international organization – from Stanford University’s d.school.
"This is a beautiful book. Wise has applied the gift and imagination and lenses of the d.school to one of our most precious questions: how to create belonging." (Priya Parker, author of the Art of Gathering and host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart)
Belonging brings out the best in everyone. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, community organizer, or leader of any sort, your group is unlikely to thrive if the individuals don’t feel welcomed, included, and valued for who they are.

Free Download Roksana Badruddoja Manhattan College, "National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity "
English | ISBN: 900451287X | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In National (un)Belonging, Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary South Asian American women. Critiquing binary and hierarchical thinking prominent in cultural discourse, Badruddoja conveys the multidimensional nature of identity and draws a compelling illustration of why difference matters.

Free Download Deborah Meyer Abbs, "Belonging: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Christian Community"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0830831568 | EPUB | pages: 64 | 1.3 mb
God created all of us for relationship with God and each other. Yet most people have felt left out at some point. For those with visible or invisible disabilities, attitudes and systems of ableism can particularly lead to deep hurt and barriers to fully participating in God’s kingdom work. We all miss out when any members of the body of Christ are not included.

Free Download James Greenaway, "A Philosophy of Belonging: Persons, Politics, Cosmos "
English | ISBN: 0268206023 | 2023 | 338 pages | EPUB | 1028 KB
James Greenaway offers a philosophical guide to understanding, affirming, and valuing the significance of belonging across personal, political, and historical dimensions of existence.

Free Download Toula Drimonis, "We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada"
English | ISBN: 1773901214 | 2022 | 223 pages | EPUB | 774 KB
Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life?

Free Download Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, "An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants "
English | ISBN: 0231211430 | 2023 | 400 pages | PDF | 12 MB
After West African migrants arrived in France in the 1960s, the authorities opened residences for them known as "foyers." Initially intended to contain the West African population, these hostels for single men fostered the emergence of Black communities in the heart of Paris and other cities. More recently, however, a nationwide renovation program sought to replace the collective living arrangements of foyers with more individualized spaces by constructing new buildings or drastically reshaping existing ones―and casting the West African presence as a threat to French identity.

Free Download Nora Krug, "Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home"
English | 2019 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 1476796629, 1476796637 | PDF | 97,1 mb
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *

Free Download The Practice of Belonging: Six Lessons from Vibrant Communities to Combat Loneliness, Foster Diversity, and Cultivate Caring Relationships by Lisa Kentgen
English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1623177634 | 233 pages | PDF | 1.70 Mb
An inspirational guide to the 6 core qualities of healthy communities, for anyone looking to build community as a source of connection and a vehicle for social change

Free Download Owning and Scaling Belonging for You
Released 12/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 26 | Size: 95 MB
A feeling of belonging-of being seen, valued, and heard-seems, by definition, largely dependent on other people. In this course, Sanyin Siang shows you how you can create a feeling of belonging for yourself. Sanyin explains how belonging begins with you-reflecting on yourself, discovering your key values, and identifying your distinctive strengths. Learn how to build important relationships that create a sense of belonging, including with your manager and prospective mentors. Finally, learn how you can be a catalyst for helping others belong by drawing in peers, developing belonging as a leadership skill, and engaging with those who are different from you and bringing them into your belonging circle.