Culture of Abundance

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

2. Community Culture • “Community culture holds the consumer economy at bay.” David Schwartz • It is the embedded way that a group of people has learned how to live in a place. • In a communal culture everything is personal. There is opportunity for gifts to be given. There is order. There is creativity and spontaneity.

3. Components of an Abundant Culture Time Silence Story Telling

4. Time • Treat time as if we have plenty • Time is a gift in community • be time rather than live in time finding meaning, focal point of existence • To have time, we must begin by stopping, then we can see what is possible.

5. Silence • It puts us in contact with the Divine and our own growth. • It is a form of communion. • It is acceptance of being over doing • It opens us to listening beyond ourselves

6. Story Telling • Stories about abundant community are a narrative about our talents, properties, and gifts • Stories about the creation of the community • Stories provide identity

7. Looking at Our Culture

8. Embedding New Culture • What leaders pay attention to, measure, control • How leaders react to critical incidents • How leaders allocate resources • Deliberate role modeling, teaching, coaching • How leaders allocate rewards and status • How leaders recruit and what they promote

9. Secondary Embedding Mechanisms • Organizational design and structure • Organizational systems and structure • Rites and rituals • Design of physical space • Stories of important events and people • Formal statements of philosophy and creeds