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Becoming Anchored in Neighborhoods and Communities

Becoming Anchored in Neighborhoods and Communities. Total Living Concept www.totallivingconcept.org. Exercise. Introduce yourself to the person sitting next to you. Pretend that the person is a newcomer to your neighborhood or community.

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Becoming Anchored in Neighborhoods and Communities

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  1. Becoming Anchored in Neighborhoods and Communities Total Living Concept www.totallivingconcept.org

  2. Exercise • Introduce yourself to the person sitting next to you. • Pretend that the person is a newcomer to your neighborhood or community. • Discover 3 interests and/or activities that the person enjoys. • Identify a place or resource in your neighborhood or community where the person might participate in a preferred activity or join with others who share a common interest. • If you don’t know, identify someone from your neighborhood or community to whom you could introduce the person or what you can do to seek more information.

  3. It is Natural to Belong • Why? • Strategies • Pam • Brandon

  4. Why Do The Work? • A sense of belonging • An opportunity to be & be seen as competent • Affirmation & personal recognition • Involvement with something bigger • Reach high, dig deep

  5. Strategies ~ One Person at a time

  6. Strategies ~ Interests • Who is this person? • What makes the person “come alive”, brings joy? • What are the person’s interests? • Who shares this interest? • What opportunities exist to join with others? • What support might be necessary and how might it be provided? • Is there anyone in person’s network to help?

  7. Strategies ~ Exploring • Who do you know, who knows who, who knows...??? • Internet, library, community boards, community commons, local papers & periodicals • Wander around, hang out & keep showing up • Apply the principle of seven (Marvin Thomas)

  8. Strategies ~Focus on Meaningful Activity • Person seen as a contributing citizen • Expands personal knowledge & skills • Opportunity to sample range of interests & activities • Creates new opportunities & open new doors • Interactions with others who share same interest • Builds upon personal story • Something of one’s OWN

  9. Strategies ~ Model interactions • Model guidance as a way to build comfort with and of others, helps to inform and clarify • Come as a Team rather than caregiver, client • Highlight a person’s interests and skills rather than their challenges or needs • Facilitate social interactions and conversation • Don’t answer for or do for a person what they can do for themselves • Educate by example, even with humor

  10. Pam

  11. Bellevue Botanical Garden

  12. Bellevue Botanical Garden

  13. Brandon

  14. Brandon’s Story

  15. Brandon’s Story

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