Communal transformation is a departure from individual or systems or management. It is about the collective engagement and association. The work of John McKnight is central here in putting our attention back on the gifts and capacities of the neighborhood. This directs our attention to connection, convening, physical space, the order of social architecture. The essence of this connecting and convening focuses on gifts rather than needs, welcoming strangers rather than like-mindedness, and investing in associational life rather than services.