Introduction: Curriculum for the Common Good
This website is designed to bring together the theory and practices of communal restoration. Our purpose...
Category Archives: Communal Restoration
7.3 Practices of Communal Restoration
These are the practices that create what traditional or imperial or business-minded reform cannot. This is...
7.2 Tools of the Communal Perspective
As our commitment to community re-stories our thinking about economics, architecture, the faith narrative, art, and...
7.1 Untitled Community Builders
The alternative to the imperial context and business perspective is the communal context. If building or...
6.4 Gifts and Hospitality
Communal transformation is a departure from individual or systems or management. It is about the collective...
6.3 More Management
The conventional wisdom about transformation not only holds the individual at the center of its thinking;...
6.2 Communal
We add to restoration the word communal. We hold a long tradition of believing that transformation...
6.1 Restorative Practice
In conjunction with the shifts within the core disciplines, and the narratives that spring from them,...
5.4 Counter Narratives
The reconstruction has begun within each discipline; we see that there already are alternative narratives in...
4.1 Development and the Business Perspective
When not operating under the name of reform, the business perspective take on the name of...
3.1 Building Community
The alternative to privatization and empire is not necessarily to put these concerns into the hands...
2.1 The Business Perspective
Creating a dense social fabric, which we are calling community building, is more critical to the...
4.2 Modernism and What’s Next?
We associate development with growth; we seek the “latest and most advanced kind,” the definition of...
3.2 Trying Harder Doesn’t Help
What is on the side of community building is the widespread knowledge that something is not...
2.2 Consumer Economy
The dual reality of empire and the business perspective have fueled the consumer economy. Consumption and...
4.3 Royal Protocols
This means that when we try to reform health, safety, education, government, finance, we will look...
2.3 Privatization
Opposition to the common good works under a number of disguises of empire: globalization, efficiency, competitive...
1.1 The Measure of Well Being
Everywhere there are citizen-leaders inventing ways for themselves and their neighbors to: be safe, produce a...
4.4 Loss of Culture, Community and Place
The societal cost to seeking these modernist versions of reform is that we lose our cultural...
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Community: the Structure of Belonging Peter Block
1.2 Epidemic of Isolation
The effort to build the social fabric required to support the commons is a major, long-term...
