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Sharing your community story at the International Community Day (ICD) on October 8th holds immense value due to the event's mission and the principles that guide it. The ICD is dedicated to hosting a global exchange of diverse communities, aiming to inspire a sense of thriving community worldwide. The event is a living movement open to all, driven by the desire to celebrate and learn from the essence of communities.
Sharing your community story at the International Community Day (ICD) on October 8th holds immense value due to the event's mission and the principles that guide it. The ICD is dedicated to hosting a global exchange of diverse communities, aiming to inspire a sense of thriving community worldwide. The event is a living movement open to all, driven by the desire to celebrate and learn from the essence of communities.
Here's why you should participate:
Global Inspiration: By sharing your community story, you contribute to the global tapestry of thriving communities. Your experience can inspire others and showcase the power of community building regardless of geographical or cultural differences.
Shared Learning: The ICD is a platform where individuals can understand, experience, and learn from various communities. Sharing your story allows you to share insights, challenges, and successes, helping others navigate their community journeys effectively.
Safe Exchange: The event provides a secure digital space for individuals to connect, exchange ideas, and grow. Sharing your story promotes an open dialogue, fostering collaboration and mutual support among participants.
Paradigm Shift: The ICD seeks to shift the perspective on community by focusing on personal experiences rather than rigid definitions. Your story contributes to this paradigm shift, emphasizing the diversity and richness inherent in different community dynamics.
Values Alignment: Your participation aligns with the values of the ICD hosts—connection, embracing the unknown, community-focused attention, authentic gathering spaces, solution-oriented thinking, and resilience. By sharing your story, you embody these values and promote them within a broader context.
Collective Solutions: By sharing both your community's successes and challenges, you contribute to the development of solutions that can enhance communities globally. Your insights could spark innovative approaches and strategies for addressing common issues.
Empowerment and Encouragement: Your story can serve as a source of encouragement for individuals facing community-related difficulties. Sharing your journey showcases how challenges can be overcome, fostering a sense of empowerment and resilience.
Anti-Commercialization: The ICD is driven by a commitment to keeping the event free from commercialization or control by a few individuals. Your participation supports the grassroots and communal nature of the event, keeping the focus on genuine community experiences.
Inclusivity: By participating in the ICD, you contribute to creating an inclusive space where a wide range of community voices is represented. This inclusivity enriches the event and highlights the global nature of community building.
Global Movement: Your participation helps solidify the ICD as a global movement that celebrates the essence of communities. By sharing your story, you become part of a collective effort to inspire, learn, and evolve the concept of community.
In summary, sharing your community story at the International Community Day on October 8th aligns with the event's mission to celebrate, learn from, and inspire thriving communities worldwide. Your contribution promotes the values of connection, authenticity, solutions, and empowerment while embracing a shared commitment to genuine community experiences.
By joining, you comply with the ICD - Operating Principles
Everyone who engages, connects, and follows ICD, declares herwith consent tocomply with all national legislation, laws, and social media etiquettes
behave inclusive, open and invitational.
Every single person and all groups are invited to participate, and to shape what ICD needs.
Whether something is right or wrong is judged based on the feedback from the fields.
Practice the ConsenT-based-decision making:
Purpose - everything we do have to serve and not to harm the Purpose
Decions-process: Proposal, Questions, Comments, Objections, Integration, Decision, Celebration
When in doubt, do it, if it's safe enough to try
Pcknowledge that ICD evolves and eventually dissolves fully Self-Organised:
Every action requires Community building first - reach out online to the "fields" i.e., the ICD-Hosts, the LI-members, and other channels...
All impulses, ideas, reactions and next steps are openly shared with the fields
According to the feedback from the fields, agreements are made.
Tensions arising are being processed in a decision-making or conflict resolution process.