:Title:    Working in Community
:Author:   David Braden
:Date:     Tue, 20 May 2008 07:52:04 PDT
:Modified: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:31:33 PDT
:URL:      http://www.ned.com/group/networkweavers/news/21/

This discussion is for the purpose of following up on the ideas explored in `Honor the gift of the least among us`_ and `The Story of How Humans Came to Live in Peace and Plenty`_.

.. _`Honor the gift of the Least among us`: http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/73/

.. _`The Story of How Humans Came to Live in Peace and Plenty`: http://www.ned.com/group/community-general/news/175/

I am refining the materials at `Introduction to Three Dimensional Networking`_ and working at applying these ideas in my community of Denver, Colorado, USA.  This is about understanding how the one whole system functions and how we can make it function better.  It appears that a necessary first step is to examine three limiting beliefs:

.. _`Introduction to Three Dimensional Networking`: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Introduction

 1.  If we believe that someone else is responsible for our plight, such as "the corporations" or "the power elite", then we do not take responsibility for exercising `our own power`_ to make the world better.

 2.  If we believe that `resources are scarce`_ then it is reasonable to assume that life is about the struggle to obtain our share of those resources and there will always be conflict over who gets what share.

 3.  If we believe that the market can expand to include all people, we will not be open to explore how we can create `complementary systems`_ that heal nature and produce abundance.

.. _`our own power`: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Local_Organizing_and_the_Planetary_Mind
.. _`resources are scarce`: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Resources_are_not_Scarce
.. _`complementary systems`: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Systems_to_Complement_the_Market

I will welcome any comments, criticism, connections, referral or support any reader would care to share here.

Thank you in advance, David Braden.