community engagement

It is not through experts that a community’s hope emerges, but through the gifts, relationships and creations which circulate within rhizome connections.

There is a work which we love, a way of working -- we call it the Rhizome Way -- but this is a work which has been around much longer than our words

It is not the work of fixing, whether that is fixing people or communities. But it is a work of honouring—honouring community, bringing to life and celebrating those innumerable gifts which circulate within our own communal spaces. It is a work of honouring relationships, coming to see and appreciate those varied connections which sustain us in our daily lives (even those relationships which often frustrate).

This work centres on acts of creation; creating things—things made by hands, arts, crafts, even equipment and machines. This is also a work of creating words: ways of talking, singing, writing which bring people together; which generate new understandings and hope. And relationships are created -- loves, commitments, and so much more. All these creations come from our engagements in life, and they also return to the benefit of this same life.

We, together, create much more than community. We create a people: a people which, in a way, has not yet arrived. This work creates a people of tomorrow. Not a future of gloom and decay, but a place in time where the gifts we share today return multiplied tomorrow within the lives of our children and grandchildren.

The Rhyzome Way to Communithy Engagement is a work of creating ways and means whereby we can together create a people and a future.
 

For duscussion on how Community Engagement might be of benefit for you and your community please contact Christopher Kinman

christopher@rhizomeway.com