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Community Outreach Informing and engaging local people in planning processes. Participatory Needs Assessment • CBPAR-Community Based Participatory Action Research • PLA-Participatory Learning and Action • Bioregional Mapping Guidance for Participatory Community Life Techniques for communicating effectively, resolving conflict, and building resilient relationships. Community Self-development and Self-inquiry Helping communities to know themselves and to build internal capacity for strong individuals economically, culturally and physically. Oral history, workshops and a written repository of “community memory” are important foundations for making choices that are wise and stable. OAParticipatory%20Practices.htmlhttp://www.nativemaps.org/?q=node/1384/OAParticipatory%20Practices.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
Sense of community is “the perception of similarity to others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or doing for others what one expects from them, and the feeling that one is part of a larger dependable and stable structure.” Sarason 1974:157 Place attachment [in profound cases] “is experienced as an extension of the self. Such attachments arise naturally in the context of daily experience. Brown and Perkins 1992:282 Place attachment rests in a commonality of feeling and experience. Reliving through conversation particular experiences in shared outdoor or indoor settings ties people together through a common memory of those special places. Community Trails Mediation Guide Le Ferrand 2006
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Copyright CALATHUS LLC © 2007. All Rights Reserved. Images (top to bottom): Fotolia, potkettleblack.org, Fotolia, potkettleblack.org, Fotolia Literature: Brown, Barbara B. and Douglas D. Perkins. 1992. “Disruptions in Place Attachment.” Place Attachment. Plenum Press: New York. Le Ferrand, M. 2006. Community Trails Mediation Guide $25 plus S&H Sarason, S.B. (1974) The psychological sense of community: Prospects for a community psychology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.http://www.potkettleblack.orgshapeimage_7_link_0
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A Community Memory Booklet PAR in Environmental Dispute Resolution Tools and information to prevent or resolve disputed access to community trails (historic, local, wildland trails). This case set in Colorado Front Range (2002-2006) is an example of beyond neutrality in mediation. Local, historic, wildland trails traverse both public and private wildland and are accessed freely by local community for non-motorized connection to nature and social visits. “Historic” implies use as found in the historic record and as reflected in the memories of older residents. “Wildlands” denotes an abundance of ecological processes significantly surpassing signs of human activity. OAParticipatory%20Practices.htmlhttp://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/6_1hauss.htm/shapeimage_10_link_0shapeimage_10_link_1
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Sense of place and bonds to natural environment; Sense of community and social bonds associated with local nature experiences; Rural mutual help structures; Sense of security through locals (defined as those with whom one is familiar) on adjacent or traversing trails on or near one’s own property; Spiritual opening in the solitude of the wilderness experience; Sense of meaning in work thru connection to the landscape (e.g. in the case below, three national herbal tincture lines began in relationship between local post-modern women and local forests) Community Trails Mediation Guide, Le Ferrand, 2006 RECENT PROJECT “Sense of Community” through trail access Sense of Community Planning is building, restoring and maintaining vibrant and abundant interpersonal relations in a community. “Local customs are like guidelines. Customs reflect human aptitude for discernment under conditions of uncertainty. Local customs are ways of doing things in everyday life and on the occasion of special and seasonal events. An example of a customary agreement is the self-monitored, weekday-only use by locals of a pond on private property.” Community Trails Mediation Guide, Le Ferrand, 2006 Please send check to: Calathus Book Orders 551 Main Street-Gold Hill Boulder Colorado 80302 Please also specify “Trails Mediation Guide” and “your ship to” address. Thank you.
 
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