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   %UNDERSTANDING BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES WORK 030501
   %LARGE NETWORKS INTEGRATION PEOPLE IDEALS VALUES 030501
  %OPPOSITION DOMINATION SYSTEM DOMINEERING LEADERS 030501
   %OPENNESS DISHONEST EXPOSURE POWER CONCENTRATION 030501
   %CONTROL SEXUAL INTIMACY PRIVACY ABUSE ADDICTION 030501
  EXPERIMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS SECURITY VULNERABILITY 030501

     Building   healthy   communities   entails   building
increasingly larger networks of well integrated people and
groups of  people.    Thus, building  healthy  communities
entails being aware of and dealing with the challenges  to
and   within  such  expansions  of   meaningful   intimate
communications among people.   Not all people welcome such
expansions  of  honesty.   We need to understand why  some
people   oppose   such  expansions  of  open  and   honest
communication ---  and we need to find ways  to  encourage
and facilitate  healthy  expansions  of  open  and  honest
communication.  The following overview may be helpful:

     For each individual person, and
      For each two people in dialogue, and
       For each small group of people in dialogue, and
        For each larger group of people working together,
         And, for each combination of the above ---

     There are diverse levels/dimensions of ---
       Objective/subjective/reflexive
        awareness which may be: subconscious, dreaming,
         fantasy, articulated, verbalized, in-dialogue,
          in other sharing, or just in being together.

     In any of the above situations there are diverse
       levels/dimensions of being
        comfortable-with
         at-home-with and/or
          well-integrated-with each reality;
           privately and/or publicly.

     How the above relationships "play-out" depends much
     upon the accidental/intentional  presence/absence of:

     Domineering people,
      Taboos/excommunications,
       Domination system(s),
        Collusive games of mutual self-deception,
         Addictions and/or codependencies,
          Lovers, diplomats, mediators;
           Integrative conceptual frameworks/paradigms,
            Sanctuary-communities,
             Supportive legal, educational, professional
              and political frameworks;
               People willing to take prudent risks,
                People "avoiding" all risk-taking,
                 Facilitators in tragedy-mitigation,
                  Facilitators in reconciliation/healing.

     To promote and facilitate the building of healthy and
well-integrated communities/members the following kinds of
considerations need to be kept in mind:

     1.  Security   is   not   achieved   by   eliminating
vulnerability; or by technocratic means of any kind.

     2.  The  truest  and most profound kinds of  security
entail  being safely vulnerable in intimate  relationships
with different other people.

     3.  The greater the number of people involved and the
more  intimate that the relationships among the people are
---  the more profound and difficult are the challenges to
promoting  and facilitating the true integration,   health
and welfare of  and for the  people  who  are directly and
indirectly involved in the relationships.

     4.  Focusing   primarily  upon  people  as   isolated
individuals   is rarely at all helpful ---  in the absence
of  a corresponding    focus   upon   the   qualities   of
the relationships of the people who are most significantly
involved in the inter-personal relationships within  which
"isolated individuals" are involved.

     5.  It  may  be  essential to identify  instances  of
neglect wherein individuals and/or communities have failed
to  minister  to  the  basic  human  needs  of   alienated
individual  persons  ---   who have become  the  focus  of
concern of law enforcement officials.   See item four just
above.

     6.  Focusing upon assigning blame, shame and guilt on
individuals   ---   will not be at all helpful ---  unless
there   are  correspondingly   significant   efforts    to
promote  and facilitate:    integrative-understanding   on
the part  of individuals and communities,  reconciliation,
and  healing    ---   for all who have  been  affected  by
unwelcome events.

     7.  It  is  not enough to work  in  terms  of  formal
and/or informal: laws, rules, commandments, prescriptions,
proscriptions, rituals, procedures, formalities, etc.   It
is  also essential to give due and gracious  consideration
to the hopes,  fears,  desires, expectations, aspirations,
etc.   of the individuals  who have been affected by  what
they consider to be unwelcome and/or welcomed events.

     8.  The  concentration  of unbalanced/unchecked power
into  the  hands  of relatively few  people ---  may  seem
to help resolve  short  term  crises ---   but  will  most
likely   engender    many   more  and  serious   long-term
conflicts  and crises.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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