Facilitate versus Create
Just words? They are very similar yet at the same time considerably different. I often read or hear about people that are going to create a community.
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Do you create a community or facilitate it?
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Create is in fact a very strong word and implies that you make something from nothing. If you read the bible you will recall the story of creation. In seven days God created the earth, man and all of the wild beasts. Pretty powerful stuff. Most mere humans lack the capability to create something.
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Facilitate is different and more of a catalyst in nature. When you facilitate you act as an agent on existing elements helping to bring them together. Communities waiting to happen exist everywhere. These communities can often be made more vibrant and dynamic with a bit of facilitation or the act of bringing elements together.
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I would postulate that communities are NOT created and in fact already exist. The catalyst of facilitation brings communities together and makes them more dynamic.
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Cheers,
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Ian Graham
You sort of have it right. They do listen, but have been trained to believe things can only work in a specific way. That is 35 years experience introducing such concepts as the Labour investment fund, the community investment fund and try to get them to accept a 21st century investment system that I created in 1995 in which it changed how investment is done and how partnerships are formed. That allowed 54 members to support 6 grass roots R&D , did hands on training for several dozen university/college,unemployed, people with learning disabilities by allowing everything and anything to become an investment or potential investment. all software controlled. The key to the future is no longer at th top but at the bottom, but in order to survive in a Global economy the cst of living and doing business has to come down and that can only be done in one way. Yet when offered to the political leadership silence is Gloden and tells you everythiong you need to know about what really goes on in the politcal world.