Integral Community Network

ICON GLOBAL 2007

What the ITS should now that may thwart community

Posted by ICS respondent on October 17, 2007

  • Thinking that we know the way people should act or think and imposing solutions to neighbors. Not creating social agreements.

  • Not using a methodology for conflict resolution, decision making.

  • Leadership of only one individual Hierarchical pyramidal social structures Isolating the community from “the outer world”

  • Lack of using system thinking to help in the organizational structure of the community.

  • Having to go out of the project or community to bring money to the projects of the community.

  • Not making or keeping time tables

  • Governmental policies or projects that can bring ecological and social unbalance to the bioregion.

  • Social problems like youth gangs, drug addictions, alcoholism that affects the neighboring communities.

  • The use of recreational drugs by members of the community.

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