Large group interventions for togetherness in organizations & communities
Evangelina and James are conducting a long-term, action research project on how to plan and implement large group interventions that transform organizations and communities from places that market fear, assign fault, and depend on self-interest, to ones that create togetherness and caring for the whole. Each large group intervention needs to become an example of the future we want to create. The actual planning and intervention work is done in small groups which are the unit of transformation. Transformations occur when enough small groups shift in harmony toward the larger change. The small group produces power when diversity of thinking and dissent are given space, commitments are made without barter, and the gifts of each person in the organization and community are acknowledged and valued.
(Adapted from Community by Peter Block, 2008)
