Culture of Belonging through Community Building: An Infrastructure for Strengthening the Renewal of Kibbutzim, Intentional Communities, and Other Forms of Communal Life--How Do You Do It?

The Life with the pandemic in the last two years emphasized more than ever the potentional of communal life as an alternative vision for creating a solidarity society and strengthen social resilience. Recent research during the pandemic showed the connection between the ability to save lives and the trust with one's neighbors. To fulfill their role as leading edge of communal life, the Kibbutzim and the Intentional communities offered to create an innovative approach that strengthened the sense of community under the realization of the full collective life that collapsed, and replacing it with new ways of organizing this option of solidarity. Culture of Belonging through tools of community Building generates the strengths of the community, its assets and what members are so proud of and will use to struggle with their challenges. The outcomes of COB are powerful. When members feel they are seen and belong they will increase participation, increase engagement and volunteer more, initiate programs, create collaborations and search for more partnerships. In the workshop we will learn the main principles of COB ,how you measure the level of sense of community and how it effects different communities around the world: Kibbutzim in Israel, Intentional religious communities and villages in Burundi Africa.