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Join us for an inspiring dialogue with Aviram Rozin, founder of Sadhana Forest, and Seth Kaper-Dale, founder of Interfaith-RISE, as they explore the power of hospitality and the pathways to building a compassionate and healing world.

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Hospitality, Commumity and Healing:Explore Practices for Creating Compassionate Communities | Giving Lab at Tenacre Foundation

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Join us for an inspiring dialogue with Aviram Rozin, founder of Sadhana Forest, and Seth Kaper-Dale, founder of Interfaith-RISE, as they explore the power of hospitality and the pathways to building a compassionate and healing world.
Download Aviram’s book for free.
Humanity 2.0: 10 Principles for a Compassionate Society
Listen to Pastor Seth’s sermon on: Make Your Faith Smaller

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157 “It seems that in today’s world we are less and less connected.  As one author remarks: “We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.”...We are living less in small communities where everyone knows one another.  With the advent of industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and modern information and communication technology we have become more and more part of large, impersonal networks.  Much of our daily interaction are with people whom we do not know, do not have any close relationship with, or--with online services on the rise--with people we cannot even see.”

169 “So I believe our lives will be more fulfilling if we live together in small groups.  In intentional communities, we have more agency over many aspects of our life.  In society, governments look after our health care, education, safety, security, etc.  We outsource the care for the environment we live in to professional politicians.  Living in intentional community means taking matters into our own hands.  Building a community, we consciously craft the way we live, take care of ourselves and relate to those around us.  We try to carve out a small ecological niche where we will experience a sense of ownership over our lives.  We stop going with the masses and find our construct communities in order to better address our needs and reflect our vision.”

174 “This brings me to a next point: communities are caring.  What I mean by that is that communities promote care for our neighbor.  Communities have, to a large extent, the ability to look after their own members….We should not underestimate the amount and quality of care that communities can offer and we cannot just substitute that for institutional care.  Compassion is often difficult to provide in institutional care settings, and the lack of compassion has detrimental health effects….In a community though, relationships are naturally more loving and caring.  In community, one can be seen as equal, and can be loved and accepted as one is.  I believe there is something profoundly healing about being accepted the way you are….In community…you are not your disease or your disability, you are first and foremost a human being and as fully a member of the community as everyone else.”

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10 Principles for a compassionate society What if we humans decided to start over again? How can we create a compassionate society that meets our inborn needs? Sadhana Forest is based on a broad vision of building a compassionate world. In this book, founder Aviram Rozin, together with Gijs ‘Jazz’ Van den Broeck, take …

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Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, preaching

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Make Your Faith Smaller - The Reformed Church of Highland Park

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Hospitality means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. . . . The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness, not a fearful emptiness, but a friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as created free; free to sing their own songs, speak their own languages, dance their own dances; free also to leave and follow their own vocations. Hospitality is not a subtle invitation to adore the lifestyle of the host, but the gift of a chance for the guest to find his own.

— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

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Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

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Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists. It is making a new space, a better space for everyone.

— George Dei

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"Together, Sarah and Abraham proved that true hospitality begins in our own thought and includes a willingness to welcome in the presence of divine Love. Their readiness to receive ideas from God brought the blessing of divine Life."

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Hospitality and healing - The Christian Science Journal

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How do we usher in a receptive thought? The author notes that “true hospitality begins in our own thought and includes a willingness to welcome in the presence of divine Love.”

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Gifts, the raw material for community

Associations, the process through which the gifts are exchanged

Hospitality, what widens our inventory of gifts

Each property feed the other two. When we focus on gifts, we can create association; when we have strong association, we can offer hospitality. But it can also be said that association builds gifts, and that hospitality invites association. The point is, one doesn't necessarily come before the other. Enter anywhere you like –– the constraints of the printed page create the sequence of discussion here.

–– The Abundant Community by Peter Block and Jogn McKnight

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p. 62-64: “Projection denies the fact that my view of the “other” is my creation, and this is especially true with how we view our communities and the people in them….Take poverty, for example.  When we see low-income people, we focus on their needs and deficiencies, and that is all we see.  We think their poverty is central to who they are, and that is all they are….To continue, as a community, to focus on the needs and deficiencies of the most vulnerable is not an act of hospitality.  It substitutes labeling for welcoming.  It is isolating in that they become a special category of people, defined by what they cannot do.  This isolates the most vulnerable.  Despite our care for them, we do not welcome them into our midst; we service them.  They become objects….Communal transformation, taking back our collective projections, occurs when people connect with those who were previously strangers, and when we invite people into conversations that ask them to act as creators or owners of the community.  It occurs when we become related in a new way to those we are intending to help.  This means we stop labeling others for their deficiencies and focus on their gifts.

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Peter Block - Community - The structure of belonging

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Peter Block - Community - The structure of belonging

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67 “A citizen is one who produces the future, someone who does not wait, beg, or dream for the future.  The antithesis of being a citizen is being a consumer or a client, another idea that John McKnight has been so instructive about.  Consumers give power away.  They believe that their own needs can be satisfied by the actions of others--whether those others are elected officials, top management, social service providers, or the shopping mall.  Consumers also allow others to define their needs.  If ladders and service providers are guilty of labeling and projecting onto others the “needs” to justify their own style of leadership of service they provide, consumers collude with them by accepting others’ definition of their needs.

75 “Accountability is the willingness to care for the well-being of the whole; commitment is the willingness to make a promise with no expectation of return.”

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Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.

–– Setting the Table by Danny Meyer