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Embracing Community: Strategies for Belonging and Contribution

Discover effective strategies for fostering community connections and personal belonging with the Total Living Concept. Explore your neighborhood using maps and identify personal points of interest through engaging activities. By understanding individual interests and encouraging meaningful interactions, we can enhance our contributions to society. Highlight the strengths of each person rather than their challenges, and learn to create supportive networks. This approach helps individuals feel valued and recognized as contributing citizens, promoting a stronger sense of community.

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Embracing Community: Strategies for Belonging and Contribution

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  1. It Is Natural to Belong • Total Living Concept • www.totallivingconcept.org

  2. Exercise • Use the map provided or draw a map of your neighborhood or area you call your community. • Place the “you are here” sticker on your maps “center” or where to leave from if you draw your own or start from the labeled place on the existing map. • Interview one of your table mates and determine 3 points of interest for that person, e.g. nice place to sit, great food, favorite activity, etc. • Use stickers to identify where the person might find those 3 places on your map. (Feel free to ask others if you aren’t certain.)

  3. It is Natural to Belong • Why? • Strategies • Pam’s Story • Brandon’s Story

  4. Why Do The Work? • People belong in their communities • People have contributions to offer • Positive recognition by fellow citizens • Reach high, dig deep

  5. Strategies ~ One Person at a time

  6. Strategies ~ Interests • Who is this person? • What are the person’s interests? • Who shares this interest? • What opportunities exist to join with others? • What support might be necessary and how might it be provided? • Is there anyone in person’s network to help?

  7. Strategies ~ Exploring • Who do you know, who knows who, who knows...??? • Internet, library, community boards, local papers & periodicals • Spend time, hang out in person’s neighborhood and community

  8. Strategies ~Focus on Meaningful Activity • Person seen as a contributing citizen • Expands personal knowledge & skills • Opportunity to sample range of interests & activities • Creates new opportunities & open new doors • Interactions with others who share same interest • Builds upon personal story • Something of one’s OWN

  9. Strategies ~ Modeling interactions • Modeling guidance and educating others, helps to inform and clarify • Come as a Team rather than caregiver, client • Highlight a person’s interests and skills rather than their challenges or needs • Facilitate social interactions and conversation • Don’t answer for or do for a person what they can do for themselves • Educate by example, even with humor

  10. Pam’s story

  11. Bellevue Botanical Garden

  12. Bellevue Botanical Garden

  13. Brandon’s Story

  14. Brandon’s Story

  15. Brandon’s Story

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