1. Unlocking Community
Building Relationships, Teams
and Communities
http://www.slideshare.net/stacynunnally/unlocking-
community-presented-at-tn-coaltion-71812

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4. • Define community building, stages of
community/ coalition building and barriers to
the process.
• Discuss community building techniques/tools
that can be utilized in SART Coordinate
Response Teams

5. What does
COMMUNITY
mean to you?

6. Community:
A group of people who share a common place,
experience or interest.
Community Capacity:
The ability of community members to make a
difference over time and across different
issues.

7. Group Activity
“Lost at Sea”
Quick group activity to illustrate some
obstacles/barriers to forming effective
teams/communities.

8. What is needed for
successful Community
Building?

9. Important Concepts in
Community Building
• Relationship Building • Feelings of influence and
• Collaboration membership
• Common shared Purpose • Common language,
(shared ideas, experiences, knowledge and dialog
mission and passions) (interaction must be easy)
• Room for divergent views • Emergent Structures
• Authenticity (social structure emerges
organically)

10. Stages of Community Building
ONE-FORMING: Pseudo-community; organizing, avoid
conflict or real relationships
TWO-STORMING: Chaos/conflict; can use structures and
rules to avoid real relationships; determining boundaries
THREE-NORMING: Cohesiveness (after trying quick fixes for
a while the discovery that only by letting go of agendas can
we meet each other
honestly)
FOUR-PERFORMING:
Community - functional
(shared mission, way of
work, mutual respect,
room for divergent views)

12. Barriers to Community/
Coalition Building?

13. Barriers to Community Building
Barrier: Turf & Competition
Strategy: Ego, turf and territoriality are realities in community building.
Recognize self-interest (indiv./org) as part of what motivates people and look for
strategies that take self-interest into account. Minimize impact of turf, etc. by
appealing to larger good/mission.
Barrier: Bad History
Strategy: Never forget the power of history– know what it is or discover it.
Create an open and fair process that allows everyone to participate, set ground
rules, shape the coalition’s agenda.
Barrier: Failure to Act
Strategy: Community/coalition must have a process and operate in a planful
manner, but it also need to produce actions and results (in its first weeks and
months of existence). Include smaller actionable steps that can be completed –
while also working on the long term goals.

14. Tools & Resources for Building
Relationships, Communities
and Teams
See Handout

15. How is all of this applicable to your
Community’s SART/Coordinate
Response Team?
Facilitated Group Discussion

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