Thriving Together Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community
“Thriving Together: Nine Principles for Cocreating True Community” by David Viafora is a guide published by Parallax Press on February 25, 2025, consisting of 288 pages. In this work, Viafora, a seasoned community builder and former Buddhist monk, identifies nine principles essential for fostering joy and resilience within communities. He addresses the growing issues of isolation and loneliness, alongside the challenges posed by climate crises and individualism, offering a pathway to a more connected and supportive way of living.
Readers will discover practical insights and inspiration drawn from Viafora’s extensive experience with mindfulness communities. The principles outlined in the book, such as Visioning, Service, Joy, and Reconciliation, provide actionable strategies for enhancing interpersonal relations and cultivating a thriving community. This edition emphasizes the importance of collective vision and compassionate friendships, while also addressing the need for healthy boundaries and racial healing. “Thriving Together” serves as a resource for anyone looking to strengthen existing communities or embark on new communal endeavors, highlighting the transformative power of collaboration and shared purpose.
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Seasoned community builder David Viafora pinpoints the nine principles that create conditions for joy and solidity in any community
Research over the last few decades reveals that our social fabric is unraveling as rates of isolation and loneliness continue to rise, climate crises intensify, and an individualistic worldview prevails. Is there another way to live? Where can we turn for guidance and hope in the face of such challenges?
In this astute and empowering guide, David Viafora, a former Buddhist monk, points to community building as a fresh yet ancient and powerful way to face our most pressing individual, social, and ecological challenges. With precision, enthusiasm, and deep humility, Viafora draws from his own vast experience of mindfulness communities to offer inspiration and concrete guidance in growing thriving communities from the inside out. The nine principles Viafora uncovers for successful community—including Visioning, Service, Joy, and Reconciliation—are broad and easily applicable to our existing groups and relationships. Yet their potential to reshape the most basic elements of our life and friendships is revolutionary. With these nine principles in hand, we can cocreate another way of being—beyond isolation, individualism, and despair.
In true community, we don’t have to face the difficulties of the world on our own. What we can embrace and heal as a community is far greater and more fulfilling than what we could ever achieve alone. Whether your aim is to start a new group, strengthen the community you already belong to, or explore what mindful community living has to offer, Thriving Together teaches us how to:
• Collectively create a vision to guide your community’s unique growth and purpose
• Strengthen the culture of joy, appreciation, and peace in your family or community
• Nurture vibrant, compassionate friendships as the foundation of community life
• Strengthen the muscles of reconciliation through simple yet powerful communication practices
• Embark upon meaningful service projects that nourish and heal both your community and others
• Protect your community by creating healthy boundaries in relationship to power dynamics
• Embrace racial healing as a path of compassionate and inclusive community building
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