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When community groups outgrow their original purpose

Our community group started as neighbors just helping each other during COVID but now some people want it to be more social and others want to keep it practical and we're all too polite to say what we actually want. Every meeting feels like we're planning for a group that doesn't exist.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collective is discovering that their shared crisis no longer defines them, but they haven't developed a way to negotiate what they want to become together.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian filial piety — examined?”

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