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How Can Spiritual Assets Facilitate Community Building?
What Conditions Are Most Favorable for the Expression of Spiritual Assets?
How Spiritual Assets Can Be Used
Some Examples of Spiritual Assets in Practice
Developing Spiritual Assets
Some Challenges and Issues in Applying Spiritual Assets
Spiritual qualities, such as compassion and justice, are often directly connected with the work of community building. In this chapter, we hope to examine those qualities, or assets, to show how they have been used in practice, and how you can use them for greater effectiveness in your own community-building work.
“Spirituality” refers to the qualities that inspire us to do what is right and good – for ourselves and for others. This chapter is about those qualities and their application in one’s personal, professional, and community life.
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The Charter for Compassion has developed a four-part model or framework for building a Compassionate Community. In many ways, the model is similar to other models for organizing a community-building effort. The objectives of various efforts are usually related to the well-being of the community, e.g., improved healthcare, decreased crime, increased assets for youth, economic improvement, and increased resilience. The CFC, too, is interested in the well-being of communities and applauds all of these efforts since many of them do indeed address pain and suffering within the community. The difference in the Charter’s model may be understood as a difference in perspective and intention. Those working to create Compassionate Communities are moved through empathy to compassionate action a desire to address pain and suffering wherever it occurs not only in their own communities but in all communities and for all living beings everywhere. That perspective is perhaps best