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Sounding the Drum: Community Building in the Digital Age Kindle Edition

by Lori Gosselin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Sounding the Drum is a work of stories, instructions and philosophical applications of community building and what community means to us and to the world in which we live. Community transforms lives. It is a space to grow, to heal, to thrive and to celebrate together. In community, people forge authentic relationships, experience mutual empathy and enjoy meaningful connections. Community building extends the reach of one person’s actions beyond the boundaries of their city or state and leads to global transformation. The true power to change the world lies in the building of community.
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Lori Gosselin believes the power of community transforms lives. At her blog, Life, for Instance, she delivers the core message of community: We are all in this together. Her first book, The Happy Place, introduces a profound system for healing emotional wounds. Connect with Lori at http: //www.lorigosselin.com or join her Community Building Group on Facebook: "Sounding Our Drums Together", where community builders collaborate, learn and grow together.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06WRV3HNJ
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 16, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2808 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 159 pages
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    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Lori Gosselin

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I have always felt passionate about three things in my life; personal growth, writing, and community building. My first book, The Happy Place, encompassed the first two, and my second book, Sounding the Drum, the last two.

We can all do so much to make the world a better place. Hear me talking about this on my YouTube channel - (TheLorigosselin) I talk about community a lot. I believe every living soul needs to have a community in their life, to belong to, celebrate with, support, and journey with through difficult times.

I hope you enjoy my first book, and my second one which, in retrospect, I realize, I should have named The Universal Happy Place because that's what a community is.

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Cool Dude
5.0 out of 5 stars A guide book to community making and enriching :)
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2017
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I knew Lori for quite sometimes now. In fact I have had the fortune to learn life tips from her.

Just like those tips, the book is great too. It is peppered with thoughts such as what is a community, how can a group of people become community and steps to enhance the sense of community.

You will be pleasantly surprised about how much less you know about process of community and how much aware are you now after reading the book.
It's a must read because it comes from her own experience and thought process for many years.

Recommended highly
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Claudia Scimeca
5.0 out of 5 stars I have long enjoyed her thoughtful style of writing on her blog
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017
First, in full disclosure, I am a fan of Lori Gosselin’s writing. I have long enjoyed her thoughtful style of writing on her blog, Life for Instance, and I was captivated by her first book, "The Happy Place". When I found out that Lori was writing another book, I couldn’t wait. When I found out it was going to be a book on community and community building, at first I paused. I wasn’t sure that a book on community and community building was going to be “my thing”. It turns out, I was completely wrong. Part of the reason that I was wrong was, in large part because of Lori’s ability to draw her reading audience in right from the start. In her latest book "Sound the Drum: Community Building in the Digital Age", Lori flows smoothly between researched facts, personal experiences and how her findings can relate to each of us, her readers, in our lives. And, you know what, she is right! Communities and pseudo-communities (read the book…kind of a community-wanna-be) are around us everywhere. Lori talks about the seven pillars of community building in a way that is easy to understand and to relate to. She explains the evolution of pseudo-communities into communities in ways that make experiences in my own life suddenly clearer. I look around me and at the relationships that I have in local groups differently now. I highly recommend "Sounding the Drum: Community Building in the Digital Age". It is far more than a book about how to build a community in your local organization. It is a book about understanding the communities that we are part of every day of our lives and how to make them more effective and productive!
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Donn King
5.0 out of 5 stars Sounding the Drum gives a sound foundation and toolbox for realistically forming and fostering community
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017
Lori Gosselin has identified something that is both challenge and opportunity. At this point in human evolution, the means of forming community has changed (drastically, in some ways), but the principles have not, and we are still navigating the new ways of fostering this old human need. Rather than bemoan the breakdown of traditional community (which she notes--this is no sparkly-eyed Pollyanna book), she recognizes its continuing strength in face-to-face encounters supported by social media, and at times even primarily built on social media.

Lori is also a speaker, and knowledgeable readers will detect the speaker's ability to focus on essentials and then support/prove/illustrate those points with solid examples. She draws on experiences spanning her life and then uses them to relate to universal experience. After all, who of us hasn't hesitated to reveal our authentic selves for fear of rejection? But when she, for instance, relates it to showing up at a high school reunion and feeling exactly the way you felt back in high school, she really brings the feeling home.

Though this book gives the 20,000-foot view, including effectively defining what we even mean by "community," Lori also shares plenty of feet-on-the-ground advice and techniques for forming and fostering community, always within the framework of the tools she has detected early in the book and the seven pillars of community. The newcomer to community building will get a solid foundation, and the experienced community builder will find a useful framework as well as some new tools for the toolbox.
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Mary Carol Moran
5.0 out of 5 stars A timely guide to connecting -- a must read!
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2017
In Sounding the Drum, Lori Gosselin has written a guide to connecting human to human, with specific pointers on building connection in the digital age. While she writes specifically about building communities, her words apply equally to personal introspection, friendship and partnering, parenting, and schooling. In fact, she includes insightful chapters on applying the concept of community building to each of these topics. She also includes extensive appendices of practical lists and guides.

Sounding the Drum is a book about life. Gosselin writes of four stages we go through over and over. We begin by adhering to social conventions (Gosselin's pseudo-community). Eventually, masks dissolve and we teeter into the confusion of who-am-I-really? (chaos). Eventually, we may reach the absence of judgment (emptiness). And from there, we are finally able to feel genuine connection (community).

In the final chapter, Gosselin applies the idea of community to the challenges facing the world today, right up to and including the recent divisive election in the United States. Whether you want to build a strong community of a few friends or an entire nation, or whether you want to enhance your understanding of your own psyche and personal relationships, I highly recommend Sounding the Drum. It is a thought-provoking book for our times.
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Vishnu
5.0 out of 5 stars Much needed - very relevant to the age we are living in. Community is the answer.
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2017
This was a helpful book to guide me on building community, which I already have been doing for some time. I wasn't very aware of the different aspects of community building which this book filled me in on. Not only did I get a better understanding of what I was doing, it instructed me on how to build up a online community more effectively.

In addition to the chapters on different aspects of community building, the appendix was brilliant in giving an outline of how to build different tpes of communities. The author walks you step by step on how to build online communities, book clubs, parent communities and neighborhood communities.

The timing of this book could not have been better. Communities sounds like the solution we need in our lives, in our cities and in our politics today. The author makes a powerful point that communities can be the basis of personal transformation AND a peaceful social revolution.
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