Session Description

How do you as a leader create or shape environments that allow for community to emerge organically? Explore nine organizational tools for creating a healthy environment, while learning how to diagnose your current situation and implement patterns that will develop healthy community.



Joseph Myers

Joseph Myers is the author of Organic Community and The Search to Belong. He owns a consulting firm, FrontPorch, which specializes in creating conversations that promote and develop community. He has helped congregations, architectural firms, community planners, and human resource departments. Myers is also the president of the board for BLOC Ministries, a non-profit movement that strengthens families through student communities and helps 20,000 students per year in the Cincinnati area. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Sara. They have a daughter, Jaclyn, and the three of them enjoy golf, bicycling, and Scrabble.

www.languageofbelonging.com