A key implication is the relationship to Metro Cadre and all its facets.

Shift in image from particular local situation to human dynamics.

Entire Council must consense to do 3 Primal Communities per Metro and use the

common phasing model and terminology relative to Primal Community.Global Research Primal Community

Assembly: Chicago Task Force U

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OVERVIEW

Description of Primal Community

Throughout all of history men and women have created structures to care for humankind. It is the concern and intention of groups and individuals all around the world to beckon forth and sustain that care in human community for our time and the future. Primal Community exists in any unit of society that self­consciously responds to human need. That response comes as a caring structure that fulfills fundamental needs, comprehensively plans for the future and rehearses and celebrates its participation in life. The Twentieth Century has seen the collapse of many care structures due to the loss of self­conscious primal community. The task that is set before us as a global citizenry is to recover self­conscious Primal Community and recreate human care structures.

Present Manifestations

It is crucial to be able to point to manifestations of Primal Community as they have existed and do now exist so that we may gain clarity on where we have been and where we are going. Citizens of urban, suburban and rural communities everywhere are manifesting signs of their decision to plan self­consciously for their future in tune with global opportunities, obligations and limitations.

Dynamics underlying the present manifestations of Primal Community have been exposed within such on­going movement programs as the Local Church Experiment, the various forms of the parish guild, the 5th City Demonstration and the Uptown Ward meetings. The latent seeds of self­consciousness about primal community are already present in every local community. In one community, a mentally retarded woman decided to care for her yard in a public housing development. Residents of three rows of houses were then catalyzed to care for their own yards.

Any community has within it a myriad of individuals and organizations whose care for and participation in their community are crucial to its well­being. Broadening the context of the care and responsibility of people in these institutions, be they the historic church or the neighborhood social agency, enables them to be self­conscious about primal community. All caring institutions are thereby called to comprehensive care within a global context. Effective tools for awakening self­consciousness and for this broadening of context include Town Meeting, Human Resurgence Mission, community festivals and other engagement and training events.

Future Directions

The future promise of every community is in the hands of every local man. Examples of the caring structures that will manifest primal community dynamics may emerge as models for global economic self­sustenance 9 models for local participation in community decision­making and destiny, a new sociological form of the Church and a way for each culture's heritage and traditions to be recaptured and shared with the globe.

The promise that can be claimed for the future is an explosive revitalization of humanness that occurs as man becomes self­conscious about Primal Community.

(Primal Community Frame Chart goes here. See page 2 of original document)

Effective Primal Community is dependent upon a comprehensive frame of support just as the stability of a house is dependent upon the strength and quality of its framework. The Frame includes every single grouping and network of human relationships that can act as a supporting force within the community. It provides a practical vision of re­created human community and at the same time holds within it the reality of the given situation. The Frame, then, becomes a tool for the revolutionary as he makes initial contacts within the community and journeys that community toward comprehensive caring.

Framing is both inclusive brooding, discerning a cross­section of enlightened citizens responsible in their own sphere to act in the future work of the community unity, and strategic action, employing those support forces in actual future creation.

Framing, as inclusive brooding, is that activity which allows the cadre and core to ask such questions as: a) What forces guard economic, political and cultural structures in the community?, b) What forces link the community to the resources of the larger world?, c) What unique gifts lie in the community which can be engaged? and d) Where does decisional power lie in the community? These questions, which the frame enables, lead to the second phase of framing.

Framing, as strategic action, engages the "ready" elements of the community, through practical models and actuating agents, into those activities which enliven the life of the community.

The Primal Community Frame encompasses the dynamics, support forces and structures of the community from the local through the global levels. The outer circle holds the Economic, Political, and Cultural dynamics of the social process while the inner circle emphasizes the Symbolic Leadership, Bureaucratic Systems, and Advisory Councils which serve as a screen through which the support forces of the community are identified and prime contacts are discerned. The spokes of the wheel identify the groups and individuals who make up the support forces of the community. Further description and the rationale for identifying their actual existence in the community are explained in the following paragraphs.

CULTURAL SUPPORT FORCES

1. Religious Institutions

Religious Institutions are those organizations with global perspective where those with common beliefs about the final reality gather. The importance of these organizations is that they are a congregating dynamic, deal with symbols, and have a sense of the eternal, a social consciousness and frequently maintain care structures in the community. It is important to know both the stance of the larger religious institution and its local manifestation.

2. Social Groups

Social groups are gatherings of people with a common interest meeting for the purpose of fellowship, fun, or personal development. Examples would be bridge clubs, Thespians, athletic organizations. These groups may be important in planning and bringing off celebrations.

3. Knowledge Bank

The Knowledge Bank of a community is the repository of wisdom with respect to its history, mindset, gifts and concerns, revealing its interrelatedness with surrounding communities and the rest of the world. This Knowledge Bank is composed of awakened elders who spin their tales about the growth of the community over the years, local newspaper files which contain factual data on the mayor events of the community and proprietors of small businesses who provide economic data on the community's development.

4. Symbol Guardians

Those people who are responsible for the physical presence of the visible symbols in the community would be the symbol guardians of that community. They would also embody the values which the community holds. In light of one of the basic presuppositions of community reformulation, symbol is key, this element of the Framing Scheme is vital. Examples of these guardians might be local clergy, the mayor, and patriotic groups and the public spirited activities of local police and firemen.

5. Educational Structures

The comprehensive frame of the educational structures will include both formal and informal teaching structures for people of all ages. Particular attention should be given to the symbolic leadership (such as Superintendents of Public Schools and technical colleges and universities), Bureaucratic Systems (such as the School Board) and advisory councils (such as PTA and special interest groups).

6. Communication Networks

It is necessary to locate nodes and channels of active communication in order to receive necessary data or disseminate information. Every community has both formal and informal networks of communication within the community and with the outside world. Formal networks would include such things as newspapers, bulletin boards, radio, television and telephone. Informal networks could be community nodes where people gather such as grocery stores, the town well and recreational areas.

7. Service Organizations

Locate the groups which demonstrate ongoing care for the well-being of the community in order to identify the care that may be lacking and to focus and deepen existing care. Examples of service organizations and advisory or counseling organizations are the Rotary Club, Lions Club and Ex­Forces Associations.

POLITICAL SUPPORT FORCES

1. Political Structures

The political structures of a community are important in discerning authorization channels, how decisions are made and carried out, and how consensus of the people is obtained. These structures would include the welfare department, public health service, courts, law enforcement, legislative bodies and executive heads. The screen of the social process triangles is helpful in comprehensive identification of the community's political structures.

2. Vocational Associations

These are groups which are organized because of some common professional or economic interest such as labor unions, medical associations, artists' guilds, and small business associations. Their members usually have a high sense of vocational commitment. These may be power channels, sources of skills and economic

3. Issue Oriented Groups

Issue oriented groups corporately express concerns relative to the political processes of welfare, order and justice. Examples of these groups are racial commonness, neighborhood associations, League of Women Voters, and Common Cause. These groups are particularly sensitive to malfunctions of the political process. Their willingness to get involved is a great gift.

ECONOMIC SUPPORT FORCES

1. Economic Leaders

Economic leaders are those who control the production facilities and the exchange mechanisms in the community. Their decisions can release the capital necessary for economic development. They are the potential sponsors and patrons of community efforts.

2. Economic Systems

These systems include transportation facilities, flow of goods, corporate structures and generally include relations to national and global networks. If economic development is critical to the community, it is necessary to be aware of the systems which harness the economic resources to meet the needs of the people.

3. Economic Resources

These resources are the natural, technological and human resources of the community which are vital to their economic well being. Examples include land, minerals, water, factories, human skills and capital reserves.

This time­flow phase chart demonstrates flexibility of time and flow of activity which attempts to pull together the experience of the past two years of work in Primal Community into a suggested phasing and strategy design. In this process of phasing the Community Cadre refers to movemental forces who understand themselves as assigned to a particular community. At this point in history this cadre may include particular metro cadremen, those who have been participating in a galaxy in that community, and/or assigned religious house forces. The cadre's function is to be the catalytic planning and nurturing dynamic within the community.

In the second phase the community core is formed. The community core refers to those who have decided to take responsibility for their community either through participation in the guild or their local congregation's cooperative participation with other churches in mission to the community. The core's function is to do the ongoing tactical planning and be catalytic community leadership.

In the third phase, Cadre, Core and Community interact together as the primal community in reformulation.

(Time Flow diagram goes here. See p. 7 of original document)

(Phasing Design Chart Phase II The Community Cadre goes here. See p. 8 of original document)

COMMUNITY CADRE

The Community Cadre is a group of people who have decided to make manifest their care for the world in a particular location and understand themselves under assignment to the parish whatever additional community identification they may have. The function of this phase is to do the primary planning, spark initial participation and nurture the community at large.

Claiming the Parish

The Community Cadre claims its community by thoroughly exploring that specific geo-social area, gathering data on past and present history, articulating the community story and enabling open door response.

Building the Frame

Building the frame is discerning the structural and historical relationships and key leadership in order to determine strategies for approaching the community to elicit their participation.

Catalyzing and Sustaining

The Community Cadre catalyzes and sustains the Primal Community by sparking and intensifying interest in making the geo­social area a more human place to live by creating a story relating their task to the global primal community network, by planning and actualizing, catalyzing and sustaining the Community Core.

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COMMUNITY CORE

The Community Core is a self­conscious body of responsible citizens who through engagement and planning have decided to participate in total care of the community. The function of this phase is to form a core of those who care from the community at large.

Awakenment and Engagement

This strategy involves the raising to self­consciousness of the community by providing opportunities to participate in significant gatherings and tasks in order to initiate the formation of the Community Core.

Training and Planning

This strategy involves the in­depth training of local residents in order to create a disciplined core who will do the comprehensive planning of the community and assume the responsibility of leading the entire community toward participatory reformulation.

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COMMUNITY IN REFORMULATION

Community in Reformulation is the phase where an awakened and trained community core engages in the invitation of the broadest possible community participation.

Impact Signs and Engagement Forms

This is a strategy to attract attention by publication of community symbol and story and the creation of one­day miracles as a sign of hope. The necessary task forces and problem solving units are a way of engaging every interested person, gathering troops to do the Job, and journeying people toward authentic humanness.

Demonstration and Reformulation

This strategy has to do with coordinating existing community organizations and agencies, and initiating the necessary on­going programs through continual rehearsal of the community vision.

("Swirl" chart goes here. See page following page 10 in original document).

	TACTIC 1: Global Community Forum INTENT: Gather a large representation of the community population for a day of issue naming and proposal building in order to awaken local community to the possibility of responsible participation in the future of their community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Town Meeting '76 1. Name cadre task force for 2. Sponsorship manual sponsorship, set­up, coordination 3. Set­up manual 2. Choose steering committee 3.Set date and build actuation timeline
	TACTIC 2: Developing Gathering Space INTENT: To provide primal community groups with intentional space for community gatherings in order to symbolize with space a decision to be a self/conscious group that engages in ongoing planning. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Halls 1. List all possible sites Board rooms 2. Choose location with strategic impact 2. Decor 3. Create decor model 3. Transportation plan 4. Assign set­up task force
ENGAGEMENT and AWAKENMENT	TACTIC 3: Local Groups Consults INTENT: Enable local groups to articulate for themselves their role or function and comprehensively plan their engagement in order to elicit their participation in the total care of their community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Leadership exchange 1. Discern necessary consult model 2. Consult constructs 2. Recruit strategic local groups 3. Framing materials 3. Build enablement model 4. H R M & L E N S 4. Plan decor and symbolic life
	TACTIC 4: Launching Guild Core INTENT: Initiate a weekly format for the guild core in order to nurture the growth of a body of citizens who will be trained and do planning on behalf of the community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Ward meeting(Uptown)construct 1. Invitations 2. Weekly meeting construct 2. Visits to homes 3. Week II design 3. Spiritizing methods 4. Regular schedule 5. Create 'need' story
	TACTIC 5: Actuating Galaxy Plan INTENT: To begin the cooperative meeting of members of two or more local congregations in order to enable the use of common methods of training and engagement in relevant community care. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Social gatherings 1. Recruit for P L C 2. Galaxy story 2. Hold H R M 3. H R M 3. Ecumenical Event 4. P L C 4. Build structure
	TACTIC 6: Local Congregation Consult INTENT: Gather the congregation in workshopping a comprehensive plan for missional care in order to provide one thrust for the congregation and re-context historic understanding of the church as mission. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. H R M 1. Attend regular worship services 2. Consult models 2. Attend clergy meetings to present 3. Clergy collegium possibility of consults 4. Church year special 3. Contact local clergy to discern models their needs and offer services 4. Schedule church year special services or activities.(Lenten study, etc.)
AWAKENMENT and ENGAGEMENT	TACTIC 7: Community Training Courses INTENT: Offer courses in leadership and methods to potential community leaders in order to awaken them to the possibility of assuming leadership in the community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. S M S 1. Recruit to courses. 2. L E N S 2. Get sponsoring organization 3. Assign leadership to town meetings 4. Use local methods training workshops
	TACTIC 8: Local Congregation Courses INTENT: Relate the traditional language of theology to the situation and times in which the congregation finds itself in order to awaken churchmen to human suffering in their community and to call them to care structurally for that community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. R S I ­ P L C 1. Congregational decision to sponsor 2. RS IIIA ­ CS IIIA events. 3. L E N S 2. Recruitment models 4. CS I 3. Enablement models(including children) 5. I T I 4. Training context
	TACTIC 9: Demonstrating Local Celebrations INTENT: Put on corporate community celebrations in order to encourage community identity and engage community in authentic celebration. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Block celebrations 1. Bolster pre­scheduled but unorganized 2. Calendar of events community holidays 2. Plan Community Festival and celebrations 3. Local/national holidays 4. Festival models
	TACTIC 1: Symbolic Life Format INTENT: Regularly rehearse the social vision, global context, and life experience of the core and build collegiality in order to sustain and nurture its members over the long haul. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Songbooks 1. Discern appropriate symbolic style 2. Core­meeting format 2. Hold regular core meeting using 3. Celebration design quarter format and time design. 4. Urban House Ecclesiola 3. Invite core to Urban House Ecclesiola 5. Global Exchange 4. Design and print symbolic life manual 6. Miracle stories 5. Make quarterly assignments 7. Decor 6. Create core symbol
TRAINING AND PLANNING	TACTIC 2: Engagement/Training Rhythm INTENT: Establish a comprehensive cyclical plan for developing and utilizing skills of the core members in order that the task motivate the training and the training inform the task, deepening the commitment. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Rational timeline of events 1. Rotate priorship/leadership (coordinate with needs) roles 2. Personal timeline 2. Engage individuals in accountability special tasks 3. Yearly-Quarterly assignment 3. Coordinate miracles and training events rationale
	PLANNING TACTIC 3: Methods Training School INTENT: Engage core members in ongoing intensive global social methods training events in order to expand their image of possibility, intensify their spirit journey, and equip them with edge social methodologies. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. S M S-Academy-I T I 1. Recruitment models 2. Town Meeting training 2. Enablement models 3. University 13 3. Core training timeline 4. Global Research Assembly 4. Create training context 5. Social Demonstration visits 5. Build resort structures
	TACTIC 4: Community Indicative Battle planning INTENT: Engage the core in planning for the community in order to give focus to the task and to establish local man as the decision maker of the community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Battle planning method 1. Week II Battleplanning workshops 2. Recruitment Model 2. Planning and enablement task forces 3. Meeting format Decor Model Enablement Model

TACTIC 1: Commission Task Forces TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Quarterly Battleplan 1. Leadership Assignments INTENT: Organize on a quarterly basis the necessary working groups to actualize ongoing tactics and miracles in order to engage a growing body of interested citizens in corporate responsibility. 2. T/F events calendar 2. Communication Distribution 3. Brochure/Questionnaire 3. Open meetings 4. Specific Phone Calls

	TACTIC 2: Develop PSU Handbook INTENT: Create a quarterly handbook of Problem Solving Units determined in the quarterly battleplan which articulates the issues to be dealt with, the PSU time design & rhythm, the procedural steps, and the suggested expertise in order to allow maximum planning and leadership preparation. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1.Quarterly Battleplan 1. Quarterly PSU Scheduling 2. Quarterly Assignment 2. PSU leadership/expertise attainment 3. Community Frame 3. Leadership training Journey chart
IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT	TACTIC 3: Actualize Series of Miracles INTENT: Give practical form and enablement to the miracle T/L in order to most effectively impact the community with possibility and call upon the creative power of its citizenry. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Quarterly Battleplan 1. Wkly tactical implementation workshop 2. Miracle Timeline 2. Task Force recruitment 3. Miracle Battleplan 3. Implementation plan for each miracle (SMS Model)
	TACTIC 4: Initiate Community Assemblies INTENT: Gather community wisdom through the use of the community assembly in order to effectively use the input of a broad spectrum of local citizens in planning the future of that local community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Congress & 1. T/F to create the local model Assembly Models 2. Broad communication of from Uptown, 5th City, event/time/place Rochester, LCC Manual 3. Yearly or quarterly assembly rhythm
	TACTIC 5: Hosting Traditional Festivities INTENT: Enable community celebrations to be great corporate happenings in order to increase the number of engaged citizens, enhance the image of the community and recover the community's history. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Calendar of cmnty holidays 1. Interview old community residents 2. Cmnty celebration models to determine key holidays 3. Quarter Battle plan 2. Create celebration Task Force 4. Community Frame 3. Get necessary authorization

	TACTIC 6: Design Engagement Rhythm INTENT: Build a Wk I & Wk II task engagement rationale to be publicized quarterly in order to inform the imaginations of community residents of the possibilities of disciplined engagement. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Events Calendar 1. Workshop to build the rationale 2. Quarterly Battle plan 2. Imaginal Publicizing 3. PSU & T/F Plans 3. Distribution Scheme 4. Miracle Events Calendar
IMPACT and ENGAGE-MENT	TACTIC 7: Produce Imaginal Communications INTENT: Use media appropriate to informing all aspects of the community in order to create community identity, enable engagement, and sustain interest. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Symbol, Story 1. Communication Task Force 2. Community Newsletter 2. Brochure 3. Production Tools 3. Posters 4. Community Frame 4. Banners 5. Quarterly Battle plan 5. Distribution Scheme
	TACTIC 8: Formulate Community Guardians INTENT: Organize a flexible network of community business and professional persons into community guardians in order to engage this available power and expertise in specific tasks in the community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Frame 1. Prospective guardian workshop 2. Geo­Socio Analysis 2. Specific engagement models 3. LENS 3. Guardian luncheon 4. TM Sponsorship Manual 4. LENS recruitment 5. Guardian Consults/Chicago
	TACTIC 9: Utilize Existing Agencies INTENT: Work with existing social agencies and governmental units in coordinating the provision of care within the community in order to develop, a means of cooperation in providing comprehensive care. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Frame 1. Workshop with core using frame/analysis 2. Geo­socio Analysis 2. Attend meetings of agencies 3. Community Consults 3. Make specific requests
DEMONSTRATION and REFORMULATION	TACTIC 10 Develop Ward/Stake Network INTENT: Localize care and engagement structures in order to create a network of responsible individuals and bring care resources of larger community to respond to local needs. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Ward/stake grids 1. Computerize individual needs. 2. Ward meeting constructs 2. Enlist block leaders 3. Community Frame 3. Wkly meetings at ward/stake levels 4. Comnty Geo-social Analy 4. Train ward/stake leaders

	TACTIC: 2: Community Accountability Forms INTENT: Remind the community of the global effects of local action in order to hold the accountability/absolution dynamic. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Cmnty symbol, slogan, etc. 1. Phone chain for calling 2. Mtg. rituals/imaginal. Decor 2. Community newsletter 3. Local/global community net 3. Global/local contexts at 4. Community bulletin board community gatherings
	TACTIC 3: Coordinate Ongoing Structures INTENT: Consult with existing community organizations and services in order to allow wide­spread participation in self­conscious primal community and cut back unnecessary overlap. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Frame 1. Services directory 2. Community groups consults 2. Agency/organizations 3. Quarterly Battle plan leaders' meeting
DEMONSTRATION and REFORMULATION	TACTIC 4: Local Resource Involvement INTENT: Make effective use of community wisdom, money, materials and manpower in order to involve maximum portion of community resources in reformulation. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Development pitch 1. Economic Task Force 2. 5th City brochure 2. Businessmen's meetings 3. Local PC story brochure 3. Annual financial model built
	TACTIC 5: Establish Structural Signs INTENT: Move on obvious points of need within the community in order to demonstrate concrete changes in the quality of life. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Geo/Socio Analysis 1. Task Forces 2. 5th City social model 2. PSU's 3. Community Frame(funding) 3. Consultation with agencies, etc. 4. Guardian Network
	TACTIC 6: Initiating Necessary Programs INTENT Initiate ongoing programs in order to fill in the gaps of a comprehensive care plan determined by previous community assemblies and problem­solving units. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Assembly/PSU proposals 1. PSU on proposals and 2. Frame/community resources recommendations 3. 5th City Social Model 2. Localize 5th City social model
	TACTIC 7: Replication Ambassador Corps INTENT: Enable "ambassadors" from the community to go to other communities to enable a local/global image and allow replication of self-conscious primal community. TOOLS INCLUDE: IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Community Consult Model 1. Local Training Workshop 2. Community brochures, 2. Speaking engagement possibilities story, etc. 3. Miracle story building workshop 3. Global Odyssey

This document articulates the vision, gives the tools for locating the framework of supporting forces, and presents a tactical system with a time­flow chart for catalyzing primal community. It is the work of a single task force, yet it represents the corporate wisdom of the Global Spirit Movement as it is a pulling together of the movement's practical experience in social research and demonstration. The tactical system is intended for Primal Community anywhere, but it must be adapted to each particular situation.