Community needs to be a shared value. 

Community is about people who are comitted to one another. People who spend time together and watch each other grow. Shared experience, deep bonds - this takes time and dedication. Courage, even.

We are all important to the rest of community. Our actions and attitudes broadcast out. Because of this, I try to instill how what a big difference the small things make.

Cooking for events warms the whole dynamic. Offering one's living room for a circle can be a goddess-send to the organizer who lives in a studio apartment. Once a structure is set up, people can come and go but the container will still be there for people to flow through. The trick, I tell people, is to only do as much as you can. Small things make a big difference.

Here is a list of suggestions that might help you jump in. You can post it on your website, send to your email list or put on your refrigerator.

• Be brave, have a potluck for a bunch of spiritual people you don't know.
• Start a circle. Ask Tasara to give you a teaching on how to do this.
• Go to a circle, just to explore, even if you don't know if you will go again. You are sure to run into those people again.
• Sample a local teacher you don't know much about.
• Pitch in on a ceremony. This is a great way to meet people.
• Give people in your community compliments on their work. Tell them how much you appreciate what they do.
• Gift someone something without them expecting it.
• Let someone know that you are here for them, to do journeys or healing if they ever need you.
• Take around flyers for the teachers that you love.
• Send referrals to healers that you really trust.
• Honor everyone no matter how bumpy we all may get on this wild path of introspection and healing.
• Be brave. Reach out and make a new friend with someone you met at a circle or class.
• Ask for help. Sharing and love is as much about receiving as it is about giving.
• Get some training/Give some training in community organizing.
  
  
  You don't have to be instant friends with everyone; you are in community. Think of the village square. You don't pick who lives in your village – but you know them.