Fortunately, we have rules for togetherness and people who adhere to them sufficiently. This allows us to keep life in larger communities in an orderly fashion, while at the same time giving room to the multitude of individual pursuits. We are in a country where waste separation is practiced. On the other hand, there is a need for shopping carts that you can only get with the use of a coin, because it doesn't seem to work any other way. You can also see the degree to which people are connected to their surroundings in the public toilets. When do you pick up a paper that's lying in the stairwell? When you are the owner. Otherwise, people often leave it lying around, even if they live in the building. Through people acting in terms of structure and order, a space becomes comprehensible. People should need less rules, because they are better connected with the heart and therefore behave more creatively-constructively and in coordination with each other. But exactly this will have to prove itself in practice and also under stress. Is it the nature of man to be caring with himself, his neighbors and his environment? We believe so.

On the one hand, communities try to keep up with the changes of the times, but on the other hand they should also provide a framework and thus also stability. The faster the changes run, the more one tries to consolidate stability with more and more rules against the hustle and bustle of turbulent times. Networks and agility become more and more important and with them the communication, the mediation and the coordination of all elements with each other. A modern community or larger living community is made up of modern teams that are in a good communicative and cordial connection with each other. The individuals in the teams do not see themselves as the cogs of an engine but as living human beings. What makes a person alive? A living person participates in life by experiencing life and helping to shape it. Life is experienced through feelings. Life is shaped according to one's own utopias and common visions. The team visions are aligned with the vision of the community. The community vision is expressed in an NVC-plus strategy that allows team members to intertwine their own vision with the larger vision. With modern teams that draw their vitality from the vitality of all team members, communities become capable of complexity. They can exist in an increasingly complex world because they can keep up with it and help shape it.

If you want to use NVC-plus for a larger community with multiple teams and levels, it is a strategic task that should be well planned. Because NVC-plus guides actual transformation from the depths of the community rather than from the top, it takes quite a bit of pressure off the central hub, but the approach also requires a shift in thinking from traditional approaches. Of course, initially you can make do with the NVC-plus elements, which are fairly easy to introduce. But a deeper transformation requires good preparation, which cannot be predefined across the board. By the way, this approach is especially interesting for start-up initiatives and communities that want to start differently from the beginning and act with each other on an equal footing. Just contact us if you think we can help you.