Fetzer staff gardening at GilChrist retreat center

Note: The photo was taken before the pandemic.

Topic:

How might our interactions transform when we see community not as a noun, but as a verb?

For this session of sacrality practice, we look to Scherto Gill, a research fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, to help us reframe our cultural assumption of community, moving it from something outside ourselves to an active process we live into. Watch Scherto in the video below!

Join us as we experiment with the practice of “we-ness” that Scherto speaks of. How might you live as if community is an action, a verb?

Here are some ideas that come to mind for us:

  • Helping others (physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually)
  • Loving others
  • Giving your time to others
  • Laughing with others (or making others laugh)
  • Sharing wisdom with others
  • Enduring hardship or pain with others
  • Solving issues with others
  • And many more along these lines

Share your own observations and experiences below. We’d love to hear how you live out community in your life every single day.