Presentation delivered by Roger Hughes, Executive Director of St. Luke's Health Initiatives, on December 5, 2008.

1. What Is Water? Building Communities in the Hyperculture Roger Hughes, SLHI December 5, 2008

2. Wha? How’s the water…

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4. What’s the ROA?

5. exaggeration speed short-attention spans “ fast-breaking” events fragmented lives, lifestyles compressed timeframes desire for immediacy addiction to choice addiction to novelty

6. A shrinking Future

7. The on Place Assault

8. Remoteness

9. The eclipse of public space

10. The Search for Community

11. Community As Experience

12. Community As Place

13. Community As Space

14. Community As Identity

15. Community As Market

16. What is a Healthy Community?

17. Community Development Community Building Community Organizing The Web We Weave

18. “ Community” is the effect of “building,” not the cause.

19. Smart Person’s Disease

20. Evaluation: Prism?

21. Evaluation: Prism? Or Prison?

22. Where We Belong? Finding The Sig nal in the Noise Do

23. Time

24. Get Off The Grid

25. Early, Smaller Successes

26. Structures Competing

27. Drink from the community well

28. Assets Go Beyond Materials

29. the strategy of Collaboration can’t be forced

30. the strategy of Organizing build up, out and across down when you have to

31. P U L L , don’t P U s h T h e P o w e r o f A t t r a c t i o n

32. A Leadership Skills Matrix

34. Be a connector

35. Of ideas into action Across boundaries and groups

36. Facilitation: Moving towards a shared goal

37. Motivation: the power to ACTIVELY ENGAGE A WIDER WORLD

38. Focus on Communities as Place Photo: Andy Ferra

40. Speak To Power

41. Seed and Feed

42. Invest for longer time periods

43. Plan to organize. Organize to plan.

44. Listen, Learn and Let Go

46. People the Weave