The Wings Way

6 Pillars of Community©  C.P.R.©

Every highly functioning and powerful Community has 6 fully integrated and ever strengthening pillars.  It is through these 6 pillars that the life becomes more exciting, more empowering and enjoyable, the creative mind explodes and your gifts more valued.

1. Connection – the ability to connect with others even when things are tough. A feeling that another person can trust you.  They care and want to support you at your toughest moment.  You are in strong, positive rapport.
2. Clean Communication – the commitment to say what must be said even though it feels uncomfortable.  Saying it in a caring and compassionate way. No delivering bad news via email or on “the fly”. Real communication is kind, not nice.
3. Compassion – giving a person what they can have in a way they can have it. Caring about the individual – the being – and still honoring the work and contribution they are to make to the community. Compassion doesn’t mean just kindness and empathy.  It recognizes limitations and avoids putting people into situations where their limitations take them down. Supporting someone in trouble.
4. Higher Purpose – standing for the bigger purpose which is far beyond getting an allowance.  Higher purpose is what your community is ultimately doing.  This higher purpose allows everyone to be equally valuable to the overall purpose.  It may be cleaning the bathroom is your work and in your family community with higher purpose as its heart beat, you know the contribution is vital to a pleasant home experience and hence your own experience and then how your interact with family.
5. Participation – getting everyone on the bus or getting them off.  When a person does not feel apart of the community, their work will be mediocre at best.  Participation is that feeling of being included even when you might be in the “dog house”.  Participation is your responsibility to show up and play full out.  Another words, help clean up the mess even if you didn’t make it.
6. 100% Responsibility – Accountability - owning your tasks and commitments with out a need to be chased. Following up and following through with peers, parents and teachers.  Ability to respond to commitments drives accountability.  Ultimately it answers the question: “can I count on you”.

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