To improve public safety by restoring former offenders to productive roles in society through training, counseling and education programs that remove the barriers to meaningful employment and that teach skills for today's workforce.
Community Building
Community is the bedrock of all human relationships – it should ultimately serve to lower or remove the barriers to communication that unduly separate us humans one from another.
M Scott Peck, MD
Community Building is a group process where participants discover and practice communication skills that create the possibility for deep human connection. During an emotionally intense and spiritually charged three-day workshop, the barriers that divide participants are replaced with acceptance and trust as participants learn a new way to relate to one another and to themselves. The process of building community is fiercely authentic and creates for participants purely unique experiences. However, when done with people that have served time in prison, it is common for participants to encounter profound personal grief as they move in the direction of healing and wholeness. This is possible only because the group as a whole has created a space that invites members to embrace painful realities and treats them with extraordinary respect.
The process was first described by best-selling author, Dr. M. Scott Peck, in his book, The Different Drum. He presented further information in a later book, A World Waiting To Be Born.
Community Building Workshops are open to outside participation. Please call Tim Dempsey at 423.266.1888 for more information.
