Communities are formed around shared values, not shared objectives.

A couple of years ago I had a revelation while speaking with an associate and that was; people form communities based on "shared values" rather than around "shared goals."

This makes all the sense in the world, since it's our values we use as a compass in making the day to day decisions in our life. If we surround ourselves with people who use compasses the are different than our own then there will be a lot of bumping into each other going on.

My eight year stay in Lanark County in rural Ontario, had a lot to do for my search for a community of people who shared my values around nature and the land. But I was torn because I also shared values with the scientific and technology communities ... I tried and still try to do both and end up really belonging to neither one, or perhaps I have a foot in each camp. The values I hold around family cooperation and personal self sufficiency are very much in line with the ones that I now share with my life partner, which thank goodness has won me my stable niche in the world.

So finding a community that satisfies all of your values is probably not possible, and perhaps not even desireable. But if we can understand our value needs we can identify the communites which best satisfy them, and then make a plan for how to establish ourselves within those communities to some lesser or greater degree.

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