Community Dynamics

1. Community Dynamics

2. What is Community Dynamics? • Community – a group of People • Dynamics - Self-Motivated Person, Active Person, Energetic Person, known as “Dynamics for Development of the Community”

3. So!!!!!!!! • Community-Dynamics is the process of change and development within communities . • Community Dynamics which strive to bring about positive social change through community-based programming

4. Significance • Community Dynamics is here to work with community to think creatively and act strategically so that community can achieve their goals. • At Community Dynamics, believes that, creative and sustainable programming that works to raise the quality of living for those most vulnerable to poverty and exploitation.  

5. What are the Dynamics in Community level? • Integrative Forces • Disintegrative Forces • Participative group and groupism • Functions of sub groups • Minority groups • Gender and empowerment

6. Integrative Forces • Integrative Thinking is a field in Applied Mind Science which was originated by Graham Douglas in 1986. • He describes Integrative Thinking as the process of integrating intuition, reason and imagination in a human mind with a view to developing a holistic continuum of strategy, tactics, action, review and evaluation for addressing a problem in any field.

7. Integrative Forces • A problem may be defined as the difference between what one has and what one wants. • Integrative Thinking as described may be learned by applying the SOARA (Satisfying, Optimum, Achievable Results Ahead)

8. Disintegrative Forces • "disintegrative" processes are therefore seen as "positive," whereas people who fail to go through positive disintegration may remain for their entire lives in a state of "primary integration."

9. Participative group • "Participative group is known by many names including • shared leadership, • Community empowerment, • Community involvement, • participative decision-making, (Steinheider, B., Bayerl, P.S. & Wuestewald)

10. Groupism • the tendency to think and act as members of a group • Is the concept which makes everyone to feel • Empathy • Sympathy • we feeling • Goal achievement

11. Subgroup • A group formed of a subset of members drawn from a larger parent group. • Subgroups are not autonomous; though members of the parent group may choose to join a subgroup rather than be assigned, • membership in a subgroup is ultimately controlled by the parent group and it's owner

12. Subgroup • Subset of members drawn from a larger parent group • a user joins a group and is put into a smaller group (ex. committees, teams), which might have access to resources that the larger group has

13. Functions • Work towardsgoal achievement • Motivate the members • Organise meeting with the members • Organise meeting with the external agents • Liaisoning with government and others

14. Minority group • A minority is a sociological category within a demographic • those who don’t hold the majority of positions of social power in a society.

15. Gender and empowerment • Gender empowerment is conceived as a process by which women can overcome many of the hurdles that they face such as education, work status, employment opportunities, health care, social security, position in decision making by virtue of their gender.

16. Thus!!!!!!!! • Gender empowerment veritably implies empowerment of women to do away with “Subordination” or “Discrimination” and “Injustice” done to them in male dominated society.