Forging a single-minded community around the diversity of existing groups. The effect is to ground individuals in the community and the community in the world.
Context:
An integral part of expressing universal images, to build an authentic new image of humanness involving elders' wisdom, adults' power and youths' vision.
Implementation:
Tactics include: to stimulate family commitment to of involvement through art forms; to celebrate the unique perspective of each of life's phases through creation of art forms in order that a common pool of wisdom is available; purposeful celebrations to enable all people to participate in the rehearsal of all men's corporate story by holding up symbols of the common past and of man's interrelatedness; grassroots involvement to expand the local man's abilities and potential in order to increase his capacity to participate in the community; and public assemblies to ritualize the communality of a self-conscious body of people through visual and verbal symbols. An example is individuals in a community maintaining historic sites which ground the community in its own history and give basis for its distinctiveness in surrounding communities.