The Art of Community, Second Edition, Charles H. Vogl
The Art of Community, Second Edition, Charles H. Vogl
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The Art of Community, Second Edition
7 Principles for Belonging

Author: Charles H. Vogl

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/11/2025

Synopsis

Healthy communities strive for their members to support one another, share their passions, and achieve personal growth. This book will help you learn to be connected and defeat loneliness by understanding where and how we belong. No matter the kind of organization, company, or social group, this book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a community or strengthen the ones they already have.

Drawing on both 3,000 years of history and his personal experience, Charles Vogl lays out seven time-tested principles for developing connected communities that last. These include: Boundary: the boundary between members and outsiders; Initiation: the activities that mark a new member; Rituals: the things we do that have meaning; Temple: a place set aside to find our community; Stories: what we share that allows others and ourselves to know our values; Symbols: the things that represent ideas that are important to us; and Inner Rings: a path to growth as we participate.

With hands-on tools for applying these principles to any group—formal or informal, mission driven or social, physical or virtual—this book will guide you in your journey to become a community builder that brings people together.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on July 24, 2019

I had a hard time getting past how religion focused this book is. The author by no means preaches or converts but the lens through which everything is taught is very much that of someone who is deeply involved with some religious affiliation. The most valuable lesson (still taught through a religious......more

Goodreads review by Vivian on July 25, 2023

I always appreciate when someone is able to distill an amorphous idea into component parts and this book does that pretty well. My main take away was to work on letting go of the "everyone is welcome" attitude. As young children we are taught to include everyone and that only snobbish or stuck up je......more

Goodreads review by Jilles on July 03, 2021

The author presents some very interesting ideas, which tell the importance of rituals, symbols and gatekeeping. These ideas are illustrated with real-life examples, which are both grand as well as personal to the author. The middle section of the book slows down dramatically in order to present scri......more

Goodreads review by Oana on April 04, 2021

I guess I had big expectations from this book because I heard of it a couple of times from people who run communities in a way or another. If this was the first lecture in community building, I think the impact would have been different. Being one of the many books I came across since wearing the co......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on June 19, 2018

Having read a lot of books on community, coming at it from a variety of perspectives, I found this book to be a good overview but didn’t particularly add to my own body of knowledge. That being said, if you haven’t done much study on community yet this might be a good place to start. It it, as I sai......more

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