Seeking Community

Seeking Community – Finding Belonging in Chaotic Times

Community is vital to our health, happiness, prosperity and safety. Seeking Community is a website dedicated to helping you find and strengthen community. It is a place where you can explore your questions, connect with other seekers, and access the information, inspiration, ideas and resources to help you on your journey.

Join me! Discover the I, the WE and the US of the journey. Learn together, share your story, start a conversation or simply explore. All are welcome.
Paul Born Tamarack - An Institute for Community Engagement

Community Engagement

A Personal Journey

A seeker's journey is deeply personal. At the root of such quests there are questions: What calls me to want more community in my life? What am I really looking for? If I find community will it end my loneliness? The answers can only come from you, but asking them can sow seeds of learning that will flower for a lifetime, and open you to join with other seekers walking a similar path.

A Collective Journey

Collective journeys are rich with possibility. When we gather, we give community a chance to emerge. Neighbourhoods, families, workplaces, places of worship, schools, clubs, and teams are all fertile environments for collective journeys. Exploring the WE can have profound implications for identity, prosperity, wellbeing, and happiness.

A Journey Together

When we give of ourselves, when we are in service for others while enjoying the company of our neighbours and friends, something magical happens and ‘them’ becomes Us. Collective acts of altruism lead to a deep bonding within and between groups, a connection that brings hope, peace and joy into our homes, our neighbourhoods, and our world.

Featured Blogs

To Make a Community

Working together to create our dream town by Jennifer Laurie

In the aftermath of disaster, a small town can choose to thrive by embracing its past and its future.

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Flower Power:

Growing Through and Beyond Loss by shalommakers

Together we grow

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Welcoming Project in St. Marys

by Jen L

A small nonprofit agency in St. Marys Ontario is focused on creating a more welcoming culture and community

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by cygkwan

reclaiming the word Elder, and the ideas of elderhood and wisdom into community

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Perspectives on Being Accountable

Your life can substantially change when you consider accountability by Liz Weaver

Bassam Tarazi has just published a thought-provoking E-Book called The Accountability Effect. It has given me pause for thought about to whom and how I am accountable.