In a previous post on on individual empowerment, I mentioned that in a context of open government, an approach based on empowerment recognizes citizens and communities in their ability to determine the direction of change. I indicated that there particuliarity to individual empowerment, community empowerment and organizational empowerment. I described the four components of individual empowerment: participation, skills, self-esteem and critical consciousness.
This post will focus on community empowerment.
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The four components of community empowerment, according to William A. Ninacs, the specialist Quebec concept of empowerment, author of Empowerment and intervention, are: the power to act (participation); skills, communication, and community capital.
A first major advantage is to provide structures and conditions conducive to the opportunity to develop their power to act to members of a community. This is the first component: encouraging participation.
The second component is the ability to optimize environmental forces to ensure the welfare of all members (skills).
Thirdly, communication is an important part of the process to create a climate of trust, transparency in decision making and to ensure the flow of information.
Finally, Community Capital is the fourth component. It is the ability to create a community of mutual support and mobilization on wider societal issues fueling the feeling of belonging and a sense of citizenship.
William A. Ninacs considers that the components of empowerment Community factors structuring of individual empowerment. For individual empowerment has a transactional dimension which also plays a social and collective, which implies a relationship with others. For this purpose, R. Katz has published a study of the most interesting - Empowerment and Synergy - in which he introduced empowerment as a synergistic paradigm where people are interrelated, where he takes a sharing of resources, and where collaboration is encouraged.
R. Katz has suggested that empowerment is an alternative paradigm of scarcity ", commonly thought about widespread human, which assumes that individuals compete because resources are scarce. This alternative, the "paradigm of synergy," translates into "community synergy," when human resources prove recognized renewable and expanding, and that they are distributed equitably among the members, so that is good for goose is good for all, and that " the whole is greater than the sum of the parts .
Which brings us back once more to the collective consciousness. I have often mentioned that the collective consciousness is a unified field.
John Hagelin is Professor of Physics in quantum physics. He is responsible for developing a unified field theory based on the Superstring. Dr. Hagelin was named winner of the Kilby. This prize is awarded in recognition to scientists who have made "major contributions to society through their applied research in the fields of science and technology." Dr. Hagelin received the award for his work in particle physics in the development of unified field theory, supersymmetry ( supersymmetric grand unified field theory ). John Hagelin explains clearly what the collective consciousness in this video :
"The foundation of the universe is this unique field of universal intelligence, so that all forces of nature are now (scientifically) included as Un This field is called the unified field, in the context of superstring theory . This field consists of an ocean of existence is located at the base of all spirit and matter. All so-called particles of the universe, everything in the universe is only a ripple this field: a field not material. This is ultimately the field of consciousness. Everything in the universe is nothing more than that. The planets, people, animals, etc.. are only waves of this ocean of consciousness. We are truly unified in our database. There is only a single consciousness in this room. We idealize our consciousness through the filter of our nervous system. But consciousness itself, the Self with a capital "S" is universal. And knowing this, knowing from experience, has been called enlightenment through the ages. "Therefore, governments that wish to implement a philosophy of open Gouvernerment must recognize that citizen participation - hence community empowerment springs - done and organized at the collective consciousness.
In a subsequent post, I will examine what is organizational empowerment.
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