Part I Southern grounding of community: livelihood, healing, truth quest 1 Securing livelihoods: grounding of the relational path – a natural-communal perspective on community activation 2 Healing community: grounding of the eastern path of renewal – a Pax Africana perspective on community activation 3 Truth quest: grounding of the north-western path of reasoned realization – a primocracy perspective on community activation Part II Eastern emergence of community: permaculture, vitality of place, disclose new worlds 4 Permaculture: emergence via awakening of the relational path – an ecodynamic perspective on community activation 5 Vitality of place: emergence via awakening of the path of renewal – a developmental perspective on community activation 6 Disclose new worlds: integral awakening of community activation Part III Northern communal navigation: participatory action research, study circles, networks 7 Participatory action research: a research-laden institutional perspective on community activation 8 Study circles: an educational and institutional research perspective on community activation 9 Wealth of networks: a networked and institutionalized research perspective on community activation Part IV Western communal effect: build community, self-sufficiency, mutual development 10 Community building: an enterprise perspective on community activation 11 Self-sufficiency: an economic perspective on community activation 12 Mutual development: purveyors of the province – a mutual educational perspective on community activation Epilogue: the gene of community activation – relational, renewal, and reasoned realization paths
Biography
Ronnie Lessem has been an international management consultant in Europe, America, India and Africa for the last three decades.
