Community 3: How our rituals can forge our culture

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We're at part 3 of our series about community at work.

Today's guest is one of the most respected community thinkers in the world, Casper ter Kuile, Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and author of The Power of Ritual. His book is a practical guide to the way that communities come to life, not only is it practical it's also brilliantly written. I found myself annotating a lot of it and it's impossible not to learn from his wisdom on the topic.

“Disconnection sours the sweet things in life and makes them nearly unbearable”

Casper previously wrote a free book with Angie Thurston is at Harvard Divinity School called How We Gather which was a wonderful exploration of how post religious (secular) groups were creating get togethers that seemed to be inspired by the religious communities that went before them. Casper's perspective is wonderful, so respectful of religion even though he sits outside of it.

This series of episodes has been about understanding how our organisations can shape a sense of belonging in us, especially when we're no longer physically together.

I feel like the episodes are a journey. No one has professed to know the answers and there's plenty of cautionary notes. I'm certain anyone trying to shape community in their work will come away with plenty of thoughts after this. Not least that Casper says that it goes strongly against the spirit of community that someone in a community can fire someone else. Community is built on safety.

In the podcast I also talk about a previous episode on rituals and you can find that here.

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0:00.0	Hello this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, it's a podcast about making work better.
0:12.6	Hello, I'm Bruce Tazley.
0:13.8	How's your week been?
0:15.0	You know, it's been such a strange year that you can't help but celebrate on the things
0:19.7	that you're really grateful for.
0:21.3	And there's been some... I don't know whether you follow it
0:24.4	and up there's been some truly wonderful tennis in the last week nothing makes me
0:29.7	happier than than watching incredible tennis and both in the women's game and in the men's game
0:36.0	there were some just remarkable performances last week. It made me very happy.
0:40.4	They're gonna gonna miss it now, really deprived of it. After two grand slums in a month,
0:45.5	we're deprived of it now till next year. What a blessing to live in such a glorious era of tennis.
0:51.5	I'm in the midst of presenting to about 2,000 people in the
0:56.4	course the next few weeks. I'm doing some climate presentations that I mentioned on my newsletter.
1:02.4	So I'm speaking to a whole range of different
1:04.7	organizations from organizations of psychiatrists to regional NHS trusts
1:12.2	through to recruitment companies all manner of
1:15.6	organizations so thank you for everyone who responded to the newsletter
1:19.5	and I'm sort of I'm part of Al Gore's Climate Reality program so I'm thrilled to be part of that.
1:25.8	So in the midst of this series about community we've had some I think some brilliant
1:30.9	episodes you know I consider myself learning as much as any
1:35.2	listener and so I learned so much from Sarah Drink Water. I was fascinated to hear the
1:40.6	practical on on the ground experience of Abadessios and Sadei and today's
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