Understanding About Community Dynamics & Community Action

Community dynamics refers to the process of change and development within communities, driven by community members taking active roles. It aims to bring about positive social change through community-based programming. Community action involves increasing community engagement, understanding, and empowerment in designing and delivering local services. It puts communities at the center of service development and delivery. Understanding community dynamics and community action is important as they work together to propel community success, stability, and improvement.

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Understanding About Community Dynamics & Community Action

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Understanding about

Community Dynamics &

Community Action
What is Community Dynamics?

•Community – a group of people

•Dynamics - Self-Motivated Person,
Active Person, Energetic Person, known
as “Dynamics for Development of the
Community”
•Community-Dynamics is the process of
change and development within
communities .
•Community Dynamics which strive to
bring about positive social change through
community-based programming
Significance of Community
• Dynamics is here to work with
community to think creatively and
act strategically so that
community can achieve their
goals.
•At Community Dynamics, believes that,
creative and sustainable programming that
works to raise the quality of living for
those most vulnerable to poverty and
exploitation.
What are the Dynamics in Community level?
• Integrative Forces
• Disintegrative Forces
• Participative group and groupism
• Functions of sub groups
• Minority groups
• Gender and empowerment
Integrative Forces
• Integrative Thinking is a field in Applied Mind
Science which was originated by Graham Douglas
in 1986.
• He describes Integrative Thinking as the process of
integrating intuition, reason and imagination in a
human mind with a view to developing a holistic
continuum of strategy, tactics, action, review and
evaluation for addressing a problem in any field.
Integrative Forces
• A problem may be defined as the difference
between what one has and what one wants.
• Integrative Thinking as described may be
learned by applying the SOARA (Satisfying,
Optimum, Achievable Results Ahead)
Disintegrative Forces
•"disintegrative" processes are therefore
seen as "positive," whereas people who
fail to go through positive disintegration
may remain for their entire lives in a state
of "primary integration."
Participative group
Participative group is known by many names
including ;
• Shared leadership,
• Community empowerment,
• Community involvement,
• Participative decision-making
Groupism
- the tendency to think and act as members of a group
- Is the concept which makes everyone to feel
• Empathy
• Sympathy
• feeling
• Goal achievement
Subgroup
• A group formed of a subset of members drawn from
a larger parent group.
• Subgroups are not autonomous; though members of
the parent group may choose to join a subgroup
rather than be assigned,
• membership in a subgroup is ultimately controlled
by the parent group and it's owner
Functions
• Work towards goal achievement
• Motivate the members
• Organize meeting with the members
• Organize meeting with the external agents
• Liaison with government and others
Minority group
• A minority is a sociological category within a
demographic
• those who don’t hold the majority of positions
of social power in a society.
Gender empowerment
• Gender empowerment is conceived as a process by
which women can overcome many of the hurdles
that they face such as education, work status,
employment opportunities, health care, social
security, position in decision making by virtue of
their gender.
• Gender empowerment veritably implies
empowerment of women to do away with
“Subordination” or “Discrimination” and
“Injustice” done to them in male dominated
society.
What is community action?

Community action is any activity that

increases the understanding, engagement
and empowerment of communities in the
design and delivery of local services.
Community action includes a broad range of activities and
is sometimes described as ‘social action' or ‘community
engagement'. These activities can vary in their objective, the
role of the community plays, the types of activities
involved, their scale and their integration within the council.
What they have in common is that they all involve greater
engagement of local citizens in the planning, design and
delivery of local services.
Why is community action important?
Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own
local services. Involving communities in the design and delivery of
services can help to achieve a number of objectives, including:
• Building community and social capacity – helping the community to
share knowledge, skills and ideas.
• Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
• Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support, engagement
in design, cross-sector collaboration and partnerships.
• Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into
employment or developing community enterprises.
Role of the Community
The role the community plays can include community
consultation, joint planning, joint design, joint delivery and
community-led activities.
The types of activity can include:
• Asset transfer (either through formal transfer to bodies such
as parish councils or community interest companies, or
transfer of their management to local community and
voluntary groups).
• Making better use of physical resources, such as
council-owned buildings, to support community-led
activities.
• Community engagement in decision-making (for
example through public engagement events where
the community helps to decide local priorities, co-
design or co-commission services).
• Community networks
• Community grants
Community Action - is putting communities as the center of the services
development and services delivery. This initiative aims to cater the
primary needs of the communities before implementing it. In such way,
community action will help the community dynamics or the degree of
improvement of the community.
Community Dynamics - is the change and development involved
in a community that includes all forms of living organisms.
It is important to understand these two because these
will propel the success and stability of the
communities. They go hand in hand and are
proportionally related.
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