Research over the last few decades reveals that our social fabric is unraveling as rates of isolation and loneliness continue to rise, climate crises intensify, and an individualistic worldview prevails. Is there another way to live? Where can we turn for guidance and hope in the face of such challenges? 

Seasoned community builder David Viafora pinpoints the nine principles that create conditions for joy and solidity in any community. Viafora draws from his own vast experience of mindfulness communities to offer inspiration and concrete guidance in growing thriving communities from the inside out. With these nine principles in hand, we can cocreate another way of being—beyond isolation, individualism, and despair.