Hiking can help build communities and relationships, simply because walking help us relate better
Drawings, ideas and text by Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org
Get kids outdoors to lean
How decisions is often reached in a meeting office…
Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt
Learning kids about wild food, nutrition and the environment on the food trails
The waiting community
People as places
Digital community
Fireside meeting
Heart community
Nomads hiking
Hikers on thrail that never ends
beware when these three show up together
Nobody really know what is happening challenge
Blind leading the blind challenge
Community vs resource mindset
Walking is better
Community juries
The group challenge
The rational, production place
Individual tests is a challenge to groups
human Islands at low tide
Group dynamics
hierarchy is different when walking together
Challenges to communities
Business as usual
Community network
Roots
Getting together
Cocoons
Walking together
The individualized community
Car cultures can’t create thrive or communities
Treehuggers
Group dynamics
We’re a community, even though it is not always obvious
Some things takes a community to do
When groups interact along the trails, magical things happen
What is it to be a team player? Moving or fixed – two kinds of metaphor logic
Sticking together can make it difficult to move
If you want to get to know someone, go hiking…
Today there is a lot of theories about what it takes to build a good community, a safe community and a smart community. The solutions span from apps, to events, to trust building campaigns and elaborate rules and surveillance. Foot paths can help build trust and thrive, because when people walk, they get to know, both each other and where the places they live.
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