Places where people hang out and meet up are the lifeblood of communities-3rd places,” that lie between the 1st & 2nd places of home & work.

The current pandemic moment is this civity work writ large. The stories of individuals we often do not see are being shared widely.

The fundamental question facing any community or society is how its members are going to be with each other. This question is more pressing now than ever. Th...

Civity’s focus on relationships is rooted in the recognition that we are all connected. When we are all connected, we all matter.

The civity work of building relationships in communities doesn’t fit into standard categories ... it''s both among and between.

The root of seeding civity is awareness of the value of relationships, assisting leaders as they incorporate civity.

Earlier this fall, in partnership with Welcoming America, we offered our services to four of their Welcoming Network members following an RF

This line from an essay by writer Rebecca Solnit has been stuck in my mind recently. "I always pair privilege with obliviousness..."

In Civity’s work with communities, work that we call “seeding civity,” we start with the soil, local leaders who value bridging.

The core of what we do at Civity is one-on-one. Why are one-on-one conversations so ubiquitous – and so apparently useful?

The word most frequently used to describe a group of people who are linked in some way is “community.” Community asserts similarity.

We officially kicked off our Welcoming America Seeding Civity partnership with a Civity workshop in San José on September 4. Through this pa

At Civity, we are about cultural change.We use the word “civity” to describe the particular change that we want to see.

Before her death, Wangari Maathai recorded a short video, “Be a Hummingbird.” “We are constantly being bombarded,” she begins, “by problems.

In our civity work, we have discovered the power of “both-and” stories. Both-and stories portray people as multi-faceted, as not simply one thing or another....

Civity and Welcoming America are pleased to announce a new partnership to offer training and coaching assistance to selected communities.

At Civity we talk about the power of relationships to make it possible for different people to “see” others and care about their well-being.

Civity relationships are based on respect & empathy. Respect is straightforward to me. But, there's something about empathy I struggle with.

Like it or not, our nation and too often our communities are still like a club that caters to the privileged. Not everybody is a member.

Who would have thought that I would find reverberations of civity while sightseeing in Iceland?