Provisional asset · built from session photos · conditions, barriers and dimensions per the group's own placement · pending David's transcription for the final version
Conditions & Barriers Hub Asset · TNN Retreat

Story, Memory & Identity

One of the seven neighborhood components · Activity 3 (what makes it viable) and Activity 4 (what undermines it)

This board mapped what has to be present for a neighborhood to hold its story, memory, and identity, the conditions under which a place tells a complex, shared account of itself that incorporates everyone in it. The group named the barriers that undermine those conditions, working from the Activity 2 dimensions carried in below. Read from the session photos and provisional until David's transcription.

Carried in from Activity 2

The dimensions these attach to

★Holding complexityHeld by the wholeAffection for placeStewarded through practiceFull identity within diversity
Enabling conditions

What has to be present

01Intentional inclusion of diverse voices and power sharing
02Space to share stories that represent diverse elements and their histories
03Diverse understanding of the land's story, including labor, that incorporates all stories
04Seeing all your neighbors as “us”: a community where all belong
05Resources and time for people to invest in their community
06Margins, capacity, resources, agency, and power
07Proximity with those who are different
08Cultural festivals
09Churches offering diverse community celebrations and relationship“welcoming” crossed out, replaced with “offering”
10Intentional dismantling of the forces of exclusion, necessary for belonging
11Cultural events that normalize and tell the complex story
12Co-creation and representation in our neighborhood
13Shared symbols, grounded in truth
14Free time to engage in this, for vulnerabilized communities
15People who are invested in truth-telling
16A “mercy umbrella”attributed to David Bailey
Barriers

What undermines it

B1Uncoupling of livelihoods and communal wellbeing: jobs aren't clearly linked to what helps a community thrive (e.g., needing two jobs leaves no margin for community)
B2Lack of memory and stories of people who came together to make change
B3Exclusion and oppression benefits those in power over the systems
B4Authoritarian governance of marginalized communities
B5Social media as a main driver of culture
B6Christian white nationalism as model, centering growth and stability of the systemsits near the Place seam; attribution provisional
B7Racism
B8The common good doesn't make money
B9Privatized faith that is grounded in these values
B10Human dignity and mutual thriving treated as an existential threat to extractive systems and modelsreads as a systemic dynamic
The board at a glance

Around the component

Story, memory, and identity at the center, the enabling conditions around it, and the barriers set apart in rose. The five Activity 2 dimensions, holding complexity voted, are the anchors these attach to.

barriers STORY,MEMORY
Open, and worth carrying forward

Threads

T1

The dimensions carry forward

Holding complexity drew the vote. The conditions and barriers attach to the five dimensions, and the mapping can be tightened in revision.

T2

Barrier or driver

Several barriers read as larger forces: social media, authoritarian governance, white nationalism, and the dignity-versus-extraction note. Revisit whether they are barriers or drivers.

T3

Shared seam with Place

This board shares a sheet with Place & Built Environment. The systemic notes near the seam were a judgment call, and one church note reads as positive and may be a fragment. David's transcription settles attribution.

T4

Reading uncertainties

This was the densest board, with heavy overlap and a few scribbled-over notes. David's transcription settles the wording.