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Society Builders with
your host, Duane Varan.

Welcome to Society Builders and thank
you for joining the conversation

for social transformation.

In our last episode, we explored the art
of fashioning at the collective level,

how a community of people can work
together to bring vision to fruition.

And we explored how this occurs
through a process of consultative

will, people freely choosing to give
of themselves towards the vision

their community is working to build.

In today's episode, we dive deeper
into the processes of developing and

cultivating community, particularly
self-reliant communities, capable of

charting and navigating their own path.

So it's not just that these
communities should grow out of an

expression of their free will, but
it's also that they should be able

to develop the capacity to cultivate
their own growth and development.

And think of this on a global scale,
that's what Baha'is have been patiently

building. A global system, empowering
communities to shape their own destinies.

As you know from our first episode, the
plans for Baha'i communities worldwide,

for the next 25 years, will
focus on 'society building'.

But the plans of the past 25
years really focused on this

kind of 'community' building.

In fact, if I had started producing
this podcast series 25 years ago,

I would've called it Community
Builders instead of Society Builders.

So our focus is now evolving from
community building to society building.

We needed this community building
foundation in order to more systematically

contribute to society building.

It was the bedrock upon which our approach
to society building was ultimately based.

So in today's episode, we're going
to look at the past 25 years to get

a better sense of what we've achieved
in building new processes, cultivating

this kind of community building.

And we're gonna get a glimpse, just a
glimpse, of how this better prepares us

for the next 25 years.

So today we're talking about the art
of community building and how this

then relates to society building.

If we go back 25 years, we would see
many Baha'i communities around the world

that were thriving in all kind of
different arenas, and a lot of that

activity was incredibly exciting.

But to a large extent, this was a function
of the initiative of key individuals,

resident within these communities.

So it was a little bit 'luck of the
draw' whether or not you happen to

have some of these amazing people
living within your community.

So there were communities which,
again, due to the contributions

of these key individuals, had
thriving artistic endeavors.

Or you might have been blessed to be
in a community with a knowledgeable,

learned and inspiring Baha'i who
might host Deepenings and advance

your knowledge of the Faith.

I mean, some of these speakers
were amazing, so knowledgeable,

so inspiring. Or you might have enjoyed
the benefit of living in a community with

amazing and creative children's classes.

But again, whether or not you happen to
enjoy such benefits was largely dependent

upon whether you had the right mix of
people in your community, creative or

knowledgeable, Baha'is perhaps able to pull
together and organize such activities.

But what if you didn't?

What if you didn't have these amazing
people living in your community?

Well...

Then you were largely outta luck.

Sorry.

No uplifting artistic endeavors for you.

Sorry.

No inspiring deepenings for you.

Sorry.

No creative children's classes for you.

It was largely luck of the draw, a
function of the resources you happen

to have with limited capacity to
develop and cultivate such resources.

So in my community of Perth, for
example, we had this amazing Baha'i

named Greg Parker, who facilitated
the most amazing choir ever.

It was hip, inspiring, uplifting.

It was a stark contrast to the more
stoic choirs that people typically

associate with a religious community.

Even our governor adopted the
choir and had it perform

at all major state functions.

And Greg produced these amazing
stage musicals with his own

original music and choreography.

I mean, they were incredible productions
and all of those people participating in

these productions, well, they discovered
new talents they didn't know they

had, which led them to then engage in
other kinds of artistic productions.

So what we saw in Perth was an explosion
of artistic expression and a whole culture

of arts suddenly flourished and thrived.

I mean, it was incredible.

But other communities around the world
didn't have a Greg Parker, and so the

Perth model of the arts wasn't really
something that others could emulate.

So if you lived in Perth, you
could go to the theater and watch

an amazing stage production of.

The Seven Valleys, for example.

I mean, it was so cool not only because
the musical moved you to tears and

inspired you, but because you saw
people from wider society in line to buy

tickets and go to the concession stands
to buy their copy of the Seven Valleys.

We were fortunate to live in Perth
where we enjoyed such productions.

But if you lived anywhere else
in the world, well, too bad.

Sorry, you missed out.

And in the same way, there were
Baha'i communities all around the

world that did other amazing things
because they had these amazing people.

But what we had, globally, was a
patchwork of community building.

It was almost accidental what the shape
of your community life would be like.

It largely depended on the resources of
your particular community and whether

or not these kind of key individuals who
could make these kind of things happen,

happened to reside in your community.

Now there will always be a Greg
Parker here or there, inspired to do

amazing things and that's awesome,
but what about the rest of us?

What if we don't have
Greg's amazing talent?

How can we still contribute
to our communities?

And this is where the real contributions
of the past 25 years can be seen.

It's in empowering individuals
and communities to shape their

own destinies and not be dependent
upon the serendipities of talent

that may or may not be present.

Now, don't get me wrong, there's always
a desperate need for the Greg Parkers of

the world, and we want our communities
to support and encourage such initiative.

But there's also the need for
a path of service that can

be accessible for all of us,

a foundational level of community life,
addressing our fundamental spiritual

needs, providing all of us with the path
of service, which we can help facilitate

if we so choose lifting the core
functioning of our communities worldwide.

And this is largely what we have
succeeded in building over the past 25

years, a global system of learning that
empowers us to build the core resources

we need to function as communities.

It's an amazing achievement
and one we're going to explore

further in today's episode.

Now the centerpiece of this
process of empowering a community

to develop and cultivate its own
necessary resources is what Baha'is

refer to as the 'Institute Process'.

Essentially, this is a 'system of
learning' that enables people to develop

the skills they need to serve their
communities with specific capacities.

So say you're an individual inspired
by the vision of Baha'u'llah and you're

eager to serve your community.

How do you nurture and
develop that inspiration?

How do you translate that inspiration
into the arena of service?

Now in the past, this largely depended
on your own ingenuity on whether you

had the initiative, the drive, the
ability to engineer your own path of

development, or on whether you happen
to live in a community where someone

else or a particular behind institution
could help you find that path.

But again, this was largely serendipitous.

There was no pattern to it.

It was truly hit and miss.

But today, as a result of the
community building focus of the past

25 years, we have educational programs
designed to help develop specific

skills in service to the community.

We've moved from serendipity
to systems of learning.

So, for example, maybe you feel a
desire to contribute to the training

and education of high children,
but how do you do that effectively?

Training children requires some
very specific skills and attitudes.

So to act on your impulse, you need some
training both to empower you in fulfilling

your desire, but also to protect the
integrity of the community and the quality

of the children's classes it has on offer.

So over the course of the past 25
years, this kind of training became a

central feature of Baha'i community life.

But if you think about it, the
logistical challenge of implementing

a system of learning like this
on a global scale is massive.

How do you provide such training in
the hundreds of thousands of Baha'i

communities that exist worldwide?

Who's gonna provide all that training?

And it's not just children's
classes we're talking about here.

Communities have all kinds of needs that
have to be addressed in this manner.

So you need a system of learning
that can replicate itself and

scale to respond to its needs.

Wow!

Now that sounds like an
incredibly complex task.

So this is one of the most
amazing achievements of the

last plans. The Institute.

Is a vehicle of self-learning where
communities are not dependent upon

the Greg Parkers of the world.

They have the capacity to
facilitate their own learning.

It's a regenerative system that builds
momentum and capacity as it grows.

I'm reminded here of a scene in the movie
The Matrix, where Neo, now he's the hero

of our story and his companion, Trinity.

They're stuck on a rooftop and they
need to use a helicopter to facilitate

their escape, but neither of them
knows how to pilot a helicopter.

So what are they gonna do?

'Not a problem' says Trinity.

To which Neo replies: 'You mean

you know how to fly a helicopter?'

To which Trinity replies 'Not yet.'

But she connects her mind with the
Revolution Central database, downloads

that skill in her brain and turns
to Neo and says, 'but I do now.'

And she proceeds to get in the
helicopter and fly them to safety.

Now, although it's not as immediate,
this is the system that Baha'is have been

patiently building; a system where we
can respond to our community's needs

through a culture of learning where
people eager to respond to that need

can be trained to meet that need.

And while today, the scope of that
training is limited to key core needs,

over time, that repertoire will
expand, giving us the capacity to

develop resources across a much
wider range of skills to respond

to the specific needs at hand.

Now at the center of the Institute
Process sits the Study Circle.

The Study Circle is a small group
of people who share a desire to

be trained in a specific path of
service, like say the children's

classes we were referring to earlier.

They rely on a specific curriculum
designed to address this need and

meet regularly, perhaps weekly,

for example, they work their
way through this curriculum.

The curriculum is centered on the Baha'i
Writings, addressing the topic and

discussion and consultation within
the Study Circle, and some guided

tasks help train the group, preparing
them for the arena of service.

And their training is
not limited to study.

They also learn by doing, and this
is all facilitated by a tutor who has

previously completed the course and has
been trained in the art of tutoring,

facilitating the discussion and
addressing the needs of the Study Circle.

So just pause to think about it.

Now instead of depending on learned
behas to train us, we develop

a capacity to train ourselves.

Now we walk a path of service accompanying
others in the cultivation of these skills.

So Baha'is worldwide, in small villages
and large cities, could now cultivate

the specific resources they needed
to support their core functions

within their own communities.

Now we're gonna need many episodes to more
fully explore how these Study Circles work

and how they can become most effective.

But for today's discussion, let's
just accept that what we have here

is a system for self-learning.

So a group of people can collaborate
to develop the specific skills they

need for a particular kind of service.

And it's important to remember that
the curriculum is not only addressing

specific skills that are required,
but also the attitudes that are

central to this arena of service.

It's a whole pedagogy associated
with a particular form of service.

So, for example, the course helping
prepare people for teaching children's

classes focuses not only on the
practical skills they need, but also

on the critical attitudes essential
to effectively teaching children.

So for example, one quote from
the curriculum quotes Baha'u'llah and He

says: 'Regard man, as a mine rich
in gems of inestimable value.

Education can, alone, cause it to
reveal its treasures and enable

mankind to benefit their from.'

In that quote is reflected a powerful
attitude which recognizes that the

real power is not in the teacher,
not in the knowledge that the

teacher imparts, it's in the child.

It's a child center approach,
which is about bringing out

these gems from within the child.

It's such a contrast to the
approaches in teaching, which we're

all used to, which center on the
teacher rather than the child.

Now this is just one example of the kind
of attitude which is indispensable to the

Baha'i approach to teaching children, and
it's a central feature in the curriculum

for teaching children's classes.

And there are similar principles drawing
on the Baha'i writings that shape attitudes

and skills necessary across a wide
range of different paths of service.

So there is a core curriculum which has
been developed for a range of different

paths of service designed to meet the
basic functioning of Baha'i community

life, focusing on the devotional
character of community children's

classes, junior youth development, and
the process of deepening one's command

of the Baha'i teachings and applying
these teachings to the world around us.

I mean, any one of these courses could
fill its own podcast series, and that's

what makes the curriculum so special.

They're based on Baha'i teachings that shed
light on critical paths of service and

that work across diverse settings, whether
in cities or villages in Africa, the far

East, south America, or Western countries.

On any day, there are thousands of
these Study Circles taking place

in communities all over the world.

And with the Study Circle now a central
feature of Baha'i community life,

we have the capacity to channel our
desire to serve in specific paths of

service rather than respond to the
serendipities of community membership.

We now have the capacity as
communities to develop and cultivate

the specific resources we need.

Now I wanna pause for a second here
and talk a bit about the curriculum at

the center of this Institute Process.

This is important to understanding
how the past 25 years relate to the

next 25 years and how it fits in the
larger picture of society building.

If you think about it, developing
curricula like this is not an easy

task. In particular, it has to be a
curriculum that works in the smallest

village, in the largest metropolis,
from east to west and south to north.

For the illiterate and for the highly
educated, it needs a demonstrated capacity

to respond to the needs of people living
in incredibly diverse circumstances.

I mean, that's truly ambitious.

Clearly, this isn't something
that would be born out of theory.

It had to be born out of experience so
that it could learn from its encounters

and improve its capacity to respond
to all these different needs, and it

had to have been implemented in truly
diverse settings to test its efficacy.

Now, I think it's fair to say that
the Baha'i community stumbled into

this learning process globally.

We didn't have a lot
of experience with it.

It was something new, a new
paradigm for our community life.

It wasn't a perfect process and
mistakes were made and kind of

like getting it off the ground.

And to be fair, mistakes will probably
continue to be made as we continue

to grapple with how to do it well.

Despite its setbacks, however, the
Baha'i community worldwide adopted a

curriculum, the Ruhi Institute, that had
substantial experience under its belt

and that had been adopted and implemented
in a wide range of diverse settings.

And as I mentioned before, Baha'is
Worldwide patiently implemented this

curriculum, focusing on developing
skills for children's classes, junior

youth activities, devotional life, and
other basic community functioning needs.

With that basic pattern now essential
feature of Baha'i community life, we

have the tools necessary to adopt
other curricula that can similarly

provide training to meet specific
needs going into the future.

But these needs will now vary
considerably from community to community

since they'll respond to the specific
needs of the societies around them.

In one community, for example,
race unity may be the most pressing

issue where Baha'is can contribute
best to the society around them.

But in another community, that
focus might be on developing

spiritual parenting skills.

As Baha'is learn to better read society
and understand society's needs, we

will also need the skills to respond
to such needs and hear the victories

of the past 25 years in building the
pattern for the Institute Process

as the means for developing such
skills will bear its greatest fruit.

So let's return to the example I gave
in our first episode of my college club

at the University of Texas, where we
responded to the need of the society

around us by creating weekly meetings,
helping people develop their skills

for the promotion of race unity.

Now looking back, our process was
very similar to the Institute Process.

We had a facilitator, remember that
was the remarkable Bruce Curry that I

talked about, who helped familiarize us
with the race discourse, with the Baha'i

teachings on race and with so much more.

But we didn't have the benefit
of an established curriculum.

We had to struggle to
invent it along the way.

And there were things we got right,
and there were plenty of things

we got horribly wrong in that process.

But we learned, we learned a lot from both
our successes, but also from our failures.

Let me give you an example.

One of the most important principles we
discovered is that you can't heal racism

with only one race sitting in the room.

There had to be an exchange between
black and white America, and this

was indispensable to healing racism.

Now that's a massive discovery.

It's a big deal, and it's a uniquely
Baha'i perspective, and we discovered

that principle through experience.

But while it benefited us and our
small group at the University of

Texas, no one else in the world
benefited from this critical discovery.

Now somewhere else that might
have been another group of Baha'is

grappling with race unity as well,
and maybe they also discovered that

principle, but they certainly didn't
share it with anyone else either.

Now you see the problem.

In a lot of ways it's like we're
trying to pop popcorn with a popcorn

machine, and after eventually getting
to the right heat, we hear a kernel

pop and we get really excited, but
we shut off the popcorn machine.

Then we do it again, and we get
another kernel going pop, and we shut

it off again and again and again.

Now through this process, eventually we'll
get a bowl of popcorn, but it's gonna take

a long time to pop our popcorn this way.

But what if we could learn from each
other and synthesize our experiences?

Well, then we'd be getting to the critical
heat and continue popping our popcorn.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

Now, that's a much better
way of making popcorn.

And there's another
point to my story here.

None of us could have discovered
this principle through theorizing.

It was born out of our experience.

An effective curricula need
the benefit of such experience.

And we weren't the only Baha'is
grappling with race unity.

There would've been other groups
grappling in similar arenas, discovering

their own principles, but just like
they didn't benefit from our discovery,

we didn't benefit from theirs.

But now going forward, we have a process
where such experience can be brought

together to hammer out new curricula,
to respond to specific needs, building

specific capacities and experience
can then further refine these courses,

enhancing our capacity to respond to
the needs of the societies around us.

So what will increasingly emerge is a core
curriculum meeting the basic functions of

Baha'i community life now that's already
in place, and a growing number of courses

responding to specific societal needs.

The Universal House of Justice uses the
example here of a tree with the trunk

being the core curriculum and the branches
that grow out being new courses which

respond to specific societal needs.

And we're at an exciting juncture a
time when many new courses will evolve.

Growing out of the explosion of
society building initiatives,

we're soon to see take place.

Now, we're still in the
early stages of all of this.

We're still stumbling our way through
it because naturally it's something

new and we lack experience with it.

But think about what all of this means.

Look at it in terms of the big
picture, and let's all appreciate how

the community building initiatives
of the past 25 years with the rise

of the Institute Process, have now
prepared us for this exciting future.

Increasingly, our communities will
have the resources to respond to the

needs of the societies around us.

We now have the pattern in place, the
culture, and going into the future,

just like that character Trinity from
the Matrix, we can now develop the

specific skills necessary to responding
to the needs of the societies around us.

Now with the rapid growth of study
circles, the resources of Baha'i

communities worldwide greatly expanded.

Instead of there only being a small
handful of people in a community that

could facilitate children's classes,
for example, now there were scores of

such people, and with this expansion
in the community's resources, the

scope of our activity could also grow.

Where this became most apparent
was in the shift in focus within

Baha'i communities from their
local community to neighborhoods.

So again, before the typical Baha'i
community would organize itself at

a local level and by local here, we
essentially mean the town that you lived

in Baha'is got together at this town level.

And in many cases, this meant that
hundreds, even thousands of Baha'is were

gathering together regularly requiring
fairly large venues like a large Baha'i

center or a a large community hall.

And these relatively
large communities had

largely centralized activities.

So there might be a fairly large
centralized Baha'i children's class, for

example, with a few hundred children
organized across different classes.

Now just think about the logistics
required to operate a program like

that, and that was largely the pattern.

Now with the dramatic multiplication
and resources that grew out of the

Study Circles, suddenly instead of just
having one large children's class, you

could suddenly have many smaller classes
organized at the neighborhood level.

The rise of the neighborhood as
the focus for community life meant

that now Baha'is got together in much
more intimate settings, encouraging

much greater participation.

So imagine if before you were in
a large town meeting with hundreds

of people, how likely would you be
in that setting to raise your voice

and participate in a consultation?

But now at the neighborhood
level, such consultation thrives.

It's not just that participation
increases, it's also that the quality of

that participation is greatly enhanced.

And as activities start to grow at
the neighborhood level, suddenly there

were new opportunities for growth.

So, for example, with much smaller
children's classes and neighborhoods,

Baha'is were eager to grow these classes.

And so they invited friends
and neighbors to join.

Suddenly our children's classes had much
greater participation from wider society.

We went from having children's classes,
which were predominantly Baha'i, to ones

where the majority of the participants
were actually from the wider community.

Again, this is a key pattern
going into the future.

And increasingly, Baha'is grew
comfortable inviting friends and

neighbors to all kinds of activities,
Study Circles, children's classes,

devotional meetings, junior youth
activities, and Baha'is increasingly

grew comfortable understanding that
people didn't have to be Baha'is to

share in our vision or in parts of
our vision and contribute accordingly.

So a new pattern emerged where people who
weren't Baha'is were not only participants,

but increasingly became collaborators.

Teachers, tutors, facilitators,
animators, they began contributing

shoulder to shoulder with Baha'is in
rolling out Baha'u'llah's Vision for Humanity.

Now, this was a big change
in our community culture.

It's a massive victory
for the past 25 years.

Previously, Baha'is were relatively
insulated from the world around us.

Yes, we invited people to our events, but
we did that on our terms and we did it

with them participating as participants.

So we went from viewing wider society as
participants to viewing wider society as

collaborators and engaging with society.

Building requires collaboration
and this fusion between believer

and collaborator is critical
as a new pattern going forward.

Now, I wanna digress for a second
and explore this a little bit

further because I think there are
really important implications here.

The journey of a soul to their Creator is
a sacred one, and it's one in which each

person is responsible for themselves.

If people share our vision or
part of our vision, they should

feel free to contribute to it.

But the process of joining our Faith as a
believer is about something much greater.

It's not about whether they like our
activities or even share our aspiration

for building better societies.

It's about whether they believe that
Baha'u'llah is a Divine Messenger with

a Divine Message for humanity today.

If they accept that, then they
should embrace His cause.

But that's ultimately
their decision to make.

Now there will be people who instantly
recognize this truth, and there'll be

others who may never get there, but
they still may wanna contribute to parts

of the vision which they agree with.

And there will be others still
yet, probably most people, who

will get there through a more
gradual process of discovery.

But the point is, that's
their story to tell.

It's their journey.

We never want to impose ourselves on them.

Yes, we want to be there for them
and help accompany them in their

journey in any way we can, but
it's fundamentally their journey.

But along the way, we want to
welcome them as collaborators.

So this is why I say that this
achievement of the Baha'i community over

the past 25 years is so groundbreaking.

Baha'is are increasingly coming to terms
with this, giving people the space

they need in their journeys to explore
the teachings of Baha'u'llah, while

also welcoming them as collaborators.

And this fusion will be critical as
we increasingly come to terms with

effective society building going forward.

So, as I was saying, the nexus of
Baha'i activity grew, particularly

at the neighborhood level.

But it also grew at a higher
level at the level of the cluster.

Now, by cluster here, we're referring
to a number of towns or suburbs, all

within manageable travel distance,
who were now collaborating together

around regular campaigns of activity.

So new patterns emerged with the
nucleus of activity that saw expanding

circles from neighborhood to local
communities and ultimately to clusters.

And with the rise of the
cluster, something else happened,

which is truly remarkable.

Our youth emerged at the forefront
of Baha'i community life as

leaders of these campaigns.

Now, youth have always been at the
vanguard of Baha'i community life.

It's a distinctive feature of Baha'i
culture. But previously this tended to

occur in its own enclave of activity.

You had the grown up community initiatives
and you had the youth initiatives, and

in truth, the youth initiatives were
probably a lot more exciting, but they

were still largely separate and distinct.

What was different about the past
25 years is that suddenly these

youth were driving almost all of
the community's main initiatives.

It was no longer a
parallel arena of action.

Now the youth were woven in to community
life, even leading our community life.

So our key tutors, our key
coordinators, our key teachers, our

key animators, our key facilitators,
these were often youth and why?

Because they were the ones most eager
to respond to the needs of the hour.

Anyone could have responded.

They were just so much more eager,
and of course, Baha'i administrators

responded to that enthusiasm,
further fanning their flames.

So suddenly our youth are not only at our
forefront leading the way, but they are

also more deeply woven into the fabric
of our community life than ever before.

And there's no question that
this will be an increasing

pattern going into the future.

So stay tuned for a future episode where
we explore the dynamic of how we can best

channel the contributions of our youth.

But for now, let's just celebrate the
achievements of our youth at the vanguard

of community building a new pattern in
our community life that will be critical

to the road ahead for society building.

Now it's not possible for me to
celebrate all of the achievements of

the Baha'is and the community building
process over the past 25 years In a

single short podcast like this, I would
highly encourage you to read the April,

2021 message of the Universal House
of Justice to the Baha'is of the world

for more comprehensive discussion.

That's where you'll find the best summary
of the achievements of the past 25 years.

But what I hope to achieve today is to
highlight at a high level some of the

central features that form the hallmark of
this period and how this transformed Baha'i

community life, giving us the foundation
we now need for society building.

Specifically today I focused
on four key achievements.

First in building self generative systems
of learning, empowering communities

worldwide to cultivate the resources they
need from within their own communities.

Second, in expanding nucleus of community
life with ever expanding circles from

neighborhoods to local communities and
up to clusters of communities within

manageable reach of one another.

Third on the fusion of believer
and collaborator from society

at large, working together to
build the vision of Baha'u'llah.

And finally on the growing influence of
youth at the vanguard of our initiatives,

reflecting new patterns woven into
the fabric of our community life.

Each of these themes will have
their own dedicated episodes - each

play an indispensable role in
the pattern of our response to

society building going forward.

My point today was not to give
a comprehensive discussion

about the previous Plans.

Again, turn to the message from the
Universal House of Justice for that. But

I just wanted to help illustrate that the
gains of these plans lay the foundation

for society building going forward.

And while we celebrate the victories
of the past, I don't want you to

think that these changes came easy.

There was a lot of sacrifice.

Mistakes were made along the way,
and there were clear consequences

growing outta such mistakes.

But that's all part of
the process of learning.

And in our next episode,
we'll explore what it means

to have a culture of learning.

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