Community, Third Edition, Peter Block
Community, Third Edition, Peter Block
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Community, Third Edition
The Structure of Belonging

Author: Peter Block

Narrator: Jeanine Robinson

Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/21/2026

Synopsis

With increasing violence, widening ideological divides, and growing economic inequality, a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. Yet typical ways of engaging people civically and organizationally remain unchanged. In Community, Peter Block explores how authentic community can emerge from fragmentation and offers practical steps to foster transformation.

This updated third edition draws on decades of implementing Block’s ideas and includes the following:New stories and examples demonstrating community building as a more powerful approach to social problems than traditional policies and programsExpanded resources and a discussion guide designed for classroom and training program useA new closing chapter covering broader implications of the book's ideas for organizational transformationFresh content exploring the creative economy's relationship to belonging and social capital’s role in authentic engagementUpdated examples showing how community principles apply to today’s workplace and virtual world challenges

About Peter Block

Peter Block is a bestselling author and the founder of Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed to build the skills he describes in his books. He is deeply involved in his community, including his local neighborhood council, and is director emeritus of Elementz, an urban arts center in Cincinnati.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristine on August 07, 2012

I have read (and used) Peter Block’s book Flawless Consulting over the years and the epiphany it gave me when I first read it and one I like to think I strive towards is the concept of being authentic. Authenticity, vulnerability and compassion are big topics these days. Go to You Tube and search fo......more

Goodreads review by Philippe on December 04, 2014

Two years ago I read this book for the first time and I keep returning to it. The questions it addresses are important: How does positive change take place in a complex social system? How is a collective created and transformed? It is our custom to look at the life of organizations through the prism......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on April 03, 2018

It is no secret that the catalyst of community is one’s sense of belonging. Whether it is a spiritual form of community or simply a gathering of friends with a common interest, community is accurately defined as a group of people that belong to one another. Peter Block has structured this text as a......more

Goodreads review by Sam on January 05, 2021

A doozy! this is a book that i’ve been reading for class, but have really enjoyed it. community is about just that—the place that we live and how we interact with it. the author redefines how we engage with one another as citizens rather than consumers. block gives strategies on how to transform the......more

Goodreads review by Ben on March 04, 2026

If I'm going to read a leadership book -- and this is arguably a deconstructive leadership book -- give me Peter Block. Best read in (wait for it) a community, in order to fully process and digest his ideas and solutions.......more

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