Handbook
Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence
Support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping.
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Definition
Support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping.
Coverage role
Belonging and community participation support wellbeing, care, learning, civic life, resilience, and practical access to local resources.
Scope
Included
- community asset mapping
- cultural context
- participation planning
- volunteering and mutual aid
- inclusive events
- community conflict
- belonging after transition
Excluded and non-goals
- stereotyping
- political targeting
- covert influence
- claiming to speak for a community
- exposing private member data
Boundary rules
- Route to life.community-culture-belonging when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.map_community_assets |
Map Community Assets | Identify verified groups institutions spaces services events and informal supports. |
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.build_cultural_context |
Build Cultural Context | Summarize language etiquette history diversity power and uncertainty without essentialism. |
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.plan_participation |
Plan Participation | Match interests access time cost safety and desired involvement to feasible opportunities. |
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.design_inclusive_group_process |
Design Inclusive Group Process | Plan roles communication access safeguarding decisions and feedback. |
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.coordinate_mutual_aid |
Coordinate Mutual Aid | Clarify needs offers consent verification boundaries logistics and accountability. |
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.navigate_community_conflict |
Navigate Community Conflict | Map perspectives history norms interests harms power and facilitation options. |
capability.life.community-culture-belonging.support_belonging_transition |
Support Belonging Transition | Create low-pressure ways to reconnect after relocation retirement grief disability or parenthood. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.community_asset_map |
model | Community Asset Map for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.cultural_context_brief |
context_profile | Cultural Context Brief for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.participation_plan |
plan | Participation Plan for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.inclusive_event_plan |
plan | Inclusive Event Plan for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.mutual_aid_plan |
plan | Mutual Aid Plan for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.community_conflict_map |
model | Community Conflict Map for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
artifact.life.community-culture-belonging.belonging_plan |
plan | Belonging Plan for Community, Culture, and Belonging Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support local participation, cultural understanding, community resource mapping, volunteering, mutual aid, and inclusive group involvement without stereotyping. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.community-culture-belonging.asset_based_community_mapping |
asset-based community mapping | Use when a plan depends on local assets, culture, power, belonging, participation, or co-design with affected people. | Avoid treating cultures as static stereotypes, extracting knowledge without reciprocity, speaking for a community, or hiding power and access barriers. |
method.life.community-culture-belonging.cultural_humility |
cultural humility | Use when a plan depends on local assets, culture, power, belonging, participation, or co-design with affected people. | Avoid treating cultures as static stereotypes, extracting knowledge without reciprocity, speaking for a community, or hiding power and access barriers. |
method.life.community-culture-belonging.stakeholder_and_power_mapping |
stakeholder and power mapping | Use when several people or institutions have different interests, rights, constraints, information, or acceptable outcomes and an agreement or safe boundary is needed. | Avoid where coercion, abuse, incapacity, severe power asymmetry, or non-negotiable safety and rights constraints make ordinary negotiation unsafe. |
method.life.community-culture-belonging.participatory_design |
participatory design | Use when a plan depends on local assets, culture, power, belonging, participation, or co-design with affected people. | Avoid treating cultures as static stereotypes, extracting knowledge without reciprocity, speaking for a community, or hiding power and access barriers. |
method.life.community-culture-belonging.volunteer_role_matching |
volunteer-role matching | Use when a plan depends on local assets, culture, power, belonging, participation, or co-design with affected people. | Avoid treating cultures as static stereotypes, extracting knowledge without reciprocity, speaking for a community, or hiding power and access barriers. |
method.life.community-culture-belonging.low_pressure_social_experiments |
low-pressure social experiments | Use when a question can be converted into discriminating observations under a controlled, quasi-controlled, simulation, or explicitly observational design. | Do not claim causality without a declared identification strategy, temporal ordering, confounder analysis, and rival explanations. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.community-culture-belonging.01_cultural_descriptions_include_variation_and_uncertainty |
Cultural descriptions include variation and uncertainty. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.community-culture-belonging.02_resources_are_verified_for_availability_eligibility_safety |
Resources are verified for availability eligibility safety and access. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.community-culture-belonging.03_mutual_aid_includes_boundaries_safeguarding_and_accountabi |
Mutual aid includes boundaries safeguarding and accountability. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.community-culture-belonging.04_political_or_protected_groups_may_not_be_covertly_targeted |
Political or protected groups may not be covertly targeted. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.cultural-contextual, general.collaborative-social, general.communication-explanatory, general.ethical-normative, general.epistemic-evidence
Life intelligences: life.accessibility-independent-living, life.civic-legal-public-services, life.grief-loss-major-transitions, life.travel-relocation-cross-cultural
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
local.community |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
ec.lifecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | False |
un.crpd.accessibility |
concept_definition | False |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: moderate
- Safeguarding exploitation hate harassment or immediate safety concerns.
- Regulated volunteering transport of vulnerable people or money handling.
- Political or legal-risk activity.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/community-culture-belonging.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7