Everywhere I turn people are talking about social fabric, using their own words: community, interdependence, the web of life, the fellowship, the sangha, team buidling… There is a big difference though in how we build teams, which is really community in the work place. We can build them like some families are built: through obligation and fear, scarcity. Or we can recognize that we are a team already, that we are already inter-connected and to, rather simply, if not through lots of practice and commitment, re-member our sufficiency. And I am left wondering if build is not quite the right word, though a common buzz word in professonal training and development, because we do not need to add to it. Adding infers that there is a deficiency, that we are lacking. The truth is, people working together already want to be connected. They already want to work it out. They already want to be known, to be understood, to be heard and yes, loved. So whether you are a manager or a leader or a parent, or all of the above, and you are interested and committed to building a team, take it on today to remember that social fabric is the foundation of what is already there, what is already living. It might be torn, or shredded, and needing repair. Probably it does. It might even need intervention. But for today, let it be a conversation, a conversation sourced from sufficiency and take a look around and notice the yearning. Willingness and skill come with learning, that intervention. Try on that the team already is.