If we have any desire to create an alternative future, it is only going to happen through a shift in our language. If we want a change in culture, for example, the work is to change the conversation – or more precisely, to have a conversation we have not had before, one that has the power to create something new in the world. This insight forces us to question the value of our stories, the positions we take, our love of the past, and our ways of being in the world……
…..All transformation is linguistic, which means we can think of community as essentially a conversation. Then we act on the principle that if we want to change the community, all we have to do is to change the conversation. The shift in conversation is from one of problems, fear and retribution to one of possibility, generosity, and restoration. This is the new context that both creates strong social capital and is created by it.

– Peter Block from ‘Community’