Family Culture: Creating a Resilient Family Tree (Excerpt)

重新审视和肯定 - 保持相关性
随着我们生活在变化中的世界,家庭文化的景观受到外部的持续压力。不管您的家庭规模或您过去追踪的几代人的数量是事实。在这种情况下,您如何保持核心共享价值观,这些价值观在地面不断地在脚下转移时为您的家庭文化提供信息?您怎么知道可以转移或调整可以做什么?您的家庭身份和共同联系的基石的一部分是什么?
This takes a combination of clarity and intuition and requires regularly revisiting these shifts over time. Families must be clear about how to evolve with external pressure while remaining true to their bedrock values. It may be one person or perhaps a group who become keepers of your family’s core cultural values. In the context of multiple generations, there may be a more formal council, Board or committee that is charged with, among other things, protecting the family culture.
这些文化l gatekeepers are responsible for striking a balance between resisting any change (because change, of course, is inherently filled with the unknown) and identifying what changes make sense so that your family’s cultural identity remains strong for all members regardless of age.为了维持传统,抵制变化可能就像保护家庭文化。但是防止变化也会带来风险:抵制所有变化将侵蚀您家庭的文化身份,尤其是在过去缺乏过去背景并高度调整相关的年轻一代中。定义您的家庭文化的哪些方面必须保留,什么可以改变的是负责管理您家庭文化的人的工作。当然,即使文化守门员专注于家庭文化,一些变化是不可避免的。
福布斯家族有几个不同的家庭成员群体,他们通过认识历史和传统来培养家庭文化,同时还保持文化意义。其中一些活动是正式委员会,而另一些活动可能是一个小项目,并且随着时间的推移而发展。在我们的家谱项目中以及我们的技术升级方法中,这是如何实现这种生活的两个例子。
“大约30年前,一位堂兄自言自语,使用谷仓的二楼创建了一棵大规模的家谱。小笔记卡确定了家庭成员,家庭的每个分支都分配了颜色,每张卡都由纱线连接。该项目每年都会随着纱线的代替胶带而增长和进化,我们还使用了印刷书籍,谷仓中非常模拟卡的“ Tree”的电子版本,甚至不同的展览品,这些展品展示了各种家庭的艺术品和文物成员。尽管访问家谱信息的空间和选项的变化不同,但原始的基于卡的版本仍然存在,并且是那些希望发现和解释我们如何相关并庆祝我们的集体历史的人的常规目的地。”
在一个珍惜传统的家庭中,迅速发展的技术会带来许多挑战,并且总是仔细考虑我们在可用技术时所做的变化。大多数变化都集中在实践管理现实上,我们家庭以外的许多人认为升级或更新通常会回避或简单地拒绝。
因此,您可以想象围绕是否要投资高速互联网的问题发生的辩论。The prevailing wisdom has been that ‘we come here to get away from all that.’ Broadband speeds mean people can hole up in their room binge-watching the latest season of “Game of Thrones” instead of playing cards, joining a game of charades, swimming or exploring. Changes brought about from rapidly evolving technology can feel like a direct threat to how we spend time together.
When Kelly’s family foundation, Surdna, established its first next generation program in 2000, they did not mandate how the program should be defined. The fourth generation of the Surdna Board empowered those fifth-generation family members to build the governance structures, program areas, and yes, the culture, of the program. The Andrus Family Fund, known nationally for its work in foster care and juvenile justice, tended to culture from the beginning, creating an officer position called the “Transitions Keeper.” The founding board members of the Andrus Family Fund applied a transitions framework in the approach to their work. This framework taught them the importance in marking moments, in understanding how we all respond to change in different ways and at different paces.
面对传统,这些问题可能会感到明显,或者它们可能引起争议,因为传统是问题的核心。担心的是,不断变化的传统可能开始揭开将您作为一个家庭束缚在一起的联系。这就是为什么重要的是要对如何维持家庭文化中的共同核心价值观保持周到和战略性,同时也认识到如何解释它们可能需要偶尔的转变才能保持相关性。文化守门人通过观察和重新审视其文化规范,调整或确认“这就是我们的做法”,同时认识到我们今天的工作方式可能已经有了,因此,文化守门员确保家庭能够维持自己的集体身份和随着时间的流逝感。明年不同。
To learn more about this important topic, check outNCFP的文章:家庭文化:创建弹性的家谱。