The need to belong

Reflect on how the need to belong has influenced your life. What does it mean to “belong”? What makes you belong? How are we connected? Reflect on something that you are a member of. Who and what determines membership of your group? Who is outside our community? How are people identified as inside or outside of the group? What benefits do you have because of belonging to this group? How do those benefits compare to the value or those outside the group?