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ABSTRACT 
 
 
This study seeks to contribute to theorizing on the processes of symbolism and the 
construction of meaning in the communicative context of community organizing. In 
particular, the Social Helix rises out of the study to illustrate the relationship between 
consciousness and development. 
 
The organic development of the Ecosystem-based Community-centered 
Sustainable development Organization and Management (ECSOM) protocol within the 
participatory frame of the Asian Social Institute’s (ASI) sectoral organizing process is 
studied. Articulations (oral and visual) of participants generated in this process are 
regarded as manifestations of consciousness. These are explored in an attempt to 
understand difficulties and strengths inherent in ECSOM embedment, including pertinent 
residual and emerging values and concepts, which may define ECSOM in context.   

Articulations in the 1st CSBCOM consultation established in part the economic 
and socio-cultural context of ECSOM embedment. It was found that group cohesion and 
mutual support are the major motivating forces in the consciousness of participants 
relative to meaning and fulfillment in life. Moreover, there is an emerging consciousness 
that recognizes the gains accruing to society with the realization of personal and 
organizational goals.  

The 2nd CSBCom consultation focused on ASI’s symbol-making approach to 
social development, which is contingent on participants constructing powerful symbols 
whose meanings resonate in their hearts and minds, spurring them to collective action.   
A rich harvest of sensitizing concepts was generated in the participants’ oral 
explication of their symbols regarding the meaning of CSBCom to their lives, such as 
likas-kayang pag-unlad to refer to sustainable development and ugnayang-buhay at 
kabayanan to refer to bioregion. Such concepts reflect a mindset that is attuned to 
balance and holism in the preservation of the natural order of life; while the visual 
representations translate into a montage of expanded insights into what is still to be 
achieved.  

Articulations of CYASF youth relative to their appreciation of the practicum 
module of the Holistic Environmental Education Program, which entailed tree planting 
and echoing in selected communities of acquired knowledge in environmental care, are 
preponderant likewise in the Interactive Dimension of Being (e.g., pakikihalobilo, 
pakikisalamuha, pakikipagkapwa). Interaction with others helped the youth realize 
themselves more fully, but family remains their foremost influence. 

In the researcher’s effort to piece together and understand relative to ECSOM 
embedment the various strands of human experience in the three events he selected for 
study, the Social Helix emerged as eidetic insight. It visualizes the growth of human 
consciousness (noosphere) driven by creative impulses emanating from the nexus of the 
dimensions of Being (integrative realm of expressed thought) in response to psychosocial 
and psychobiological challenges in the participants’ lifeworld (biosphere).   

Deza, A. B. (2012). Articulating Ecosystem-based Community-centered Sustainable 
development Organization and Management: The Asian Social Institute’s Experience in 
Participatory Communication and Social Technology Development in Rizal, Unpublished 
Doctoral Dissertation, University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, 
Diliman, Quezon City.  

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