Communities grow and change in ways that its members don’t always feel represents them. It is human nature that resentments and factions begin to form. What do we do as community leaders to address concerns? What if disagreements can’t be accommodated? There’s a lot that happens when humans human as hard as we do. We’ll do a case study of the San Diego Burner community which has been vibrant since the early 2000s and grew to a regional with over 3500 attendees. We’ll examine how a community in distress got smaller, redirected and is starting to flourish again.