Table 2 presents the spiral steps of development toward a healthy community in rural and northern locations. Once again, the spiral levels follow SDi and, in fact, Dr Marilyn Hamilton heavily influenced this table. Over the last two years, I have been working in Fisher River, Manitoba, to help determine approaches to labour market attachment for their residents. Dr Hamilton (2006) and the information from her work in application of the spiral to communities was the basis for columns one and three. Hamilton stated “capacity and human conditions combined allow emergence” (personal communication, March 6, 2007). It was this information that convinced me of the importance of the community to the job seeker. Dr Hamilton explained “Graves identified that life conditions are the context in which intelligences arise” (personal communication, March 6, 2007). Individual capacity to work has little impact if one’s life conditions prohibit access to jobs.