Re: Intentional communities | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Stephen Hawthorne (hawthornacpub.duke.edu) | |
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 10:52 CDT |
I agree with Gordon's post about the distaiction between cohousing and intentional community being understandable but not particularly useful. Those of us who comprise Blue Heron Farm decided early on we wanted to spend the effort up front developing community within the group, so we are intentional, and we are using the cohousing model for our site plan. We happen to have found Scott Peck's model for community building, and have used it with, I think, remarkable success over the last two years to develop a group where there is a high degree of commitment to being emotionally open and supportive of each other. Peck happens to be a Christian. We cover the waterfront from pagan through Baha'i, Quaker, lovers of Meher Baba, Jews, Christians, agnostics, whathaveyou. His model, described in the book A DIFFERENT DRUM, is not inherently Christian, but is a process any group could use. I haven't included our Vision Statement in this post since it's about 6 pages long, but I'd be glad to share it with anyone interested. Stephen Hawthorne Blue Heron Farm Chatham County, NC
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intentional communities Till Houtermans, July 13 1994
- Re: Intentional communities Gordon, July 21 1994
- Re: Intentional communities Stephen Hawthorne, July 25 1994
- Re: Intentional communities Jim Slotta, July 25 1994
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