RE: Communities of Communities | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (robsanmicrosoft.com) | |
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 95 11:58:24 PDT |
When groups start looking at sites there is often tension and disagreement over site location. Many groups finds themselves split and abandon pursuing a site because not everyone could agree on it. I have heard of five different groups where a small minority caused a group to abandon a site. I am beginning to think this is a mistake. It might be better for a group to split up, and have one segment of the group follow through on acquiring a site, then have the others continue to form as a connected, but separate group around a different site. This way two groups form from one and can still share ideas, contacts and the like. As the groups develop in separate sites exchanges could occur, based on their common history. I am not sure that a single group could acquire and develop two sites unless it had huge financial resources or some superhuman organization. From what I have seen in my area, 7 of the 21 groups that have formed over the last 3 years disbanded eventually from their inability to acquire a site they could afford to develop. I have been working for the last two years to encourage cohousing groups to share what they know with each other, and also to get local intentional communities to meet together and share common interests. The difficulty I see is that most groups seem to barely be able to deal with their own lives and situation, and have little energy for networking endeavors unless there is some direct and pretty substantial benefit to themselves. It would be interesting to create a "community exchange" sort of program, where communities worked together on various inter-community endeavors but I have not been able to set this sort of idea into reality thus far in my area. Maybe others will have better luck. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood
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