RE: conference topics we'd like to see
From: Casey Morrigan (cjmorrpacbell.net)
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:30:01 -0700 (MST)
Love it!   

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
> [mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Lynn Nadeau
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:21 PM
> To: cohousing L
> Subject: [C-L]_conference topics we'd like to see
> 
> 
> 
> As I scan the list of desired workshop topics for the Denver 
> conference 
> in June, I come back to an idea I've had while attending previous 
> conferences. 
> 
> I've fantasized about having a workshop called the Dark Side, 
> meeting in 
> a pitch black room with anonymity assured, talking about all the ways 
> cohousing at times drives us nuts, makes us want to leave, is 
> much harder 
> than we imagined, elicits burn out, despair, pettyness, power 
> struggles, 
> email flames, nasty individuals, liability suits, gnashing of 
> teeth and 
> tearing of hair, makes you cry, or anything else that is just the 
> opposite of the sunny cheerleading we love to indulge in. Of course 
> nobody wants any potential joiners to think THEIR group might 
> have a dark 
> side, so Homeland Security would also have to weed out any wannabe 
> voyeurs who might try to slip in, prior to the issuance of 
> the brown bag 
> to go over the head...
> 
> All statements could be in the third person. "I have a friend 
> who lives 
> in a group where...."
> Just to be sure. 
> 
> Or maybe it's really as Sunshine-y everywhere in Happy Camper 
> Coho Land 
> as the publicity suggests? Oh, right! 
> 
> Lynn at RoseWind
> where we really are very happy most of the time, but are 
> currently trying 
> to figure out how to reconcile those who want provocative 
> amateur art in 
> highly-common areas even if some people don't like it, for 
> the sake of 
> spontaneity, creativity, and individual joy, and those who 
> would rather 
> have neutral stuff than things some people don't like, in 
> common areas.  
> 
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