Re: Participation Rates (WAS Developmental Stages of Cohousing ) | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Holly McNutt (holly.mcnuttgmail.com) | |
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:28:11 -0700 (PDT) |
Huh, interesting. Just forwarded this to our Board of Directors, on which I serve. - Holly from Nyland in CO On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eris Weaver wrote: > > <warning, this is long!> > > Participation is the most common issue for which communities hire people > like me. The general issue/problem seems to be how to get members who aren't > doing their agreed-upon share of the work to get with the program. > > What is alternately fascinating and vexing to me is that groups then spend > endless hours coming to consensus on complicated policies and > guidelines...yet we are extremely reluctant to build in two components that > research shows are necessary for individual or group behavior change to > actually work: > 1. tracking/measuring desired behaviors and > 2. consequences, both positive and negative. > > I would really like to foment some cultural change here in Coho Land around > this issue. I'm about at the point that I will no longer take on working > with communities around work agreements if they're not willing to include > these two components in their policies and implementation plans. > > So, I am going to make an offer here (or I suppose you could read this as a > challenge rather than an offer): > > I will give one full day of my consulting time FOR FREE to a community > wanting to work on this issue, under the following conditions: > > 1. The community must be at least 2-3 years post move-in. (Post-honeymoon, > in other words!) > > 2. My time is free but you have to pay my travel costs, feed me, and put me > up for the weekend. > > 3. The community has to have ALREADY AGREED that tracking & consequences > will be part of the plan. We will work together to create the actual plan & > details, but there has to already be consensus that these two components > will be included. (If, during the workshop, anyone utters anything along the > lines of "no, we can't do that, we don't want to be policing each other" I > will stop immediately.) > > 4. This will include pre-work (including some required reading for you!) and > follow-up (I'll be checking on you!) > > 5. I get to write about it. (I will change names, details, etc. so as to > protect your privacy.) > > Any takers, contact me back-channel! > ------------------------------ > Eris Weaver, Facilitator & Group Process Consultant > Author, "Let's Talk About Money: A Conversation Guide for Intentional > Communities" > eris [at] erisweaver.info > 707-338-8589 > http://www.erisweaver.info > http://erisweaver.blogspot.com > > > fa cil' i tāt: to make easier > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
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Participation Rates (WAS Developmental Stages of Cohousing ) Eris Weaver, August 18 2011
- Re: Participation Rates (WAS Developmental Stages of Cohousing ) Holly McNutt, August 18 2011
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