Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Request from Manzanita Village in Arizona: How does your community handle members who abuse the community e-mail?

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

I first heard the term “consensed” when I first started attending Mosaic
Commons meetings in 2002, long before the Occupy movement. The cranky
grammarian in me bristled but I have since come to embrace the neologism;
it has a different meaning than “consented to”, as it can refer to a group
of people completing a specific consensus process to reach a decision.

If you mean just using consensus as part of organizational decision-making,
I first encountered that in the early 90s and it definitely wasn’t a new
concept then.

Diana

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 1:02 PM Abe Ross <cohoyote [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> Was the reference to the process of "consensus" or to the neologism
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> "consensed"?
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> Abe Ross
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> Treehouse Village Ecohousing
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> Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
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> Canada
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> We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
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> [Albert Einstein]
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> On 1/16/2021 1:53 PM, Bonnie Fergusson via Cohousing-L wrote:
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> >         Consensus decision making long predates Occupy.  The Quakers
> have used it for centuries and it has been common among progressive action
> groups for most of my lifetime (I’m 77).  We used it in Prevention Point
> when we started the needle exchange in San Francisco back in 1988 and
> various anti nuke  protest  groups were using it before then just to name
> the ones I’m familiar with.  We say “does anyone object” and then the
> consensus is....Bonnie Fergusson
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> > Swans Market CohousingOakland, CA
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> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad
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> > On Saturday, January 16, 2021, 9:03 AM, Melanie G <gomelaniego [at] 
> > gmail.com>
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> > I noticed some language that reminded me of my days at Occupy Wall
> Street.
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> > SO I just wanted to ask whether others have adopted this way of speaking
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> > about consensus.
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> > Karen said, "we consensed on a set of rules".  I'm super curious if this
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> > has been used maybe before Occupy?  Or is it something that seeped in
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> > somehow?  My understanding is that we *consent to * things together.
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> > curious about this, and would love to include it in a book I am very
> slowly
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> > writing.
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> > thanks in advance,
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> > melanie (seeker)
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