Re: New Members
From: Ann Zabaldo (zabaldoearthlink.net)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 07:38:36 -0700 (PDT)
Sharon — as you know I do not share your view that limiting diversity is 
necessarily automatic with a new member process in place.  Here at TVC in the 
last resales of which our Resale and Rental pod has participated we have 
provided buyers who are seniors, young folks, people just starting their 
families, gays, lesbians, and multiple ethnicities. However, the Resale and 
Rental pod does NOT choose the buyer.  We bring in many diverse people but the 
seller chooses the buyer.

Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654

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> On May 3, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> One of the problems with organizing a new member process is that it will 
> limit diversity. After initial move-in this is already a problem because the 
> community has a certain look. People will self select based on that. But if 
> their contact with the community is with a small in-take group or a set of 
> criteria, it will further limit diversity. Not by plan but automatically. 
> Like attracts like. Like also attracts opposites but not always with good 
> judgement — the grass is greener effect. It’s all in the stars.
> 
> I think the best one can do is state very minimal criteria and allow as much 
> organic growth as  possible. That’s how most communities begin. 
> 
> When I think of the people who have moved in here, I would not have predicted 
> or chosen many of them who are central to the community as far as I’m 
> concerned. And I learned that you can’t predict who will be the most active 
> after move-in. In some cases when a couple moved in, the one who was most 
> gung-ho became passive while the highly reluctant one became much more active.
> 
> In circular organizing (ie Sociocracy and Dynamic Governance) the aim is to 
> continual evolution and not to “getting it right” on the first go. Trying to 
> “get it right” will delay doing anything and will stifle creative self 
> organization and experimentation. Control can be deadly. Chaos has much more 
> energy and eventually self-organizes into new forms. Control can’t be 
> creative because it is based on past experience.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
> 
> 
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