Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: bio and question

[Monty Berman (mberman]

On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 Beccareid [at] aol.com wrote:
> 
> Dear Coho friends
> 
> After being a lurker for a month or two, I guess it's only right to make an
> appearance--here's my bio.. . .
 
>  Favorite thing about community:  Two things--1. as a fairly shy person I
> like how it provides opportunities for interaction that don't take lots of
> effort and feel fairly natural.  2. It makes me stretch, question all my
> habits and assumptions and has given me a fine tuned appreciation of the
> amazing creativity of collelctive minds and the real beauty of concensus
> process.
> 
>  If I was in charge: I would: teach everybody basic comunication and conflict
> resolution skills so we can stop misunderstanding eachother, mis reading each
> other's motives, and saying things that get a result that's the opposite of
> what we want.      

Dear Rebecca,
I don't know about teaching the above. If it took, what else would i 
struggle with within myself? Also, see your #2 favorite thing.
  
> And now as a bonafide member of this list, I have a question to ask of the
> communities that are built:  Do you have a bulletin board?  how is it
> managed? . . .

We are not yet moved in at EcoVilage at Ithaca, but I will remember about 
the Bulletin Board; it sounds great to me.

Monty Berman  EcoVillage at Ithaca, with newly broken ground, and roads 
and utilities on their way in.