Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Strategies to deal with a difficult member?

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

Pam,


Have you tried conflict resolution with a third party mediator. You could 
probably get help from the city or county's conflict mediation service (if they 
have one like Yolo and Davis do).  Sometimes a problem person will improve (or 
move) if they are involved in a good process of clear feedback and mediation.


I hope your community also has a fall back position from consensus so that the 
problem person (and spouce) can not block the community from doing something.  
If it gets to the point where a person is too mentally disturbed to be able to 
reason with, there are other actions you can take.  Throwing a person out is 
probably a last resort if even possible if they are a home owner. 


Good luck.


Kevin Wolf 



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