Cohousing-L Mailing List: Unreasonable members tying up decision making

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

The simple solution to having an unreasonable person holding the group
consensus process up is to setup a 3/4ths majority voting fallback.  Most
groups do this. A typically way to set it up to allow a vote after 2
attempts at consensus.  With this kind of backup, people usually figure out
that they can not really stop the group moving ahead and get much more
reasonable...or they bail on the group. Either way, a decision can get made.
Just the ability to do this often works wonders. Dysfunctional people can
then only hold up things for two meetings.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood Cohousing
Snohomish WA