Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: group facilitation for financial issues

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

It would be well worth getting Eris Weaver to come down to work with you,
especially on money issues.


http://www.erisweaver.info/



Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions
241B Commercial Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755
www.cohousing-solutions.com







On 12/7/15, 7:05 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Ann Zabaldo"
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on
behalf of zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>Frog Song to Aptos, CA
>
>125 miles = 3.5 hours depending on traffic?  That¹s some very serious
>traffic Š
>
>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Jerry McIntire <jerry.mcintire [at] gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 125 miles, almost 3.5 hours-- depending on traffic! Right through the
>>Bay
>> area.
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net>
>>wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello Fern --
>>> 
>>> One of the best facilitators working in cohousing is Eris Weaver. Have
>>>you
>>> read her book Let's Talk About Money?
>>> 
>>> She lives at Frog Song Cohousing in Cotati CA.  Is that very far from
>>>you?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 12:54 AM, Fern Selzer/US/CA/95003/NBC via
>>>>Cohousing-L
>>> <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> Our cohousing group, New Brighton Cohousing in Aptos, CA is in need of
>>> some group processing regarding money issues.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for us.    We are not
>>> likely to spend a lot of money importing someone here, and we do know
>>>some
>>> local people who we have used before that we are considering, but if
>>>you
>>> can recommend anyone in the SF Bay area, we would be interested.
>>>> Do you have experiences processing overall money values and/or
>>>>resolving
>>> long-term financial conflicts:   what was helpful?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Below are some of the questions/issues that we are  thinking about,
>>>>but
>>> we will be trying to prioritize and narrow down in our next meeting in
>>> preparation for planning the training.  We are financially
>>>interdependent
>>> even more so than many communities because we are a TIC with a group
>>>loan.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Some issues:
>>>> A diversity of values, sense of trust, scarcity vs. abundance re:
>>> money.   These issues have never been directly discussed, but are in
>>>the
>>> background and often foster creativity and compromise, but sometimes
>>> problematic.
>>>> Some people may have chosen to live in our community mainly because it
>>> was affordable to buy in, while others were mainly attracted to the
>>> cohousing aspect.
>>>> Some of our original plans were completely unhinged by the real estate
>>> bust of 2008.  Now most of us are wanting to move forward with some of
>>>the
>>> improvements we had planned originally.
>>>> What to  do if someone can no longer afford to live here but doesn't
>>> want to leave even though it is holding us back from getting a better
>>> refinance. (this hasn't exactly happened, but could soon)
>>>> Financial situation and/or preference (and often we don't know which)
>>> causes some households to be unwilling to fund our recommended deferred
>>> maintenance and would rather have lower standards of upkeep or wait
>>>until
>>> something happens that must have a repair.
>>>> We are considering building a new unit in our community and how we
>>>>would
>>> fund this and how we would use any profit, how much profit to build in,
>>> etc., are all in question and either stopping or really slowing down
>>>the
>>> pace of movement forward.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So you can see, there are a lot of possible ways for us to enter this
>>> conversation.  Any thoughts? I would appreciate any ideas or stories
>>>about
>>> your community processing around these issues.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Fern
>>>> New Brighton Cohousing
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>
>Best --
>
>Ann Zabaldo
>Takoma Village Cohousing
>Washington, DC
>Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
>Falls Church, VA
>703.688.2646
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