Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Question about Consent Governance

[Alan O'Hashi (adoecos]

"Personally, I feel that these fallback rules are keeping us from building that 
strong communication glue and trust that is needed in a new community."
Chris - I agree with you - not only new communities, but established ones, too. 
If community decision making is based on consent, it should be a norm, not an 
exception. At our place the teams set up their own rules of order and in at 
least one case a team lapsed into parliamentary procedure (there's a war story 
about at least one outcome that I can talk to you about off-line). I'm not sure 
why that choice was made - maybe a crutch of familiarity; power and control 
utility. 
Thx,Alan O.
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Alan O'Hashi - ECOS
EnviroCultural Organization Systems
 http://www.alanohashi.com/ecos
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