Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: My Bio

[CaveOat (CaveOat]

I just signed on this list a few days ago, so I'll introduce myself.

My name is Kay Vogt and I live in the Western suburbs outside of Chicago.  I
am interested in cohousing and community building group processes, and
believe that the biggest challenge to cohousing is the interpersonal side.

I am about 95% done with a degree in clinical psychology, have a small
private practice, and one corporate consulting client who is interested in
building a psychological sense of community. My dissertation was a study of
two community buidling groups, Scott PEck's FCE model, and William Polowniaks
TLC model.  Trying to figure out if "chaos" in the group leads to a later
sense of psychological community, i.e. does the process have to be so damn
difficult.  

I presented a paper on community building  in Russia this year at the 3rd
annual conference on conflict resolution.  The paper was on a group process
called "Oekos" a way of facilitating small groups that I learned in Greece.
It's kind of like a 12 step group without a focus on specific problems or
issues.  Just a way of sharing who you are and what is going on with you at
any particular time.  A nice way of creating and maintaining empathy for each
other.. . .

I'm not sure what else to say. Current interests are group processes such  as
Owen's Open Space technology, Focusing, EMDR, and consensus techniques.

Thanks for reading this.

Bye for now.

Kay