Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Emotion, consensus, and power.

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

I beleive I may have met a few individuals in my day who find such distress,
particularily in others, enjoyable, thus they create it in others for their
own amusement.

The invidivual variance in peoples ability to tolerate conflict indeed has
influence upon outcomes in consensus structures. This is not a bad issue to
do a scale poll on to learn about your members so you can help those that
are reluctant to engage, do so by being their proxy if need be.

A scale poll is a simple technique to get people to rank themselves along a
scale. 1 would be hides from conflict 10 would be has no problem with
conflicts. Have your membership mark on that scale where they are. This way
you can identify those that may need some assistance in a conflict.

Rob Sandelin
Northwest Intentional Communties Association
Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time