Re: Does your community get all adults in a consensus decision?
From: Jim Snyder-Grant (jimsgnewview.org)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:26:02 -0600 (MDT)
More than a few times, someone at a meeting has said "well, I can't really
agree to this without hearing from so-and-so" or "I'm concerned that
so-and-so would have a real problem with this".  Sometimes the facilitator
or someone in the group has then guided us towards a decision that reads
something like "we agreed to X, as long as so-and-so is OK with it, we'll
talk about it more next time if so-and-so has problems". Then, some specific
person agrees to talk to that person. But I don't think we've ever thought
that we had to contact *everyone*. We do have a pre-meeting notification
process for decisions, so everyone who might be concerned has a chance to
come to the meeting or talk to someone who is going. Our condo docs have
language that allows 10% of the member households to bring any
recently-announced decision up at a group meeting for reconsideration, which
has so far seemed to provide a reaonable balance between moving forward &
having some rights of review. The clause has been used once or twice.


Jim Snyder-Grant
jimsg [at] newview.org
18 Half Moon Hill
Acton MA 01720
New View Cohousing
http://www.newview.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] msn.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: [C-L]_Does your community get all adults in a consensus decision?


In the thread about community sizes there was a tangent about how many
adults participate in a consensus process. In my observations, only a tiny
handful of cohousing groups  outreach to those not  participating in a
consensus process, but perhaps it is wider spread than I think.

Here is what I want to know. If for example, there is a consensus decision,
and 6 people do not attend the meeting where the decision is made, do you
outreach to those 6 people and get their agreement, or just assume they
support the decision? If you do outreach, how do you do it?

Rob Sandelin
Community Works! http://www.ic.org/nica/cw1.htm



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