Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Does your community get all adults in a consensus decision?

[george prehmus (gfpmus]

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?

 

In our Community at Manzanita Village in Prescott Az. we mke all decisions by consensus.  But most of our meetings are quite well attended, so we rarely have that kind of problem.  Occasionally there is a very big important decision to be made, and in those cases, advance notice is given so that if someone is going to be unable to attend, they can assign a person to handle their absentee vote. I know of no trouble we have had with the subject.  Of course, we are still a small outfit, with only about fifteen voting members, which might make a difference.

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