Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consensus at 100.

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

A couple of suggestions:

Make it somebody's job to follow up on decisions and report back to the
group. And have a document, separate from the minutes, that lists decisions
made, so everyone can refer to it.

Also, delegate more to committees, and give them the power to make decisions
without group approval. You could have personnel and rental committees,
chosen by the group, that make those decisions.

This takes a certain amount of trust and letting go on the part of the rest
of the group, but I think you'll find that it works better.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento California

http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing/
tamgoddess [at] home.com
> From: "Mark Bishop" <MarkBishop [at] austin.rr.com>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:14:49 -0500
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_Consensus at 100.
> 
> Our consensus-based church is passing the 100 member mark and is feeling
> organization growing pains.  There seems to be a short-term group memory.
> Decisions are being made but they don't alway get implemented.  The church
> also rents and has employees.  Hiring decisions and rental agreements don't
> go well sometimes.   Have you experienced similar growing pains in your
> cohousing communities.  How did your group handle it?
> 
> Mark Bishop
> 
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