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

[Margaret Weatherly (martiew]

Mark Bishop wrote:
> 
> Our consensus-based church is passing the 100 member mark and is feeling
> organization growing pains.  
> 
> Mark Bishop
> 
> Our community is developing our property, so there had to be a way to deal 
> with all the legal and development issues while making all our decisions by 
> consensus. We have  three administrative partners, who deal with the bank, 
> sign contracts, etc. However, our big decisions are made by consensus - the 
> terms of the loan, hiring a builder, the terms we wanted when we renegotiated 
> the loan. But the admin partners sign for us on the day to day stuff so we 
> don't hold up legal and financial issues for minute review by the group. 

You need clear guidelines on what decisions need to be made in the
community and which ones can be made by your committees. Our committee
meetings are open to all, so if someone has a particular interest on a
decision of the committee, they can show up at the meeting. 

I am very interested in bringing consensus to groups outside cohousing
so I would be glad to discuss this further with you, Mark.

Martie Weatherly
Liberty Village Cohousing
martiew [at] earthlink.net
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