Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity and conflict

[Michael D (ohanamd]

> I highly recommend little diversity in values, principles, ethics and
goals
> but wide diversity in most everything else.

The real trick, though, is in choosing which values, principles, ethics, and
goals to use to screen your community-mates.

Obviously a lot of "free the cats" people have joined with a lot of "confine
the cats" people in various communities.  If we use every value conflict of
that sort to screen who we'll be in community with (or in relationship
with), we'll end up alone.

My community does have values that we use to screen people.  How they feel
about the freedom of cats (and lots of other issues) isn't among them.  Thus
we still need to deal with conflict.

Namaste,
Michael
Heart Song Community
Santa Fe, NM



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