Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Power Struggles After Move-In (was: I don't buy ...

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

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Diane Simpson,

I read your message this AM with interest as from my heart sick experience
I think you have put your questioning finger on some main issues that must
be solved or fissures in the resulting attempted community become canyons
that destroy any future community building process.  I will be most
attentive to the answers you receive.

----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Simpson
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 8:20 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_Power Struggles After Move-In (was: I don't buy ...

Racheli, how did your group work together to build the community?  Were
you highly involved in the process?  Did people attend a lot of meetings
before move-in to make decisions about the community, or was it comprised
mostly of people who moved in from a long distance away? What was the
percentage of people who were involved in the building process who
actually moved in? I'm just curious as to how you could go through the
arduous process of building the community without not having already run
into the power-struggle issue and come to grips with it.

--Diane(:^]
  Jamaica Plain Cohousing, Boston Massachusetts

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