Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sociocracy

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> This kinda talk makes me feel goosebumpy with excitement!  My experience,
> living in community, is that we are trying to do something that we haven't
> had the opportunity to absorb from our culture.

And it is harder than it looks!

>The idea of neo-tribalism
> may be dreamy, however we've given ourselves the task of exploring new ways
> of being together.  As one Pinakarri person said, the day we moved in (and 3
> months before she moved out), "now the experiment begins".

Interestingly, there was an old Dutch  tradition of neighborhood
associations that were ruled by consensus. They set rules about who shovels
snow and sweeps the walks and stuff like that. They ran their own
neighborhoods.
>
> Einstein said something like, "you can't solve the major problems of the
> world by using the same paradigms that created them in the first place".

This is the trick. What has been driving me crazy is the structures that
support consensus. You can't just use the same processes but use "unanimous"
as the criteria for agreements, which is what most of us are trying to do.

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Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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