Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: rules and regulations

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> How do other communities manage to maintain rules and regulations. How far
> would you go to sanction individual members who dont follow them. What are
> the implications of too much tolerance, or on the contrary too much
> severity.

This is much less of a problem than one fears when one first considers
cohousing. People who are even willing to think about cohousing are not the
sort to be really difficult over rules of living. And they are adults.

If you can get through the process of site finding, designing, recruiting,
and building, you are not likely to be a belligerent person. This is one
function of building the place together and full participation of all
members -- you find out a lot of stuff before you move in and either work it
through or you leave.

While we have had some run ins over rules. one person yells and another
yells back and someone sorts it out. It essentially comes down to
understanding why the rule was made in the first place.

In Sociocracy one of the functions is information/measurement. It is
essential. People need to have full information and then you need to measure
to see if what you have agreed to is working as expected.

Most people respond to reasoned arguments based on information and
demonstrated results.

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


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