Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Searching/work/coordinating council

[Andrew Watkins (aw_ch]

Following on from this request. 

The South Warwickshire Cohousing group are just starting out on the long 
road to creating a cohousing community in the Midlands UK.  information 
people have posted on their web sites has been incredibly useful to us as 
it helps us to describe what cohousing is like and some of the basic 
processes. 
However we are now starting to get onto the next stage and we need all 
sorts of new stuff and if anyone has examples of the following and feels 
like recycling their knowledge we would be very grateful.

o examples of organising agreements, 
o spreadsheets for rule of thumb costings for different housing types and 
densities.
o land use examples
o decision making process policies
o posters, brochures, handbooks etc.
o stuff like the work credit system mentioned above
o green stuff like info on water recycling, reed beds, geothermal power 
etc.
o even stuff about ideas that you considered and rejected would be useful 
as your reasoning might help us avoid long detours.

Really it would be good if there was a sort of shareware/freeware system 
for this sort of knowledge. Then if we adopt a policy document from 
someone elses we could credit you back in some way.

A community handbook/toolkit would be really useful.
I do have McCamant and Durrett - but other book reccomendations are also 
appreciated.

In response to Cheryl's question I am wondering why there is too much 
work? Are you trying to do stuff that could be postponed, or bought in?
if 'spontaneous' fun stuff is not happening do you need to have more 
'organised' fun stuff?

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Andrew Watkins aw [at] ansae.co.uk  01926 640073 http://www.ansae.co.uk/swag
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In article <B8BDE429.4E0%ccharis [at] jeffco.k12.co.us>, 
ccharis [at] jeffco.k12.co.us (Cheryl A. Charis-Graves) wrote:

> Wanted to let the list know I got good help from Diane Simpson of 
> Jamaica
> Plain as she has collated messages re steering committees and sent them
> along to me.
> 
> I still need:
> 
> 1) examples of documents which lay out the roles and responsibilities 
> of a
> steering/managing/coordinating committee, one that does have some
> decision-making ability
> 
> 2) examples of documents which lay out a successful work credit system 
> (we
> have the one from Santa Fe Cohousing ? thank you!)
> 
> 3) thoughts/documents which lay out a successful way of distinquising
> between critical/noncritical or vital/optional tasks so that everyone 
> feels
> valued for what they do and everyone feels they have an important
> contribution to make.
> 
> A final thought ? my perception of what is happening in my community is 
> that
> the ones who do a lot of work don't necessarily expect everyone to do 
> the
> same as they do, but they do get tired and sometimes overburdened. The 
> ones
> who aren't doing as much actual "work" seem to have the most difficulty 
> with
> guilt/resentment, because they see others doing more and feel guilty or
> resent what they perceive to be unrealistic expectations for work. And 
> we
> really don't seem to have those spontaneous, fun social things 
> happening to
> balance it out.
> 
> I think there IS too much work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cheryl
> Harmony Village, Golden CO
> 
> 
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