Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Committees and General Meetings

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

on 7/15/2002 9:14 AM, Becky Schaller at bschaller [at] theriver.com wrote:

> At the last Facilitation Team Meeting, we began to look at Tree Bresson's
> website.  Particularly, we looked at the page on setting agenda items.  We
> noted that Tree had written that if an item is proposed for the agenda which
> is the result of an unresolved conflict between two people, then those
> people need to  work on the conflict and the general meeting is probably not
> a good place for this issue to be resolved.

But it may be a good place to collect more information. Sometimes failure to
reach a common decision is based on having different sets of information or
different goals. These may need work rather than focusing on the
disagreements of the parties involved.
 
> However, spending over three hours on the process of making a decision in a
> general meeting about how to go about making a decision is enough to make me
> not want to come to  general meetings.

This sounds like it may be a decision that is not ready to be made. Do you
have all the information? Is it a  money issue? Is it different views of the
site? Drop it for a few months and come back to it. The world won't go away.

(Says she in her own frustration over the insertion of birthday celebrations
complete with cake into business meetings without full discussion by the
community.)

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



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