Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Consensus & Majority Voting

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

on 7/18/2002 6:32 PM, don i arkin at shardon5 [at] juno.com wrote:

>       Robert, I fear that you have hit the nail on the head!  Even
> though Sonora has had 2 full weekend trainings with Laird, and a half day
> with Rob S., we are still most decidedly flailing and failing at
> consensus.  Many of us don't want to put a heck of a lot more time into
> training. How much is enough?

One of my concerns is that perhaps whole groups spend too much time in
training and more should be spent by 2 group members who really make this a
focus and learn how to guide a process.

Each member taking responsibility for the quality of a meeting is very
different than each person being a skilled facilitator. Members (or a
majority of them) need to have a working understanding of achieving consent
as a process and learn to trust the facilitators, but they don't have to be
the experts.

Specialization allows forward movement with only one pair of boots.

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


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