Cohousing-L Mailing List: Invitation: Better Meeting Process Workshop

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Hello Cohousers! Pass the word!

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter (MAC) of The Cohousing Network is sponsoring a day 
of workshops on Sunday, September 8, at Blueberry Hill in Vienna, Virginia. 
You are invited to attend.

The program is divided into two 4-hour workshops beginning at 10AM and 
3:30PM, with an hour and a half for lunch and visiting in between. You are 
welcome to participate in either or both workshops. 

Laird Schaub will be our trainer. Laird has been living in intentional 
communities for nearly 30 years and has been providing training in 
facilitation and consensus process for 15 years. Laird has received 
outstanding recommendations from our colleagues at Liberty Village Cohousing, 
who attest that his work with them helped to transform their meeting process.

Please join us! 
-  Kevin Oliveau, www.proximitycohousing.com
QUESTIONS: Oliveau [at] aol.com or 703/453-0487

(P.S. Please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested.)

WORKSHOPS FOR BETTER MEETING PROCESS
WITH LAIRD SCHAUB
sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter (MAC) of The Cohousing Network (TCN) at 
Blueberry Hill Cohousing in Vienna, Virginia

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2002
10:00 am-2:00 pm  Workshop #1
2:00 pm-3:30 pm  Lunch (bring your own or eat out)
3:30 pm-7:30 pm  Workshop #2

WORKSHOP TOPICS
Workshop topics are yet to be determined, but may focus on
questions such as the following. These will be explored
using "real life" issues from different communities so the
workshops can serve as on-the-job training.

-- How can we welcome the emotional, intuitive, and
spiritual and help people get beyond their mistrust of these
to use that energy to help solve problems?

-- What can we do to help people get beyond their positions
to their underlying interests and turn conflict into
creative problem solving?

-- How can we concretely resolve concerns expressed about a
proposal in the setting of the large group meeting?

-- When is it best to delegate an issue to a team and when
is it best for the large group to take it on?

REGISTRATION
$25 for MAC members*  
$50 for non-MAC members
$5 additional charge for same-day registration

The registration fee is the same for part-day or full-day participation and 
is nonrefundable. *Includes members and residents of MAC communities 
(TVC, BBH, LV, EV, PC, CC).

Make checks payable to the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of TCN. 
Please copy, print, and fill-out the form below. 
Mail to Kevin Oliveau, 2430 Albot Road, Reston, VA 20191.
Deadline for receipt is Saturday, September 7, 2002.

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___ YES, I will attend the workshop(s) for better meeting
process presented by Laird Schaub at Blueberry Hill on
Sunday, September 8, 2002.
      ___ Workshop #1
      ___ Workshop #2

___ YES, I will join you for lunch.


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DIRECTIONS

Here are directions to Blueberry Hill. (You can learn
more about this cohousing community by checking their web
site:  http://www.blueberryhill.org/ )

Go to Virginia,

towards Tysons Corner.
Take the Route 7 West exit from either 495 <or>
carefully from the Dulles Toll Road. (don't go to the airport by mistake)
>From the top of Tysons Corner (where Route 7 and the Toll Road intersect) you 
will be going about 2.5 miles and three lights to the first street after 
Beulah Rd.  Beulah Rd. is the third light and you will be heading down a 
slight hill. Get in the left lane at the light.
You will be making a U-turn back onto Route 7 at the very next streeton your 
left - Middleton Ridge Road -  followed by an immediate right at the Potomac 
Vegetable Farms farm stand.  Please make this U-turncarefully - the traffic 
is fast here.
The road you are turning onto is Newcomb Farm Road.  Drive slowly up this 
road all the way to the end where there is a small traffic circle with a 
planted island in the middle.  The Blueberry Hill Commonhouse is the 
beautiful structure immediately to your right - 9701 Farmside Place.
Park in the first eight spaces in front of the Commonhouse - after that, 
please park around the outside of the circle and on the shoulder of 
NewcombFarm Road.
If lost call the Commonhouse @ 703-757-5120 or Jack Wilbern @ 703-975-6771.
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