Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: meeting tools

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

White boards don't use up paper, but most of the wipe off marker pens 
give off really bad vapors. As a preschool teacher, we used Dixon "White 
System" wipe off markers that were less fume-y. Enough of us here are 
sensitive to what we breathe, that white boards haven't been an option. 
We use butcher paper flip charts, though they are fairly expensive and 
use paper. Not ideal either. 

Sometimes people prepare an outline or flow chart or such on the easel 
tablet prior to the meeting and just turn to it when the topic is up. Or 
ideas may get listed as proposed. Our agenda is typically written out on 
the easel too, as a reference point. 

We have a board with a big printout of our overall consensus process (CS 
Butler, On Conflict and Consensus) and refer to it from time to time as 
we go through an issue.

The only color cards we use are red ones, which are for process concerns 
( off the topic? are we using our alloted time sensibly for this item? 
too much repetition? discussion when it's not time for it yet?  or mad 
frustration "I'm about to explode because..."). Red cards get called on 
right away. The facilitator then decides what to do with the concern.

Lynn at RoseWind
Where we've have a busy common house with holiday gatherings - Solstice 
sharing of music, poetry, stories, slides, etc; Christmas dinner; white 
elephant gift exchange; personal parties and gatherings. 

Lynn Nadeau, RoseWind Cohousing
Port Townsend Washington (Victorian seaport, music, art, nature)
http://www.rosewind.org
http://www.ptguide.com

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