Cohousing-L Mailing List: The history of colored cards

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

The colored card system was invented by a guy named Tom Muensch at the
Winslow Cohousing group in Bainbridge Island, WA. Tom took Maslows theory of
hierarchy of communication and put it into a set of colored cards. The
theory is that in a group discussion setting, there are a set of needs, and
group communication is best served when those needs are met. The cards as
originally defined, are designed to meet Maslows ideas of what the needs
are. Over time the cards have morphed a bit in their meanings, and many
groups make up their own meaning for them.

Since Winslow was the first project built, many people came to visit their
community in the "early years" of the early 90's, and copied their colored
card system. In fact, I think Tom even wrote an article about it for the
cohousing journal as well.

Rob Sandelin
Sky Valley Environments  <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
Field skills training for student naturalists
Floriferous [at] msn.com


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