Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Opening Ritual

[C.C. Barron (ccbarron]

Oak Village Commons meetings all include a potluck dinner.  We open and close
with a brief circle which includes singing -- usually a nonsectarian grace in
the opening circle and something like "May the circle be open" or "The More We
Get Together" for the closing.  We often sing simple seasonal rounds, too, and
the kids join in as well as adults.  The act of gathering in a circle and
singing with each other really brings us together as a community.  (Even those
among us who don't consider themselves singers).

Cat Barron
Oak Village Commons
Austin, TX
http://www.oakhillcohousing.org/

Meryl Birn wrote:

> Our group, Yellow Plum Cohousing, is in the fairly early stages of becoming.
> We have four committed families and a hunk of land.
>
> At a recent meeting, we discussed a desire to have some kind of ritual at
> the start of the meeting, to help us to create a sense of community, and
> help remind us of what we are building.  In "The Cohousing Handbook" book,
> they celebrated the group's identity by visualizing an empty chair as this
> new entity.   We are looking for something like that, but something simpler
> that we can do at each meeting.
>
> Has any group created a such a ritual?  Any ideas you can share?  Other
> ideas for creating that joint sense of purpose?
>
> Thanks,
> Meryl Birn
> Yellow Plum Cohousing
>
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