Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: values and missions

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

These words have been very confusing to me and I was happy to see the 
definitions in the sociocracy materials as:

1. Vision: An image of the future, a lofty dream, an ideal end-state.
2. Mission: The assignment the organization gives itself to realize its 
vision. It's nature in terms of the outside world.
3. Aims, goals, objectives: The concrete form the product or service 
will take.

This set of vision/mission/goals can be stated by individuals as well 
as by groups, and for small tasks as well as big ones like building a 
cohousing community. My personal set for finding a cohousing community 
were

Vision: To live in an extended-family-like community where I could have 
privacy and independence as well as share life events, that I could 
afford to live in for the rest of my life.

Mission: To find or help create a cohousing community in a geographic 
area with some interest (beach, mountains, urban, etc.), that is 
designed on a condominium concept (not lot development or individual 
houses), with people of liberal but fairly mainstream views (no 
ideological worship of vegan, TV-less life on the fringes) who are 
professional and business like in their interactions (no trusting in 
the ocean of life to provide).

Aims, Goals, Objectives:
1. Look at all the options available by reading the cohousing  
listserve and joining those of various communities that looked 
interesting.
2. Cut ties in New York City (had not looked promising for cohousing).
3. etc. etc. This was a long list of things to do and consider and test.

The interesting thing to do is to do these for yourself instead of 
waiting until everyone else is willing to do this too. I think groups 
have a hard time doing this until each individual has a clear sense of 
their own vision/mission/goals. Has any community done this?

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

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