Cohousing-L Mailing List: A New Identity and a New Reality

[Meryl Birn (mbirn]

Last weekend, our Yellow Plum Cohousing group went through  the “Getting
Started” workshop by Kelly ScottHanson of Cohousing Resources.  It was an
emotionally exhausting weekend, with many tears shed, more than a few by me.
But at the end, we had a new identity – Yellow Plum Commons – and a new
sense of what it will take to create a cohousing community in the
Tri-Cities.

This creating cohousing thing is tough.  We are building our hopes and
dreams, at the same time we are trying to build with sticks and bricks.  In
our particular case, the problem is that we live in a rather conservative
part of Washington State.  Here’s the one piece that I really heard:  Are
there 18 families that want to live in a cohousing community in the
Tri-Cities?  Probably.  Do we have the time, money, and resources to find
them?  Maybe not.

To any group in Forming stage of development, I encourage you to contact
Cohousing Resources and arrange for this workshop (or a similar workshop by
the CoHousing Company folks).  Kelly is an excellent presenter.  She quickly
gets to the heart of the issues, and handles complicated and emotionally
complex topics both thoroughly and compassionately.    For us, it was time
and money extremely well spent.


Meryl Birn
Yellow Plum Commons
www.yellowplum.org


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