Cohousing-L Mailing List: the CoHousing Conference

[Sarito (sarito]

  I went to the conference.  I attended the Conflict Resolution workshop
given by Tree and Shari on Friday, and Saturday sessions offered by Laird
and Zev.  I mostly went looking for process info (I'm the point person for
our process committee) and looking for folks who we might hire for help
with process and group development issues.  I missed Sunday's events in
order to get back home in time to be with my daughter and be ready for work
the next day.
  I enjoyed the whole thing.  I was exposed to lots of new ideas and good
folks.
  The biggest impact that the conference had on me was to put our local
effort in a larger context of community.  I enjoyed meeting folks from other
communities in various stages of development and hearing of their experiences
and seeing them risk practicing facilitation, etc.
  I look forward to more interaction with people in other communities, and to
the time (a couple of years hence) when I can say, as was said to me, "let
me know when you can come, and I'll book a guest room". 
  My sense of community got bigger.  It was a good feeling.
  Seems like one thing that the organization might do would be to
facilitate/encourage more inter-community contact.  [Clearly the conference
had this effect].  Two of the presenters suggested that we ought to swap
facilitation with other communities.  This sounds like a great idea.  We're
not built yet, and I have no idea what it is like with those that are.  Do
folks folks who've moved in have interest in contact with other communities
(exchanging visits, etc), or is everybody pretty much focused on their own
situations, and inter-community contact just happens on an accidental personal
level or when a conference or business motivates it?
  As you can see, I've got a lot to learn yet.

Terry (Sarito) Whatley
Nevada City CoHousing
Nevada City, CA
(we're in the planning approval phase with the city)
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