Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: 4 simple approaches to improve collaboration/consensus

[Dahako (Dahako]

Hi Rob and all -

In the light of your message - an interesting thing is happening here at 
Eastern Village as the Community Life team develops a proposal about consensus 
and how we will practice it.  One of our special issues is the size of the 
community - at build-out we will be around 55 units.  

The approach the team is taking revolves (in part) around the idea that 
consensus will not be formed in meetings so much as it will be explored and 
confirmed. The team is proposing a defined period of time after introduction of 
an issue or informal proposal (and during the development of a formal proposal) 
in which it is each member's responsibility to interact with the people 
drafting the proposal and to discuss issues and indicate areas of agreement and 
disagreement. Some of the discussion will happening formally in team and whole 
community business meetings, and some will be smaller discussions, in person or 
in our idea-sharing space on the Web.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this works and will let you know. . .

-Jessie Handforth Kome
Eastern Village Cohousing
www.easternvillage.org
Silver Spring, MD 20910
"Where the interior demolition is proceeding apace (and drawing small children 
to watch in glee at grown-ups making a biiiig mess)."
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