Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Accountability for doing community work or workshare

[Robert Heinich (robert]

Instead of monitoring why not use incentives and trust.

For our Community Dayz, we have a light breakfast and coffee before we 
organize into teams and lunch follows the work day.  (Community Dayz is part 
of our cooking schedule.)  We plan activities for the kids to help out (even 
little ones can clean windows).  Afterwards Cathy S, our Queen of Community 
Dayz, sends an email and post a notice which thanks those who participated 
and what we accomplished.

We even schedule our tours on Community Dayz so our visitors can connect 
with neighbors by working together on community tasks.  (Any visitor who is 
willing to work in the garden in the rain is a future neighbor we would love 
to have.)

Does everyone participates or is it perfect?  No, but we rather use positive 
methods to induce folks and build trust.

It works well enough for us.

-Robert Heinich
Eno Commons Cohousing
Durham, NC
where we planning a farewell party for a neighbor who moving on to a new 
chapter in her life.