Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: cohousing culture

[Robert Heinich (robert]

Gerald,

You did not mentioned what community you are associated with.

There is a quote from  Zev Paiss on cohousing being the most expensive 
course of personal growth.  So I believe many of us already in cohousing 
have already examine our ethics, morals, mores, customs, etiquette, 
folkways, formalities,lifestyles and are containing to do so.

Creating trust enables us to share our resources and cooperate in a way 
which is much difficult in your typical middle-class neighborhood.

This does not mean we live in continual bliss but living in community has 
many pluses.  Creating community, however, is hard.  You may want to look at 
Diane Leafe Christian' book. "Creating a Life Together", 
http://store.ic.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=34_51&products_id=73&osCsid=b9b31a093627c13a5b0b1ebca2232034, 
on how to create an intentional community.

Good luck on your quest.

-Robert Heinich
Eno Commons Cohousing
Durham, NC
where I can not imagine living any place else


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Manata" <gmanata2003 [at] yahoo.com>
To: <cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ cohousing culture


>     Main stream American middle class culture is probably the most 
> difficult culture on earth to marry with cohousing. Is there a cohousing 
> community out there that, other than setting up the group mechancis of 
> cohousing, actually operates on or has created a counter-or cohousing 
> culture to replace the main stream middle class American culture many 
> members come in with and continue to try to hold on to. In other words, 
> has any group tried, objectively and pragmatically, to analyze and 
> identify its values, ethics, morals, mores, customs, etiquette, folkways, 
> formalities,lifestyles, etc., find a way to eliminate from people's 
> lives/the community the interpersonal distance/coolness, personal greed 
> and materialism, environmental distructiveness and poor diets, abusive 
> childrearing practices, etc. of middle class America and replace them with 
> a culture more in tune with community or village living still preserving 
> Western democratic principals?
>    If so, can you discribe what you have created and how  you did it?
>
>
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