Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Secrecy in Cohousing Records

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> Closed meetings and secret records indeed sound very troublesome -  
> that is
> unless the open meetings are perhaps being hijacked and the records  
> misused
> to further an agenda far from the hoped for goals of cohousing.

But whichever thing is happening and no matter how biased Norm's  
account may be, the methods of dealing with the situation won't solve  
anything. Closing meetings and refusing to share legal documents with  
members is not a workable solution in any kind of community seeking  
to be cooperative.

The points about meetings of the nominating committee and meetings  
dealing with the personal issues of an individual are well taken but  
it sounds like this is a very different situation.

Even sociocratic corporations of hundreds of people share all  
financial and legal documents except for proprietary formulas.  
Meetings are also open although only members of a circle are included  
in rounds making consent decisions.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Coauthor with John Buck of We the People
Consenting to a Deeper Democracy
A Guide to Sociocratic Principles and Methods
ISBN: 9780979282706
http://www.sociocracy.info