Re: Why I like Cohousing
From: Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-Lraines.com)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:50:41 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Gerald Manata <gmanata2003 [at] yahoo.com> 
wrote:
>     If what you say is true, your place is more special than you realize.

Having visited most U.S. cohousing neighborhoods in the (including
Craig's -- several times), and lived in two, and advised condo
associations on similar issues, I can, from personal experience and
observation, confirm that the potential is there, in every
neighborhood, to be supportive neighbors that actually do care about
and help take care of each other.

To what extent each of us -- individually and collectively -- realize
that potential, is up to us. In our personal lives we live, and in how
we run our communities. In the choices we make of how we connect with
our neighbors. In how we interpret feedback, reactions, and support.
In the attitudes we adopt, and the resiliency we create. In the help
we welcome, and the resources we ignore.

I just came from having a fun, interactive, educational, participatory
experience at the national cohousing conference near Boston (our
family firm, Cohousing Coaches, was a Gold Sponsor). It was a blast,
and we look forward to going deeper at the 2009 Seattle national
conference next June, tapping into the breadth and depth of the lived
experience of dozens of communities in the Northwest. But it will be
great to be home again.

Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach http://www.CohousingCoach.com/

Regional Organizer, Northern California Cohousing http://www.NorCalCoho.org/
Where I've got an extra ticket to tomorrow's seminar for condo
boardmembers in Santa Clara, and would love to have another cohouser
join us.

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