Cohousing-L Mailing List: Active cohousers with other, related affiliations/roles

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Thanks Dave, I appreciate your words and wish I had explicitly offered up
both celebrating and not-celebrating.

When you wrote: "I presume Craig was posting personally and not as a
Cohousing/USA official" you were quite right, but its probably more
complicated than that for folks who are trying to wear multiple hats - I
know its challenging for me. This issue has been most discussed here in the
realm of "Members who provide paid services to the group."

To be clear, Coho/US has NO political agenda, other than advocacy for
cohousing... it all its variety, whether they are diverse in any particular
characteristic or not. I do my best to present Coho/US in ways that respect
this. It is inevitable, however, that I will share about my personal life in
cohousing - and Songaia Cohousing is less diverse than cohousing, though it
shares characteristics with many.

I'm afraid that its all too easy to communicate something on a personal
level that is read by others as somehow being tied to my Coho/US title. I
don't know how to deal with this effectively - and would welcome advice.
Particularly chlallenging is that its often ambiguous to me when I share -
for example, what hat am I wearing as I write this? I suspect I cannot
change hats as easily or as skillfully as some. Starting with this not, I
will try editing my sig line when I am clear that I not speaking for
Coho/US.

Thanks for your patience

-- 
Craig Ragland

Coho/US executive director - who's also addressing personal cohouser issues
in this posting.
http://www.cohousing.org
craig [at] cohousing.org

Please try email first, include your phone number (w/time zone) - or give me
a call: 425-487-3550 (Pacific)... communicate!