Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dynamic Governance-Sociocracy workshop June 15-16 in Boston MA

[Don Benson (benson6451]

I am not an expert either.  And this discussion of consensus still seems to be 
focused on or limited to facilitated, time-bound, decision-making events rather 
than building a culture of relationships in a community.  

Is this intentional?  

Do those that bring Sociocracy or Consensus Decision-Making address how 
learning and adopting consensus event behavior might influence the daily 
behavior of a community, reducing the level of interpersonal conflict, perhaps 
building the capacity to reach small and large decisions without the need for a 
structured event?   I am thinking about the various other, older and successful 
cultures that seem to have developed that attribute in their cultures.

Don Benson
503.296.7249

On May 4, 2012, at 2:00 PM, R Philip Dowds wrote:

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> I cannot represent that I am expert on any of this, but I'm feeling like our 
> vocabulary and concepts may be getting a bit scrambled, at least in my mind.  
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> R Philip Dowds
> Cornerstone Cohousing
> 175 Harvey Street, Unit 5
> Cambridge, MA 02140
> 617.354.6094
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