Cohousing-L Mailing List: What is Process?

[Thomas Lofft (tlofft]

RPD Wrote:"I certainly agree that there is a difference between process and 
content.  And that the process you choose can influence or even pre-determine 
the outcome.
 
But ...
 
Do you try to tailor your process to the issue at hand, inventing and adopting 
new methods for each new controversy?" I offer that there are three principal 
determinations to be made in any discussion:1. What are the facts? Do we know 
the facts? Can they be ascertained? Who will collect and verify the factual 
information?2. What are the values related to the issue? Who will state their 
values?3. What are your opinions about these facts and values? Maybe that ends 
up just being a restatement of the values? Maybe it's a discussion of whose 
values are to be acknowledged as supportive of the vision of the community and 
maybe it has to come to grips with the possibility that members actually hold 
values that are contradictory to the presumed Vision of the Community? 
 Thanks for writing,

TOM