Cohousing-L Mailing List: California opportunity

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hi folks,

Greetings cohousing friends!

I am writing with a short-notice opportunity for groups in the wider 
SF Bay Area.  Years ago i taught group skills down in California 
quite a bit, working with many cohousing communities in all stages of 
development on facilitation, consensus, policy development, and so 
on.  After a while the travel got to be too much and i stopped 
working in California; these days my work takes place almost all in 
Oregon.  However, an old friend has coaxed me into presenting at this 
conference 
http://groundswell.institute/our-programs/west-coast-communities-conference/ 
(which i encourage y'all to consider attending).  As a result, i will 
be making a trip to northern California, and thus am available to 
teach either the weekend before or after the event next month.

If your group would like facilitation work and/or group skills 
training either OCTOBER 3-4 or OCTOBER 17-18, i will give the time to 
whichever group commits first.  At this time i'm offering one weekend 
or the other, rather than both; my preference would be for the 
earlier time slot if possible.  I'm also open to other possibilities, 
such as splitting a weekend between two groups, a joint workshop for 
multiple groups, or a workshop for open public enrollment--so if i 
hear back from folks with interests that seem to line up that way we 
can coordinate something along those lines.  Aside from the weekend, 
i could also do a shorter weeknight presentation.

For trainings, typical topics i teach on include:
-- Consensus Decision-Making (minimum one full day)
-- Meeting Facilitation
-- Group Works: Pattern Language for Nourishing Community
-- Appreciative Inquiry
-- Planning for Great Meetings
-- Communication Skills for Feedback and Peacemaking
-- Crafting Excellent Questions

For facilitation, among cohousing groups the most popular topic for 
years has been participation policy; i am happy to facilitate 
productive conversation on that or whatever else is your priority at 
this time.

Further information is available on my website at www.treegroup.info.

It's been ages since i've been active on or read this list, these 
days i work with a wide spectrum of organizations with less focus on 
community living.  I won't see a reply if it only goes to the list, 
you'll need to write me directly at this address (tree [at] ic.org).  I'm 
teaching at a conference in Portland this week so less available than 
usual, will try to check email when i can.  Once i'm back from that i 
will be ready to focus on preparing for any California sessions.  I 
hope life is well with each of you reading this and that your 
communities are thriving.

Cheers,

--Tree


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Tree Bressen
Eugene, Oregon
(541) 343-3855 (after 11am)
http://treegroup.info
http://groupworksdeck.org