Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Need "Work Group" how-to guidance - help homeless veterans

[Jenny Guy (jenstermeister]

Hi Ty, do you have the book "Consensus-Oriented Decision Making"? To be
honest, I've only read the first couple of chapters, but the premise seems
to be that you can incorporate a lot of the consensus mentality -- working
to find a creative solution that works for as many people as possible,
listening to everyone's ideas with an open mind, understanding that
everyone has a piece of the truth, etc -- whatever method you use to make
the actual decision. So you can vote or use consensus (consent,
stand-aside, or block) to make the actual decision, and still incorporate
all those other good things. If you vote, you don't get stuck with people
who don't have sufficient background in consensus, and use the block too
readily, and people can gradually increase their understanding of how to
work constructively, without getting stuck in the blocking trap.

Jenny
Kingfisher Cohousing, Oakland Calif.

Message may have been dictated with voice recognition; please excuse odd
typos.

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Ty Albright <tmalbright [at] verizon.net> 
wrote:

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> Dear Cohousing Community;
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> Can you email me your community's "how to" guidance for work groups?
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> I'm working with a nonprofit team to develop a tiny house village for
> homeless veterans in Denton Texas - which will use cohousing-like design
> and
> community creation strategies; and one of our goals is to establish some
> "how to do this" guidance in advance.
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> We would rather build on the work of others than try to figure out all this
> stuff from scratch.
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> The residents of this village will be responsible to self-manage their
> community.  We envision the creation of various work groups who will be
> responsible for different aspects of operating the community (mess hall,
> grounds, safety & security, conflict resolution, new resident orientation,
> etc.).
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> It would also be helpful it have "how to live in community" guidance.  We
> intend to have the community self-govern (with limitations - there is
> ministry oversight and resources to be made available) but decisions by
> full
> consensus may be a bit much given the circumstances - so we are looking for
> some "Roberts Rules of Order" guidance .. how to conduct a meeting /
> organize a community .. etc. type instructions.
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> If you have anything you are willing to share - guidance - a power point
> pitch - a manual - anything for work groups, governance, etc. please email
> it to me.
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> Thank you.
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> Ty
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> Ty Albright Project Management
> Little Red Hen LLC
> 214-336-7952
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