Cohousing-L Mailing List: Seeking small cohousing communities (10-14 households) with common area inside main building?

[Diana Christian (diana]

Hello,
    I’m hoping to help the founders of a small, 7-12 household forming 
cohousing community, in Flat Rock, NC to be called Highland Lake Cove 
Cohousing. 

     They’re seeking examples of small cohousing communities with the 
common-house area inside the building that contains the housing units — like an 
apartment building — rather than the common house being in a separate building. 
   They’d like to get a sense of how groups design such relatively smaller, 
in-the-building common areas for their forming community.
   If any Coho-L browsers can point me to cohousing communities that might be 
this small and built like this, please let me know!

    Several of these founders, and several from Westwood Cohousing in 
Asheville, NC, attended a 3-day Sociocracy workshop in Asheville, NC last 
weekend. And both groups had half-day overview workshops recently too.  (It’s 
also called Dynamic Governance.)
        Friends in each group, Highland Lake Cove and Westwood, just emailed 
saying they will create an in-house study group/training group to begin 
teaching  basic parts of Sociocracy to their larger groups, and they’ll 
implement those parts into their meetings. And they intend after many months of 
demonstration and practice to propose to their respective communities that they 
try using Sociocracy for 18 months to 2 years. (Groups usually just try 
Sociocracy for 18-24 months to see if they like using it, and if they do, they 
keep it.)
    Sociocracy trainer Jerry Koch-Gonzalez and I are teaching an overview 
introduction to Sociocracy as pre-conference intensive (day-long workshop) at 
the Coho/US Cohosuing Conference in Nashville, on Friday May 19. People can 
attend the workshop even if they don’t attend the conference itself. Here’s the 
registration page: http://www.cohousing.org/2017/intensives/Sociocracy

    Diana