Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Process Committees

[Martie Weatherly (mhweatherly]

Elizabeth, a process committee is part of a pathway to consensus that your 
community will create, so you want the role of the process team to be part of 
that discussion. Also, at your stage in your development, you cannot make all 
your decisions by consensus or consent. You want to start learning about 
different ways to make decisions, when each should be used and when not, so you 
can be training yourselves in making the shift from competitive to 
collaborative decision making.

This is the perfect time for you to be forming teams and learning to write 
mandates and to make clear communication requirements. And to start sharing the 
work. It sounds like you have a site so you are well on your way to your final 
group. Many of your final decisions will be made after you have your final 
group. But for now you want to deal with the issues at hand while learning the 
skills needed for a collaborative community. 

I am passionate about decision making that is satisfactory, creative and 
exciting so if you want to go into this more, you can email me at martiew319 
[at] gmail.com (mailto:martiew319 [at] gmail.com).

Martie Weatherly
Consensus and Process Coach
coachmartie.com

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Sent: Dec 15, 2022 9:05 AM
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Cc: Caryn Robinson <c.robinson.am [at] gmail.com>
Subject: [C-L]_ Process Committees

Hello,

I am part of a developing community in British Columbia. We have twenty-seven 
equity members and we&rsquo;ll have forty when we&rsquo;re complete. We hope to 
start building soon, but need a few more members to please the banks&hellip;

All of our growth has added a lot of complexity to the work of our committees 
and some of us are starting to think that the addition of a few more committees 
may help keep our group organized and running smoothly.

I understand that many communities have something called a &ldquo;Process 
Committee&rdquo; and that there is a wide variety of mandates and tasks 
assigned to these committees.

I would be grateful if this community could share your experiences with Process 
Committees. If you have one, what kind of work do they undertake in your 
community? Do these committees answer an important need for you and your 
community?

I appreciate any thoughts you may have to offer.

With Warmth,

Elizabeth Rosenau, on behalf of Compass Cohousing. (Langley, British Columbia)
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