Cohousing-L Mailing List: Racial Diversity in Cohousing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

In my last message I said, "We would do well, I think to find ways to discover 
the ways we are diverse. Not just “white, middle-class, or college educated.” 

More direct is to say diversity is something we need to discover, not display. 

One group process that I learned years ago in a Unitarian Church was similar to 
what was being done in women’s consciousness-raising groups where group member 
share their own experiences on specific topics. These were biography groups. 
Each week a small group would meet and describe their lives at certain ages. 

Depending on the spread of ages in the group, the span might be 3-5 years or 
longer depending on how many weeks the group intended to meet. Interestingly, 
the younger members had much more to say about their lives in the first decades 
than the older members. But the older members had more decades to talk about.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org