Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Key Principles of Cohousing [was Is cohousing a consumer product?

[rebecca.selove (rebecca.selove]

Hello all who have taken time to respond and offer great ideas! Please continue 
to add. These are great gifts to us!Rebecca Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: John Pustell <jpustell [at] 
verizon.net> Date: 3/15/23  6:03 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: cohousing-l [at] 
cohousing.org Cc: rebecca.selove [at] gmail.com Subject: Key Principles of 
Cohousing [was Is cohousing a consumer product? Rebecca -We formed over the 
last 8 years and moved in last November.Here is a link to our "what is 
cohousing" page on our website - we found it a good starting point for folks to 
learn about is. https://www.baystatecommons.org/about-cohousing/We also have an 
FAQ that talks to some of the nuts and bolts of the process. 
https://www.baystatecommons.org/bay-state-commons-faq/Updating our site for our 
now moved in status is underway (initial design choices being made) so you may 
want to download this page before it goes away.John Pustell - Bay State 
CoHousing.On Mar 15, 2023, at 3:08 PM, > > ?On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 7:57 PM 
rebecca.selove > <rebecca.selove [at] gmail.com>> wrote:> >> Thanks everyone 
for the interesting comments.  As a member of a >> forming community I have a 
question for those of you who have lived >> in cohousing 10 years or so: what 
do you think are the key principles >> that ought to be explained to people who 
are checking us out?> > I would suggest that explaining principles and  
contracts," as others have suggested, is probably not the best way to explain 
how a community works. Instead, describe what happens. How is this or that 
space used? What kinds of gatherings occur each week? > > What are the points 
of view that are affecting a decision you are making? Give an example of how a 
problem was solved, even if it is an old one. > > People may be happy with 
doing things this way or that but not agree that it is the result of believing 
in a certain principle. And some people rebel a the idea of  contracts . Their 
fear of community is based on being constricted in one way or another.>