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

[Rebecca Selove (rebecca.selove]

Hi again John,

Thanks for sending the link to your website. We are having fun looking at
cohousing community websites! Yours has several elements I was to adapt to
ours - really like the sections on children and universal design.

Rebecca

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 9:04 PM rebecca.selove <rebecca.selove [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.>
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