Cohousing-L Mailing List: How much $ allotted in annual budget for ongoing community training & education?

[Diana Leafe Christian (diana]

Hello,

My second request is, first, does your community has an annual line item in 
your Operations Budget for ongoing community education and training? For 
example, further training and review of your governance and decision-making 
method (like classic, traditional consensus, the N St. Consensus Method, or 
Sociocracy), Nonviolent Communication, Permaculture Design, conflict reduction 
strategies and mediation methods, Restorative Circles (a really effective 
conflict-healing method), and so on?
     And second, if so, how much does your community allot for this training in 
your annual budget each year? 
     I know some communities do budget for such trainings (which I think is 
great!), and others don't, perhaps because it hasn't occurred to those 
communities how helpful such yearly or biyearly community education and 
trainings can be.
    I'm asking because I've just finished teaching an online class, "Working 
Effectively with Three Kinds of Community Conflict: Interpersonal, Structural, 
and 'Especially Challenging Behaviors'," the latter being the subject of my 
8-article series in Communities magazine on this topic. The class was packed 
and we had to turn people away, so we're offering it again in September 
(Sundays, Sept 1- 29, 10am-12:30pm Pacific;  1:00-3:30pm, Eastern.)
    In the class, and in this video below, I highly recommend communities DO 
include such an annual budget line item to continue enhancing community 
effectiveness and well-being. Since living together harmoniously and 
effectively in community is something new communities, and we community 
members, all need to learn, right? 
   Several people in the class asked what communities typically allot as an 
ongoing training and education budget line item, and I said I'd ask you good 
folks. 
   Thank you in advance for sharing what your community typically allots for 
this budget item.
   All good wishes,
   Diana