SESSION TOPIC:What enhances living cooperatively in community?

Host: GayatriErlandson

Scribe/note taker: Gayatri Participants: TedErnst, LucyBurton

Discussion Highlights:

• Milieu open space in one's home environment using small board as marketplace, functions as a dynamic to-do list or could-do list
• Have the group of people do a "state of grace" document (http://www.thestateofgracedocument.com)
• The use of "the work" of Byron Katy--amazing (http://www.thework.org)
• The importance of getting and maintaining a clear vision for the community and have it be much more than just sustainability
• For larger communities, e.g., >27 people, utilize sociocracy as a governance structure. John Beck is a US-based sociocracy consultant.

Recommendations: See websites above. Book _Loving What Is_ by Byron Katy

Powerful quotes: "When you argue with reality/what is, you lose--but only 100% of the time." Byron Katy

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