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What can you do if some people in your group seem to have more power than others? Our consensus trainers and group process experts respond.
Mollie Curry hoists a chainsaw and finds herself entangled in a perplexing webs of sticky questions. Here she attempts to untangle the threads, both within herself and within her community.
There wasn't much chance that her lifelong dream of owning a bookstore would come true in her rural Missouri community. So Alline Anderson set off down the exciting and terrifying path of launching the Milkweed Mercantile--creating jobs, providing a market for community products, and offering a warm place for visitors to put up their feet.
Also in This Issue (Print Version Only)
· PUBLISHER'S NOTE: MARTYRS AND SLACKERS: Finessing the Fit Between Flexible and Fair
· COHOUSING LIFE: WOMEN IN COHOUSING: Pioneers, Visionaries, and Leaders
Betsy Morris
· ECOVILLAGE LIVING: ECOVILLAGE ACTIVISTS IN JAPAN
Diana Leafe Christian
· MY TURN: THE NOT-SO-SIMPLE COUNTRY LIFE
Toby Champion
· FOUNDING COMMUNITY: THE BALAD OF SHIRAM
Tatiana Ginsburg
Tatiana Ginsburg sings an ode to the therapeutic community she is helping to create in northern Russia--and in the process discovers what the community really means to her.
· COMMUNITY WHERE YOU ARE: HOW COMMUNITY VALUES CONQUERED CLIMATE CHANGE: A Future History
Malcolm Hollick
Jump forward in time fifty years to a day when we are celebrating having avoided the worst dangers of climate change. But how could we have gotten there from here? Malcolm Hollick reckons it's because we transformed our cultural values and began emphasizing personal growth, creativity, relationships, and cooperation--starting right about now.
· VALUING A CULTURE OF WOMEN
Colette Hoff
For over 25 years the women of Goodenough Community have been developing a program for nurturing women's growth and well-being and providing each other with caring support. Colette Hoff and other women describe how it has changed their lives.
· FROM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY TO BUILDING A TRIBE
Anissa Ljanta
When Anissa Ljanta moved from a large rural community in the US to live alone in Auckland, New Zealand, she faced many challenges amidst the outrageous realities of suburban life. Dealing with the stereothypes, the violence against women, and the difficulties of parenting became much easier once she broke through the isolation and found her tribe.
· TRANSGENDERED AT TWIN OAKS
Calliope Kurtz
Calliope Kurtz, having just spent her first full year arduously "passing" as a woman, moves from the San Francisco Bay area to a commune for a chance at a new life--and meets some unexpected opposition.
· JOURNEY INN: Gleanings from the World of Women
Janaia Donaldson
What was it like to live in an all-women collective house in Palo Alto in the 1970s? Janaia Donaldson recalls this family of women and the trust, safety, and intimacy that made it feel like "deep home."
· PERIPATETIC COMMUNITARIAN: REMEMBERING GEOPH KOZENY IN PHOTOS
