Creating a Life Together

Informationen zum Autor Diana Leafe Christian is the author of Creating a Life Together and editor Communities magazine. She lives at Earthhaven Ecovillage in North Carolina. Klappentext Everything you need to know to create and manage an intentional community from scratch. Everything you need to know to create an intentional community from scratch Zusammenfassung Everything you need to know to create and manage an intentional community from scratch. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Foreword By Patch Adams INTRODUCTION: CREATING A LIFE TOGETHER The Successful Ten Percent What Are Intentional Communities and Ecovillages? Cohousing Communities Why Now? What You'll Learn Here Is this Information Really Necessary? Is this Advice "Corporate"? How to Use this Book PART ONE: PLANTING THE SEEDS OF HEALTHY COMMUNITY CHAPTER 1: THE SUCCESSFUL TEN PERCENT AND WHY NINETY PERCENT FAIL Lost Valley How One Group Did It What Works,What Doesn't Work? The Successful Ten Percent Why Ninety Percent Fail "Structural Conflict" And Six Ways to Reduce It What Will it Cost? How Long Does it Take? How Many People do You Need? CHAPTER 2: YOUR ROLE AS FOUNDER What Kind of Person Founds a Community? What Else You'll Need "If Only I Had Known!" CHAPTER 3: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START Don't Run Out and Buy Land Yet When You Already Own the Property Organizing Your Group Getting Real about Finances Collecting Funds Raising Money from Suppporters Attracting and Integrating New Members Creating "Community Glue" Pioneers, Settlers, and the Flow of Members CHAPTER 4: COMMUNITY VISION WHAT IT IS,WHY YOU NEED IT Sound a Clear Note Elements of a Community's Vision Your Vision Documents and Vision Statements Do it First CHAPTER 5: CREATING VISION DOCUMENTS More Than One Vision? A Sacred Time "That's Not Community!" Hidden Expectations and Structural Conflict Exploring the Territory Sharing from the Heart Writing it Down CHAPTER 6: POWER, DECISION-MAKING, AND GOVERNANCE Power The Ability to Influence Focused Power,Widespread Power How Consensus Works What You Need to Make Consensus Work "Pseudoconsensus" and Structural Conflict Agreement Seeking When You Don't Want to use Full Consensus Multi-winner Voting Community Governance Spreading Power Widely More than One Form of Decision Making? What Decision-making Method Should You Use? PART TWO: SPROUTING NEW COMMUNITY: TECHNIQUES & TOOLS CHAPTER 7: AGREEMENTS & POLICIES: "GOOD DOCUMENTS MAKE GOOD FRIENDS" Remembering Things Differently Giving Yourselves Every Chance of Success Your Community's Agreements and Policies Abundant Dawn's Agreements CHAPTER 8:MAKING IT REAL: ESTABLISHING YOUR LEGAL ENTITY Why You Need a Legal Entity Before Buying Your Property Using a Lawyer Finding the Right Lawyer CHAPTER 9: THE GREAT LAND-BUYING ADVENTURE Legal Barriers to Sustainable Development Shopping for Counties Zoning Regulations, Building Codes, Sustainable Homesteads, and Jobs The Proactive Land Search Friendly Loans from Friends and Family Onerous Owner-financing (Better than None at All) Do-it-Yourself Refinancing with a "Shoe Box Bank" When One Person Buys the Property Acquiring Fully Developed "Turn Key" Property Confidence, Persistence, and Negotiation If at First You Don't Succeed CHAPTER 10: FINDING THE RIGHT PRO...

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Everything you need to know to create an intentional community from scratch

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Diana Leafe Christian is the author of Creating a Life Together and editor Communities magazine. She lives at Earthhaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.

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Everything you need to know to create and manage an intentional community from scratch.

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Everything you need to know to create and manage an intentional community from scratch.

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Acknowledgments
Foreword By Patch Adams

INTRODUCTION: CREATING A LIFE TOGETHER
The Successful Ten Percent
What Are Intentional Communities and Ecovillages?
Cohousing Communities
Why Now?
What You'll Learn Here
Is this Information Really Necessary?
Is this Advice "Corporate"?
How to Use this Book

PART ONE: PLANTING THE SEEDS OF HEALTHY COMMUNITY

CHAPTER 1: THE SUCCESSFUL TEN PERCENT AND WHY NINETY PERCENT FAIL
Lost Valley How One Group Did It
What Works,What Doesn't Work?
The Successful Ten Percent
Why Ninety Percent Fail
"Structural Conflict" And Six Ways to Reduce It
What Will it Cost?
How Long Does it Take?
How Many People do You Need?

CHAPTER 2: YOUR ROLE AS FOUNDER
What Kind of Person Founds a Community?
What Else You'll Need
"If Only I Had Known!"

CHAPTER 3: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START
Don't Run Out and Buy Land Yet
When You Already Own the Property
Organizing Your Group
Getting Real about Finances
Collecting Funds
Raising Money from Suppporters
Attracting and Integrating New Members
Creating "Community Glue"
Pioneers, Settlers, and the Flow of Members

CHAPTER 4: COMMUNITY VISION WHAT IT IS,WHY YOU NEED IT
Sound a Clear Note
Elements of a Community's Vision
Your Vision Documents and Vision Statements
Do it First

CHAPTER 5: CREATING VISION DOCUMENTS
More Than One Vision?
A Sacred Time
"That's Not Community!" Hidden Expectations and Structural Conflict
Exploring the Territory
Sharing from the Heart
Writing it Down

CHAPTER 6: POWER, DECISION-MAKING, AND GOVERNANCE
Power The Ability to Influence
Focused Power,Widespread Power
How Consensus Works
What You Need to Make Consensus Work
"Pseudoconsensus" and Structural Conflict
Agreement Seeking When You Don't Want to use Full Consensus
Multi-winner Voting
Community Governance Spreading Power Widely
More than One Form of Decision Making?
What Decision-making Method Should You Use?

PART TWO: SPROUTING NEW COMMUNITY: TECHNIQUES & TOOLS

CHAPTER 7: AGREEMENTS & POLICIES: "GOOD DOCUMENTS MAKE GOOD FRIENDS"
Remembering Things Differently
Giving Yourselves Every Chance of Success
Your Community's Agreements and Policies
Abundant Dawn's Agreements

CHAPTER 8:MAKING IT REAL: ESTABLISHING YOUR LEGAL ENTITY
Why You Need a Legal Entity Before Buying Your Property
Using a Lawyer
Finding the Right Lawyer

CHAPTER 9: THE GREAT LAND-BUYING ADVENTURE
Legal Barriers to Sustainable Development
Shopping for Counties Zoning Regulations, Building Codes, Sustainable Homesteads, and Jobs
The Proactive Land Search
Friendly Loans from Friends and Family
Onerous Owner-financing (Better than None at All)
Do-it-Yourself Refinancing with a "Shoe Box Bank"
When One Person Buys the Property
Acquiring Fully Developed "Turn Key" Property Confidence, Persistence, and Negotiation
If at First You Don't Succeed

CHAPTER 10: FINDING THE RIGHT PROPERTY
Choosing Your Site Criteria
How Much Land Do You Want?
Raw Land Lower Initial Cost, Years of Effort
Developed Land Electricity, Toilets, and Showers
Fully Developed Turn-key Property Move Right In (With a Big Financial Bite)
Buying Property Like the Professionals Do
Conducting the Search On Your Own or with a Real Estate Agent
Investigating Likely Properties
Taking Property Off the Market While You do Further Research

CHAPTER 11: NEIGHBORS AND ZONING
How Zoning Issues can Impact Community Plans
Zoning Issues and Your Property
Gambling with Former Use Permits
Seeking a Zoning Exception
Negotiating for What You Want
Zoning Exceptions, Neighbors, and Public Hearings

CHAPTER 12: FINANCING YOUR PROPERTY (LOANS YOU CAN LIVE WITH)
About "Renting Money" What You Should Know
Private Financing
When One Member Buys the Prop…