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[edit] Glossary

Communities have there own jargon and particular use of words. Please feel free to put a definition of a word or phrase here - or request someone explains something that you don't understand.


Consensus Decision-Making is a group decision making process that not only seeks the agreement of most participants, but also the resolution or mitigation of minority objections. Consensus is usually defined as meaning both general agreement, and the process of getting to such agreement. Consensus decision-making is thus concerned primarily with that process. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [1]

Cohousing Common House Shared communal building containing various facilities shared by members of a Cohousing community. Common facilities vary but usually include a large kitchen and dining room where residents can take turns cooking for the community. Other facilities may include a laundry, pool, child care facilities, offices, internet access, guest rooms, game room, TV room, tool room or a gym.[2]

[edit] Links

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[edit] Bibliography

Read any good books on UK communities or communal living in general. Then put the details here. Inc; Author / publisher / ISBN numbers / Amazon link......

( – should we only reference books that are available?)

Co-operative and Community Group Dynamics ….or your meetings needn’t be so appalling. R. Randall & J. Southgate Barefoot books 1980 ISBN 0950627313

Building Social Change Communities Movement for a New Society 1979

The Collective Housing Handbook. Sarah Eno and Dave Treanor.Lauriston Hall Publications 1982 ISBN 0950831514

Resource Manual for a Living Revolution. New Society Press 1978 ISBN 9780865710153

Shared Visions Shared Lives. Bill Metcalf. Findhorn Press 1996 ISBN 1899171010

Findhorn Book of Community Living Bill Metcalf (Findhorn Community) ISBN 9781844090327

Creating Harmony ; Conflict Resolution in Community. Ed Hildur Jackson Permanent Publications 1999 ISBN 1856230147

Utopia Britannica; British Utopian Experiments 1325 – 1945[3][4] , Chris Coates (2001) Diggers & Dreamers ISBN 0951494589

Thinking About Cohousing[5], Martin Field, Diggers and Dreamers Publications ISBN 0951494570

Diggers and Dreamers: The 1990/91 Guide to Communal Living, Ansell, Coates, Dawling, How, Morris & Wood. (eds.),(1989) ISBN 0951494503

Diggers and Dreamers 08/09[6], Eds. Sarah Bunker, Chris Coates and Jonathan How, Diggers and Dreamers Publications, ISBN 9780954575724

The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited, Lyman Tower Sargent, Utopian Studies 5 (1), 1-37 1994

[edit] Other possible things to include

Timeline: setting up?

history of communities?

Hindsight interviews with communards

'Founder member' and other syndromes

Cooking for groups

Community bonding exercises

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