Creating a Life Together - Diana Leafe Christian

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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 Age...

Biographie:
getting a group off to a good start...

Sommaire:

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