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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 PROPERTY Choosing Your Site ...
