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Best Practices in Group Process resources for ecovillages and ICs
I just read a 2009 article recently circulated on Academia.edu, “Organizational challenges in Ringing Cedars ecovillage.”
My comment is this examples what I believe is the biggest failure pattern of ecovillages and ICs worldwide: lack of attention to Best Practices in Group Process.
Even in So. California where this topic was developed into several mature forms, BPinGP is little known.
Even tho the literature of BPinGP is matured, the topic remains little known.
Even tho Compassionate (nonviolent) Communication (NVC) has developed additional mature training methods for Interpersonal Competency, BPinGP too is little known and little-practiced.
The above sums up the dilemma pretty well. Comments invited.
Solutions? In the 2009 article, and many other places, such as the Findhorn ecovillage outreach efforts, there is an inkling of how only a group consensus on values and interpersonal process — two things — is the likely interpersonal foundation on which sustainable ICs can be built on top of.
Findhorn even put out a book on this around 2004. It’s sentiment is lovely yet it’s weak rhetorically and was little-read.
