The Sustainable Living Podcast

Intentional Communities, Sociocracy Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, about forming successful communities and ecovillages  and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community  She is former publisher Ecovillages, an online newsletter http://EcovillageNews.org, and formerly edited Communities magazine in the US for 14 years.   Diana Leaf Christian lives in an Ecovillage in the Mountains of North Carolina 2:55  90% of Ecovillages fail, only 10% succeed 4:23   The ingredients to Success A shared vision, mission and purpose A fair and participatory method of self-governance Sociocracy Clear Agreements in writing Communication skills - Non Violent Communication recommended Restorative circles Method of accountability Community glue Project management Clear and thorough membership process What is Sociocracy? What is consensus 13:45 It can happen that an idea will never make it off the ground if