To create a healthy and fun community we value the following:

 

Listen to Others and Speak our Truth 

• Inclusion, Collaboration, Transparency and our Collective Wisdom

• Use a variety of modalities for mutual understanding and decision making, for example Sociocracy / Dynamic Governance, Nonviolent Communication, and mediation

• Deal with issues promptly and directly with the persons involved

• Be patient with self and others

 

Active Participation in the Spirit of Generosity

• Participate in community (meetings, fun, meals, work parties, celebrations, etc.)

• Share our gifts and receive the gifts of others

• Contribute to the well being of our Larger Community, for example our neighborhood, Olympia, and the World

• Take initiative to co-create 

• Practice gratitude and celebrate together

 

Respect Each Other and Ourselves

• Honor our differences

• Support connection by acting with honesty and kindness

• Take responsibility for our own actions, including non-actions and words

• Check out assumptions and in the meantime assume the most generous intentions of others

• Willingness to work through conflict

• Respect the need for privacy

• Recognize that we all change and strive to know what’s true for others and oneself now, rather than simply referencing the past

• Openness to the possibility of being changed

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Stewardship

• Tending & upkeep of our common resources and those that belong to individuals

• Work to reduce our impact on the environment, in service to the future of our planet.

• Take financial responsibility for home and shared property

• Maintain our nest: private homes, shared structures, and grounds