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7 Membership Questions All Cooperative Groups Need to Address [Webinar]
December 16, 2021 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Dec 16 | 1-2pm Eastern
7 Membership Questions All Cooperative Groups Need to Address
Join Laird Schaub for a webinar unpacking the essential questions about membership in an intentional community — who, how, when, and why people join your group.
While most cooperative groups do not discuss all these questions or even any of them, all groups should. The important thing to keep in mind is not so much what is the right answer — there are many of them — as it is to avoid the price of ambiguity down the line.
Get clear on the membership questions your community should be asking now in this short, FREE webinar. Ultimately, it’s far cheaper to wrestle with these questions before you’re in trouble than to attempt to establish guidelines once you’re in the soup.
If your group already has agreements or at least a working understanding about how you want to handle these basic areas, great! If you haven’t gone there yet, you’ll be returning with homework from this session.
So, here’s what we’ll address:
- What is it exactly that members are joining?
- What are the rights & responsibilities of a member?
- What are the rules of engagement?
- What is expected level of engagement of a member?
- How do members want to recieve feedback?
- How will conflict be resolved?
- What are the exit paths for members?
Key outcomes of this webinar:
- A deeper understanding of what it means to be a member of cooperative groups
- What membership questions groups should anticipate discussing
- How to be a savvy shopper when considering whether to join a cooperative group
This is a one-hour teaser for an upcoming 5-week course, Designing a Community Membership Process. This immersive program will include a comprehensive mandate for the membership team and why it’s work is never done, how to screen prospectives for a good fit, what it takes to effectively orient and integrate new members, and much more.
Meet the Facilitator
Laird Schaub
Laird’s specialty is up-tempo inclusive meetings that engage the full range of human input, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict and diversity—all the while being ruthless about capturing as much product as possible. Laird lived for four decades at Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing rural community that he helped found. He also helped found the Foundation for Intentional Community, where he served as the main administrator for 28 years. In 1987 he created a self-insurance fund for healthcare among income-sharing communities called PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health) that he ran for 22 years. In addition to his expertise in community living, he’s parlayed his passion for good process into a consulting business focused on cooperative group dynamics, styled CANBRIDGE (Consensus And Network Building for Resolving Impasse and Developing Group Effectiveness), since 1987.
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All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.
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Teri’s presence, warmth, poise, experience and clarity. I quickly felt at ease and confident that she knew what she was talking about, and could share the material effectively, while also managing the group format. – Jeffrey B
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