Cohousing
What is Cohousing?
Cohousing communities are cooperative neighborhoods designed and developed by their residents. Individual, self-sufficient homes are clustered around a Common House with facilities like a dining room, large kitchen, children’s playroom, and library.
Most cohousing communities share 1 to 3 meals a week in the Common House, as well as other community projects and celebrations. Decisions are made by consensus, with a focus on shared resources and respectful communication.
Many residents of cohousing point to the daily contact with their neighbors as providing a connectedness, continuity and quality of life often lacking in today’s busy, disjointed, and isolating lifestyles.
Learn more about cohousing at www.cohousing.org
Rocky Hill Mission and Values
We value and strive toward:
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Supporting and nurturing each community member, from infant to elder, and treating each other with kindness, compassion and respect.
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Welcoming people of diverse identities, including race, ethnicity, spirituality, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family composition and socio-economic status.
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Building relationships and connections through daily interactions, community meals, activities, celebrations, rituals, work and helping one another.
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Raising children together in community.
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A decision-making process that builds consensus by soliciting and valuing input from all, ensuring that everyone is heard and resulting in decisions that everyone can agree to live by.
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Resolving conflicts through honest, direct and respectful communication.
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Giving our care, time and work to ourselves, our families and homes, our community at Rocky Hill, the wider community and the world.
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Improving our collective and individual stewardship of the earth and minimizing our impact on the planet.
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Creating and maintaining an emotional and physical environment that encourages and supports mutual concern and well-being.
Consensus Governance
Our community makes decisions using a consensus model. We hold Community Meetings once a month where we seek agreement on issues affecting the community.
We strive to have a collaborative, inclusive decision making process in which all voices are heard and all positions considered in choosing a course of action that is in the best interest of the community.