Soft skills
The interpersonal tools that decide whether a group stays together. No phases here either, these five run in parallel and you'll use all of them for the rest of your life. They're all learnable, and all chronically underinvested in by people who would rather talk about water systems. I'm one of those people, which is exactly why this track exists.
Marshall Rosenberg's framework teaches a specific pattern of speaking and listening: observe without judging, name the f…
Consensus facilitationA good facilitator does four things: gets every voice heard, keeps discussion on the actual question, names emerging agr…
Conflict resolutionUnresolved conflict is the leading cause of death for intentional communities. The goal here isn't eliminating disagreem…
Meeting managementBad meetings are expensive. They burn time and energy, and worse, they corrode trust when the same topic comes back mont…
Emotional intelligenceCommunity life puts people in close quarters under real stress, which means the emotional skills that matter aren't exot…