Common Unity
Common Unity is a group of people interested in
building intentional community together. We
support each other in personal growth, work for
progressive social change, and celebrate and learn
from our spiritual diversity. We have many ideas
of what community might be and want to share our
resources in a variety of ways.
PERSONAL GROWTH
We think creatively about each other's needs and
support each other in addressing our personal
challenges effectively. We want to develop our
individual listening skills and believe that our
skills at supporting one another are one of our
many resources to be shared.
SOCIAL CHANGE
We
want a world which is in balance: peaceful, fair,
and just. Many movements for liberation have
influenced us--feminism, multiculturalism,
lesbian/gay/bisexual liberation, class awareness,
and ecology. Raising children is also a social
change activity and we are committed to fostering
respect for young people. We pay attention to our
interactions with each other because we want our
lives to be consistent with our beliefs. We support
each other in our social change activities in the
world.
SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY
Our spirituality is
consistent with our politics, open to any path that
is not dogmatic or exclusionary. We individually
follow many different spiritual paths but try to
honor and learn from these differences. We try to
find ways to celebrate together our various
traditions.
COMMUNITY
We have different notions of
what long-range community might be like. Some of us
want to live together under "one roof"; some of us
would prefer to live in separate households which are
close to one another; some of us enjoy community as a
social network that meets regularly for support and
enjoyment; and some of us are still exploring and
forming our ideas. These options are both compatible
and overlapping. As a result, we practice community
in many different ways. Some of us live in group
households and some do not. We have regular
gatherings that include potluck dinners, a monthly
evening of relaxing together modeled informally on
the Jewish Sabbath, celebrations of the seasons, and
discussions of topics that relate to our other
concerns of personal growth, social change, and
community.
RESOURCE SHARING
We each have different
notions of what this means, but we all acknowledge the
importance of some level of resource sharing. Ideas,
feelings, time, energy, interpersonal skills, material
possessions, income, and personal assets are all
resources. We have a Common Unity library, and have
frequently shared our cars, computers, and the care of
our children. Perhaps most important is the support
and caring that we share among ourselves.
OUR FUTURE
We value our diversity as a group of people: women and
men from various class and religious backgrounds, many
sexual orientations, with a wide age range. We would
like to increase our ethnic and racial diversity and we
are open to people with various abilities and
disabilities as well. We are actively searching for
people to join us, particularly people who are
interested in building long-term community.
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