Social Cohesion

What are you doing to create good will among each other ?

“Good Will” is critical for working out issues that arise around sharing

Possible Ways:

--- Play games together, most likely in small groups at different times

--- Have a person from outside your house, lead a retreat for getting to know each other or just relaxing and having fun together

-- listening circles

-- do activities for 30 seconds to create a positive experience between 2 or 3 people without using words. This is about creating positive moments to counter balance any future misunderstandings or mistakes. The 30 second guideline is enough to create a positive experience without having to squeeze another meeting into your schedule.

--- Recommended books for sharing housing

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

videos, CD’s, DVD’s, books by Marshall Rosenberg

How to Solve Our Human problems by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Universal Compassion by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh

--- Apps on phone

“Modern Buddhism”

--- Trainings

helps you hold space for viewpoints and opinions you don’t like

help you see what Humans have in common, regardless of their varying thoughts, beliefs and unique experience of the same moment

helps you express yourself with compassion and honesty

compassion is needed to maintain relationship for communication to work

honesty is needed to reveal the issue(s)