Co-housing-Community at its Best | Erica Elliott | TEDxABQ
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Have you ever imagined what it would be like to live in a place where you’re surrounded by a supportive network of neighbors who share with you the joys and sorrows of life? Dr. Erica Elliott found such a place, a co-housing community in Santa Fe, NM, where she has remained rooted for almost 25 years. Living in co-housing has often been compared to an old-fashioned neighbor where there’s plenty of privacy, but at the same time, there’s a sense of belonging and mutual support. Co-housing can provide a safe and happy place to raise children, while at the same time, a supportive place to grow old. Dr. Elliott practices medicine in her clinic right within her community. Her patients love the peaceful setting. Dr. Elliott says her move into her co-housing community was one of the best decisions she’s ever made-the perfect antidote to feelings of isolation and disconnection. In fact, she can no longer imagine returning to the old way of living.
Erica Elliott is a medical doctor with a busy private practice in Santa Fe, NM. Before settling in New Mexico, Elliott led an adventuresome life, living and working in unusual places around the world, including the Andes Mountains while in the Peace Corps, and on the Navajo Reservation as a school teacher at Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. She taught rock climbing and mountaineering for the Colorado Outward Bound School, and then led an all women’s expedition to the top of Denali in Alaska after her first year of medical school. Almost 25 years ago, Elliott joined a co-housing group in Santa Fe. At last, she found the antidote to feelings of isolation and disconnection. She raised her son in this community in a safe and happy environment. She chose to practice medicine in her clinic within the co-housing community, wanting to take advantage of the peaceful and uplifting setting. Being part of her co-housing community turned out to be one of the best decisions she’s ever made.
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This talk is wonderful. The strength of co-housing is deeply aligned with our best natural instincts. There is a natural desire to co-operate and co-habitate and this talk brings alive the power of responding to that natural inclination. I felt informed and supported by this talk, but never pushed or lectured to. GREAT talk. Best, Dorothy Fadiman from Menlo Park, California.
The way we were.....and could be again.
What a fantastic commentary on co-housing. Erica's presentation was beautiful. Isobel Kemper
in Pakistan we call it living in a mohallah. In my village around 5000 People live and we are related to eachother one way or the other. We know each other atleast by weekly friday Prayer Place (Masjid)
Ahmed Naeem I wish I could live in the villages my grandparents were from in Punjab
thanks for sharing this talk -and the Commons. It is the real deal, I loved visiting this spring!
THE GOLDEN GIRLS PHENOMENON is most likely to be what is set for our future due to the modern times and several crisis going on and ups and downs of the real estate market. I personal would love to share a house 🏡 with fellow elders in about 30 years time. It's healthy and much safer than living alone. Loneliness kills.
She's fantastic, what an inspiring and well communicated presentation
I had doubts about the video. She didnt have visuals, her body language was stagnant BUT ouuvv boy this was one of the best cohousing talks I have ever seen! Congrads and thanks Erica, live long and prosper.
Many thanks. What a wonderful, beautifully presented talk on an ever-timely topic. (It brought to mind some of the housing solutions for older people that Atul Gawande, MD, discusses in "Being Mortal.") May we see more of these creative solutions become realities.
Loved it. Simple and effective solutions are being considered here. Solutions that change humanity as a whole. The part where she mentions interpersonal connections spoke out to me because it’s something that is rapidly degrading with a system that encourages individualism over community. We cannot sustain individuality as a population, and I think this ties in with human-caused environmental problems, where we can easily understand that it’s a problem but we either ignore or deny the problems based on the reality of having to do whatever is needed to support the individual.
What co-housing essentially does is turns a group of individuals into a single, operating individual. No component works if one component does not work, and although this may be impossible to completely achieve, the more advocacy for this concept, the more acceptance humanity as a whole will be toward working together to do its part in saving ourselves from ourselves.
Amen
...I don't know if it would work. But it sounds good, and they've got good intentions. But I don't know... It sounds like commune...
This is real good. The important thing is community, not necessary co-housing, but co-housing is a form of community and community is important. There are probably other ways to create community, and I suppose you could have co-housing without a good community, always arguing, bad management, similar to Homeowner's Association Boards in Condo housing that make bad decision for the community. Also what is the communal fee you have to pay, she didn't say what it costs for the community house upkeep. She apparently lives in a nice one though, but imagine if you kept Kosher, or had a peanut allergy, or had to avoid sugar etc. and couldn't eat with everyone else. Not for everyone, but I would live in this one if I could. Sounds like a good one. I agree it is not utopia, but it is again a example of community and community is important.
I really enjoyed this compelling presentation about cohousing. I am hoping that we use Sociocracy as a governance practice it at Prairie Hill Cohousing in Iowa City, Iowa, to help us ease through those times of disagreement.
Sadly this world only seems open to the well-heeled. Poor people wish we could have community too. I don't want enforced communitarianism but a spontaneous gathering of people desiring community sounds like a great positive to me.
We are poor, but co-house. We bought a run down house on the edge of town with a $700/mo mortgage, we put the girls in one room, the boys in another, myself and husband in a third, a friend in the fourth, a couple in the family room, and another couple in an rv in the driveway. We have evening meals together, have a private messenger chat group for the house where we announce the morning coffee with a new gif each day, and we share two cars between the four "families". The kids are taught to respect all grown ups and we tag team to make sure needs are met. We have our drama, but rule #1 Is we talk about our problems and it serves us well. We also converted the garage into a forge and the old closed in porch into a workshop for creating items for each of our businesses. It's fun and we live on very little money.
@@erincrary3625 That is wonderful! I wish you had a channel. I am dying for something like this for myself. It's become so difficult to make ends meet, even when employing as many homesteading skills as possible.
@@erincrary3625 Thank you for sharing!
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Is this the chick from Rise of the humanoids?
Sounds great on paper but I find it naive not to acknowledge the pitfalls of some human behavior where people would just ride on the coattails of other people’s labor.
Video name : Co-housing-Community at its Best
Real name : How to be communist ?
I didn't get that message from the talk.