Culture

Culture is a form of community glue. It keeps people interested, committed, and can keep people feeling happy close and loving towards each other. It can be a proactive way to prevent conflict. With 200 people, we should be able to do all the above, so that people don't have to go into town for their cultural needs.

I think these are as important if not more so than all the reactive skills such as conflict resolution and group decision making. Along with agriculture, kitchen, building and grounds maintenance, tax, and group decision managers, I envision a communion and transcendence or cultural manager.

Here I list several possible group activities that promote communion:

• dances

• music jams

• concerts

• lectures

• workshops

• sermons (no we are not a cult. Sermons, as distinguished from lectures, are meant to be spiritually uplifting)

• study/reading groups

• work or craft groups

• watching movies and talking about them afterwards

• games

• personal sharing in a group

• well-crafted rituals

• group meditation

• group massage (no this is not an orgy)

• conversation

• Hot tubs and saunas

• Co-counseling (aka reevaluation counseling)