Website: https://tiny.cc/newculturecoop
City: Greenfield
State: Massachusetts
Zip: 01301
Contact Email: newculturecoop@googlegroups.com
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We are in the process of purchasing a beautiful 8 bedroom house in the woods in Greenfield MA.
Our current group mixes emotional exploration with intellectual curiosity—people who switch between debating the nuances of consent, laughing at bad jokes, and holding each other while we cry. Our interests include dancing, climbing trees, activism, theater, contact improvisation, snarky memes, board games, technology, (relational) meditation, embodiment practices like Feldenkrais and Focusing, making music, and singing barbershop. Some of us describe ourselves as self-growth junkies; some of us are consent educators, others are Authentic Relating facilitators; many of us are in polyamorous relationships, practice relationship anarchy, and care deeply about healing our relationships to sexuality.
We hold the following shared values, and see them as aspirational:
– Awareness of social justice issues and intention to act in service of social change
– Environmental sustainability
– Personal freedom, autonomy, and respect for boundaries
– Authenticity: self-awareness and honest communication
– Body and sex positivity/normativity
– Working through discomfort and conflict
– Radical acceptance and curiosity
– Egalitarianism; collective decision-making
– Creativity and play
– Care for self, others, and the community
– Continual experimentation, growth, and change
– Balance and moderation
To put our values into action, we engage in the following practices together:
– COVID safety based on science
– Regular house meetings with democratic decision making
– Shared labor to keep the community running
– Some shared food and meals
– Some structured (and semi-structured) relational activities
### [See our complete values and practices document HERE.](https://tiny.cc/newculturecoop)