Kevin Oliveau & Brigitte Wazans
Come hear how Workshare has evolved over time into a system that is fun, fair and easy-going, with valuable lessons learned along the way. Workshare is part of the contentious issues for communities, involving money, labor, fairness. Members will have different opinions about what should be done, how much work to require, what counts as work, and how to enforce agreements. A second community will share a different approach to all those questions. Can we promote a sustainable process for common grounds and spaces without a carefully structured system? Can we expect accountability and commitment by invitation only, and can we help to create motivation and pride with a good breakfast? Seven years of this = some results to share.
Kevin Oliveau is a founder, developer, and builder of Catoctin Creek Village, a cohousing community located near Taylorstown Virginia, 1 hr from Wash, D.C. Kevin is a trained consensus facilitator and is a licensed Green Home Builder. Before starting CCV, worked in computers at America Online, WAIS, Inc., and Thinking Machines Corp. Kevin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a PhD in Political Science, both from MIT.
Brigitte Wazans is the Happy French Cohousing Divorcée of beautiful Blueberry Hill cohousing. She was a burning soul with the passion and time to make sure it got built and lived in. She credits the experience and lessons of the last seven years of meetings, consensus and facilitation as the key to making getting a divorce easier. She and her two teens love having such a wonderful and close circle of friends.