We have no fixed ideas about exactly where it will be as yet – obviously, it will depend a lot on what becomes available although it needs to be rural if we want to do rewilding and permaculture. It would also be good for it to be somewhere quite accessible, geographically speaking. Having said that, most of us would be like to be near the sea …
Beyond that, some of us would like to be as warm as possible while others would like to be cooler – maybe, eventually, we could have two communities, one in the North and one in the South (though the way the climate is going the North might be quite warm enough!) and be in touch …
Some people have connections with the southwest and if somewhere affordable came up anywhere in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset Somerset Devon Cornwall or south Wales, that’d be great … but we’re not excluding anywhere yet.
Wales is generally more positive about planning for communities, and land is cheaper.
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Hello there Sue,
Thank you for your interest and apologies for the delay in replying. As you may have noted we are sharing the admin amongst us and we all have our fluctuating energy dynamics with which to take the reigns as individuals, which will be one of our strengths when we form a supportive community hopefully.
Sue, we have added you to the mailing list, so do look out for a welcome email in the coming days from Resilient Cohousing.
Wishing you good energy and a clement June.
All best.
River, Ginny and Jess ( admin )
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Hi lovely people
I’m also looking for land or to join a community with land to live peacefully along side one another,grow veggies,flowers,trees and keep bees ☺️
Nature feeds our souls and is vital to our energy needs…I am living with fibromyalgia,although a lot better these days since eliminating stress from my life!
I would love to hear from like minded people and eventually form some kind of community x
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Hi Tracy,
I’m so sorry to take so long to get back to you – the website seems to have stopped notifying us when comments are made, so I assumed they had stopped arriving. We’ve had a very heartening response from a lot of lovely people with a variety of energy/sensitivity based issues, as well as many wonderful skills – and are getting a lot more organised, thanks to the great admin skills of one member.
I do hope you’re still interested after such a delay. If so, would you like to give us your email (either here or by sending to our email resilientcohousing@gmail.com), and we’ll add you to our email list and contact you shortly with our next newsletter and a questionnaire to assess our needs, skills and resources as a group.
Wishing you good gentle energy
Jess
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Hello
I’m interested in this.
I’ve had M. E for 5 years, and struggle with isolation as a lone parent, living away up on the Isle of Skye.
I’m really interested in the belief that ‘it takes a village!’.
I’m considering moving back to South West England,( under the right circumstances) as I have extended family there.
Id appreciate to be kept in your loop.
With kindest regards,
Eilidh.
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Hi Eilidh – very good to hear from you – I part envy you living on Skye, but sympathise with the isolation, especially through the winter.
It would be lovely to have children involved in the community, both me and Denise had hoped this would be the case – it could be a great place to grow up – I fully agree with you that it takes a ‘village’.
It sounds like we’re interested in more or less the same areas.
If you’d like to help in any way, at the moment we’re particularly looking for another person who’s comfortable with using computers, in particular for researching funding options. But I do realise you’ve probably got quite enough to do looking after your child(ren) in an isolated place.
We’re very clear we want to run this project so no one feels they have to stretch their energy to be involved, nor feels pressured into doing so. We consider this is very important if we want to succeed. We always find things go more smoothly if we respect this.
I’ll put you on the email list and leave it to you to contact us, if you feel you could help (see our page What to Do for some ideas but we’re open to any you may have.)
Wishing you all the best
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Hi Eilidh,
I just wanted to check that you’d received our email about the progress of the cohousing project – sent last month. I recently discovered that, for people who hadn’t previously received mail from our new gmail address ( resilientcohousing@gmail.com), the group email had gone to junk. (We changed it as we wanted to be open to people with similar illnesses, like fibro etc.) I’m sending this from both addresses just in case …
Please don’t worry if you had just not replied for whatever reason – bringing up children on your own must leave little energy for anything else – but I wanted to check you hadn’t got left out due to the change of address. You’re welcome just to stay on email list and not respond to any emails unless you feel moved to.
There’s been a very heartening interest in our project – from people with a range sensitivities and energy issues, and skills. It has meant we’ve had to get more organised as a group to cope with the extra people and to help cooperate with low energy.
So we’ve set up a WhatsApp group and an admin group, using Slack. You’re welcome to join both or either. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Slack or happy using computers but, as several people aren’t, we’re inviting them to join first. That way they can get used to it before it gets busier. And while we can give more support if anyone finds it too confusing. I think approaching things slowly, at the beginning, can be helpful if people are affected by brain fog.
If you’re interested in this, do let me know. Otherwise, if you’re easy with computers/Slack, I’ll invite you a bit later. But we’re very keen that no one should stress their energy levels to be involved.
I hope life is treating you and your children (child?) well on Skye – I imagine it’s extremely hard to cope. I find the light nights in Yorkshire quite exhausting, as well as the weather and the long winters…so I don’t know how you cope with ME and children so much further north. I imagine you’ve developed some useful coping techniques.
We’re about to send out another newsletter, which will include a questionnaire to help us get an idea what everyone wants and can offer. I hope you’re still interested – I’d love to hear about living on Skye (one of my favourite places).
Wishing you good gentle energy, Jess
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