Co-Housing

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

CO-HOUSING JOINING MEETINGS

27th February & 27th April, 2012

These two meetings mark the official start of the community - if you wish to join, please be there either in person or on Skype conference. Applications to join this year and next will only be taken by those who attend one of these meetings. 

Overview of the co-housing

In order to be successful, it must be a project created from strength which reaches out beyond itself to challenge that which is NOW with that which WILL BE or CAN BE.  We need self-actualising, independent, hard-working, honest, grateful, kind, self-motivated people with a fairly high level of personal & social 'awareness'.  Commitment, resiliance and a positive attitude will be key.  Not everyone will have all these qualities, of course, but this combination is our aspiration for the group as a whole.

We aspire for Eco Chateau to be a place where thinking, feeling and acting is maintained in balance and where there is coherence between these elements.  No doubt, we will need to emphasise 'doing' and 'being' to redress the imbalance created by the predominant tendency to merely 'think' and 'talk' within our cultural formation!

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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST RECEIVED SO FAR

Following are the skills of some who have expressed an interest in joining so far - just to give you an idea of the potential we have here:

SUSTAINABLITY SKILLS:
Permaculture educator and designer, Deep Ecologist, Agroforestry, Edible Forest Gardening,  Aquaponics, Grey Water Purification Systems, Composting Toilet Systems, Bio Digesters, Hydro and Solar Energy Systems, Animal Husbandry, General  Organic Principles and Practices, General Farm Skills, Horse Handling, Ecological Design, conservation worker (laying hedges, building stone walls, etc)

BUILDING & MECHANICAL SKILLS:
Electrical Systems. Masonary and Carpentry, General Building, Welding, Mechanical Systems and Maintenance, carpentry skills, Mechanics, furniture making and woodworking, combined Gas, Electrical and Plumbing engineer, eco-building skills & water/sanitation expert

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT SKILLS:
Community Development, Garden Historian & Conservation Planner to the National Trust for 18 years, landscape architect, public projects, planning applications, newspaper journalism and various corporate communications roles

HEALTH & WELLBEING:
Naturopath, Kinesioligist, Reiki therapist, Homeopath, Nutritionist, Herbalist, Clinical Hypnotherapist

ADMINISTRATION & SUPPORT:
Administrative  skills, programmers & software developer, computer networking, web design, restaurant cook, tailoring skills 

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Psychodrama & Dynamic Theatre

TEACHING:
Maths, dance, languages, leadership, horse whispering, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, music, geometry, history, economics and philosophy, general business

THE ARTS:
film producer, musicians, singers, dancers, film makers photographers, writers, jewellery makers, dance choreographers.