By Tracy Matfin (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Last week I was having garden fresh mint tea with a visitor to our community. She was talking about her daughter, who was home with her dad, and asked me how my family group dealt with conflict with our...
By Starhawk (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Embracing Conflict When any group of human beings come together around a project or goal, sooner or later there will be conflict. We have different ideas, needs, priorities, and values, and they may clash....
By Chris Roth (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Readers who were with us in the last millennium, or who’ve visited their online account to peruse the digital back issue archive, may recognize something that we didn’t until we’d already announced this...
Communities #203 Summer 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #203, Summer 2024, “Conflict and Connection,” explore the gifts as well as the challenges of conflict—the opportunities it offers to deepen our connections, to...
Communities #201 Winter 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #201, Privacy and Transparency, explores the interplay between guardedness and openness in sharing ourselves and our lives, both within community and in relation to the wider...
Communities #199 Summer 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #199 explores different ways of balancing Freedom and Responsibility in community. Authors describe a wide range of approaches to community participation, money, childrearing,...
