Learning paths

For people who have found somewhere and now have to decide whether it works — governance, conflict, money and the patterns that end projects.

1. 01 How communities decide
2. 02 Conflict, power and repair
3. 03 Why communities end
4. + 2 more steps

For people who want to live in one rather than start one — from the vocabulary to the visit.

1. 01 What is an intentional community?
2. 02 The forms, told apart
3. 03 What daily life actually looks like
4. + 4 more steps

Nothing improper has happened, and the finances have stopped being something anybody can have an opinion about.

1. 01 Where the money quietly moves
2. 02 Finances nobody can inspect
3. 03 The commons sold to cover the shortfall
4. + 1 more step

Meetings are polite and nothing gets said — four patterns that produce that, and they are usually running together.

1. 01 Power nobody voted for
2. 02 Speakers who fill the room
3. 03 The clique that decides before the meeting
4. + 2 more steps

Everyone can see it and nobody can fix it — because redistribution needs a structure, and complaining is not one.

1. 01 The work that breaks people
2. 02 Responsibility that becomes authority
3. 03 Care work nobody counts
4. + 2 more steps

Everything stalls, and it is never about the thing being decided — three patterns that jam a community's decision-making from different directions.

1. 01 Power nobody voted for
2. 02 Decisions with no stated type
3. 03 The founder's informal veto
4. + 1 more step