Community Living: Two Best Practices in a Thriving Community House with Myka McLaughlin
Channel: Life Itself
Date: 16/10/2023

This conversation is part of a series of bi-monthly community calls hosted in the Life Itself online community. If you would like to join future calls join us here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JNJCTZugNQn1fq89xbHtfA 

In 2003, Myka moved to Boulder Colorado to work with Ken Wilbur. Herself and seven other people, who were mostly all there to work with Ken, started a community house. The community house was wildly successful and thrived for eleven years, with over 50 people living there across this period. The community ended only because the owner sold the house.

In this Life Itself Community Call, Myka will share the wisdom she has learnt from this experience and the two key things that she believes were the foundations for why the house thrived for so long practically, financially and interpersonally.

Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction 
00:02:45 Mykas Community Living Journey
00:04:22 Values in Community Living
00:10:24 Identifying Vulnerability Points
00:15:05 Doing the Dishes
00:17:42 Money in Community
00:31:08 Qualities of Community Members
00:33:35 What Makes a Conscious Coliving Situation?
00:36:15 Collective Practices
00:39:15 Can There Be Too Many Rules? 
00:46:26 Tips for Starting The Conscious Coliving Journey

Myka McLaughlin founded Women In Community (WINC) twelve years ago to help artists, healers and creative types build profitable businesses that can transform their lives, their family's lives, as well as their community and our economy around the world. WINC has taught soulful business training to over 15,000 people, and has intimately worked with over 700 businesses. You can learn more about Myka and WINC here: https://womenincommunity.com/ 

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