page_title: Collaboration
section_title: Community organization: Intentional Community
hierarchical_section_title: Collaboration / Examples / Community organization: Intentional Community
caption_attribution_description: English: Second Aliyah workers eating lunch in the fields of Migdal. עברית: ארוחת צהריים בשדות החווה, 1912. צילום: בן-דב.
context_page_description: Collaboration is the process of two or more people or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group. Teams that work collaboratively often access greater resources, recognition and rewards when facing competition for finite resources.
  Structured methods of collaboration encourage introspection of behavior and communication. Such methods aim to increase the success of teams as they engage in collaborative problem-solving.
  Collaboration is present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common use of the term.
  In its applied sense," collaboration is a purposeful relationship in which all parties strategically choose to cooperate in order to accomplish a shared outcome."
context_section_description: The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision. They share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include cohousing, residential land trusts, ecovillages, communes, kibbutzim, ashrams, and housing cooperatives. Typically, new members of an intentional community are selected by the community's existing membership, rather than by real estate agents or land owners (if the land is not owned by the community).
caption: Organization and cooperation between community members provides economic and social benefits
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