Our Beliefs
Our Mission
We, the members of Trillium Hollow Cohousing Neighborhood, commit ourselves to the creation and maintenance of a supportive, enriching, and purposeful community that fosters the spiritual connection among ourselves, others, and the earth through simplicity, cooperation and service.
Our Covenant
In order to fulfill our mission and achieve our vision, we commit:
Core Beliefs
We, the members of Trillium Hollow Cohousing Neighborhood, commit ourselves to the creation and maintenance of a supportive, enriching, and purposeful community that fosters the spiritual connection among ourselves, others, and the earth through simplicity, cooperation and service.
Our Covenant
In order to fulfill our mission and achieve our vision, we commit:
- To appreciate the unique ways in which each of us thinks and contributes,
- To relate to ourselves and others with respect and acceptance,
- To make and keep agreements with great care,
- To trust the good intentions of other community members,
- To remain cooperative in spite of negative feelings and strive to find mutually beneficial, win-win solutions to problems,
- To be respectful and patient through conflict and to accept outcomes that we may not have foreseen or advocated,
- To use our powers and wisdom for the greater good of Trillium Hollow, and
- To open ourselves fully to the process of transformation and growth through love and compassion for others.
Core Beliefs
- We believe in honoring diversity, interdependence, respect, kindness and compassion for all.
- We believe that the strong sense of community we will develop can help counteract the isolation and alienation we see in society.
- We believe that through voluntary simplicity, cooperation, and service, we can help each other and the world around us.
- We will endeavor to develop and perpetuate a spirit among us through which each of us learns and shares the spiritual, physical, social and practical knowledge necessary for the creation of a connected, caring community. We will seek to demonstrate that we care more about our members than we do about our tasks.
- We intend to use our wisdom and power to accomplish our vision to be good, caring neighbors and ecological stewards of our environment.
- We believe that all living things are connected so that harming any one of us harms us all
