Residency Program
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The creation of social structures promoting self and group exploration:
Find your blind spot, find your peace, have a new understanding of both your inner conflicts and world conflicts.Â
Our group meets two nights per week beginning with a dinner. Four basic social structures are utilized as well as a developed house format that serves us to create balance between the practicals of living and the personals of self-expression, conflict resolution, group/individual development.
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Day-to-day living:
Work, play, creative outlets.
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Promoting collaboration:
Food production, group learning platforms, collaborative decision making.
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Shared resources:
Living spaces, group purchasing, animals and plants.
While spending time together in a long-term living environment, we hone skills to bring better understanding of ourselves and the often hidden, aspects of group wisdom.
Steps to consider for joining Vivante
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Starting from where you are:
Exploring why you wish to live with others can be an important process. What do you know now and what questions do you need to ask?
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Gather More Information:
One way to explore living at Vivante is to gather information. Reading this website can be a start for discovering more information about community living.
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Visiting and Observing:
By visiting you can gather the most accurate and direct information through experience.
Learn While Living
You will receive value from your experience at Vivante in ways that may forever alter your life, adding a deepening connection to yourself and those you share your time with.
At the end of the day it has become apparent those whom thrive and stay to live with us, or move out into the world with new tools for life, either have or develop similar traits.
Getting to know yourself ... and other reasons to join Vivante
We live together to develop something inside of us that simply trumps the minds little voices, for a time, long enough to make a more considered choice and break out of our “normal” path. We have a chance to transcend our inner conditions, to transcend the mind that “thinks-us”, and learn to THINK our mind. We are practicing skills, getting to know ourselves, and learning how to consider others
Here are reasons to join Vivante or to develop a "container" of like kind in this worlds of ours
To be with those that get to know me over time, in such a way that cannot unfold without daily exposure to each other
Receiving mirrors from those I live with to better understand myself (to see my blind spots)
To be heard more fully
To be seen more fully
To develop compassion from a place of practice
To increase patience from a place of practice
To create elders as a gift with wisdom
To develop models of elders and build a lineage of trusted people whom have experience of life that I have witnessed over time; to increase my success through pulling from these individuals by sharing a deep exposure to developed wisdom
To expand curiosity and willingness to see/hear beliefs and life choices that might be different than my own, and by this exposure, to better understand varied beliefs and choices to question my own
To find my talents and gift through the eyes of others and the deep view they give me of myself
To discover what is in my way from living my gifts
To have company
To expand my understanding of what might be possible in relationship to others by witnessing the examples of others
To observe life choices and the outcomes that occur, allowing for better understand of conscious choice, thus effecting both the my personal life strategies and the generations that follow
Increase my flexibility in life
To bring death into perspective
To bring life into perspective
To increase humor
To learn to LOVE!
And so it goes, what is your flavor … … … what are your reason to join a community?
Questions requiring longterm discoveries - living the answers
How do we live in a loving state?
What are our personal gifts?
How do we hear and see others?
How do we impact and consider others?
How do we see/hear what is?
How do we move into life with less fear?
How do we increase our capacity and discernment?
How do we grow compassion/patience/common understanding/appreciation/gratitude?
How do we separate love from a person or object?
Possible outcomes from living in community​
Increased curiosity for life and desire for learning something new
Increased capacity to forgive
An ability to hear others give reflections about ourselves that may not always be comfortable
Moving in the direction of Love with more skills
Willingness to increase our ability to be uncomfortable – accompanied by a general ability to receive new information
Increased sense of self responsibility
Willingness to work towards clear transparent communication
Take responsibility for including ourselves in a group
Join in events from a place of personal desire (not obligation)