Threshold Village is a residential intentional community striving towards collective and individual liberation. We fiercely celebrate being alive together through radical care & abundance, experimenting & play, reimagining belonging, shared power, stewardship, interdependence with the more than human world, and a festive focus on food.
We commit to caring for one another in ways that are egalitarian, sustainable, and that build personal and community resilience.
Radical care aims to help us survive and thrive in the midst of capitalist scarcity and colonial oppression. We commit to learning how to give and take in ways that are egalitarian and sustainable, acknowledging the historically gendered, racist, and classist imbalances related to giving and receiving care. We strive to build solidarity across difference, understanding that our personal needs may sometimes be in conflict. Resolution of such conflicts requires interpersonal and collective negotiation, as well as internal reflection upon our exploitative beliefs and behaviors.
We build community resilience by centering pleasure, creativity, mindfulness, embodiment, dance, art, and music.
We want to be fully human, fully alive and in our authentic expression. Through experimentation, playfulness, curiosity, and humor, we celebrate living on this amazing planet. We encourage each other to explore possibilities beyond our comfort zones. Honoring the beauty of imperfection and the endless process of becoming, we welcome mistakes, missteps, and mishaps. We build community resilience by centering pleasure, creativity, mindfulness, dance, art, and music. Through dialogue, play, workshops, public events, ceremony, and celebration we practice embodied alternatives to oppressive cultural norms around gender, sexuality, identity, health, lifestyles, and so on.
The question of what it means to belong to oneself, to each other, and to the Earth compels us to cultivate greater authenticity in how we live, work, and play together.
Do you know what it feels like to belong? Do you feel like you belong in your family or in your community or even in yourself? What about belonging to the Earth? There is a great deal of superficial belonging these days and we seek to build authentic, open, and shame-free community where we can dismantle what has gotten in the way of our sense of belonging in the past. The question of what it means to belong to oneself, to each other, and to the Earth compels us to cultivate greater authenticity in how we live, work, and play together.
Through egalitarian principles and practices, we strive to create a radically-supportive community of free people.
We strive to increase our consciousness of the power imbalances present in our interpersonal relationships and community dynamics. We seek to enhance equality of decision-making power, wealth, and knowledge both inside our community and in the broader society. We understand equality to be a fluid process of maintaining non-hierarchical relations where all are equally deserving of freedom. Our governance systems are designed to take advantage of the wisdom that conflict can offer. Disagreements can be opportunities to relearn the skills we need to live in radically-supportive community together. We use consensus and sociocracy in our decision-making.
Each resident acts as a steward of the land, our home, ourselves, each other, and our community.
We nurture and protect the land, our home, ourselves, each other, and our community. Each resident acts as a steward of the community through a variety of contributions including gardening, cooking, cleaning, project leadership, meeting facilitation, conflict transformation, leading workshops, putting on events, curating rituals, cultivating connections with the surrounding community, and more. Each member spends a minimum number of hours per week maintaining our collective spaces.
We practice reciprocity with the plants, animals, fungi, soil, and unseen ones who make up the diverse community of which we are a part.
We practice reciprocity and build relationships with the plants, animals, fungi, soil, and unseen ones who make up the diverse community of which we are a part. We challenge the destructive logic that divides humans from nature, and lovingly care for our multi-species commons. Through regenerative agricultural practices and ecological design, we aim to enhance the health and dignity of all life on this land.
Through sharing food and collective gardening we tend our connections to the land and to each other.
We desire to eat well--really well! Food is at the core of our lives. Growing and sharing food collectively builds strong connections to each other and to the land. Through a required communal food program we buy in bulk, coordinate meals and cooking, and grow as many of our vegetables year-round as possible. We aim to enhance our embodied health in an affordable and sustainable way. We share several group meals per week and celebrate our diverse dietary needs.
At regular intervals we will come together as a collective to review these Core Values and change them as needed.
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