Community Support

getting empowered

- trainings and knowledgebase

- dealing with conflict

Welcome to OpenDoor’s community support page. Here, you will find resources, training opportunities, and communications channels with our staff on a variety of community, cultural, and interpersonal topics that are common to coliving environments. 

Community living can be full of fun, joy, inspiration, growth and so much more – yet it does not mean the experience is absent of tension. Collaboration and living in close quarters ensures the occasional bouts of disagreement, differing perspectives, conflict, and the need to work out relationship and organizational kinks. Overall, we see coliving as an incredible opportunity for personal and collective growth. and we hope that the resources and opportunities here support you and your community along these lines. 

Thank you,  
OpenDoor Community Team

SUPPORT FORMATS

Knowledgebase

The Knowledgebase is a self-paced, digital library of written guides, videos, tool templates, and other resources related to house systems, culture, and governance.

Please note: while live, the Knowledgebase is still under construction and evolving regularly. Keep checking back for updated content.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

OpenDoor offers workshops & trainings to support our members in navigating coliving environments and collaboration. Below are upcoming opportunities to train with us.

Community Facilitation Program : A Cohort program to deepen into skills and resources. Beginning Fall 2022

Coliving Mastermind : Drop-in Programming for OpenDoor Members across our network. Every first Tuesday of the Month!

If you are involved in a conflict in your home, our policy is that you are required to actively work to resolve it. You can choose between working it out directly, asking a neutral housemate to assist, bringing in one of our staff members, or finding an outside mediator.

We have trained individuals on our staff who are available to our members for consulting, mediation, and conflict resolution support in these instances. Please submit your request for support in resolving using the form below:

Touch Points with the Community Over Time

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Community Check-ins

Community check-ins typically happen once per year and involve an OpenDoor staff member simply joining a house meeting slot to say hello, get up to speed on any current issues, and share any updates from our end.

Sometimes we do these if there has been a particular incident that the community is grappling with or if there if is a big policy change but mainly it is just a way of staying close with the homes and letting you all know that we are here as support.

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Community Coordinator Program

We typically designate a member at each property as the Community Coordinator (or CC for short) who serves as a liaison between the community and OpenDoor. The CC is in closer contact with our team and should up to speed on OpenDoor policies & processes, so feel free to reach out to them with questions before reaching out to us.

We host quarterly calls with the CCs at every OpenDoor home to provide individual coaching & support, and hear challenges / opportunities / needs are in their community. The CCs participate in facilitator trainings as part of the Community Facilitator program, as well as join our twice-annual CC Council where they get to collaborate and share ideas with CC's from across the OpenDoor network.

Questions?