Mosaic Commons meets from 3:30 to 6:30 on the first and third Sunday of the month in Marlboro, MA. Anyone who has been to one of our Introductory Meetings is welcome to attend a General Meeting.
We make decisions by consensus. Our trained facilitation team helps us all stay on track and keeps us to our ground rules. We use a color-card system to help our discussion and consensus process.
We have many roles during the meetings. Our space opener gets there first, opens the building, and sets up the room. Our facilitators guide the presenters and the rest of the group through discussion and decision process. Our notetaker and action-item recorder help us keep track of everything. Our process observer keeps an eye on the emotional temperature of the meetings. Our equity members, associates, and prospective members all participate in the discussion. Our associates and equity members make our decisions; only equity members can block consensus.
Under some circumstances, we make decisions outside of meetings, using our Urgent Decisions process. Equity members and associates who will not be at a General Meeting can proxy, per these guidelines. We also do have the ability to fallback to a 3/4 vote if we are unable to come to consensus on an issue in a couple of meetings (we have not yet needed to vote).
