This document was approved at the October Directors Meeting, 2011 (01-10-2011)
Moora Moora Cooperative Community - Vision and 5-Year Plan
Reference to the Original Manifesto
“We are creating a co-operative community with a diversity of personalities and lifestyles that enable us to shape our environment and live with people of our own choosing. Our primary concerns are social, educational and ecological.”
Vision
Moora Moora is a community where we are committed to sharing our lives.
We accept and support each other in a loving and conscious way, encouraging growth, balance and health.
Moora Moora is a place where we realise our dreams.
We share and work cooperatively to co-create our lives.
Moora Moora is a mountain of beauty, art and healing.
Our relationships with each other and the Earth create an opportunity for spiritual evolution.
Moora Moora is a centre for innovation and learning.
We practise the art of living with self, each other and the Earth.
Principles
At Moora Moora we …
Nurture our minds, bodies and spirits
Relate to each other with love, integrity and care
Encourage and support each other
Welcome diversity
Uphold equity and fairness
Look after both group and individual needs
Actively participate in intentional community
Support participatory democracy
Encourage individual and collective responsibility
Cherish our relationships with our children
Welcome and integrate new members
Honour and support our elders
Feel gratitude for the abundance we have
Share spiritual expression and evolution
Celebrate together
Look after and actively seek to improve our environment
Respect the interests of other species in our decision-making
Encourage self and community reliance to sustain ourselves locally
Generate our own renewable energy and aim to be carbon neutral
Demonstrate alternative ways to live
Inspire others simply through our existence
Offer service to the wider world
Aim 1
Moora Moora aims to create a healthy community where we live well together
(The ‘service’ we provide to our members)
Plans & Projects
HOUSING
Look after our existing infrastructure (2)
Develop maintenance schedule Works
Love the Lodge Works
Sell Old House to a member who will love it (7) Community meeting
Build or purchase retirement flats on MM or in Healesville (3) Community meeting
Establish a burial site Special interest group
TRANSPORT
Continue transport sharing/car pooling system (1) Transport
Buy a community bus for school or group outings Transport
Build biodiesel plant Special interest group
Build fuel alcohol still Special interest group
TECHNOLOGY
Consider grid-interactivity Community meeting
Establish CB network (2) Special interest group
SKILL SHARING
Encourage the passing on of skills (3) Special interest group
Form small groups to share and support particular interests Special interest group
EMPLOYMENT
Establish business incubator (1) Community meeting
CHILDREN
Provide childcare Special interest group
Undertake home schooling (1) Special interest group
LAND
Establish a conservation covenant Land Management
Implement Whole Farm Plan (3) Land Management
Improve Farm infrastructure Land Management
Support CSA Community meeting
Establish livestock CSA Special interest group
RECREATION FACILITIES
Plant a circle of trees Cinnamon
Build hot tub & sauna (1) Jeremy
Build pizza oven Jeremy
Hold regular film nights Meredith
Aim 2
Moora Moora aims to share our experience of co-operative living to inspire others
(The ‘service’ we provide to the wider world)
Plans & Projects
EXISTING ACTIVITIES
Learning Centre
Earth keepers
Wwoofs
1st Sunday tours
Café
Gemini party/gatherings
MM & music festivals
CSA
School tours Learning Centre
COMMUNICATION
Increase public exposure through media Learning Centre & Membership
Improve internet presence and information Jason & Sean
LEARNING CENTRE
Grow Learning Centre to assist others at MM to grow too Learning Centre
Build a dedicated Learning Centre facility (7) Community meeting
Build more accommodation
Run learning programs (eg. Findhorn-like courses) Learning Centre
Build practice rooms Special interest group
Run Earthkeepers Simon
Develop other schooling
Host interns
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Maintain Besilau partnership Community Development
SPIRITUALITY
Create a spiritual centre Special interest group
Aim 3
Moora Moora aims to decide collaboratively and work cooperatively
(Our collaborative process)
Plans & Projects
EXISTING PROCESSES
Maintain DMs and decision making
Support CMs
Maintain committees
Strengthen cluster culture
RELATING
Actively develop interpersonal relationship skills Special interest group
Support members who are experiencing hardship Directors
PARTICIPATION
Encourage workday participation inside and outside of MM Works
Recognize different forms of contribution to MM (1)
DECISION MAKING
Review decision making processes Directors
ECONOMICS
Organize economic activity Finance
Explore participatory economics
SOCIAL
Support and cultivate social occasions (3) (eg. art exhibitions, Gemini parties, film nights) Social
Cultivate spiritual ceremonies and discussions (2) Special interest group
MEMBERSHIP
Attract new members (1) Membership