Cohousing The Reef's key documents

[Lee]

This wiki brings together Cohousing The Reef’s key documents and resources. It will be updated on a regular basis.

Usage of The Reef’s documents is free, but a reference is always appreciated.

Last update: 13/08/2025

Getting to know The Reef:

• Slide deck we use to present our project

• Blueprint 1.0 brochure: how we pictured The Reef prior to enlarging the group (early 2022)

• The Reef’s Onboarding Manual

Other reference documents

• Onboarding Package: list of documents that explain how The Reef works

• Decision log: a document that keeps track of the decisions that have been adopted by Team Reef (aka the plenary)

• Governance Document

• Asbl’s statutes and ‘charte fondatrice’

• Statutes of the société simple (coming soon)

Resources:

Sociocracyforall introduction video to the key concepts of sociocracy.

The website contains many more training courses and resources.

Main tags on the forum:

All our correspondence happens on the Edgeryders forum, and 99% of it is publicly accessible. To make it easier to navigate the forum, we attach “tags” to each thread, which allows users to filter out threads with this tag only.
This is the list of the tags that may be the most interesting for people who are not in or new to The Reef:

• Cohousing knowledge: these posts contain information that could be useful in the long term and/or for other groups.

• Reef Working Methods: as it says on the label .

• Reef Documentation: [work-in-progress] posts that document essential policies or decisions.

• Reef Inspiration: ideas that could be useful for the finishings of our units and the common spaces.

• Reef Gathering: events that concern the entire group

[Lee]

Update: following a quick discussion at the last Team Recruitment & Onboarding meeting, we found that the Blueprint contains quite a lot of information that is quite outdated (e.g. on governance, financial aspects, membership process etc).

Rather than making amendments, we decided to include a text box under the table of contents, suggesting possible readers who want to learn more about the “non-negotiables” to only read the first 12 pages, noting that the slide deck contains more or less the same information.

[updating this post a couple of days later, with a simple ping @reeflings, because I realised that this is important enough to be seen by everybody]