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: 24/07/2025

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: [currently not up-to-date] 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:

• Cohousing knowledge: all of the posts on this forum that are tagged because they contain information that could be useful in the long term and/or for other groups

• Sociocracyforall introduction video to the key concepts of sociocracy. The website contains many more training courses and resources.

[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Team Recruitment & Onboarding meeting, we found that the Blueprint contains quite a lot of information that is quite outdated (e.g. on governance, financial aspects, membership process etc).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]