Our Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission
To co-create a vibrant multigenerational cohousing community – culturally, economically and racially diverse – which seeks to form regenerative relationships with one another and with Nature.
Vision
Through the collective embodiment of our community’s shared values, we will endow a beautiful legacy for future generations.
Guiding Principles & Values
We are a community that is continually and consciously evolving via meaningful participation, skilled facilitation, and a strong commitment to uphold our values:
Encourage thoughtful stewardship of natural resources, emphasizing ways of nurturing and healing all beings connected to the land, including Sunward’s prairie, woods, ponds, and wetlands.
Reflect a mindset of abundance, cooperation, healing, and shared responsibility by recognizing our interconnectedness and interdependence with one another and seeking to discern the collective good in all decision making.
Cultivate trusting friendships through intentional connection, authentic communication, and purposeful engagement within Sunward and through outreach to the broader community.
Honor individual differences, strengths, abilities, and gifts in community, shared work, and play.
Thrive in harmony and dissonance with each other by committing to engaging directly with conflict and growing through this process, as individuals and as a collective.
Approved by the Community on December 11, 2018
Mission, Vision, and Values Videos
Members of the Sunward community share their thoughts in these 8 videos.
Video 1: Mission. Speakers are Rowena Conahan and Carol Tucker.
Video 2: Vision. Speakers are Nya Greenstone, Dylan Siewert, and Noelani Conahan.
Video 3: Guiding Principles and Values. Speakers are Sandra Greenstone and Rosemary Linares.
Video 4: Stewardship of Natural Resources. Speakers are Erika Keith and Jim Crowfoot.
Video 5: Reflect a Mindset of Abundance, Cooperation, Healing, and Shared Repsonsibility. Speakers are Claire Maitre and Mark Wagnon.
Video 6: Cultivate Trusting Friendships. Speakers are Milly Ostrowski and Sophia Maher.
Video 7: Honor Individual Strengths, Abilities, and Gifts. Speakers are David Hall and Will Burns.
Video 8: Thrive in Harmony and Dissonance with Each Other. Speakers are Ralph Keith and Ruth Carey.