Brisbane Community House Application
Please relax and enjoy your breath while answering the following
questions truthfully, briefly and succinctly.
Print this page or cut/paste in an email to us. Thank You.
NAME:
CURRENT ADDRESS:
Email:
Phone:
Website/ Social Network Page(s) :
Name & Phone # of most recent landlord:
Current Work (please prprovide in the interview three paycheck stubs or a note from your employer, so we can verify your employment):
OPTIONAL: (in our experience we have found this information to be useful and, at times, lifesaving.)
Is your drivers license current? ___________
Is the registration on your car current? __________
Do you have car insurance? _________________
Do you have medical insurance? _______________
Do you have any chronic medical conditions ?_________
Do you have any food or drug allergies?_________
What is your blood type? ____________
GENERAL
-Describe the diet you prefer to practice.
-Are you willing to participate in a *food program?
-Are you willing to offer community service as a group once a month?
-How do you feel about having two structured meetings per month, one being the *house meeting and the other being a *community night ?
-Are you looking forward to participating in *community nights ? (do you have games or something you want to offer on some of these nights?)
-Do you enjoy hosting others?
-What do you see your role as during house events?
-Do you have interest/experience in gardening?
-Do you enjoy keeping up the appearance of your environment? (what does that look like for you?)
-Will you happily be able to contribute to the cleanliness and upkeep of the house? *(house job, *effect shift, house groovies, party set up/clean up, *occasional extra expenses)
-What are your long term intentions relative to living in community?
-How do you feel about living with children?
-What is your main source of income at this time and are you in alignment with it?
-Are you financially stable and able to buy into this community? How long have you been with your current employment?
(*Please see definition's page toward the end of the application.)
COMMUNICATION
-What kind of communication training/ experience do you have?
-How do you communicate when you are “triggered”?
-Are you willing to participate in a communication workshops in order
to have more harmony in the house?
-What does it mean to have “your attention outside yourself?”
-Do you understand what *Withholds are and the concept behind our *Withhold Practice?" (please see definitions section)
-please describe in your own words.
-How do you feel about the *Withhold Practice being done at the *house meetings twice a month?
(*Please see the definition's page toward the end of the application.)
COMMUNITY
-How much communal experience do you have?
-What is your intention for living in Community at this time in your life?
-Do you have any leadership experience?
-Are you comfortable interacting in groups?
-What does “communal living” mean to you?
-What do you like the most about living in community?
-What types of behaviors or personality types trigger you ?
-How do you react when you are triggered?
-What do you look like when you are angry?
-What do you experience/expect to be the most challenging about living in community?
-What qualities and skills, do you feel you can offer the community ?
-Do you have any questions about the community Mission Statement?
-Do you have any questions about the Responsibilities and Programs (Applying, Financial, Open Door Policy, Communication, Men's & Women's Meetings, House Meeting, Community Night, Food, Effect Shift, House Job, Growing Food, Groovy, Evaluacy, Peace,), and if so what are your questions?
-Do you have any concerns about entering into an agreement of participation in these programs and, if so what are your concerns?
SPIRITUAL
-Are there any specific behaviors that you would like to transform to live more in harmony?
-Are you open to receiving conscious feedback about how you occur to others?
-Do you participate in any particular spiritual communities?
-Are you able to join in a diverse group of spiritually expressed peoples?
-How do you describe your spiritual practice ?
-If you do not have a “spiritual” practice, what other ways do you have to bring about self awareness and is self awareness important to you?
-What do you understand your souls purpose / life calling at this time ? Please describe briefly.
Is there anything else you would like us to know about you?
NOTE: We are not accepting applications from tobacco smokers or frequent drug/alcohol users on the premises at this time. Please inform us of any prescription drugs, etc. Thank you.
DEFINITIONS:
Food Program:
-Consists of Mon thru Thursday evening sit down meats
-Four people will be assigned per shift: One Main Cook, a Sous Chef and 2 for cleanup
We each rotate through each position. This means you will be in one of these
positions approximately once a week, depending on the number of other residents
in the house. Your dietary needs will be met in all meals provided.
Withholds:
An un-communicated viewpoint that you have an emotional charge attached to.
Withholds effect your perception and communication.
Withholds Practice:
This is a privileged communication process, the goal is not to be communicating with
the receiver, rather the goal is to reduce the emotional charge you have so you can, at
another time and place, communicate more effectively.
A withhold practice looks like :
Two people sitting across from each other, one is the person "giving" (speaking) their withhold and the other person is the one "receiving" (listening) the withhold. The person receiving the withhold, says "tell me something you withheld" the person giving the withhold speaks a specific withhold the person receiving the withhold, simply says "thank you", and again prompts "tell me something you withheld."
Effect Shift: (see below)
House Meeting:
This is a meeting in which all residents attend and have the opportunity to communicate and discuss any agenda items, questions, concerns, announcements, etc. that are arising as a result of living together. We open this meeting with the practice of Withholds, and close the meeting with *acknowledgments.
Community Night:
A bi-monthly evening where we all come together and play communication games or host some other fun time.
Acknowledgments:
In this practice we take time to specifically acknowledge each other.
Occasional extra expenses:
Each person may be asked occasionally to contribute extra for expenses that come up as a community,
(ie, new vacuum, washer, etc.)
Effect Shift:
Our house is the container of this community and its care reflects the level of love and compassion that we place on each other and all things. The degree of consciousness shown in caring for our house is a direct reflection of how we see
and care for each other. Effect is your opportunity each week to demonstrate directly how you see and care for yourself and others, and how you would like others to care for you.
Effect is not about "house cleaning," though we are cleaning the common areas, (Kitchen, Front Room and TV room).
The truth of the matter is, if we "just" wanted to clean the house we would simply hire a housekeeper, however, we would miss out on the opportunity for connection by putting attention on each other, with the effect shift being the "vehicle" in which we experience this opportunity.
Effect Shift Checklist:
(Please note: As residents we are responsible, every day, for cleaning up after ourselves in all common areas... it is not the responsibility of the person on effect.)
~Pick up and wash dishes in kitchen, front room and TV room
~Dry and put away all that is in the dish drainer
~Clear and clean counter tops
~Wipe down stove top
~Sweep kitchen floor
~Pick up any personal items in living room and TV room and put away or find a place out of the way to store
~Wipe down dining table
~Wipe down place mats, or if really dirty change out with clean place mats
~Wipe down coffee table
~Straighten couch cushions in living room and TV room
~Vacuum entire common room areas (dining table area, living room,TV room, hall way and postage room)
~Take out the trash and recydables and place in their proper container-
Effect Shift Responsibilities:
-To have an assigned day, once a week to do Effect
-To complete your Effect Shift by noon, unless otherwise agreed
-If absent from the house and cannot do your Effect Shift, it is your responsibility to arrange for it to be done via exchanging your day with another or paying to have it done at an agreeed upon rate per shift. (The usual rate is $20 per hour for a full shift, so $10 for half a shift)
~If there are enough people living with us and we can "double up" on effect days, it is YOUR responsibility to stay in communication with your effect partner on how you want to divide up the shift and to cover for each other should that be needed
CURRENT ADDRESS:
Email:
Phone:
Website/ Social Network Page(s) :
Name & Phone # of most recent landlord:
Current Work (please prprovide in the interview three paycheck stubs or a note from your employer, so we can verify your employment):
OPTIONAL: (in our experience we have found this information to be useful and, at times, lifesaving.)
Is your drivers license current? ___________
Is the registration on your car current? __________
Do you have car insurance? _________________
Do you have medical insurance? _______________
Do you have any chronic medical conditions ?_________
Do you have any food or drug allergies?_________
What is your blood type? ____________
GENERAL
-Describe the diet you prefer to practice.
-Are you willing to participate in a *food program?
-Are you willing to offer community service as a group once a month?
-How do you feel about having two structured meetings per month, one being the *house meeting and the other being a *community night ?
-Are you looking forward to participating in *community nights ? (do you have games or something you want to offer on some of these nights?)
-Do you enjoy hosting others?
-What do you see your role as during house events?
-Do you have interest/experience in gardening?
-Do you enjoy keeping up the appearance of your environment? (what does that look like for you?)
-Will you happily be able to contribute to the cleanliness and upkeep of the house? *(house job, *effect shift, house groovies, party set up/clean up, *occasional extra expenses)
-What are your long term intentions relative to living in community?
-How do you feel about living with children?
-What is your main source of income at this time and are you in alignment with it?
-Are you financially stable and able to buy into this community? How long have you been with your current employment?
(*Please see definition's page toward the end of the application.)
COMMUNICATION
-What kind of communication training/ experience do you have?
-How do you communicate when you are “triggered”?
-Are you willing to participate in a communication workshops in order
to have more harmony in the house?
-What does it mean to have “your attention outside yourself?”
-Do you understand what *Withholds are and the concept behind our *Withhold Practice?" (please see definitions section)
-please describe in your own words.
-How do you feel about the *Withhold Practice being done at the *house meetings twice a month?
(*Please see the definition's page toward the end of the application.)
COMMUNITY
-How much communal experience do you have?
-What is your intention for living in Community at this time in your life?
-Do you have any leadership experience?
-Are you comfortable interacting in groups?
-What does “communal living” mean to you?
-What do you like the most about living in community?
-What types of behaviors or personality types trigger you ?
-How do you react when you are triggered?
-What do you look like when you are angry?
-What do you experience/expect to be the most challenging about living in community?
-What qualities and skills, do you feel you can offer the community ?
-Do you have any questions about the community Mission Statement?
-Do you have any questions about the Responsibilities and Programs (Applying, Financial, Open Door Policy, Communication, Men's & Women's Meetings, House Meeting, Community Night, Food, Effect Shift, House Job, Growing Food, Groovy, Evaluacy, Peace,), and if so what are your questions?
-Do you have any concerns about entering into an agreement of participation in these programs and, if so what are your concerns?
SPIRITUAL
-Are there any specific behaviors that you would like to transform to live more in harmony?
-Are you open to receiving conscious feedback about how you occur to others?
-Do you participate in any particular spiritual communities?
-Are you able to join in a diverse group of spiritually expressed peoples?
-How do you describe your spiritual practice ?
-If you do not have a “spiritual” practice, what other ways do you have to bring about self awareness and is self awareness important to you?
-What do you understand your souls purpose / life calling at this time ? Please describe briefly.
Is there anything else you would like us to know about you?
NOTE: We are not accepting applications from tobacco smokers or frequent drug/alcohol users on the premises at this time. Please inform us of any prescription drugs, etc. Thank you.
DEFINITIONS:
Food Program:
-Consists of Mon thru Thursday evening sit down meats
-Four people will be assigned per shift: One Main Cook, a Sous Chef and 2 for cleanup
We each rotate through each position. This means you will be in one of these
positions approximately once a week, depending on the number of other residents
in the house. Your dietary needs will be met in all meals provided.
Withholds:
An un-communicated viewpoint that you have an emotional charge attached to.
Withholds effect your perception and communication.
Withholds Practice:
This is a privileged communication process, the goal is not to be communicating with
the receiver, rather the goal is to reduce the emotional charge you have so you can, at
another time and place, communicate more effectively.
A withhold practice looks like :
Two people sitting across from each other, one is the person "giving" (speaking) their withhold and the other person is the one "receiving" (listening) the withhold. The person receiving the withhold, says "tell me something you withheld" the person giving the withhold speaks a specific withhold the person receiving the withhold, simply says "thank you", and again prompts "tell me something you withheld."
Effect Shift: (see below)
House Meeting:
This is a meeting in which all residents attend and have the opportunity to communicate and discuss any agenda items, questions, concerns, announcements, etc. that are arising as a result of living together. We open this meeting with the practice of Withholds, and close the meeting with *acknowledgments.
Community Night:
A bi-monthly evening where we all come together and play communication games or host some other fun time.
Acknowledgments:
In this practice we take time to specifically acknowledge each other.
Occasional extra expenses:
Each person may be asked occasionally to contribute extra for expenses that come up as a community,
(ie, new vacuum, washer, etc.)
Effect Shift:
Our house is the container of this community and its care reflects the level of love and compassion that we place on each other and all things. The degree of consciousness shown in caring for our house is a direct reflection of how we see
and care for each other. Effect is your opportunity each week to demonstrate directly how you see and care for yourself and others, and how you would like others to care for you.
Effect is not about "house cleaning," though we are cleaning the common areas, (Kitchen, Front Room and TV room).
The truth of the matter is, if we "just" wanted to clean the house we would simply hire a housekeeper, however, we would miss out on the opportunity for connection by putting attention on each other, with the effect shift being the "vehicle" in which we experience this opportunity.
Effect Shift Checklist:
(Please note: As residents we are responsible, every day, for cleaning up after ourselves in all common areas... it is not the responsibility of the person on effect.)
~Pick up and wash dishes in kitchen, front room and TV room
~Dry and put away all that is in the dish drainer
~Clear and clean counter tops
~Wipe down stove top
~Sweep kitchen floor
~Pick up any personal items in living room and TV room and put away or find a place out of the way to store
~Wipe down dining table
~Wipe down place mats, or if really dirty change out with clean place mats
~Wipe down coffee table
~Straighten couch cushions in living room and TV room
~Vacuum entire common room areas (dining table area, living room,TV room, hall way and postage room)
~Take out the trash and recydables and place in their proper container-
Effect Shift Responsibilities:
-To have an assigned day, once a week to do Effect
-To complete your Effect Shift by noon, unless otherwise agreed
-If absent from the house and cannot do your Effect Shift, it is your responsibility to arrange for it to be done via exchanging your day with another or paying to have it done at an agreeed upon rate per shift. (The usual rate is $20 per hour for a full shift, so $10 for half a shift)
~If there are enough people living with us and we can "double up" on effect days, it is YOUR responsibility to stay in communication with your effect partner on how you want to divide up the shift and to cover for each other should that be needed
