This is Cohousing: The Cohousing Podcast
Jun 29, 2026 · 45 min · 10 segments
What does it take for a cohousing community to function at its fullest potential? In this episode, Charles Durrett sits down with educational learning consultant and facilitator Julia Jongkind, who…
Julia JongkindGuest
Charles DurrettHost
I'm Charles Durrett, author and principal architect at the Cohousing Company.
And in today's episode, we're discussing interpersonal relationship in cohousing and when it actually is, is a structural conflict.
In other words, something that's institutionalized by the group but doesn't set individuals up for success.
For example, the most common one that I see is being tyrannized by the clock.
We have five minutes for this very heady topic, and everybody has to talk really fast.
You know, if we're gonna do cohousing well in North America, we have to learn that structural processes need to be conducive to all the goals of a cohousing, including being soft and kind.
And then we're also gonna talk about rebooting cohousing, and this is also dead critical because there's plenty of cohousings that have gotten started with the world's best intentions but have waned for one reason or another.
All of a sudden they went from making dinner four or five times a week to making dinner once a week or not at all.
And we all know that breaking bread together is the number one way to stitch a cohousing community together long-term successfully.
And questions about participation, whether it's maintenance or otherwise, all plays a big role into making everybody feel like all of this work was worthwhile.
Read the full transcript.
Create an account to read the whole episode, search across every transcript, and follow the shows you care about.