The Threshold Centre is an informal community, living more sustainably in the full sense: personally, as a group, and ecologically. We want to embody sustainable living to nourish our lives and the wider community, and to show it can be done. Important qualities of community for us are:

• Serving something greater than our own needs
• Mutual support
• Shared values and commitments
• Clarity and integrity in how we communicate and relate to each other
• Respect for each other's autonomy
• Wanting to deepen our awareness in everyday life and work, for example by embodying mindfulness, integrity, right livelihood, care for each other, serving the highest good, joyfulness and gratitude.
• Simple, non-doctrinal, shared practices such as meditation.
• Acceptance and support for each other's individual life path.

Shared Delights

• living in a quiet, attractive, rural location accessible to nearby town
• having a shared market garden
• a community which offers support and companionship and enables each household to maintain a good degree of independence.
• scope to work on site, with shared and individual workspaces
• being part of the wider community, with people visiting us and vice versa
• good listening and expression
• safety and support to grow in a non-judgmental environment
• a nurturing and supportive context, both emotionally and practically

Membership Criteria

Shared values: Mutual support, appreciation, mutual respect. Service to the highest good; simple awareness practices such as attunement, shared silence. Sustainability; human and environmental.
Process skills: Willingness to handle any disagreements and negative feelings clearly, openly, and constructively, evolving shared processes to do so.
Diversity: A mix of ages; couples and singles, and a mix of income levels/ capital as far as possible.
Finance: Those not qualifying for social housing need enough capital or borrowing capacity to purchase their property. Ability to sustain own income.
Community participation: Willing to join in eg 1 meetings per month, and to gift half a day per week to the running/maintenance of the project (this could be market garden, admin, cleaning shared areas etc).
Willing to join in community-shared meals - up to 2 per week, or as many as prove practical. Shared meals are vegetarian.
Delight: A shared desire to create an informal community which is enjoyable and supportive, where we like working and playing together.