Integration

Integrating new members

 * Making agreements/policies accessible to new members in written format
 * Helping new members understand and apply policies/helping them navigate bureaucracy
 * Having a buddy for new members with agenda items
 * In general: readily available help navigating any complicated area of community life; new member liaisons?
 * having clear expectations of members so that new members know what they're signing up for.
 * Helping new members find positions of responsibility.
 * Discuss community values with new members
 * Offer friendship to new members and point them toward members with similar interests
 * Point new members toward work compatible with their known skills or skills they have expressed interest in developing.
 * conversations about standard of living and acceptable/unacceptable uses of shared money.
 * Understanding the history and history of specific places/infrastructure (for example, the reason there's a ditch in the midfield is...)
 * Helping new members understand community resources and infrastructure- give them a tour(s) of what's available.Ways in which members must be on the same page with each other:

Common agreement on decision-making and conflict-resolution within the community, such that people with differing opinions or priorities can come to resolutions, and difficult decisions (e.g., membership, expulsion, large financial decisions, budgeting, etc.) can be officially accepted or rejected by a commonly understood community process

Similar expectation of standard of living provided by their common resources, or acceptance of differing resource distribution based on needs, such that members can live within the means of their collective resources.

Commitment to contributing the labor necessary for the community to function, often including understanding an individual member's place in the greater network of member labor, and agreement to prioritize tasks necessary to the overall success and function of the community.

Member Retention

 * Interpersonal hygene: check in with members that seem distant or unintergrated to see if they have unresolved issues. Check in as soon as someone seems to hint at leaving.
 * Keep people challenged/make sure they have interesting and fulfilling work.
 * link to conflict resolution

Dealing with turnover

 * Making sure there are multiple people trained on important jobs, in case someone leaves.
 * Document projects and knowledge so they can be passed on.
 * Exit interviews: understand why people leave.