- What experiences from your past have you dreaming of a future at Ekone? What specifically first drew you to Ekone, and what, if any, other communities are you looking at?
- What skills, passions or expertise can you bring?
- What are your ideas, experience, and expectations about community and why is it important to you? What are you looking for in a community? What attributes, structures, styles, or values do you hope to find in any community you would want to be a part of?
- Are you familiar with *consensus* as a decision making process? What other forms of decision-making in a group are you familiar with? Please describe your experiences with group decision-making, whether it be related to community, work, activism, family, etc.
- Please describe any experiences you’ve had living off the grid, living with minimal modern conveniences, using rural homestead skills, living in harsh weather conditions, working with animals, using construction or plumbing or other DIY skills, etc.
- Do you have any experience working with young people, or any passion towards doing that in the future?
- What kinds of personal work have you or your family done i.e. communication skills, interpersonal skills, emotional health, etc.? Basically, what do you see as your spiritual and emotional strengths and weaknesses, and what work have you done or are committed to doing in the future towards spiritual/emotional growth?
- What are your thoughts or experiences around what it means to have an environmentally and/or spiritually sustainable lifestyle, be self-sufficient, improve the Earth for future generations, or other related issues.
- Please give us a brief summary on your thoughts about any activism or political movements you are involved with or feel committed to.
- Please include a recent photo of you and your family, and any pertinent information about them.
- Ekone residents contribute a combination of time and money to the land and the community. How are you prepared to meet this expectation? How do you envision meeting your family's financial needs as a member of this tiny community in an economic backwater of Washington State?
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