Frequency of social events in cohousing

( mostly after the building is built but sort of applies to before as well )

It seems like theoretically the more events you have the less people will attend each individual event and vice versa

Technically you want to be as selfish as possible. Have as many events as you want and have the type of event you want. People will flow organically to where their schedule and interest aligns. You're not really competing to have the biggest events. Somebody doing better or worse shouldn't matter. In terms of budgeting and specific hourly time slots I could see there being competition but you also could just try as a group to subsidize smaller events. People are human so natural jealousy and ego will come up but by the time you're having these events you should have a system down to discuss these things openly. You should also come up with a strategy to help boost the lower attendance events . ( Temporary strategies that have a cooldown , at the end of the day , you can't force people to attend something they have no interest in long term and you shouldn't feel overly obligated to coddle somebody's feelings with your discomfort )

You could schedule a neighbor raid of that club to boost some morale. You could give temporary priority hours to the club for a specified number of days . You could invite outside friends to join that club. You could run a promotion. Have fun with it.

Ultimately, let's say someone's dream is to have everybody in the cohousing building learning League of Legends through bi weekly 2 hour lessons , if only 2 people show up out of 38 consistently that might be the real number of people that want to dedicate 4 hours to learning League of Legends. I won't deny that attending any event is a combination of personality , event promotion skills , and the actual activities planned but it's not worth tying your personal worth into getting absolutely everyone to show up for your thing.

Until next time

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