Application for Residency at Fantasy Island

This application is sourced from:

1. Paxus’ suggestions about forming a community
2. the old application
3. Geophilia’s application for residency
4. Interacting with current/past members of Fantasy Island

So here are the questions

1. Please review the House Rules and Weekly Meeting protocol. What is your opinion of the weekly house meeting protocol and house rules?
2. Do you smoke cigarettes? Do you consume any non-food substances?
3. Have you experienced significant amounts of trauma in your life? Is this trauma resolved?
4. if you could have 5 minutes on the nightly news to tell millions of people something what would you say… ie: what do you want everyone in the world to know.
5. please do list any shared living situations you have lived in and what you experienced there.
6. What are your projects (things you are working to build out), interests (things you like to do) and activities (what you do regularly on a daily, weekly, monthly basis).
7. How do you earn your living?
8. What do you think about vaccines and pharmaceuticals?
9. Have you done spiritual personal development work? what paths have you explored?
10. What is your life mission?
11. Who are you? Is there anything outside of you?
12. Do you create your reality? Do you co-create your reality? Does someone else create reality?
13. Please define these terms:
    • love
    • truth
    • reality
14. What is anger a sign of? Is anger useful or acceptable?
15. How often are you angry? How do you express it?
16. Do you really know anything? If so, what do you know with 100% certainty?
17. Are you an absolutist or a contextualist?
18. Who/what is responsible for what you experience? Do you create it? Is it co-created? Does God create it? If so, what is God?
19. Will you be bringing any weapons into this community?
20. What realities exist outside of what you and I are perceiving right now?

Conflict resolution questions

Even though Fantasy Island is primarily geared towards self-driven, ecumenical worship, there will be interactions between the members and CONFLICT is inevitable. Conflict is when a person has unmet needs… in other words you be entirely in conflict without another party.

When conflict occurs, the two common responses are fight or flight. Both of these are sub-optimal because one or more parties remains injured and the “offending” party is none the wiser about why there was conflict. In many cases, conflict creates more separation and less willingness to cooperate/communicate with another party. Conflict resolution is challenge but very rewarding because (when the conflict involves 2 people), you learn more about another party and become closer.

1. What is your suggested approach to conflict resolution?
2. When should we escalate a conflict?
3. When should we de-escalate a conflict?