What is ‘faux-living’ (pronounced ‘fo-living’), you might ask? From the French word ‘faux’ meaning ‘fake’ ‘forged’ ‘false’ or ‘artificial’, it is a play on words to describe the unfortunately all too common ‘coliving washing’ that we have identified over the years.
In short, faux-living is "a form of residential living that is branded and marketed using the term coliving but lacks important aspects of the coliving offer".
I spent the last week integrating at Experience House, a one month coliving experience in Guatemala.
20 people, highly curated community, beautiful setting, lots of experiences, and lots of (potential and already actualized) alignment between people.
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We are also surrounded by an active volcano. You can spot the lava path of a big eruption that happened two years ago. At night, you see the lava glowing over the top - while every eruption makes the house tremble.
While I'll give you more insights and looks into the surroundings soon, here was a big realisation I had today:
That I like to help people be in their best states to grow through life.
That's what I do as a coach - I first work on people's states and then dig into finding the breakthroughs that are needed.
That's also what I do as a friend, hence my reputation for being the playful guy (making people giggle) while also going into depth with ease.
And that's what I'd love to do in the coliving scene, too - helping communities be in their best states to grow collectively.
That requires mainly working on the community vibe and then creating the right frameworks for change to be an easy movement.
It's been exiting to finally put words onto how to combine my coaching and coliving work.
I've always been into coliving because it's been highly transformational for me and others, and that coliving to me is a means to personal growth.