Lake Merritt Area
Oakland,  CA 


 
We offer a variety of courses in communal living.  Contact us for further details.

Introduction to Pleasurable Group Living 
- taught by Lafayette Morehouse - $40

Evaluacy – Two-Week Residency in Communal Living  - $1500

More Socratic Dialogue – Residential course at the Oakland Morehouse - $650/month
(510) 836-9793

Introduction to Pleasurable Group Living
Living in a group can make life a lot more fun, as well as being a potential solution to many social and economic problems.  In "Introduction to Pleasurable Group Living", we will answer any question you might have - be it about how to ensure fair treatment of everyone in the group, create affordable housing, provide better child and elder care, reduce expenses, create more security or any other topic of interest to you. Our responses will be based on our more than 40 years of living together in an international community of 75 - 100.

Evaluacy
The Evaluate Course is a two-week intensive residential course which is designed to introduce you to all aspects of Morehouse communal living and, if you’re interested, help you figure out whether you might like to live communally, either with us or in an intentional community of your own. By living in a Morehouse, you will experience the opportunities, problems, and pleasures offered by interacting closely with others in the context of a one no-vote  group.  You will have guides to help to structure your time so that you get to sample a wide variety of the experiences and fun available.  There will also be several sessions to discuss and examine all aspects of your course.  A project to be accomplished with your housemates is included, which creates a hands-on opportunity to explore goal achievement in a society where the rule is, “don’t do anything you don’t want to do.”

More Socratic Dialogue
In the Socratic Dialogues of Plato, Socrates declared “that the unexamined life is not worth living.” The More Socratic Dialogue course was created to encourage students to extensively examine and communicate about all aspects of life. The course also applies the one no-vote system and the concept of perfection to everyday experiences, with the goal being fun.

This course provides residency in a Morehouse, where students participate in the social experiment of Morehouse.  While living with others who embrace the concept of perfection, student participants practice the principles of the More Philosophy in their daily lives and have the opportunity to discuss and compare their findings with other students.