Intentional Communities Newsletter: August 6, 2011

Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
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Our latest Communities issue on Intimacy  is proving to be one of our most popular. If you haven't seen it yet, get a copy by subscribing now or ordering a sample.

Communities' Summer issue focuses on Intimacy. Our authors explore the various forms that intimacy can take and what it means to be intimate with others, with oneself, with the world. How do we develop honesty, transparency, vulnerability, trust, caring, support, presence, and closeness, whether as individuals, couples, families, close-knit groups, wider circles, or people in any other form of relationship? What can community―and Communities contributors―teach us about intimacy? A lot, it seems. Please join us to find out.

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Articles Featured Online―Just published at our site!

These and more articles from our current summer issue are posted at communities.ic.org

A Communitarian Conundrum: Why a World That Wants and Needs Community Doesn't Get It
by Tim Miller

Despite widespread desire for community, structural and cultural obstacles to intentional community in the modern world loom large.

Fascinating Selfhood
by Kim Scheidt

Do you think a half-century-old book on proper “womanhood,” much of whose advice is guaranteed to cause feminists to scream out in indignation, has nothing to teach us? Think again.





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The Solace Of Friends In Community
by Alline Anderson 

Women’s Empowerment Circles offer community-within-community, building trust, caring, and mutual support.

Also in This Issue

• Publisher’s Note―Down the Rabbit Hole: Communities Continues to Make Friends and Lose Money by Laird Schaub
• Cooperative Group Solutions―The Tyranny of Structurelessness? by Tree Bressen, Laird Schaub
• Intimacy: Past, Future, Present by Chris Roth
• A Nomad Ponders Family and the Ecstasy of the Group by Molly Hollenbach
• Honesty and Intimacy by Damien Friedlund  
• Love Is the Answer by Satyama Lasby
• Dreaming It Up: Our 20-Year Experiment with Open Marriage in Community by Jake and Bell
• The Relationship of Relationships to the Group by Laird Schaub
• Intimacy In The Village Setting by Ted Sterling 
• Internal Intimacy by Karbyn Eilde
• Bee Intimacy by Dona Willoughby
• Diverse Forms of Intimacies by Shepherd Bliss
• My Search for Community and Intimacy: Is Cohousing the Answer? by Robin A. Alexander
• Common Houses: Where Are All the People? ― A Study into Common House Vitality and Some Recommendations for Increasing its Use by Rebecca Disbrow
• Three Perspectives On Intimacy In Community: The Cavalry Is Just Around The Corner; When You Feel All Alone; Little Intimacies by Jane Hillis, Kiva Lindsey, And Lynne Goodman
• On the Road with Communities by Chris Roth
• Singing for the Cameras: Reality TV = Community Exposure? by Janel Healy

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Since 1972, Communities has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. Communities now also focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods, with enhanced coverage of international communities as well. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.

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