Intentional Communities Newsletter: March 12, 2011

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Our new Communities issue on Mental Health is on its way to subscribers and in stores now. You can subscribe now or order a sample and we'll ship you a copy today!

Communities Spring issue focuses on Mental Health. We explore mental health challenges both in and out of intentional community, as well as hopeful strategies for nurturing mental wellness. We hear first-hand from those who have confronted "mental illness" both in themselves and others, and learn about ways in which community can help prevent or heal mental stress and dis-ease (or fail to do so). Candid, personal, eye-opening, and ultimately inspiring, these stories share experiences and insights which may help all of us. Please enjoy the issue!

 
Articles Featured Online

A selection of articles from our new issue is posted at communities.ic.org

Gifted, Mad and Out of Control
by Alexis Zeigler

The author recounts his personal history with the "mentally ill"—social misfits who can show us the way to a better world, if they are allowed to make the journey.

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Communicable Gifts
by Kristina Jansen

Both healthy ideas and unhealthy ideas can take hold and spread like viruses. Suicidal tendencies and eating disorders provide invaluable lessons to one communitarian.e.

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Rx For "Mental Illness": Caring Community
 
by Brian Toomey

How can we best support mental health? Caring attention—even from amateurs—can promote healing unattainable through impersonal approaches or drugs.

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Also in This Issue

• Publisher's Note--Being Vigilant about Vigilante Dynamics by Laird Schaub
• Crazy About Community by Chris Roth
• Walking Wounded by Gigi Wahba
• Tough Grace: Mental Illness as a Spiritual Path by Alice A. Holstein, Ed.D.
• The Influence of Community on Mental Health by Cindy and Friends [Cindy Baranco, Ilana Firestone, Marilyn Moohr, and Judy St. John]
• Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart: Peer Counseling in Community by Amara Karuna
• Shadow Sides of NVC and Co-Counseling by Dona Willoughby
• Prescription Facebook: How can Facebook act as an agent of mental health to a community fragmented 20 years ago? by Sandy Brown Jensen
• Healthy Community; Healthy People by Burl Hall
• A Mental Health Patient Seeks (But Does Not Find) Religious Community by John Wachter
• Therapeutic Community: A Century at Gould Farm by Steven K. Smith
• Camphill: Working with Special People by Diedra Heitzman and Jan Martin Bang
• Camphill: Glimpses of Community Life by Wanda Root
• Camphill: The Way of My Brother by Bill Prensky
• Nurturing Healthy Minds by Elizabeth Barrette
• Community Living Worldwide International Conference about Intentional Communities by Bill Metcalf
• Review--Hopeful New Stories from the Old World: A New We by Chris Roth

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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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