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Feb 21, 2002

1 Process Consultant Clearinghouse
2 Communities magazine next issue Ecovillages theme
3 Community Bookshelf title on sale - Email Exclusive Offer
4 Spring Events: Communities Conference and Org Mtg in May
5 Intentional Communities store addition
6 Webstore communitymade.com serves intentional communities
7 Visions of Utopia: Lost Data Recovery
8 New Article posted at the IC home website this month
9 We want you! Join the Fellowship

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1 NEW PROCESS CONSULTANT CLEARINGHOUSE OPENS ON THE WEB
  by Tree Bressen
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FIC staffers are pleased to present our latest service for
communities, a Process Consultant Clearinghouse. This is a one-
stop shop for communities needing help with consensus decision-
making, skilled facilitation, conflict resolution, and having
better meetings. We've collected listings from a variety of
facilitators and workshop leaders from around the U.S. & Mexico,
all of whom have experience with the special dynamics of
community living.

We'd love to add some Canadian facilitators too, so please send
suggestions with contact information to <process ( at ) ic ( dot ) org>.

Consultants are asked to donate 5% of their fee to FIC in
exchange for being listed. We think it's a win for everyone:
communities get easy access to needed skills, consultants get
help finding people who need them, and FIC receives a small
donation.

                 http://fic.ic.org/process.html
                         process ( at ) ic ( dot ) org

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2 COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE ISSUE up next: ECOVILLAGES
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Ecovillages: The First Ten Years is the focus of the Spring '03
issue. What do we mean by "ecovillages" and where are they
located? How are they faring some 10 years after the concept was
first developed? What are the unique problems and trade-offs in
trying to live up to their high sustainability ideals? And what
can we learn from aspiring ecovillages worldwide? Communities
magazine is available from store ( at ) ic ( dot ) org and bookstores in some
locations, now including Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

        Order the upcoming issue, renew or subscribe here
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3 FEATURED BOOKSHELF TITLE at SALE PRICE
  This offer made *only* through eNews.
  by Alline Anderson, Community Bookshelf manager
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The Tassajara Bread Book
  by Edward Espe Brown
  1995, 162 pages

I don't know about you, but from where I sit the world looks like
a mess. I'm feeling generally discouraged, and despondent about a
war I don't support. Additionally, I feel helpless -- while the
news anchors report hundreds of thousands marching in protest,
the pundits proclaim that it won't make a bit of difference.
What's a person to do?

When in doubt, I make bread. While it's not a solution for world
peace, it makes me and those around me feel better. There are few
things more calming than watching bread dough rise, kneading it,
and inhaling that heavenly aroma it while it bakes. How can one
NOT feel better?

Ed Brown has written what many consider the best bread book ever.
This magical classic will inspire you to finally try your hand at
making bread if you've never done it before. If you're already a
baker, it just might change your view of this timeless,
meditative, nurturing activity. Lots of recipes, encouraging
advice, and reminders that you (and the ingredients) already know
what to do.

         Order this title online, by phone or mailorder
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4 FIC COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE & SPRING ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
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FIC CO-SPONSORED COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE at The Farm
"Global Sustainability" - May 23, 24, 25

As our government continues to beat the drums of war, we are
reaching out to the greater community of like minded souls with
an invitation to a weekend rural retreat where we will explore
solutions and action. Our goal is to make this a dynamic event,
combining informative workshops with extensive networking and
plenty of fun.

Our workshops will be focused on three main areas: community,
sustainability and activism. Our community presenters will lead
discussions on consensus and conflict resolution, including
advanced workshops for those who are familiar with these
processes and need tools to help overcome typical obstacles.

Our sustainability track will include examples of natural
building and construction, from straw bale to cob, photo voltaic
systems and more. Dive in with an introduction to permaculture,
followed by a one week permaculture intensive right after the
conference.

The conference is reaching out to peace activists from around the
country to use this event for planning and organizing the
movement's response to our country's dominance by the Bush
military complex. This is a unique opportunity to formulate ideas
and share strategy that we can all use to build peace in our
lifetime.

We welcome venders! Contact us if you would like to reserve a
booth. Saturday night will feature bands from our main stage, an
open mike acoustic stage, drumming around the bonfire and a turn
table dance party.

And of course you'll get to see The Farm, our home for the last
30 years. We'll have tours, a look at our history and a chance to
find out about our efforts around the world and here at home to
try and make a difference.

We promise you an invigorating and unforgettable weekend. Find
complete info including how to register at this website
<www.thefarmcommunity.com/conference>. See you in May!

Following the Conference will be 3 events

   Monday May 26 will be a full day workshop for activists
   entitled Peacemaker 101. This workshop focuses on personal
   Vision Questing and emotional body clearing. Timely and
   transformational, it will be lead by Thomas Hupp of The
   Leadership School. Cost $35.00. Visit
   www.theleadershipschool.com

   Wed May 28 - Sun June 1 the FIC Spring Organizational Meeting

   May 26, June 1, our Ecovillage Training Center will host a
   course on Permaculture Fundamentals. To learn more visit
   www.thefarm.org/etc/courses.html


      Communities Conference info including how to register
           http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/conference


(There will also be a late summer Labor Day Weekend FIC co-
sponsored Communities Conference at Twin Oaks.)


FIC ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING at The Farm community
Summertown Tennessee, May 28-31, 2003

The Fellowship for Intentional Community's next organizational
meeting will be at The Farm community in Tennessee. Anyone who is
interested is very welcome to attend and participate in the
discussion of the FIC board and all the people who work on FICs
committees and projects. We are always looking for new people who
are inspired by the work and want to pitch in. If it turns out
that there are particular projects that interest you and you want
to stay involved after the meeting, you can talk to committee
members and join in. We'd love to see you there! These meetings
are also excellent regional networking opportunities.


           Check this site periodically for more info
                http://fic.ic.org/artofcmty.html

           If you would like to attend please contact
                    Jenny Upton  jenny ( at ) ic ( dot ) org


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5 INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES STORE offers Video quantity discounts
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The Intentional Communities Store staff is pleased to announce
quantity discounts are now on offer for Geoph Kozeny's wonderful
Visions of Utopia video.

The video, available in both NTSC-American and PAL-European
formats, sells for $30 plus shipping for a single copy. Quantity
discounts are 30% off for 6 copies, 40% off for 12 copies, and
45% off for a full case of 50 copies.

    http://store.ic.org/products/visions-of-utopia-video.html


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6 WEBSTORE communitymade.com open since January 1
  A Market for Products Made in Intentional Communities
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CommunityMade.com reports an excellent first month: Sales were
modest but that was to be expected. There was lots of positive
feedback. Fresh bread from The Grateful Bread at Abundant Dawn
Community in southwest Virginia was added to the product line.

Some lovely community photos were added to the site. Order
processing and accounting features were completed, and leads
developed with more potential customers and potential vendors.
Developer Velma Kahn is already thinking about a tour to visit
all the vendor communities once the count reaches 25 or 30.

Please check out this new store serving intentional communities

                  http://www.communitymade.com


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7 VISIONS OF UTOPIA - LOST DATA RECOVERY  by Geoph Kozeny
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Just before Thanksgiving I suffered one of those not-so-uncommon
disasters: a hard drive crash. Sadly (also stupidly, I confess) I
hadn't done a data backup since June when I headed out on the
road to pursue the promotional tour. I was so desperate to
recover the data that I paid a tech company $300 to attempt to
repair the drive enough to at least read the data, but, also
sadly,
the drive was too far gone ... as now is the data.

This loss has severely delayed my start of the editing process on
tape two for two reasons, 1) I have needed to prioritize some
time to reconstruct what I can of my banking records and customer
database, and 2) some of the scripting was lost and may need to
be done over.

If you pre-ordered the two-tape set from either of the FIC
offices, we're still in good shape. Any order placed before June
2001 qualifies as that's when I decided to break the project into
two tapes. However, if you pre-ordered the two-tape set through
me directly, there is a one-in-five chance that your order and
contact information has been lost. So if you pre-ordered both
tapes through me, please email me at <geoph ( at ) ic ( dot ) org> to confirm
that I still have you on my list.

I had sent out the completed scripts to the featured communities,
and after a review they sent back a signed release form saying
that their script was accurate and approved. Since I've now lost
my copies of those scripts, I'm asking them to check their
records--hopefully they filed away those approved scripts, and
can send me copies so that the editing can commence soon. I've
got my fingers crossed. I'll certainly be relieved once the data
recovery has been wrapped up and things are back to "normal." And
now back to script writing...


     Tape One  94 minutes VHS (NTSC-American format) color
     Tape One  94 minutes VHS (PAL-European format) color

               $30 plus $3 S/H standard mail in US
                 $30 plus $5 surface mail Canada
           $30 plus $8 surface mail outside US/Canada
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                       Geoph <geoph ( at ) ic ( dot ) org

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8 AT THE IC WEBSITE THIS MONTH
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Article from current edition of the Directory.

  Another article selected from the current 3rd edition of the
  Directory is now posted. As a resource to our site users, we'll
  place one article from the Directory 2000 at a time up on the
  website. The selection will change periodically so please be
  sure to check back often!

  The Directory (available in print only) contains 33 completely
  new written pieces covering important issues around community
  living. The Table of Contents (reproduced at the website) shows
  the full set of article titles and authors.

 Current Selection: The Desire for Diversity:
                    A Cohousing Perspective
                        by Zev Paiss

Appearing Mar 2003: Committing to Community for the Long Term:
                    Do We Have What It Takes?
                        by Carolyn Shaffer

Here is the first paragraph from the February article:

"What is meant by 'diversity' can include a wide range of traits,
including age, income, family structure, occupation, sexual
orientation, ethnicity or race. Most cohousing communities have
succeeded in attracting diversity of age, income, family
structure, and occupation. Ethnic and racial diversity continues
to elude these communities, even in locations where the general
population is extremely diverse. Indeed, this is the case for
most intentional communities in the United States, and not just
cohousing communities, and as I speak about my cohousing
experiences in this article, much of it can be extended to apply
to the wider movement, as well."

                      Read the full article
           http://directory.ic.org/about/articles.html

        View the Communities Directory table of contents
             http://directory.ic.org/about/toc.html


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