A MONTHLY EMAIL PUBLICATION of the FIC since 1999. May 22, 2005 1 The Communities Directory: New 2005 Print Edition 2 Featured Bookshelf Title At Sale Price 3 FIC Co-sponsored Events Coming Up This Summer 4 Reachbook Bulletin Board 5 Communities Magazine Next Issue 6 Join The FIC & Bring More Connection To The World! _________________________________________________________________ 1 THE COMMUNITIES DIRECTORY: NEW 2005 PRINT EDITION Print edition nearly ready. Online Directory growing. by Tony Sirna _________________________________________________________________ COMMUNITIES DIRECTORY SOLD OUT The current Third Edition Directory (published in 2000) has now sold out completely, aside from a few scratched up display copies still in stock. Sales of this edition totalled nearly 10,000 copies, bringing the total distribution of our three editions to over 40,000! ------------ BRAND NEW PRINT EDITION ALMOST READY The print Directory is getting its final edits right now and will be headed to the indexer in the next few days. If all goes well we should have the book in hand in the next couple of months. You can reserve your copy now for $24 (plus shipping) on our website. This is a 20% discount for those ordering direct from the FIC so don't wait until you see it in stores. We're taking preorders as a convenience to our customers. We'll collect your order information now, then charge your card at the time of shipment. The preorder price is not an incentive sale price; depending on our production costs, the price may or may not be increased at publication. Help us promote the new book by telling your friends or better yet, order them a copy! Preorder price direct from FIC is $24 plus S/H. http://store.ic.org/products/communities-directory-2005.html Shipping/handling on this item is as follows 3.00 S/H for first item 1.00 S/H for each additional item S/H prices are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US. Order by phone fax or mail FIC - 138 Twin Oaks Rd - Louisa VA 23093 800-462-8240 fax 540-894-4112 ------------ ONLINE DIRECTORY EXPANDING & COOPERATING WITH COHO/US The FIC's free online Directory is chugging along adding a new community almost every other day! We are now up to 1340 listings and communities are updating theirs all the time. Also our friends in the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) have recently made their directory public at directory.cohousing.org. This draws from the same data as directory.ic.org allowing communities to update their listing in one place for both organizations. To browse or search our database of communities go to http://directory.ic.org For instructions on adding or updating a listing go to http://directory.ic.org/neweditors.php To find out more about the directory email directory ( at ) ic ( dot ) org _________________________________________________________________ 2 FEATURED BOOKSHELF TITLE at SALE PRICE Review by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf staff _________________________________________________________________ GREAT MEETINGS! GREAT RESULTS by Dee Kelsey and Pam Plumb 2004 * 213 pages * paperback * New version! It is challenging to work as a group. Managing a successful meeting takes planning and preparation, a host of facilitation skills and a bag full of process tools. Great Meetings! Great Results is a clearly written, down-to-earth "how to" book designed for beginners and experts alike, for group leaders and members. It is a resource book that helps you to understand the important steps involved in planning a great meeting. It also provides you with a variety of facilitation tools and techniques for managing those meetings. The previous version of this book, Great Meetings! How To Facilitate Like A Pro, has been one of our best selling books for some time. I didn't think that the book could be improved on, but Dee Kelsey and Pam Plumb have added even more techniques and ideas to help both new and experienced facilitators. Their writing is clear and their advice is practical and encouraging. The scope of the new book is comprehensive and there is a wealth of real life detail offered to reinforce the teaching. If you want to be assured that you will have the skills to lead a meeting or to be a engaged participant in one, this is the book for you. Regular price $29.00 Sale price $24.00 http://store.ic.org/e/0505a Shipping/handling on this item is as follows 3.00 S/H for first item 1.00 S/H for each additional item S/H prices are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US. This eNews special offer is valid through [[offerdate]]. Information, catalog, ordering http://store.ic.org/community-bookshelf.html Community Bookshelf RR 1 Box 156 Rutledge MO 63563 800-995-8342 bookshelf ( at ) ic ( dot ) org _________________________________________________________________ 3 FIC CO-SPONSORED EVENTS COMING UP THIS SUMMER Continental Bioregional Congress Twin Oaks Communities Conference - new date! _________________________________________________________________ NINTH CONTINENTAL BIOREGIONAL CONGRESS (CBC 9) Earthaven Community, Black Mountain NC July 9-17, 2005 An FIC co-sponsored event Plan to gather with us in the southern Appalachians, Katuah bioregion, this summer! "Home is the only ground for hope." Do you make an effort to satisfy your basic needs and exercise your citizenship locally, actively looking after your own home place? Come to participate in a week-long ceremonial village, to learn from and celebrate with others like you who actively employ ecological principles in their life and work. To register or for more information contact Mary or Kimchi biocongress2005 ( at ) earthaven.org 828-664-0067 http://www.bioregionalcongress.org Also check this site periodically for updated info http://fic.ic.org/artofcmty.html And check this page for listings of many other events http://www.ic.org/events/ ------------ COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE at TWIN OAKS An FIC Co-Sponsored Event August 19 - 21 NEW DATE! NOT Labor Day weekend Twin Oaks Community near Louisa Virginia This living in Intentional Community is a puzzle; we each have a piece to contribute. How do we live well in community? What lessons have we learned in Intentional Community and how can we share that with the rest of the world? Where are our struggles and challenges; what do we still have to learn? There is so much richness in the culture we are creating, so much learning, loving, expanding, transforming; how do we continue this work, how do we keep moving towards healing? Come help move these conversations forward. Whether you attend a workshop in every block and talk to two dozen communards during Meet the Communities or spend the entire weekend in the river and mudpit chatting casually with other attendees you are helping to create an experience of community over the course of the weekend. Come learn, come have fun, come relax, come transform your perspective of what is possible in life! Come dance, tell stories, gaze into the bon fire or the eyes of another seeker of community. Hope to see you there. Communities Conference at Twin Oaks 138 Twin Oaks Rd * Louisa VA 23093 540-894-5126 * conference ( at ) twinoaks.org http://www.twinoaks.org/conference _________________________________________________________________ 4 REACHbook BULLETIN BOARD FIC's free online resource _________________________________________________________________ Along with inexpensive REACH classified ads in our print magazine, the FIC has for many years moderated a free online public bulletin board by the same name. The REACHbook postboard is for people looking for community, communities forming, and communities looking for people, as well as a place to post about resources or just to say hi! Here are some sample listings from the last few weeks: "I am a part of a community in the amazing North Georgia Mountains...inviting others to join us to share our lives." "Minister and his wife seek land to start Christian Community." "Our rural educational center is looking for committed people to intern..." "...small rural farm community in southeast New Mexico USA. We seek mentally healthy, reliable folks." "...working on creating bylaws for a forming intentional community" "I am interested in being part of a community. I am Vegan male in good health, have had experience living on communes..." "Job: Housing Co-op Financial Coordinator" Read the postings and post your own message here http://reach.ic.org/ To advertize in Communities magazine's REACH ad section contact patricia ( at ) ic ( dot ) org _________________________________________________________________ 5 COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE NEXT ISSUE _________________________________________________________________ The theme of the next issue of our quarterly publication, due to be printed next month, will be "Cohousing: What Have We Learned?" Get a sample issue, renew or subscribe here http://store.ic.org/products/communities-magazine.html http://store.ic.org/products/communities-magazine-sampl.html Sample issues by surface mail $6 US - $7 Canada - $8 Other Subscriptions one year 4 issues $20 US :: $24 Canada :: $26 Other Order by phone fax or mail FIC * 138 Twin Oaks Rd * Louisa VA 23093 800-462-8240 fax 540-894-4112 _________________________________________________________________ 6 JOIN THE FIC & BRING MORE CONNECTION TO THE WORLD! _________________________________________________________________ If you enjoy the information that reaches you via this newsletter, you're probably the kind of person who likes to bring people together, who appreciates cooperation and community. Those things are important to us, too--so important that we've centered our organization around them. And we'd love to have you with us. This e-newsletter, the Communities Directory, our Bookshelf and online store, Communities magazine, our regular member newsletter, the phone calls and emails we answer every day, the events we sponsor, the workshops we give...these are all part of meeting people's need for greater connection, around the world. Your $30 membership contribution or $100 donation today will help us do an even better job. Please consider joining the FIC now. For more info on membership benefits and to join online using our secure server go to http://store.ic.org/products/fic-membership.html To request a membership form by mail, or to email, or to talk with a human, contact us at RR 1 Box 156 Rutledge MO 63563 800-995-8342 fic ( at ) ic ( dot ) org To learn more about the mission of the organization visit http://fic.ic.org/index.html Thank you for your interest, and thanks for everything you do to promote and sustain community.