Intentional Communities - A Project of the FIC
UsernamePassword
Articles: all thirty-one articles from the 1995 edition of the Communities Directory, about various aspects of community living, grouped in six major subject areas... a substantial body of useful infomation.
1. An Evolving Culture
  • Intentional Communities: Lifestyles Based on Ideals, by Geoph Kozeny
  • Community Building for the Long Term, by Harvey Baker, Barbara Lee, and Jeanne Quinn
  • Community as Crucible, An Interview of Laird Sandhill by Helen Forsey
  • Seeking Group Renewal, by Simon Poulter
  • Who We Are: An Exploration of What "Intentional Community" Means, by Dan Questenberry

    2. Finding Your Community
  • How To Visit an Intentional Community, by Kat Kinkade
  • Seeking a Spiritual Community Home, by Victoria Adams
  • Mainstreamer's Search for Community, by Vivian Taylor
  • Cohousing: A New Type of Housing for the Way We Live, by Ellen Hertzman
  • Finding a Home: Urban Community, by Lisa Cigliana
  • Tale of Two Communes: A Scholar and His Errors, by Michael Cummings
  • A Word about Cults, by Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson

    3. Personal Growth
  • Enabled and Disabled in Community: Sharing Life's Challenges, by Daniel Bartsch
  • Padanaram Village School, by Steve Fuson
  • Movers of Mountains, Shapers of Worlds, by Kirsten Johnsen
  • Raising and Educating Children in Community, by Diana Christian

    4. Social Action
  • Fellowship in the Nineties: A Continental Network Open to All, by the FIC Editorial Board
  • Innisfree: Lifesharing with Adults with Mental Disabilities, by Marianne Roberts
  • An Ecovillage Retrofit for Los Angeles: Healing an Inner-City Neighborhood, by Lois Arkin
  • Bioregionalism and Community: A Call to Action, by David Haenke
  • Central Living in the Netherlands: The Influence of Architecture on Social Structure, by Dorit Fromm

    5. Taking Care of Business
  • The Tyranny of Structurelessness, by Joreen
  • Intentional Communities as Laboratories for Learning about Direct Democracy, by Mildred Gordon
  • Consensus Ingredients, by Caroline Estes
  • The Rhythms of Home: Perspectives on a Communal Lifestyle, by Tom Starrs
  • Legal Options for Intentional Communities, by Albert Bates, Allen Butcher, and Diana Christian
  • Buying Your Community Property, by Frances Forster and Byron Sandford
  • Tips on Financing Realty, by Robert H. Watzke

    6. Communal History
  • For the Next Seven Generations: Indigenous Americans and Communalism, by Glenn T. Morris
  • Dreams and Other Products of Nineteenth-Century Communities, by Lyman Tower Sargent
  • A Look at Student Housing Cooperatives, by Deborah Altus
  • Sign up now! (more info)

    A Manual for Group Facilitators
    Facilitate Meetings
    like a community veteran.
    A Real Consensus Classic
    store.ic.org/bookshelf/mgf.php