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Challenges and Lessons of Community

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  • June 20, 2016
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Community Bookstore Feature
Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop
Challenges and Lessons of Community
by Kim Kanney, Community Bookstore Manager

Best of Communities Volume XIV
Challenges and Lessons of Community
A special selection of articles from Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture
$10 Digital, $15 Print

The Foundation for Intentional Community is pleased to offer you the cream of our crop-the very best articles that have appeared over the last 20 years in our flagship publications: Communities magazine and Communities Directory.

We’ve distilled what we consider the most insightful and helpful articles on the topics that you-our readers-have told us you care about most, and have organized them into 15 scintillating collections.

Our second-to-last compilation in the series casts a wide net on the topics of conflict, challenges and healing. Oftentimes, these are the hard-earned lessons only realized after strenuous experience and time. We have the opportunity to learn from others’ trials and tribulations inside the 19 articles and community stories on power authority, economic clashes, changing policies, and painful honesty, to name a few.

Issue XIV, Challenges and Lessons of Community shares the voices of many authors we’ve grown to know and respect. Perhaps you’ll find a parallel with their stories in your own experience.

Order Volume XIV today or get the entire set!

Want more on these topics? Check out these back-issues:

Communities #144 Community in Hard Times

Communities #105 Transition and Change (digital only)

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