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Examining Intentional Community Living for Elders
July 12, 2023 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT
Examining Intentional Community Living for Elders
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
- Pacific: 10-11:00am
- Mountain: 11am-12:00pm
- Central: 12-1:00pm
- Eastern: 1-2:00pm
Join longtime communitarian Laird Schaub to examine the realities for elders in contemporary culture and the benefits intentional community can offer.
About the event
Being a senior is a different phase of life than just being a middle-aged adult with less capacity, and you’ll need to be aware of the needs and potentials in order to make the most of them.
In Examining Intentional Community Living for Elders, we’ll briefly lay out the realities for seniors in contemporary culture, and the special opportunities in intentional community for thriving—not just surviving—in a wider world that tends to venerate youth and warehouse seniors. This info can help you decide if community living is an attractive enough possibility to explore further (and how to be a savvy shopper if the answer is “yes”).
Join us for this 1-hour webinar to gain a greater understanding how intentional community can support seniors as they age, as well as get a taste for our upcoming 5-week course, Aging Gracefully in Community.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
- What’s special about the final third of your life
- How intentional communities can develop a culture that sees seniors realistically and integrates their gifts into community life as best they can
- How to talk about it
About your presenter
Laird Schaub
Laird’s specialty is up-tempo inclusive meetings that engage the full range of human input, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict and diversity—all the while being ruthless about capturing as much product as possible. He lived for four decades at Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing rural community that he helped found.
Laird also helped found the Foundation for Intentional Community, where he served as the main administrator for 28 years. In 1987, he created a self-insurance fund for healthcare among income-sharing communities called PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health) that he ran for 22 years.
In addition to his expertise in community living, he’s parlayed his passion for good process into a consulting business focused on cooperative group dynamics, styled CANBRIDGE (Consensus And Network Building for Resolving Impasse and Developing Group Effectiveness), since 1987.
Read his blog Laird’s Commentary on Community and Consensus.
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