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Codicts Team
  • September 26, 2015
  • Relationships
Community gathering and outdoor activities for relationships and well-being.

Community Bookstore Special
Best of Communities ― The Cream of Our Crop

Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-being
by Kim Kanney, Community Bookstore Manager

Best of Communities Volume VII
Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-being
A special selection of articles from
Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture
magazine

$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.

The Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-Being collection offers an array of 17 articles that explore the range of relationships and intimacy available, plus how community can provide a precious safety net when members face devastating health challenges, how community offers hope for coping sensitively with mental health issues in the era of de-institutionalization, and the ways that communities are pioneering an attempt to redefine security in terms of relationships―instead of how much money you have in the bank. With contributions from Ma’ikwe Ludwig, Tree Bressen, and Starhawk―to name a few―our writers explore the depths of what it means to be healthy and happy in community.

Order Volume VII today or get the entire set!

What more on these topics? Order the print or digital version of these Communities magazine back issues:

#145 Health and Well-Being

#118 Lovers in Community

Or check out this book by Starhawk

The Empowerment Manual is a valuable workbook for collaborative groups on how to make cooperation work. Starhawk’s extensive experience in community giver her insight into the frustrations and hangups that plague people trying to work together to achieve common goals.

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