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Membership Process: A Do or Die for Healthy Community

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Membership Process: A Do or Die for Healthy Community

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

  • Pacific: 8:00-9:00am
  • Mountain: 9:00-10:00am
  • Central: 10:00-11:00am
  • Eastern: 11:00am-12:00pm

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Join Yana Ludwig for an overview of why having a fair, transparent and functional membership selection and orientation process is one of the most important structures you will ever create for your community.

About the event

Membership processes are part of how your intentional community will be and remain truly intentional. This session will provide a birds-eye view of the why, what and how of membership structures for communities.

Join us for this 1-hour webinar to learn how a solid membershp process can help support a healthy community as well as get a taste for our upcoming 4-week course, Membership Process for Communities.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

  • Why a membership process is so important
  • The core elements of a healthy system
  • Why you ought to take the whole class to get all your questions answered

About your presenter

Yana Ludwig

Yana served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Intentional Community for over a decade. She lived in community for 26 years and was a founder 4 times – all of her work is grounded in deep community experience. Her writing includes The Cooperative Culture Handbook (co-authored with Karen Gimnig) focuses on articulating a vision and practical pathway for intentional culture building; and many articles in Communities magazine. Her new book, Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community, was released in May 2023.

Yana is the former Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and Commonomics USA (an economic justice organization). Yana is a dynamic, compassionate and thoughtful speaker and teacher, committed to creating a more just and resilient world.

Learn more about Yana here.

Location

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Live Zoom Sessions

Nothing pre-recorded here! When you sign-up for an event with FIC, you’ll have the opportunity to join a live session on Zoom with the event presenter/facilitator and other participants.

Affordable and Accessible

All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.

Watch the Recording

You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for 60 days. So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you. Transcripts available upon request.

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Membership Process: A Do or Die for Healthy Community

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

  • Pacific: 8:00-9:00am
  • Mountain: 9:00-10:00am
  • Central: 10:00-11:00am
  • Eastern: 11:00am-12:00pm

View your local time here.

REGISTER NOW

Join Yana Ludwig for an overview of why having a fair, transparent and functional membership selection and orientation process is one of the most important structures you will ever create for your community.

About the event

Membership processes are part of how your intentional community will be and remain truly intentional. This session will provide a birds-eye view of the why, what and how of membership structures for communities.

Join us for this 1-hour webinar to learn how a solid membershp process can help support a healthy community as well as get a taste for our upcoming 4-week course, Membership Process for Communities.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

  • Why a membership process is so important
  • The core elements of a healthy system
  • Why you ought to take the whole class to get all your questions answered

About your presenter

Yana Ludwig

Yana served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Intentional Community for over a decade. She lived in community for 26 years and was a founder 4 times – all of her work is grounded in deep community experience. Her writing includes The Cooperative Culture Handbook (co-authored with Karen Gimnig) focuses on articulating a vision and practical pathway for intentional culture building; and many articles in Communities magazine. Her new book, Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community, was released in May 2023.

Yana is the former Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and Commonomics USA (an economic justice organization). Yana is a dynamic, compassionate and thoughtful speaker and teacher, committed to creating a more just and resilient world.

Learn more about Yana here.

Location

You’ll get the Zoom link after you register in your confirmation email. Please check the spam folder of the inbox you use to register for an email from or****@**.org.

Download Zoom

The Online Event Experience

Live Zoom Sessions

Nothing pre-recorded here! When you sign-up for an event with FIC, you’ll have the opportunity to join a live session on Zoom with the event presenter/facilitator and other participants.

Affordable and Accessible

All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.

Watch the Recording

You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for 60 days. So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you. Transcripts available upon request.

Registration

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