Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities May
May 14 @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities May
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Pacific: 11am-12:00pm
- Mountain: 12-1:00pm
- Central: 1-2:00pm
- Eastern: 2- 3:00pm
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Discover the essentials of starting your own intentional community with May’s Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities featuring Zarinah Agnew.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.
This is more than an event series—it’s a launchpad for future community leaders.
“Blueprints for Belonging” zeroes in on the practical aspects of community building. Our guests share real-world experiences and actionable strategies, covering everything from legal setup and financial management to culture building and governance. This series is an invaluable resource for anyone at the beginning stages of creating a community, providing a roadmap to avoid common mistakes and implement best practices.
The format encourages active participation, with opportunities for the audience to ask questions and engage directly with speakers. This interactive approach ensures that you can get specific advice relevant to your project.
About Blueprints for Belonging May
What you get from this conversation:
- Learn the basics of starting an intentional community
- Understand legal and financial requirements
- Discover how to build a positive community culture and effective governance
- Learn conflict resolution techniques
- Explore strategies for sustainability and self-sufficiency
- Connect with other community founders and experts
About this Month’s Guest Speaker
Zarinah Agnew
Zarinah is the Co-Executive Director of District Commons, a non-profit that works to amplify the emancipatory power of communities to create collective possibilities. District Commons believes that commoning, or equitably sharing and building resources, supports liberations, communities are experts on themselves, experimentation is vital for creating change, and immersive experiences lead to deeper learning. They steward multiple intentional community houses that center the needs and wisdoms of formerly incarcerated individuals (The Second Life Project). They also steward the Alternative Justices Project – a decentralized collective that seeks to address harms in our communities by expanding consent cultures, abolishing prisons, and experimenting with alternative forms of place-based transformative and restorative justice, healing and repair.
About Your Host
Cynthia Tina
Cynthia is a leading consultant in the field of intentional communities. She’s the founder of CommunityFinders, offering programs to help people join and start residential communities. She’s also the founder of Ecovillage Tours, bringing people on inspirational journeys to regenerative communities around the world. She has visited more than 150 intentional communities globally, including the Vermont ecovillage where she lives in her self-built passive solar home.
Formerly a Co-Director, Cynthia is a partner and educator with the Foundation for Intentional Community. She’s a former trustee of the Global Ecovillage Network and former Director of the youth ecovillage network, NextGEN North America. She holds a degree in Sustainability from Goddard College, as well as certificates in Permaculture and Ecovillage Design, and Yoga Teacher Training.
Get started on your community journey with a short quiz to find out which type of community is a fit for you! https://communityfinders.com/quiz
Location
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The Online Event Experience
Live StreamYard Sessions
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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
Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities
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