The First Step to Find Your Community
March 13 @ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
The First Step to Find Your Community
Friday, March 13, 2026
- Pacific: 10:00am-12:00pm
- Mountain: 11:00am-1:00pm
- Central: 12:00pm-2:00pm
- Eastern: 1:00pm- 3:00pm
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Finding the right community begins long before you pack a bag or schedule a site visit. It starts with understanding yourself—what you truly need, what you’re longing for, and what you’re able and willing to offer in return. This workshop is designed to help you take that essential first step.
Together, we’ll explore a grounded process for assessing your needs, strengths, skills, and relational capacities so you can move toward community life with clarity rather than projection or fantasy. You’ll learn how to identify what “belonging” actually means for you, what qualities make a community a good match, and how to communicate who you are in honest, useful ways.
By the end, you’ll create a preliminary letter to your future community—a simple but powerful tool that helps you articulate your vision, your gifts, and your fit. Whether you’re just beginning to explore intentional community or you’re already searching for your people, this workshop offers a clear, supportive foundation for the path ahead.
This is a practical and beginner-friendly workshop—an invitation to engage in your community journey with honesty, spaciousness, and a clearer sense of who you are and where you belong.
This workshop is for you if:
- You’re curious about intentional community but don’t know where to begin.
- You want to understand what kind of environment, culture, or structure would genuinely be a good fit.
- You’re unsure how to introduce yourself to communities or what they might be looking for
- You want support discerning whether you’re ready for a deeper commitment or simply wanting to “date” community right now—and how to meet your needs through either phase.
In this session, you’ll gain:
- A personalized needs and skills assessment
- Clarity about what you’re seeking and what you can offer
- Insight into how communities evaluate fit and alignment
- A draft of your introduction letter to the community of your dreams
- A realistic, empowered sense of your next steps
About Your Presenter
Lee Warren
Lee is a devoted community builder, delighted by community in all its shapes, sizes, and intentions. Her life purpose is to provide leadership in the building of community in accessible, natural, and deeply human ways.
To that end, she is committed to reweaving the cosmologies and regenerating the cultural wisdom that allow us all to return to the village. The village, as Lee uses the term, is a metaphor for the collaborative, relational way of living that repairs historical damage and creates coherence, belonging, and shared purpose. Cultural repair looks like conscious relating—to self, to land, to dying, to living, and to one another. As we return to the village, we cultivate supportive and inclusive systems that tend to the whole, including the more-than-human world.
Lee is also the author of the forthcoming book Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care—A Village-Inspired Guide to Belonging at the End of Life, which explores how communal, embodied, and relational approaches to dying can transform both individuals and culture.
Location
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The Online Event Experience
Live Event
Nothing pre-recorded here! When you sign-up for an event with FIC, you’ll have the opportunity to view a live session on Zoom with the panelists.
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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