Pro Tips for Starting an Intentional Community

When you hear stories of how established Intentional Communities were founded, it often feels like fate. But there are best practices that can help us tempt fate.
Join long-term communitarian and movement builder Sky Blue to learn pro tips for starting an intentional community.

Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities June 2024

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities June

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
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.

Rethinking the Future of Intentional Communities

Given the increasingly dramatic impacts of climate change, economic collapse, and social inequality, intentional communities are set to become models for how humans can live high-quality and low-impact lives together.
Join community veterans, Crystal Byrd Farmer, Sky Blue, and Daniel Greenberg for this panel discussion + Q&A exploring how we can truly become pivot points upon which humanity can turn towards a better future.

Unlocking the Benefits of FIC’s Community Membership

Calling all intentional communities! What is your vision for the communities movement in the coming years? What do we need to become as our global crises deepen? We have an incredible opportunity to become the pivots of change and the only way to get from here to there is by working together! 
Join us for an engaging webinar where we delve into the unique advantages of our newly launched Community Membership.

Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities July

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
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.

Healing in Community

Community Life is full of emotional challenges... relationships, conflict, meeting disagreements, day to day "Who left the dishes out" and so much more. We need to come to our community lives (whether we live in community or are just around folks every day), with the tools and resilience that are necessary to stay balanced and grounded.
Join Emotional Resilience Trainer, Aaron Kahlow, to learn how to become emotionally resilient and process somatic energy for healing in community.

Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities August 8, 2024

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities August

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
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.

Event Series Death & Dying in Community

Death & Dying in Community

Contemplating death, ours and others, is a deeply empowering practice that allows us to live more fully in the present and gives us access to an immense gratitude for the miracle of our own existence. There is no other mechanism quite as powerful in bringing us face to face with profound awe. Join seasoned and end-of-life educator Lee Warren for a 2-part exploration of end of life literacy, death positivity, and the conscious dying movement.

Event Series Death & Dying in Community

Death & Dying in Community

Contemplating death, ours and others, is a deeply empowering practice that allows us to live more fully in the present and gives us access to an immense gratitude for the miracle of our own existence. There is no other mechanism quite as powerful in bringing us face to face with profound awe. Join seasoned and end-of-life educator Lee Warren for a 2-part exploration of end of life literacy, death positivity, and the conscious dying movement.

Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities September 2024

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities September

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
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.

Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities October 2024

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

How to Transform Conflict & Deepen Connection in Community

This workshop introduces an integrative map of the human nervous system, blending science-based, psycho-spiritual and somatic models into an accessible framework. Join embodiment practitioner and relational resilience coach, Karta Elise Allred, for a 2-hour workshop on How to Transform Conflict & Deepen Connection in Community.

Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities October

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
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.

Building a Framework to Use Community Resources Effectively

How can groups make grounded decisions while using the abundant opportunities at their disposal?
Join community designer and facilitator, Tristan Holme, for a 1-hour webinar on how communities can build a framework to use community resources effectively and use it towards making better decisions and becoming more effective and efficient.

Power Dynamics in Community

Despite our best intentions at creating an alternative space to the exterior norms of our society, we can't help but bring the power imbalances instilled in us from birth into our new communities. Join decolonial scholar and consultant on relationship management and organizational development, Jahia LaSangoma, for a one-hour webinar on Power Dynamics in Community.

Communities’ Resiliency to Face The Climate Crisis

In this webinar we will discuss lessons learned from members of three ICs that have been recently impacted by hurricanes as well as key findings from the two-year Ecovillage Resiliency Project.

Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities November 2024

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities November

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
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.

How Do We Network As Communities?

In this webinar we will discuss lessons learned from members of three ICs that have been recently impacted by hurricanes as well as key findings from the two-year Ecovillage Resiliency Project.

How To Shift From An Individualistic To A Cooperative Mindset

Our capitalist and individualistic world has taught us skills to survive in a competitive environment. What do we need to learn to shift to a collaborative mentality?
Come hear two of FIC’s star educators discuss the essential skills and mindsets to thrive in community and help communities thrive.

Developing Regenerative Community Businesses

How can communities build regenerative economies within our capitalist societies? Come learn about and discuss successful models with members that have built businesses within their communities.

What’s Next for the FIC and the Movement

As the African proverb says, “If you wanna go fast, go alone; if you wanna go far, go together.” The FIC exists to support the movement and the FIC needs the movement to align our efforts. In this webinar we will lift the veil on some in-progress initiatives including major redesigns to our website and directory, launching a CommUniversity, and updates to our membership plans and benefits – that we think you’ll really like!

Membership Process: A Do or Die for Healthy Community

Membership processes are part of how your intentional community will be and remain truly intentional.. 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.

6 Surprising Truths About Building Effective Relationships

Join us for 6 Surprising Truths About Building Effective Relationships, to get a taste of best practices for communication and connection whether you’re on the journey to starting a community or are currently residing in one. Karen Gimnig will cover these topics and more in greater depth in our upcoming 6-week course, Communication & Relationship Building in Community. 

Want to dive deeper into how to join, start or grow an intentional community?
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