Experienced facilitator and educator, Karen Gimnig, will describe and demonstrate 10 of her favorite facilitation methods for leading community meetings.

Meet a diversity of communities during the Virtual Tour of Communities. From secular to spiritual, urban and rural, forming and established — get a vibrant taste of the communities movement without leaving your armchair!

Renowned cult expert, Dr. Steve Hassan, and host of Cults I’d Join, Jesse Stone, join the FIC to discuss what differentiates healthy communities from coercive high-control groups.

Join intentional community attorney Clifford Paulin to learn the common legal issues in community and how to avoid them.

Power differences impact community dynamics and challenge relationships. This lecture will address a variety of common power imbalances, how to identify and better address them.

Communities thrive best when members are very aligned in their values. In this lecture, we'll discuss how to achieve value alignment and what to do when we discover we are misaligned. 

Community agreements (guidelines or rules), set the tone for the day-to-day life of a community. In this lecture, we’ll look at how to create and use agreements to support the connection we crave.