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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Join Sandra Rueda, of Les Pas Sages, to learn about legal, financial, and governance mechanisms that will help attract people and resources for long-term community success.

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.

Meet Mission Peak Village during the Virtual Tour of Communities February 13, 2025. Get a vibrant taste of the communities movement without leaving home!

This session will provide an introduction of how values and agreements shape our relationships and impact community living for our upcoming 4-week Aligning Values and Creating Agreements in Community course.

Meet a vibrant, progressive 55+ cohousing community in one of our country’s most livable cities. Tulsa features a friendly, small town feel with all the amenities of a larger city, and an affordable, low cost of living.

Introducing an EcoVillage that welcomes individuals of every race, ethnicity, culture, age, ability, gender identity, and sexual identity to join in creating an inclusive, caring, and diverse community.

Strong and responsive legal agreements within communities are key to both their long-term success and maintaining healthy relationships between community members. In this webinar, you’ll learn about some of the most common legal issues that communities face and how to prepare for them.

Longtime communitarian Yana Ludwig helps us all think about the dynamics around getting work done in community. From labor budgets to hard conversations, this session is a high-level look at ways we can do a more balanced job of managing work in the Learning to Labor Together webinar.

Join us for a conversation about the varied ways we experience conflict in community, and the choices we have about how to respond to those conflicts in the Five Ways to Respond to Conflict webinar.

Introducing an EcoVillage that welcomes individuals of every race, ethnicity, culture, age, ability, gender identity, and sexual identity to join in creating an inclusive, caring, and diverse community.

Since its beginning 10+ years ago as the first senior cohousing in NC, Elderberry is known for being a rural, affordable, close community whose members have fun working and playing together.

Meetings work best when we facilitate with a variety of methods.  In this event experienced facilitator, Karen Gimnig, will describe and demonstrate 10 of her favorites for facilitating community meetings in The Top 10 Facilitation Methods for Community Meetings Webinar.

Heartwood Cohousing, in sunny southwest Colorado, offers a unique blend of community and personal space. Established 25 years ago, Heartwood is a place where neighbors know each other, and nature is a daily part of life.

Whether we are protesting, speaking up at a city council meeting or participating in a consensus decision in our home community, most of us know the value of our voice – and also what it feels like when our voices and needs don’t seem to matter. Let’s unpack what works and doesn’t work in good, community-scale governance and genuinely democratic processes in the Direct Democracy webinar with Yana Ludwig.

Avnø Oasis Ecovillage is a diverse community and a højskole (adult learning center) where people come to explore their true self, learn regenerative and community-building skills, get new friends, enjoy nature, and live in harmony — together.

Meet Cobb Hill, a multi-generational community of 22 families sharing 280 acres of forest and farm in Vermont's Connecticut River Valley.

Meetings work best when we facilitate with a variety of methods.  In this event experienced facilitator, Karen Gimnig, will describe and demonstrate 10 of her favorites for facilitating community meetings in The Top 10 Facilitation Methods for Community Meetings Webinar.

Join us for this song-filled and interactive webinar that draws from Lydia Violet’s Tending the Bones curriculum to tend diasporic healing and find wisdom that lives in our ancestral and cultural reconnection. A part of the Liberation Learning Series.

Rooted NW sits on 240 acres of upland farm east of the city of Arlington, WA. The property has been farmed by a local family for over 100 years.

Learn to work with your nervous system through practical, easy-to-understand teachings and embodied practices that will build your capacity to act rather than react. A part of the Liberation Learning Series.

Harmony Woods is a forming Back To The Land Community on 13 acres of beautiful rural land outside of Chattanooga TN, focused on the values of personal freedom,
land stewardship, communication, simple living and personal integrity.

Join Emily Kawano in an interactive presentation where we learn to reimagine an economic framework grounded in solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism. A part of the Liberation Learning Series.

Mahalo is an intentional community and evolving village in Southern Vermont, rooted in connection—with the land, with each other, and with life itself.

Join us for an experiential workshop, including song and writing, as we explore the practices introduced by The Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project in the short film Dark and Tender, to dismantle the "Black Brute" archetype and barriers for platonic closeness across races. A part of the Liberation Learning Series.

Whether you're dreaming of cohousing, eco-villages, communal farms, or something entirely your own, this workshop will help you clarify what you’re really looking for in community—and how to find it.