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  • Top 10 Facilitation Methods for Community Meetings

    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.

  • Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – Heartwood Cohousing

    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.

  • Direct Democracy: Community-Scale Governance

    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.

  • Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – Avnø Oasis Ecovillage

    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.

  • When Conflict Resolution Doesn’t Work: Alternative Methods for Coexisting

    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.

  • The Somatics of Resistance and Resilience

    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.

  • Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – Harmony Woods

    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.

  • Solidarity Economy for People and Planet Webinar

    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.

  • Dark and Tender: Breaking Barriers to Embrace Closeness

    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.

  • How to Find the Intentional Community for You

    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.

  • Community Grieving for Greater Connection

    Join us to untangle the painful yet powerful work of processing grief within community in this panel discussion with LaURa Schmidt, Jessica Serrant, and Bernadette Pleasant, facilitated by FIC’s Programs Director and community grief-tender, Sabrina Simon.

  • Share Resources Well

    Join The Cooperative Culture Handbook’s co-author, Yana Ludwig, for a weekly study group that follows a drop-in, informal format, featuring a different topic each week.

  • ZEGG Forum Webinar

    Join us for a hands-on introduction to the ZEGG Forum, a community tool designed to promote transparency, empathy, and understanding. In a time when the world urgently needs tools for authentic relating, the Forum offers a tried and true practice where people share deeply and transform pain into deeper, more meaningful relationships.

  • Unpacking Power in Community

    Join us for a 3-hour interactive workshop where we will learn how to identify, talk about, and deliberately respond to power dynamics in community.

  • Conscious Power

    Join The Cooperative Culture Handbook’s co-author, Yana Ludwig, for a weekly study group that follows a drop-in, informal format, featuring a different topic each week.

  • CommUniversity Cohort 25′-26′ Info Session 1

    In this info session, we will review all the components of the CommUniversity Cohort 25'-26' 8-month program, answer your questions and give you a taste of the material we will cover throughout the cohort courses.

  • Beyond Narcissism

    Join The Cooperative Culture Handbook’s co-author, Yana Ludwig, for a weekly study group that follows a drop-in, informal format, featuring a different topic each week.

  • Convergence of Intentional Communities 2025

    Created by and for people who live in intentional communities, the convergence is an opportunity to build stronger relationships between intentional communities and the organizations who support them.

  • Relationship

    Join The Cooperative Culture Handbook’s co-author, Yana Ludwig, for a weekly study group that follows a drop-in, informal format, featuring a different topic each week.

  • Interdependence

    Join The Cooperative Culture Handbook’s co-author, Yana Ludwig, for a weekly study group that follows a drop-in, informal format, featuring a different topic each week.

  • Income-Sharing in Intentional Communities Webinar

    Learn the what, why and how of income-sharing in intentional communities, followed by a panel-discussion with guests who have lived experience  in income-sharing communities.

  • CommUniversity Cohort 25′-26′ Info Session 2

    In this info session, we will review all the components of the CommUniversity Cohort 25'-26' 8-month program, answer your questions and give you a taste of the material we will cover throughout the cohort courses.

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