BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Foundation for Intentional Community - ECPv6.1.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ic.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Foundation for Intentional Community REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210316T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210316T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210223T013139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T153930Z UID:10000650-1615906800-1615914000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Panel -- Finding Community: Seekers Turned Residents Share Their Stories DESCRIPTION:<< See all events \n \n  \nPanel — Finding Community: Seekers Turned Residents Share Their Stories\n  \n\nTuesday\, March 16th from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time.\n  \n\nAre you on the journey of searching for an intentional community to call home? \nThe best way to learn about the process is by hearing from those who have done it! That’s why we’ve brought together a collection of community seekers turned residents to tell their stories of finding community. Walk away with inspiration\, companionship and good advice for your own community search. The event will include lots of time for Q&A so come with your questions! \n  \n\nPresenting Communitarians\n  \n \nHayley Oaks\, Riot Bayit Community\n\nHayley is a graphic designer\, artist and racial justice activist exploring intentional communities since 2019. As a founding member of Twin Oaks R.E.A.L. Team and the BIPOC Fund\, they are dedicated to advocating for increased equity and diversity in the intentional communities movement. They currently live at an income sharing Jewish co-op in Boston\, MA. \n\n  \n\n \nJohn Demeree\, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\n\nJohn ‘Parmejean’ grew up on a conventional farm in Illinois\, one of seven children. He farmed the family place organically with his wife and three sons\, in the late 90’s. John has a Masters in Biology and worked as an Environmental Specialist for the State of Texas. He joined Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in 2018. \n  \n  \n\n \nDave Booda\, The Emerald Village\n\nDave is a writer\, musician and social entrepreneur. He grew up in Boston\, and after attending the U.S. Naval Academy and spending five years as a Navy Officer he progressively became weirder and more adventurous\, doing everything from living in a Tantra community in Bali to cycling across Europe. In 2018 he moved to The Emerald Village in Vista\, California where he enjoys chopping wood and giving back massages. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n \nAlyson Ewald\, Red Earth Farms\n\nAlyson Ewald works with individuals and groups to design systems and practices that facilitate learning\, connection\, creative conflict engagement\, and collaborative decision making. In 2005 she co-founded Red Earth Farms\, a community in northeast Missouri\, U.S.\, where she continues to practice permaculture and social transformation. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nEvent Registration\n\n\n  \nGet your ticket below to join this live panel on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. \nTuesday\, March 16th from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/finding-community-panel/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Seekers-Turned-Residents-Panel-Featured-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210309T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210309T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210217T004752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210302T142305Z UID:10000644-1615302000-1615309200@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Workshop -- Exploring Power & Privilege with Courage\, Creativity\, and Compassion DESCRIPTION:  \nWorkshop — Exploring Power & Privilege with Courage\, Creativity\, and Compassion \n  \nHold space for the tough feelings and learn how to emerge with a deeper understanding of ourselves\, others and the more-than-human world. \nAs individuals and groups\, we experience varying and multiple levels of privilege and power. Recognizing our relationship to oppression can bring feelings of guilt\, shame\, and grief. How can we hold space for these feelings while also creating conditions for new insights to emerge to deepen our understanding of each other and ourselves? Join facilitator Ridhi D’Cruz for a conversation to explore how we face and transform oppression in our everyday lives. This conversation will include audience participation and conversation. \n  \nDuring this virtual workshop we will explore how to:\n\ncollectively work towards demystifying the mechanisms of power and privilege within our day-to-day lives\nfacilitate co-creation of a compassionate and courageous container for us to metabolize our participation in oppression\nsupport the carving of personal and interpersonal pathways for harnessing our creative potential and agency to work towards collective liberation\ndeepen connection to ourselves\, to each other and the more-than-human world\n\n  \n\n\nWorkshop Facilitator\n\n\n  \n \nRidhi D’Cruz\n\nRidhi (they/them) is a gender-queer person from South India who moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. They have dedicated over a decade to designing community processes that cultivate shared senses of place. They know firsthand the deep healing they experience belonging to themself\, to one another and to the more-than-human world. They believe this is especially true for folx inhabiting intersectional and targeted identities of race\, gender\, class\, ability and more. As QTBIPOC\, they believe that they have a birthright to belong. To be well. To reclaim their ancestral lifeways and to experience radical forms of care and support. \nRidhi is currently an Executive Director of a grassroots placemaking nonprofit organization City Repair Project\, based in Wapato Valley\, or Portland\, OR – the ancestral lands of the Cathlamet\, Molalla\, Willamette\, Multnomah\, Clackamas\, Tualatin\, Kalapuya\, Chinook and several other groups both recognized and unrecognized. They use their platform as a co-teacher for City Repair’s Urban Permaculture Design Course to decolonize white-led organizations and movements\, especially the Permaculture and Placemaking movements. They have facilitated conversations on Power and Privilege through Oregon Humanities Conversation Project from 2018-2020 and continue to facilitate workshops and conversations in the area. \n\n  \nEvent Registration\n  \nSelect a donation level below to register. Then you’ll receive an email about how to join on Zoom. This event will not be recorded\, so don’t miss it! A portion of event proceeds will benefit the BIPOC Intentional Communities Fund. \nTuesday\, March 9th from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/power-privilege/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Power-Privilege-Workshop-Featured-Image-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210302T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210302T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210218T164906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210218T184511Z UID:10000646-1614697200-1614700800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Info Session — The Art of Facilitation for Cooperative Groups DESCRIPTION:  \nInfo Session — The Art of Facilitation for Cooperative Groups\nh \nThis will be a virtual information session about FIC’s upcoming 5-week online course\, The Art of Facilitation for Cooperative Groups\, starting on March 11\, 2021. We’ll sit down with course instructor\, Laird Schuab\, to find out what the course is all about. You’ll be able to ask questions directly and learn if the course is a good fit for you. There’s sure to be lots of tips about how to facilitate teams\, groups\, and communities. Plus stories from Laird about his life and work as a consultant for intentional community projects nationwide. Looking forward to seeing you there! \n  \n\n\n\nGuest Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n \nLaird Schaub\n\nLaird’s specialty is up-tempo inclusive meetings that engage the full range of human input\, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict and diversity—all the while being ruthless about capturing as much product as possible. Laird lived for four decades at Sandhill Farm\, an income-sharing rural community that he helped found. He also helped found the Foundation for Intentional Community\, where he served as the main administrator for 28 years. In 1987 he created a self-insurance fund for healthcare among income-sharing communities called PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health) that he ran for 22 years. In addition to his expertise in community living\, he’s parlayed his passion for good process into a consulting business focused on cooperative group dynamics\, styled CANBRIDGE (Consensus And Network Building for Resolving Impasse and Developing Group Effectiveness)\, since 1987. \nh\nh\n\njg \n\nEvent Registration\nSelect a donation level below to register. Then you’ll receive an email about how to join on Zoom. Everyone who registers will receive the event recording\, so don’t worry about missing a thing! URL:https://www.ic.org/event/facilitation-course/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IC-Course-Materials-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210225T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210225T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210216T152357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T160223Z UID:10000642-1614265200-1614268800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Info Session - Find Community Online Course DESCRIPTION:  \nInfo Session — Find Community Online Course\nh \nThis will be a virtual information session about FIC’s upcoming 5-week online course\, Find Community: How to Join and Live in an Intentional Community\, starting on March 11\, 2021. We’ll sit down with course instructor\, Cynthia Tina\, to find out what the course is all about. You’ll be able to ask questions directly and learn if the course is a good fit for you. There’s sure to be lots of tips about how to find and join ecovillage\, cohousing\, coliving and permaculture communities. Plus stories from Cynthia about her life and her own experience traveling to intentional communities around the world. Looking forward to seeing you there! \n  \n\n\n\nGuest Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n \nCynthia Tina\n\nCynthia maintains an active network of over a hundred intentional communities she has visited worldwide\, including ecovillage\, cohousing\, and permaculture projects. She helps people connect to intentional communities as a matchmaker for seekers and as a consultant for growing community projects. She is Co-Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC)\, a 35 year-old nonprofit dedicated to supporting intentional communities as pathways towards a more cooperative\, sustainable\, and just world. Cynthia also founded Ecovillage Tours (in 2019)\, was an officeholder on the Board of Trustees for the Global Ecovillage Network (2015-2020)\, and was Director of the youth ecovillage network NextGENNA (2013-2018). Cynthia lives in an intentional community in Vermont. Learn more at www.cynthiatina.com. \nh\nh\n\njg \n\nEvent Registration\nSelect a donation level below to register. Then you’ll receive an email about how to join on Zoom. Everyone who registers will receive the event recording\, so don’t worry about missing a thing! URL:https://www.ic.org/event/info-session-find-community-online-course/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Copy-of-Authenticity-Workshop-Featured-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210223T183000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201016T203553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211227T054157Z UID:10000622-1614099600-1614105000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Community Connect -- an online networking event! DESCRIPTION:  \nAbout Community Connect\n\nCommunity Connect is a fun and informative virtual coffee hour for people who love intentional community. Imagine a sweet gathering in the common house\, but online and with communitarians across the world. There will be opportunities for you to share about your project\, community-themed games and networking activities. Ready to connect and build community? We hope to see you there on the 4th Tuesday of every month! \n\n\n\nh \n\nPraise for Community Connect\n\n\n\n\n \n\nIt was uplifting to feel connected to communities all over the world who are doing something that is a version of what we are also trying to achieve. \nI absolutely loved the community of communities sharing their diverse locales\, challenges and successes. It was truly inspiring to see so many committed people working together. \nI loved the vibe of the facilitators and the shared connection/warmth in the breakout calls   \nBeing with all the people from intentional communities was amazing. I thought the leadership team organized well and made us all feel welcome. I enjoyed the breakout groups and the connections made. I enjoyed the poetry and meditations. I thought it was helpful when people spoke about the challenges they were having during this crisis. \n\nhh \nRegistration for Community Connect\n  \n\nSelect a donation level below to register. Free for FIC Members! Not yet a FIC Member? Become a member at ic.org/membership. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/cc-feb/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IC-Course-Materials.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210217T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210217T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210125T230623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210209T162121Z UID:10000631-1613574000-1613581200@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Workshop -- Bring Your Authentic Self to Community DESCRIPTION:  \nWorkshop — Bring Your Authentic Self to Community\nh \nTake a dive into your inner worlds and come out feeling more confident in your capacity for authentic self-expression while living in community.\nWe know how important developing shared governance\, decision making and interpersonal communication is for thriving community. But what about cultivating the most important components – you and the people you live with? The more authentic and connected we are to ourselves and one another\, the more creative\, cohesive\, and resilient a community will become. \nHowever\, authentic self-expression can be difficult and feel vulnerable or scary. What if I’m misunderstood or judged? What if my truth creates conflict or jeopardizes my inclusion? What if I have inner conflict and don’t know what is honest to share? What if I’m not sure what I think\, feel\, need\, value or want? \n  \nJoin this informative and interactive workshop to learn:\n\nWhat authenticity is and why it’s so important for cooperative\, intentional communities\nThe four main barriers to authentic expression\nHow to nurture our own healing\, growth and skillfulness for more authentic expression\nHow to support and encourage others’ authentic expression and create a culture of curiosity\, compassion\, and collaboration\nExperiential practices drawing from Nonviolent Communication\, Authentic Relating\, and Internal Family Systems\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWorkshop Facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n \nTeri Lynn Grunthaner\n\nTerri lives in Delaware Street Commons Cohousing in Lawrence\, Kansas with her partner and young daughter\, Samuel and Kylee. She is a Conscious Relating Coach and Expressive Therapist\, passionate about helping folks create authentic\, healing relationships with themselves and their community. Learn more about her practice and join the support network of communitarians doing inner and outer relationship work at www.radical-hearts.com. \nh\nh\n\nj \n\nj \ng \nEvent Registration\nSelect a donation level below to register. Then you’ll receive an email about how to join on Zoom. Everyone who registers will receive the event recording\, so don’t worry about missing a thing! URL:https://www.ic.org/event/authenticity-workshop/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Authenticity-Workshop-Featured-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210202T211427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T004932Z UID:10000635-1613487600-1613494800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Panel -- Wisdom from our Elders: Starting & Sustaining Intentional Community DESCRIPTION:  \nPanel — Wisdom from our Elders: Starting & Sustaining Intentional Community\n  \nConsidering starting an intentional community? You’ll want to hear from these folks first. \nJoin us as key founders and longterm members of well-established communities share their decades of experience about starting and sustaining intentional community. You’ll discover the wisdom these elder communities in our network have to offer during presentations and panel discussion followed by Q&A. \n  \n\nPresenting Communities\n  \n \nThe Los Angeles Eco-Village\n\nPresented by Lois Arkin\, co-founder \nFounded in 1993\, the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV) is a 40-50 member intentional community that lives within three multi-family buildings in a two block area in the East Hollywood and Koreatown neighborhoods. The LAEV IC demonstrates higher quality urban living at lower environmental impacts. They strive to inspire others to make more rapid and deeper changes in their living patterns. \n  \n\n\n \nHeathcote Community\n\nPresented by Karen Stupski\, longterm member \nFounded in 1965\, the Heathcote Community is an eight member intentional community located about 30 miles north of Baltimore\, Maryland. Heathcote is a school\, intentional community\, and permaculture farm. Their mission is to learn\, practice\, and share tools and skills to create loving\, just\, and sustainable communities. \n\n  \n\n \nGanas Community\n\nPresented by Michael Jonhson\, longterm member \nA small group who came to call themselves the “core group” founded Ganas on Staten Island\, NY. They came together in 1980 with the shared intention to set up a living situation in which they were both the “mice” and the “lab coats” for 20 years. The core group explored why they and others have so much difficulty talking honestly with each other. It was not their purpose to become an intentional community. That evolved around them. They\, along with some others\, have managed and sustained it until now. \n\n  \n\n \nLiberty Village\n\nPresented by Martie Weatherly\, founder \nFounded in 1998\, Liberty Village is a 20 (and growing) member intentional community located just outside of Frederick\, Maryland. Liberty Village is committed to the creation and maintenance of a supportive\, enriching\, and purposeful community that fosters connection amongst themselves\, others\, and the Earth through simplicity\, cooperation\, and community service. \n\n  \n\n  \n\nEvent Registration\n  \nGet your ticket below to join this live panel on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Tuesday\, February 16th from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/elders-wisdom/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Heathcote-Community-Featured-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210209T153000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20210125T212709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T232515Z UID:10000630-1612879200-1612884600@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Webinar -- Co-Buying Property with Friends DESCRIPTION:  \nWebinar — Co-Buying Property with Friends\nh\nAre you interested in starting an intentional community but don’t know how to buy property as a group? Learn all about co-buying with buddies! From the challenging beginning through to the rewarding end\, Phil Levin will walk you through learning to love the process of co-buying with friends. You’ll learn about how to pick your “co-buy squad”\, define basic property requirements\, locate financing\, and find your property. This session will include a one hour presentation followed by audience Q&A. Looking forward to seeing you there! \n  \n\n\n\nGuest Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPhil Levin\n\nPhil has started 2 intentional communities: RGB\, an 11-person rented community in San Francisco\, and Radish\, a 14-person co-owned community in Oakland. He also founded and co-edits the Supernuclear blog on starting communities and co-buying property. \nPhil wants more people to live by the “Obvious Truth” that we are happinest\,  healthiest and most productive surrounded by people we love and admire. He wants more communities to get created and more people to live in them. Phil is a pragmatist and believer in “done in better than perfect” when it comes to setting up new communities. He spends his spare time helping communities setup legal structures and financing systems that are robust enough to work but simple enough to not get in the way of the thing happening in the first place. \nh\nEvent Registration\n\nSelect a donation level below to register. Then you’ll receive an email about how to join on Zoom. Everyone who registers will receive the event recording\, so don’t worry about missing a thing! \nA portion of proceeds will benefit District Commons\, a  non-profit supporting community initiatives worldwide. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/cobuying-webinar/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Co-Buying-with-Friends-Featured-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210119T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210119T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201016T203553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210114T163231Z UID:10000621-1611068400-1611072000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Info Session -- Starting an Intentional Community DESCRIPTION:Info Session — Starting an Intentional Community\nh \nThis will be a virtual information session about FIC’s upcoming online course\, Starting an Intentional Community\, which begins on February 4\, 2020. We’ll sit down with course instructor and community maestro\, Yana Ludwig\, to find out what the course is all about. You’ll be able to ask questions directly and learn if the course is a good fit for you. There’s sure to be lots of tips about how to create ecovillage\, cohousing\, coliving and permaculture communities. Plus stories from Yana about her life and her own experience developing intentional communities. Looking forward to seeing you there! \n\n\n\nh \nGuest Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n \nYana Ludwig\n\nYana Ludwig has 24 years of cooperative living experience\, including four community start-ups. She serves on the Board of the Foundation for Intentional Community\, and as a trainer and consultant for progressive projects. Yana is co-author of The Cooperative Culture Handbook: A Social Change Manual to Dismantle Toxic Culture and Build Connection and author of Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, and Commonomics USA. Her 2013 TEDx talk\, Sustainable is Possible! kicked off an era for her as a public speaker and advocate for communities. She is a founding member of the Solidarity Collective\, an income sharing community in Laramie\, WY\, and a host on the community’s podcast\, Solidarity House. \nh \nh\nEvent Registration\n  \n\nSelect a donation level below to register. Then you’ll receive an email about how to join on Zoom. Everyone who registers will receive the event recording\, so don’t worry about missing a thing! URL:https://www.ic.org/event/starting-course/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/New-Events-Featured-Image-Template-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201215T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201215T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201116T141015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T213547Z UID:10000627-1608044400-1608048000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Interview with Crystal Farmer\, author of "The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization" DESCRIPTION:g \nJoin us for an interview with Crystal Farmer including live audience Q&A!\n \nFIC Co-Director\, Cynthia Tina\, will meet with FIC Board Member\, Crystal Farmer\, for an hour-long session to learn about her new book – The Token\, Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization. This is sure to be an advice-packed\, timely and intimate conversation. You don’t want to miss it!\n \nJoin for free by registering above and consider making a donation to support the work of FIC. You’ll receive the recording in case you can’t make it on Tuesday\, December 15th | 1-2pm pacific / 4-5pm eastern (See your local time).\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\nAbout The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization\n \nMeet the new Black friend you never had.\n \nAs a Black organizer\, community\, business\, and organization leaders often ask: “How do I get diversity in my group?” The thing is\, the work is real\, but it’s a minefield out there. And even progressive leaders can still\, perhaps unknowingly\, be racist and uphold oppressive systems.\n \nIn The Token\, your new token Black friend\, Crystal Byrd Farmer\, acts as the bridge between majority white organizations that are dedicated to social justice and “diverse” people in community they want to recruit\, across identities of race\, LGBTQ\, education\, socioeconomic status\, and disability.\n \nWith a blunt style that pulls no punches\, Crystal tells you how it is\, calling you out on tokenism\, while extending a hand to help your organization make real transformative change toward diversity and inclusion. Coverage includes:\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat marginalized people experience and what they need to feel safe and comfortable in order to succeed\nDoing “The Work” – how to have deep conversations with your membership about the reality of bias\, privilege\, and microaggressions\nPractical exercises and discussion questions\nHow to choose appropriate meeting locations and establish ground rules\, when to bring in outside help\, and how to recruit support within your organization\nStrategies on how to talk to friends who are resistant to progressive ideas.\n\nThis no-nonsense\, provocative\, humorous\, and accessible guide is for all well-meaning people leading progressive organizations who acknowledge the need for diversity but don’t know where to start. \n\nh \n\n\ng \nMeet the Author\nh \n\nCrystal Farmer \n Crystal Byrd Farmer is a North Carolina native active in the cohousing and polyamorous communities. An engineer turned educator\, she speaks and writes about ways communities can be more welcoming to people of all kinds of backgrounds. Crystal is the website editor for Black & Poly\, an organization promoting healthy polyamorous relationships for people of color. She serves on the Board of the Foundation for Intentional Community and on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine. Her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization was published in late 2020. Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity\, relationships\, and the world. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/token/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Featured-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201209T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201209T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201116T150404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T204039Z UID:10000629-1607526000-1607533200@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Returning to the Land: BIPOC in Conversation About Community and Self-Determination DESCRIPTION:h\nA Conversation with BIPOC Community Leaders\nh\nIntentional Communities are the future of ecological and cultural sustainability. Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color (BIPOC) have often been left out of the conversation but have been doing community for lifetimes. Join us to hear the voices of people working to reclaim the land and build community.\nh\n\nThis session will include panel discussion and live Q&A with BIPOC leaders in the intentional community and land reclamation movements. Produced in partnership with the Foundation for Intentional Community\, Grassroots Economic Organizing\, and Kola Nut Collaborative. Learn about our guest speakers below!\nh\n\nAll event donations will support the BIPOC Intentional Communities Fund.\nh\n\nRegister above to join this live event on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, December 9th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n \n \n  \nh \n  \n\n  \n\n\n\nj \nMeet the Panelists\nh \n\n\n\nMarcus Briggs-Cloud\nMarcus Briggs-Cloud(Maskoke) is a language revitalizer\, scholar\, musician and co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv Maskoke ecovillage. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School\, he is currently a doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary ecology at the University of Florida where his work intersects ecology\, liberation theology\, linguistics.  Marcus received awards for his Maskoke hymn album Pum Vculvke Vrakkuecetv\, and in 2012 served as composer/choir director for the Vatican canonization liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. He is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke) and they have two children\, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke\, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language. \n\nh\n\n\n\nCrystal Byrd Farmer\n\nCrystal Byrd Farmer is a North Carolina native active in the cohousing and polyamorous communities. An engineer turned educator\, she speaks and writes about ways communities can be more welcoming to people of all kinds of backgrounds. Crystal is the website editor for Black & Poly\, an organization promoting healthy polyamorous relationships for people of color. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States. Her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization was published in late 2020. Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity\, relationships\, and the world. \n\n\nh \n\n\nMike Strode\nMike Strode is a writer\, cyclist\, IT consultant\, facilitator\, and solidarity economy organizer residing in southeast Chicago whose community engagement work has included ride leadership with the Chicago chapter of Red\, Bike & Green; editorial and archival oversight for Fultonia; and co-facilitation of Cooperation for Liberation Study & Working Group. He is founding coordinator of the Kola Nut Collaborative\, a time-based service and skills trading platform which promotes timebanking throughout Chicago. He also serves as a current board member for Dill Pickle Food Co-op and US Solidarity Economy Network. \n\n\nh \n\n\n\n\nRidhi D’Cruz\n(they/them) is a queer person from South India who moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. They have dedicated over a decade of their life to designing community processes that cultivate shared senses of place. As QTBIPOC (Queer/Trans Black/Indigenous/People of Color)\, they believe that we have a birthright to belong. To be well. To reclaim our ancestral lifeways and to experience radical forms of care and support. Currently an Executive Director of a grassroots placemaking nonprofit organization City Repair Project based in Wapato Valley\, or Portland\, Oregon\, USA – the ancestral lands of the Cathlamet\, Molalla\, Willamette\, Multnomah\, Clackamas\, Tualatin\, Kalapuya\, Chinook and several other groups both recognized and unrecognized. They facilitated conversations on Power and Privilege through Oregon Humanities Conversation Project from 2018-2020. They’re also a Council member for a BIPOC herbal medicine apprenticeship called the Atabey Medicine Program where we focus our energy on collective liberation and healing justice. \n\n\nh \n\n\n\nKanerahtiio Roger Jock\nMy name is kanarehtiio Roger Jock of bear clan family of the mohawk people. I come from a small village Akwesasne in Upper New York State. I am an educator and activist on various fronts. \n\n\nj\nj\n\nh \n\n\nh\n\n\n\n\n\nMalikia Johnson\n\nThe daughter of Vanessa Howell and Eric Johnson\, the granddaughter of Claretha and Willie B. Johnson and Patricia Caver and Charles Johnson. Malikia is a builder of community\, a capoeirista\, a dancer\, and an oral historian. She is a Howard University graduate with two B.A. degrees in Sociology and Africana Studies. Johnson is a core member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective and the founding co-creator of the Take Care of Each Other World Tour- a project that interviewed brilliant movers and shakers in seven U.S. cities\, Ghana\, and Europe about their sustainable visions for the future. Her work is prismatic – angling between placemaking\, design\, and the brilliance of the commons. She is also a worker owner at Design for the Commons- a consulting worker cooperative providing systems of care and connection in neighborhoods and workplaces around the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Scott\n\nAshley Nicole Scott is a visionary entrepreneur\, creative executive\, REALTOR\, and CEO of The Mobile Mavens. She currently serves as the Vice-President of The Freedom Georgia Initiative formed in 2020 to create a thriving safe haven for black families in response to dealing with racial trauma\, a global pandemic\, and social-economic instabilities. \nThe Freedom Georgia Initiative is a black-owned\, woman-owned\, family-owned\, veteran-managed\, limited liability company organized in Georgia for the social and economic benefit of our partners. The Freedom Georgia Initiative seeks to support black-owned\, women-owned\, veteran-owned businesses by providing contracts to well-qualified minority vendors to do business with our company in an effort to support economic development and generational wealth for Black Americans. \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/bipoc/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Untitled-design-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201208T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201116T142524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T011018Z UID:10000628-1607439600-1607446800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Curious about cohousing? Meet these cohousing communities! DESCRIPTION:g\nFind out what life is like in a cohousing intentional community.\ng \nCohousing is a unique form of intentional community\, with hundreds of examples around the world. During the third event in our “Meet the Communities” series\, we have invited several cohousing communities to present during a lively online event. We will learn about each community through presentations and panel discussion followed by Q&A from all of you. Join us and meet these communities from across the US…. Rocky Corner Cohousing\, Heartwood Cohousing and Washington Commons Cohousing. Learn more about each community below. \n\n\nh \nGet your ticket above to join this live session on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Tuesday\, December 8th from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time. \nh \n\nWhat Past Participants Have to Say…\nh \n“This Intentional Community Zoom session was amazing!! We heard from 4 different communities around the country and how they have been dealing with Covid and still remaining connected. I just love the sharing of meals\, conversation\, things to do\, events\, game nights\, entertainment…all of it!! :)” – Mia Lorenzen \n💛 \n“The humble\, experienced community founders and members who have presented during the sessions have inspired me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to hear from those who have learned so much over years of community living. Thank you FIC!” – Claire Ogden \nj \n\n\n\nj \nPresenting Communities\nh \n\nRocky Corner Cohousing\n\nRocky Corner is the first cohousing neighborhood in Connecticut and the only one in the Tristate area of CT/NY/NJ. We are presently building on our 33-acre former dairy farm in the town of Bethany. With a beautiful New England setting\, yet only about five miles north of New Haven\, this is an inclusive\, multi-generational community\, valuing diversity of culture and background. \n  \n\n\n\nHeartwood Cohousing\nLocated twenty minutes east of Durango (and 2 miles northwest of Bayfield)\, Heartwood Cohousing has 24 private homes on private lots\, a large and beautiful Common House with open air terrace\, a village green and playground\, a separate workshop and greenhouse\, all clustered snugly on 7 acres\, surrounded by 350 acres of community-owned woodlands\, trails and open space\, including 65 acres of irrigated pastures and community gardens. \n\n\nh \n\n\nWashington Commons Cohousing\n\nA group of enthusiastic community members are working to advance a walkable urban multi-story project across the Sacramento River from Downtown Sacramento. Our goal is to create a strong community open to all ages with a blend of privacy and community for those working\, recreating\, and wishing to live in the Downtown core. Early participation in our community will give members an opportunity to help shape the character of the community and the design of our project. \nh URL:https://www.ic.org/event/cohousing-communities/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ch-group-2017.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201201T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201115T225527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201117T182654Z UID:10000626-1606834800-1606842000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:#GivingTuesday Celebration with FIC Board and Staff -- join the virtual party! DESCRIPTION:g \n#GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement that happens every year on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s a day to recognize and contribute to the organizations you care about.\nh \nThis year\, FIC Board and Staff members are throwing a virtual #GivingTuesday party on Tuesday\, December 1st at 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern. Join us for a fun gathering to hear stories about us and our communities\, the history of FIC\, our organizational goals for the future and more. There’ll be games and prizes\, as well as opportunities for you to help spread awareness about the importance of intentional community living. If FIC has impacted your life in a positive way\, we encourage you to join us! \nShow your support at the door with a donation to help us reach our $5000 Giving Tuesday goal. These funds will be used to improve our online Communities Directory to make it easier for people to find community. \nf \n\n\nRegister for the event by donating to our campaign below. \nAfter donating\, you will receive the event Zoom information via email. \n\n[give_form id=”399701″] \nh \n\n\ng \nWe can’t wait to see you there!\nOur Staff and Board live in intentional communities spanning from North to South America. We are deeply committed to the intentional communities movement and can’t wait to share that passion with you during the virtual celebration on December 1st. See you there! \nh URL:https://www.ic.org/event/givingtuesday/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GIVING-TUESDAY.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201029T210658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T161428Z UID:10000624-1605798000-1605801600@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Community Connect\, an online networking event! DESCRIPTION:g \nLet’s Connect and Build Community\n\n  \nCommunity Connect is a fun and informative virtual coffee hour for people who love intentional community! Imagine a sweet evening in the common house\, but online and with communitarians across the continent\, and even the world. There will be opportunities for you to share about your project\, community-themed games and networking activities. We hope to see you there! \nEveryone is warmly welcomed to join the Community Connect online gathering. Free for FIC Members! Not yet a FIC Member? Become a member at ic.org/membership. \n\nh \n\n\nRegister above to join this live event on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Thursday\, November 19th | 1-2pm pacific / 4-5pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\n\ng \n\nWhat past participants have to say…\nh \nIt was uplifting to feel connected to communities all over the world who are doing something that is a version of what we are also trying to achieve. \n  \nI absolutely loved the community of communities sharing their diverse locales\, challenges and successes. It was truly inspiring to see so many committed people working together. \n  \nI loved the vibe of the facilitators and the shared connection/warmth in the breakout calls 🙂  \n  \nBeing with all the people from intentional communities was amazing. I thought the leadership team organized well and made us all feel welcome. I enjoyed the breakout groups and the connections made. I enjoyed the poetry and meditations. I thought it was helpful when people spoke about the challenges they were having during this crisis. \n  \nI felt so understood and supported and part of an International Community of caring people struggling with the same issues. \n  \nThe facilitation was very humane\, clear\, considerate with the dynamic interaction between those of you holding space easy and delightful. the break out groups were good time-wise and focus and the capacity for the conversation to continue after the end of the session was also opening and helpful.. Thank you very much! \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/connect/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Featured-Image4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201118T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201118T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101058 CREATED:20201016T202150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201117T220000Z UID:10000620-1605711600-1605718800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Learning the Art of Listening - an undervalued game-changer! DESCRIPTION:g \n“Being heard is so close to being loved\, that for the average person\, they are almost indistinguishable.” – David Augsberger\ng \nMainstream culture teaches us to be effective speakers. Listening\, on the other hand\, is often presented as meaning roughly the same thing as “be quiet.”  The result is that we come into our groups without the essential skill of deeply hearing one another\, and thus fall short of the level of belonging and connection we crave. \nThis workshop will guide us through Key #1: Skillful Hearing from The Cooperative Culture Handbook (co-authored by Karen Gimnig and Yana Ludwig). Karen will present a structure for deep listening (Mirroring) that focuses our attention and trains our brains to be present with one other. Participants will practice the structure during the workshop. Karen will also give examples of when and how to use it in meetings\, for working through conflict\, and in group life. Bring your questions\, we’ll make time for those too! \nh\n\nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, November 18th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Facilitator\nh \n\nKaren Gimnig\n Karen Gimnig is a team builder\, motivational speaker and relationship coach. As an Imago Facilitator\, Karen uses the theory and practice of Imago Relationships to guide teams and communities through the complexity of working together. Karen has lived in cohousing and served as founder and member of communities that use consensus and sociocratic decision making. She is currently the Communications Director for the Cohousing Association. Other collaborative pursuits include co-authoring (with Yana Ludwig) The Cooperative Culture Handbook: A Social Change Manual to Dismantle Toxic Culture and Build Connection\, and co-creating (with Paul Tevis) the Employing Differences podcast. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/listening/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Featured-Image-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201112T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201030T021346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T171013Z UID:10000625-1605193200-1605200400@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Activism in Intentional Communities\, Community in Activism DESCRIPTION:g \nExploring the Intersection of Activism and Community\nh \nAt a time of heated political and social tensions across the United States and around the world\, we invite you to join us and community organizer\, Emma Schoenberg\, for a facilitated session exploring the intersection of intentional community and activism. \nThrough discussion and questioning\, we will look at the ways in which skills and knowledge that exist in intentional communities that can be applied in social movements\, and how social justice principles such as nonviolence and equity can shape and inform community spaces. Over the course of two hours\, we will engage with different frameworks addressing the same goal: creating living systems in both community building and organizing that are healthy and healing. If desired\, this workshop can hold space for processing the outcome of the rapidly shifting US political landscape and focus on helping each other find our own paths to social change-making. \n\nh\n\nKey Workshop Outcomes:\n\n\n\nAn understanding of basic social change theory + power\nIntegral nonviolence: a three-fold approach to change (intentional community is one of the three)\nLiving Systems : skills that exist in intentional community that are currently lacking in social movements such as structures for decision making\, feedback\, and communication\nEmergence / Ecosystems and how they relate to community + activism\nVocation – a multitude of ways of showing up in activism\n\nh \n\n\nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Thursday\, November 12th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\n  \n\ng \nWorkshop Facilitator\n  \nEmma Schoenberg\nEmma Schoenberg is a Vermont-born community organizer and trainer. As a part of her work with the Climate Disobedience Center\, she is a co-founder of No Coal No Gas – the campaign fighting to close the last large coal plant in New England. She is a member of the core team launching the Yet-To-Be-Named Network – a direct action network focusing at the intersection of racial healing and climate justice through the lens of “fierce vulnerability”. Emma carries an enduring commitment to building accessible\, equitable\, and relational social movements – especially in rural communities. A wearer of many hats\, her work has touched on direct action and civil disobedience\, racial justice education\, mutual aid\, food and housing justice\, as well as organizational structure\, group facilitation\, electoral campaigns\, and state policy. In her free time\, Emma serves on the boards of the Vermont Peace & Justice Center and the Center for Sustainable Systems. She lives in an intentional community in Burlington\, VT with her cat Amos\, seven housemates\, many tomato plants\, and a dog named Artemis. \n  \n  \n\n  \n“Service and activism go hand in hand with intentional community. In a sense\, central to the intent of intentional communities is providing the service of modeling an alternative society. But it’s also common for intentional communities to engage in service and activism beyond themselves\, and our history is full of examples…” \n– Sky Blue\, Service and Activism in Intentional Communities \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/activism/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Featured-Image-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201111T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201111T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201021T191113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T151301Z UID:10000623-1605106800-1605114000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Meet These Communities with Openings for New Members DESCRIPTION:g\nWant to find an intentional community with openings for new members?\ng \nThere is a community out there that’s looking for you! During the second event in our new series\, “Meet the Communities\,” we have invited intentional communities that have openings right now for new members\, volunteers\, and residents to present during a lively online event. We will learn about each community through presentations and panel discussion followed by Q&A from all of you. Join us and meet these unique intentional communities from across the US…. Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, Alpenglow Cohousing\, Innisfree Village\, Heart 2 Heart Farms\, and Adawehi Wellness Village. Learn more about each community below. \n\n\nh \nGet your ticket above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, November 11th from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time. \nh \n\nWhat Past Participants Have to Say…\nh \n“This Intentional Community Zoom session was amazing!! We heard from 4 different communities around the country and how they have been dealing with Covid and still remaining connected. I just love the sharing of meals\, conversation\, things to do\, events\, game nights\, entertainment…all of it!! :)” – Mia Lorenzen \n 💛 \n“The humble\, experienced community founders and members who have presented during the sessions have inspired me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to hear from those who have learned so much over years of community living. Thank you FIC!” – Claire Ogden \nj \n\n\n\nj \nj \n\nPresenting Communities\nh \n\nDancing Rabbit Ecovillage\nFor over 20 years\, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage has been a thriving community and sustainability demonstration project in Northeast Missouri. On 280 acres of rolling hills\, the community is now deep into pioneering—constructing buildings while continuing to plan and develop community structure.   You can experience everything from organic permaculture garden and design to natural buildings\, alternative energy\, inner sustainability and self governance when you come and visit. \n  \n\n\n\nAlpenglow Cohousing\nAlpenglow Cohousing is building an open\, diverse\, intergenerational neighborhood. Community members practice acceptance\, listen to one another\, seek consensus in decision-making and care for one another\, the boarder community and the environment. 26 homes encircle a Common House on 4.5 acres located a historic residential part of the town of Ridgeway\, Colorado. \n\n\nh \n\n  \n\nInnisfree Village\nInnisfree Village is residential community with adults with intellectual disabilities. Founded in 1971\, this nonprofit\, nonsectarian\, therapeutic farm community is located on 550 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains outside the university town of Charlottesville\, Virginia. They are dedicated to a lifesharing model of living which means that residents and their volunteer caregivers live as families in the community’s 15 houses. \nh \n\n  \n\nHeart 2 Heart Farms\nLocated in Sherwood\, Oregon\, Heart2Heart Farms supports and encourages a natural\, heritage\, sustainable way of life. They believe in providing for everyone\, regardless of income level\, access to natural\, pure\, nutritious foods. With these values in mind\, Heart2Heart Farms has created a thriving\, local community of experts who share knowledge\, experience\, and “trade secrets” openly pertaining to raising\, breeding\, growing/processing foods and making herbal remedies. \nh \n\n  \n\nAdawehi Wellness Village\nAdawehi was founded in 1998 by Jackie Woods and a small number of dedicated people who all share the desire to make a difference. Over the years\, Adawehi has grown to include 10 community houses\, hundreds of personal growth students (onsite and via the Internet)\, a healing center\, conference center\, three shops\, health food store\, greenhouses\, gardens\, exercise facility and bed & breakfast. \nh \n\n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/community-openings/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201105T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201105T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201007T192846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T190013Z UID:10000616-1604588400-1604595600@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Discernment as an Essential Skill for Community Living DESCRIPTION:g \nThe Power of Discernment – and why it’s hard.\ng \nDiscernment is a neglected skill\, often confused with judgment or being mean to others. As we work with groups we are often asked questions about what they should do and find ourselves answering\, “could be a few different things.” That’s because life is complex\, and many lives coming together like they do in groups\, even more so. Firm answers of the “right way” and the “wrong way” are rare in relationships\, which is why we must become good at discerning the most effective action given the current needs. \nDuring this interactive workshop\, co-authors of the newly released Cooperative Culture Handbook\, Yana Ludwig and Karen Gimnig\, will unpack why we need to develop our discernment skills to use for everything from membership processes to clarifying and balancing values to decision-making. This session will also include some exercises from the book and plenty of Q&A time. \nh\n\nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Thursday\, November 5th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Facilitators\n  \nYana Ludwig\nYana Ludwig has 24 years of cooperative living experience\, including four community start-ups. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community\, and as a trainer and consultant for progressive projects. Yana’s first book\, Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption\, was awarded the Communal Studies Association 2017 Book of the Year Award. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, and Commonomics USA\, an economic justice organization. Her 2013 TEDx talk\, Sustainable is Possible! kicked off a new era for her as a public speaker and advocate for communities. She is a founding member of the Solidarity Collective\, an income sharing community in Laramie\, WY\, and a host on the community’s podcast\, Solidarity House.   \n  \n  \nh \nhh \n\nKaren Gimnig\n Karen Gimnig is a team builder\, motivational speaker and relationship coach. As an Imago Facilitator\, Karen uses the theory and practice of Imago Relationships to guide teams and communities through the complexity of working together. Karen has lived in cohousing and served as founder and member of communities that use consensus and sociocratic decision making. She is currently the Communications Director for the Cohousing Association. Other collaborative pursuits include co-authoring (with Yana Ludwig)  The Cooperative Culture Handbook: A Social Change Manual to Dismantle Toxic Culture and Build Connection\, and co-creating (with Paul Tevis) the Employing Differences podcast.   \n     URL:https://www.ic.org/event/discernment/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Untitled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201104T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201104T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200416T152625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221231T171356Z UID:10000579-1604502000-1604509200@www.ic.org SUMMARY:How to Find and Join an Intentional Community DESCRIPTION:g \nHow to Find Intentional Community\njg \nOur most popular workshop!\n \n\n\nAre you thinking about joining an intentional community and want to get your search underway? \nYou’ve come to the right place! \nh \nDuring this interactive zoom session\, you will gain…\n~ an overview of the 10 different types of intentional communities ~ \n~ top online resources for finding communities worldwide ~ \n~ key steps for identifying the one that is right for you ~ \n~ ideas for how to build a lasting community relationship ~ \nf \nGet your questions answered and leave with practical tips. This is also a great opportunity to meet fellow community seekers from around the global. Cynthia is an expert in the field of intentional communities\, maintaining an active network of over a hundred sustainability and community projects she has visited worldwide. She helps people connect to intentional communities as a matchmaker for seekers and as a consultant for growing community projects. She’ll guide you through the ins and outs of life in community… and how to find the best match for you! \n  \nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, November 34th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time) \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Instructor\nCynthia Tina is an expert in the field of intentional communities\, maintaining an active network of over a hundred sustainability and community projects she has visited worldwide. She helps people connect to intentional communities as a matchmaker for seekers and as a consultant for growing community projects. She is Co-Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC)\, a 35 year-old nonprofit dedicated to supporting intentional communities as pathways towards a more cooperative\, sustainable\, and just world. She is also the founder of Ecovillage Tours (since 2019)\, was an officeholder on the Board of Trustees for the Global Ecovillage Network (2015-2020)\, and was Director of the youth ecovillage network NextGENNA (2013-2018). After having spent time in many communities around the world\, Cynthia now lives at Headwaters Ecovillage\, an intentional community in Vermont where she is currently building a passive solar home and tending a permaculture garden. Book a community matchmaking session with Cynthia at www.cynthiatina.com \n  \n\nj \n“This is a wonderful workshop to give you an overview of finding intentional community. Cynthia breaks down all the concepts and inspires you find the community you’re looking for through resources and insightful advice from her own experience.” \n—-Molly McKinney \n  \n“Cynthia proved to be an excellent ally in assisting me in my search for ecovillages and communities. She was super-knowledgeable\, thorough\, kind\, thoughtful\, and an excellent listener. She recommended several sites that I had not heard of\, many of the which she had visited personally. I felt very inspired and hopeful after our session — her enthusiasm for the regenerative movement is very infectious and genuine\, which combined with her experience and commitment made her a great helper for finding the best next steps forward for myself.” \n—- Adam Morrison \n  \n“Cynthia has a wealth of information about IC’s around the world\, and presented in a way that felt welcoming and inclusive. The breakout group helped me get a sense of the diversity of the backgrounds of people  interested in intentional community.“ \n—- Allison \n  \n“This is a wonderful workshop to give you an overview of finding intentional community. Cynthia breaks down all the concepts and inspires you find the community you’re looking for through resources and insightful advice from her own experience.“ \n—– Molly McKinney \n  \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/find-community/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Heatwood-Cohousing-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201028T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201028T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201016T195943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201027T230645Z UID:10000619-1603897200-1603904400@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Economic Systems and Planning for Intentional Communities DESCRIPTION:g \nEconomic Systems and Planning for Intentional Communities\nEcg \nAre you starting an intentional community and want to make sure you have your economic systems set up properly from the start? Are you part on an established community that’s struggling with finances? Just curious about the different economic models that exist for communities? \n \nJoin us and communities expert\, Yana Ludwig\, for an look at the pros and cons of income sharing\, independent finances\, community-shared businesses\, and economic justice mechanisms. Yana has lived in communities with a variety of economic setups and can walk you through the common types. We will also explore basic economic planning for a community\, whether you have shared businesses or not.\nh\n\nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, October 28th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Facilitator\n  \nYana Ludwig\nYana Ludwig has 24 years of cooperative living experience\, including four community start-ups. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community\, and as a trainer and consultant for progressive projects. Yana’s first book\, Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption\, was awarded the Communal Studies Association 2017 Book of the Year Award. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, and Commonomics USA\, an economic justice organization. Her 2013 TEDx talk\, Sustainable is Possible! kicked off a new era for her as a public speaker and advocate for communities. She is a founding member of the Solidarity Collective\, an income sharing community in Laramie\, WY\, and a host on the community’s podcast\, Solidarity House. h URL:https://www.ic.org/event/economic-systems/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Featured-Image1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201021T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201021T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201007T230128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201016T205550Z UID:10000617-1603292400-1603299600@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Navigating Sexual Assault in Community DESCRIPTION:g \nLet’s look at the hard stuff — together.\n\ng \nThis workshop has been prompted by a few (too many) reports of sexual assault and abuse reported by members of intentional communities to FIC in recent years. Nearly 1 in 5 women (18.3%) and 1 in 71 men (1.4%) in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. \nMembers of intentional communities are not immune to sexual abuse problems. And as intentional communities\, we have a unique opportunity to navigate sexual assault with clear communication\, empathy\, and accountability. \nWhether or not you have experienced abuse in your life\, we invite you to join this session so that we can all develop shared definitions\, clear community agreements\, processes around accountability\, and collective understanding of consent practices. Let’s be courageous in our vulnerability\, open in our hearts\, and curious with our minds as we participate in conversation with each other and learn new tools to support our processes. \n\n\nWhat this will not be: a detailed deep dive into community agreements or accountability processes\, everything you need or should know as a community dealing with sexual assault\, a full workshop on consent. Each of these can be a full day or longer workshop in order to cover the material appropriately. \nWhat this will be: an opportunity to learn tools that can be applied to each of these efforts in ways that best serves your community. \nj \n\nKey Workshop Outcomes\n* Learn myths and facts of sexual assault\n* Hear from past experience navigating sexual assault in community\n* Simple\, yet powerful communication tools\n* Practice building the muscle of empathy\n* Q&A – opportunity to ask questions specific to your community\nKeyh\nh\n\nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, October 21st | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Teacher & Facilitator\nAmanda Rain founded Speaking the Unspeakable® to inspire the courage to meet our challenges and empower our lives through effective communication. A mix of passion\, training\, and real-world experience has given Amanda a unique perspective on how communication can be utilized to support our personal self-growth and evolution\, while facilitating our ability to have a greater impact on our world. \nThe study of rhetoric first captured her attention while debating the collegiate circuit from 2002-2004. She learned that communication can be both effective and powerful with the right combination of simplicity\, skill\, and strategy. Many times\, we make things far more complicated\, messy\, and painful than necessary. Amanda distills what is complex and challenging into clear understanding. She supports people in getting to the heart of what’s important and how to effectively move forward. \nAmanda has worked on sensitive issues such as consent culture within sexuality and intimacy\, sexual assault and trauma\, and diversity\, equity and inclusion. Her analysis of our shared experience in these areas is dynamic\, nuanced\, and insightful. \nAmanda inspires the willingness to face our challenges\, while confronting them with skill. Her voice offers hope for the spirit and medicine for the soul. \n  \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/sexual-assault/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Featured-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201020T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201020T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201012T184407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T014158Z UID:10000618-1603206000-1603209600@www.ic.org SUMMARY:An Exploration with Peter Block: What is Community Good For? DESCRIPTION:g \nAn Exploration with Peter Block: What is Community Good For?\ng \nFIC is honored to host celebrated author and community builder\, Peter Block\, for an important conversation about the nature of community\, at a time when so many of us are recognizing the value of community in our lives as never before. \nTogether we will unpack the various jobs of community — to raise children\, provide safety\, offer livelihood\, care for our elders and more. This session will be rooted in Peter’s decades of experience in creating workplaces and communities that work for all. He’ll offer alternatives to the patriarchal beliefs that dominate our culture… showing how we can bring change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than through mandate and force. We hope you will join us for this short yet deep exploration to answer the multi-faceted question: What is Community Good For? \n\n\nhh \nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. October 20 from 4-5pm Eastern. See your local time. \nh \n\n\n< \nWorkshop Instructor\nPeter Block is an author and citizen of Cincinnati\, Ohio. He is the author of nine books\, including Community: The Structure of Belonging\, The Abundant Community\, with John McKnight and co-author of An Other Kingdom. He is a founder of the Common Good Collective\, an initiative that offers ways to make accessible the foundational practices for restoring the common good\, focusing on the significance of place\, the structure of belonging\, and eliminating economic isolation. Peter is a member of his local neighborhood council\, and serves on the board of LivePerson\, a provider of online engagement solutions. His work is in the restoration of common good and creating a world that reclaims our humanity from the onslaught of modernism. \nLearn more about Peter at https://www.peterblock.com/ URL:https://www.ic.org/event/community-good/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Featured-Image-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201007T171115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201011T170805Z UID:10000615-1602860400-1602864000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Book Launch Party! "The Cooperative Culture Handbook" DESCRIPTION:g \nYou’re invited to celebrate with us!\ng \nThe Cooperative Culture Handbook: A Social Change Manual to Dismantle Toxic Culture and Build Connection is now available to preorder. We are hosting a virtual launch party to celebrate with authors Karen Gimnig and Yana Ludwig. During the event\, you’ll get to learn about the Handbook\, experience a couple exercises from the book\, meet the authors and get your questions answered. It’s going to be a blast… so come join! Plus! Everyone who joins will receive a complementary chapter from the book. \ng \nRegister above to join this book launch on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Friday\, October 16th | 1-2pm pacific / 4-5pm eastern (See your local time). \nh \n\nh \n\n\nAbout The Cooperative Culture Handbook\n\nCooperative groups are our best hope for addressing climate disruption\, racism\, poverty\, homelessness\, oppression and even pandemics. The good news is that groups form every day to address these issues. The bad news is that they struggle with conflict\, gridlock\, power battles\, and falling participation. In short\, we lack the skills to convert our passion and intelligence into effective action. That’s where The Cooperative Culture Handbook comes in to help. With 52 transformative group and individual exercises\, this is a practical toolkit for groups to solve problems\, build community\, and change culture towards greater empathy and authenticity. Here’s an essential resource for leaders\, facilitators and changemakers to develop core practices in discernment\, curiosity\, and communication. \nHaven’t preordered yet? Get your copy now in both paperback and e-book formats. \n>> PREORDER THE HANDBOOK <<\n\n \n\n  h \nMeet the Authors\n  \nYana Ludwig\nYana Ludwig has 24 years of cooperative living experience\, including four community start-ups. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community\, and as a trainer and consultant for progressive projects. Yana’s first book\, Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption\, was awarded the Communal Studies Association 2017 Book of the Year Award. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, and Commonomics USA\, an economic justice organization. Her 2013 TEDx talk\, Sustainable is Possible! kicked off a new era for her as a public speaker and advocate for communities. She is a founding member of the Solidarity Collective\, an income sharing community in Laramie\, WY\, and a host on the community’s podcast\, Solidarity House.     \n  \nh \n\nKaren Gimnig\nKaren Gimnig is a team builder\, motivational speaker and relationship coach. As an Imago Facilitator\, Karen uses the theory and practice of Imago Relationships to guide teams and communities through the complexity of working together. Karen has lived in cohousing and served as founder and member of communities that use consensus and sociocratic decision making. She is currently the Communications Director for the Cohousing Association. Other collaborative pursuits include co-authoring (with Yana Ludwig)  The Cooperative Culture Handbook: A Social Change Manual to Dismantle Toxic Culture and Build Connection\, and co-creating (with Paul Tevis) the Employing Differences podcast.   \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/book-launch/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Copy-of-Copy-of-PREORDER-YOUR-COPY-NOW.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201015T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201015T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200921T133505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201006T235753Z UID:10000613-1602774000-1602781200@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Creating Agreements for Your Intentional Community DESCRIPTION:g \nCreating Clear & Effective Agreements for Your Group\ng \nDuring this two hour workshop for community starters\, we will explore the details of creating community agreements that are both clear and effective for your membership. The workshop will be specifically focused on the particulars of Buy-In/Buy-Out agreements. We’ll examine the spectrum of options for purchasing and selling memberships in communities\, specifically the dynamic balance between meeting individual needs and community cohesion.  We’ll look at timing issues\, payout options\, restrictions on transfers\, and equity formulas.  Participants will get an overview of the key factors and have an opportunity to ask questions.  Specific legal advice for particular situations will not be offered as this is a non-confidential forum. \n\ng\nKey Workshop Outcomes:\n~ Understand the balance between individual/family needs and those of the greater community ~\n~ Recognize the timing issues of notice\, voting rights\, and payout times ~\n~ Grasp different forms and options for pay out of exiting members ~\n~ Learn different equity models that could be utilized for a community ~\n~ Get help shaping clear and effective community agreements ~\n\n\ngg \nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. October 15 from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time. \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Instructor\nClifford Paulin holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona\, a Juris Doctorate and a Masters of Study in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School\, a mediation certificate from the Center for Understanding in Conflict\, and advanced facilitation training from Synectics LLC. Mr. Paulin’s legal practice has focused on transactional law\, non-profit law\, and community law since 2006. He also has extensive experience in mediation in both individual and group settings. He has facilitated strategic planning and other processes for groups in both the private and public sectors. Mr. Paulin is also a co-founder of The Oak Granary\, a land-based environmental education non-profit in Potter Valley\, California. Mr. Paulin has served on the board of directors of several non-profit and government bodies. He has been involved in planning and political efforts on local and county levels. Learn more at: cliffordpaulin.com URL:https://www.ic.org/event/agreements/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/3-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201014T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201014T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20201006T155257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201006T235759Z UID:10000614-1602687600-1602694800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Dealing with Classism & Economic Inequality in Community DESCRIPTION:g \nClass\, Economics\, Community and Culture\ng \ng Class dynamics are as sticky and historically challenging as race and gender dynamics\, but there are fewer resources out there for individuals and groups who want to work on them. During this two-hour workshop for community starters and residents\, we will take a deep dive into class dynamics that impact the creation of sustainable intentional communities. Economic relationships and systems can be one of the toughest nuts for communities to crack. \nThis workshop offers a non-judgemental environment to explore questions of economics and class and how they relate to our efforts to build community\, and a sustainable\, resilient world. We will also talk about the importance and challenges of cross-class cooperation in getting your community landed and further developed. \nh \n\nWorkshop Agenda:\nWhat is Classism? \nPrivilege “Walk”  \nDiscussion: Class Dynamics in Your Life \nA Community Example of Classism \nAddressing Economic Insecurity \nExercise: 8-minute Life Stories \nCross-Class Cooperation and Community \nResources – Q&A \n\n  \nRegister above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, October 14th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time).  \nh \n\n\ng \nWorkshop Instructor\nYana Ludwig has 24 years of cooperative living experience\, including four community start-ups. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community\, and as a trainer and consultant for progressive projects. Yana’slatest book\, Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption\, was awarded the Communal Studies Association 2017 Book of the Year Award. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, and Commonomics USA\, an economic justice organization. Her 2013 TEDx talk\, Sustainable is Possible! kicked off a new era for her as a public speaker and advocate for communities. She is a founding member of the Solidarity Collective\, an income sharing community in Laramie\, WY\, and a host on the community’s podcast\, Solidarity House. Learn more about Yana at yanaludwig.net \n  \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/classism/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Copy-of-Copy-of-Untitled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201001T160000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200915T172406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200930T153345Z UID:10000611-1601564400-1601568000@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Intro to Intentional Communities & Community Living DESCRIPTION:g \nIntro to Intentional Communities & Community Living\ng \nWhat are intentional communities and what is it like to live in one? This hour-long session will introduce you to the world of intentional communities\, including ecovillages\, cohousing\, shared houses\, communes and more. We’ll look at the 10 most common types of community\, including a number of examples of communities from around the world\, and walk you through the basics of joining or starting a community. This is an introductory class that serves as the foundation for many more online workshops and events through FIC to deepen your learning. The session will also include time for Q&A. \n  \n\n“Intentional community feels closer to how humans are meant to live. Being separated into individual homes and economic units means we’re all exhausted\, all struggling for resources and are yet isolated from one another.” – URL:https://www.ic.org/event/community/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/New-Events-Featured-Image-Template-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200929T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200929T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200915T175420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T180336Z UID:10000612-1601391600-1601398800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Life in Community in the YEAR 2020 DESCRIPTION:g\nWhat’s happening with intentional communities in the YEAR 2020?\ng\nHow are intentional communities responding to the challenges of this Year 2020 — from a pandemic to protests\, natural disasters to political divisiveness. Are intentional communities better able to cope than the mainstream? What lessons can we learn from life in community? \nJoin us for this first event in our new series “Meet the Communities” to learn from intentional communities through presentations and panel discussion followed by Q&A from all of you. The event will feature Twin Oaks Community\, Ithaca EcoVillage\, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center\, and PDX Commons – all intentional communities from across the US. Learn more about each community below. \n\n\n  \nGet your ticket above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Tuesday\, September 29 from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time.  \n\n  \nParticipating Communities\n\n\n\n\nfg \n\n\nh\nTwin Oaks Community\nTwin Oaks Community is an ecovillage and intentional community of about one hundred people living on 450 acres in Louisa County\, Virginia. It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities. Founded in 1967\, it is one of the longest-enduring and largest income-sharing intentional communities in North America. \nh \n\n  \n\nh\n\nIthaca EcoVillage\nEcoVillage at Ithaca is part of a global movement of people seeking to create positive solutions to the social\, environmental and economic crises our planet faces. Since 1991 we have developed an award-winning ecovillage of over two hundred residents. Our mission is to promote experiential learning about ways of meeting human needs for shelter\, food\, energy\, livelihood and social connectedness that are aligned with the long-term health and viability of Earth and all its inhabitants. \nh \n\n  \n\n\nh\nOccidental Arts and Ecology Center\nThe Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is an 80-acre research\, demonstration\, advocacy and organizing center in Sonoma County\, California that develops strategies for regional-scale community resilience. OAEC’s work focuses on cultivating ecological literacy and building the capacity of civic and social movement leaders and organizations to guide their communities toward an ecologically regenerative\, economically viable\, and socially just future. \nh \n\n  \n\n\nh\nPDX Commons\nPDX Commons is an intentional community of individuals dedicated to making the most of our last third of life together. Our condominium combines private homes with many shared spaces for socializing\, meals\, and community business meetings. We share a common ethic of inclusion\, cooperation and accountability. Our beautiful facility in Portland\, Oregon has easy access to public transit\, parks\, shops\, restaurants and grocery stores. We practice sustainable living and are committed to decreasing our footprint on the planet. URL:https://www.ic.org/event/2020/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200915T165054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T003102Z UID:10000610-1600959600-1600966800@www.ic.org SUMMARY:Leveling Up Your Group Facilitation Techniques DESCRIPTION:g \nLeveling Up Your Group Facilitation Techniques\n  \n\nIn this two hour workshop\, Laird Schaub will identify the key skills that you’ll need to master to become a crackerjack facilitator: the mindset\, the necessity of doing personal work\, the ability to work deftly with both content and energy\, matching the container with the need\, how to sequence challenging topics for effectiveness\, the power of working kinesthetically\, the ability to work constrictively with fulminating distress\, understanding the power of spectrum analysis (illuminating the many ways in which humans differ)\, knowing when and how to delegate\, identifying the hardest conversations\, and options for further training.\n\n\nf\n\nWhether you are a seasoned facilitator looking to level up your game or you are just getting started\, this workshop will walk you through the essential techniques to facilitate your group\, community\, or team — both in-person and online — for maximum efficiency and enjoyment!\ng \nh \nGet your ticket above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. September 24 from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time.  \ng \n\n\nfg \nWorkshop Instructor\nLaird’s specialty is up-tempo inclusive meetings that engage the full range of human input\, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict and diversity—all the while being ruthless about capturing as much product as possible. As both a consultant and a teacher he pioneered a facilitation and leadership training program where students meet eight times in three-day weekends spread out over two years.  Since 2007 he’s authored a blog that has more than 1200 entries\, writing about group dynamics\, intentional community\, and his life along the way: http://communityandconsensus.blogspot.com/ \nLaird Schaub lived for four decades (1974-2014) at Sandhill Farm\, an income-sharing rural community that he helped found. He also helped found the Foundation for Intentional Community and served as that organization’s main administrator for 28 years (1987-2015). In 1987 he created a self-insurance fund for health care needs among income-sharing communities called PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health) that he ran for 22 years (1987-2009)\, growing it from a dream to a loan fund with net assets over $500\,000. In addition to his expertise in community living\, he’s parlayed his passion for good process into a consulting business focused on cooperative group dynamics\, styled CANBRIDGE (Consensus And Network Building for Resolving Impasse and Developing Group Effectiveness)\, which he’s been doing since 1987. \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/facilitation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/New-Events-Featured-Image-Template.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200923T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200923T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200914T185608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T155140Z UID:10000609-1600873200-1600880400@www.ic.org SUMMARY:How to Create Sustainable Communities DESCRIPTION:g \nHow to Create Sustainable Communities\ng \nThis class introduces the relationships between the four dimensions of sustainability\, drawing on a curriculum developed by ecovillages all over the world. If we are going to really address issues like climate change\, it is essential that we look more deeply at how we define sustainability and what we are willing to question\, rethink\, and re-envision about how we live our lives. This interactive class is especially relevant to groups in the founding or revisioning stages where vision and values are on the table. \nMost people who want to live in an intentional community (or are already there) are motivated at least in part by an urge to live sustainably. But what do you think of when you hear the word “sustainable”? Organic food\, wind turbines\, natural building and electric cars? Those things matter for sure\, but real sustainability starts before any ecological choices we make\, and is built upon our fundamental worldview and the social dynamics and economic systems it generates. \ng \nGet your ticket above to join this live workshop on Zoom and/or to receive the recording in case you can’t make it. Wednesday\, September 23 from 4–6pm Eastern. See your local time.  \n  \ng \n\n\nfg \nWorkshop Instructor\nYana Ludwig has 24 years of cooperative living experience\, including four community start-ups. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community\, and as a trainer and consultant for progressive projects. Yana’s latest book\, Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption\, was awarded the Communal Studies Association 2017 Book of the Year Award. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage\, and Commonomics USA\, an economic justice organization. Her 2013 TEDx talk\, Sustainable is Possible! kicked off a new era for her as a public speaker and advocate for communities. She is a founding member of the Solidarity Collective\, an income sharing community in Laramie\, WY\, and a host on the community’s podcast\, Solidarity House. Learn more about Yana at yanaludwig.net URL:https://www.ic.org/event/sustainability/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Copy-of-New-Events-Featured-Image-Template.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200827T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200827T170000 DTSTAMP:20230814T101059 CREATED:20200818T171245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200818T171541Z UID:10000608-1598540400-1598547600@www.ic.org SUMMARY:WORKSHOP | How to Start a New Affordable Cohousing Project DESCRIPTION:Register below to join on Thursday\, August 27th | 1-3pm pacific / 4-6pm eastern (See your local time) \n  \nCohousing is community designed to foster connection. Physical spaces allow neighbors to easily interact with others just outside private homes. Common areas including kitchen\, dining space and gardens bring people together. Collaborative decision-making builds relationships. Let cohousing expert and architect\, Charles Durrett\, walk you through the steps to make it happen! \nMaking a new cohousing community is not an easy task. The biggest mistake people make in creating a new cohousing community is imaging that it is. That’s why most (as in all) that start with that attitude do not succeed. But if you put a deliberate plan together – it is doable and perhaps one of the most gratifying things you will ever do. \n  \nThis workshop will cover:\n\nWhat a cohousing is and why it is an excellent community model\nHow to clarify your group values and create a management team\nFinancial and legal development factors\nDesign process and feasibility assessment\nProfessional tips and advice from The Cohousing Company\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nf\n[give_form id=”376155″] \nf\n\nf\n\n\n\nf\n\nAbout Charles Durrett\nCharles Durrett\, with Kathryn McCamant\, introduced the concept of cohousing to the United States with the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. The latest edition is Creating Cohousing\, Building Sustainable Communities. He has written several other books on cohousing\, including Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living—The Handbook. \nDurrett and his team at Durrett Architects have designed more than 50 cohousing communities in the United States and around the world\, including Muir Commons in Davis\, California\, the first cohousing community in North America. His work has been featured in Time Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Guardian\, Architecture\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Economist\, and many other publications. \nCharles Durrett has received numerous awards\, which include the World Habitat Award presented by the United Nations\, the Silver Achievement Award for Active Adult Community by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) 50+ Housing Council\, the Silver Energy Value Housing Award by NAHB\, the Mixed Use/Mixed Income Development Award presented jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and a recipient of the Global Over 50’s Housing/Healthcare award. He was also recently declared as a “visionary of the Sierras” by the Sierra Business Council. \nDurrett regularly gives presentations on cohousing to interested citizen groups. He has spoken before the United States Congress twice\, has been featured on the Commonwealth Club\, and has lectured at scores of universities. He lives in Nevada City\, California\, where he primarily designs model communities and comfortable homes\, including the 34-home cohousing community in which he lives. Learn more at http://www.cohousingco.com/ \n  URL:https://www.ic.org/event/cohousing/ LOCATION:2-hour Live Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copy-of-How-to-Build-Community-in-the-Digital-Age-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Foundation%20for%20Intentional%20Community":MAILTO:connect@ic.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR