Best of Communities: II. Seeking and Visiting CommunityIf youre seriously interested in community living, all experts agree that youre wise to visit first. Not just because reality may not align exactly with the mental image you had based on writte...Daugiau...
Best of Communities: I. Intentional Community Overview and Starting a CommunityMany people yearn for communityfor a greater sense of connection and belongingyet genuinely wanting it and accurately knowing that its good for you are not enough to gu...Daugiau...
X. Sustainable Food, Energy, and TransportationWhen people talk about back to the land communities, it conjures up images of extensive gardens, wood burning stoves, and homegrown entertainment. While homestead living can be more arduous and less ad...Daugiau...
Agreements, Conflict, and CommunicationMost of us didnt grow up learning good ways to work with conflict or strong emotional expression. For most of us its just plain scary, and we bring that naivete and scarring into our community lives. Many grou...Daugiau...
VII. Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-BeingThe key challenge of community is developing and maintaining healthy relationshipsones that are based on compassion, emotional depth, and authenticity. In community the emphasis is on quality of co...Daugiau...
IV. Good MeetingsMuch of a communitys culture is showcased in meetingsthe arena in which the most important decisions are made. In cooperative groups you can tell a lot about a group by observing a meeting.Community meetings tend to be a much more...Daugiau...
XII. Cohousing CompilationWithin the neighborhood of intentional communities, cohousing is the new kid on the block, imported to North America from Denmark in the late 1980s. There are now more than 140 cohousing groups built in the US, with many mor...Daugiau...
XIV. Challenges and Lessons of CommunityThis Challenges and Lessons of Community collection focuses on some of the tender and hard-earned lessons of community living. Its not all sunshine and ravioli. This collection of 19 articles shares from the h...Daugiau...
VIII. Children in CommunityAcross the board, community is an amazing place to grow up. Its good for parents (who get considerable, caring help with a plethora of instant aunts, uncles, and surrogate grandparents), and good for kids (who get instant...Daugiau...
V. ConsensusConsensus is by far the most common form of decision making among intentional communities but that doesnt mean everyone knows what theyre doing or has stellar results. Consensus is based on the notion that its better to cooperate than...Daugiau...
III. Leadership, Power, and MembershipOne of the ways in which progressive groups tend to be chronically underdeveloped relative to conservative groups is in the area of power and leadership.While communities are full of people with personal experien...Daugiau...
IX. Community for EldersIn contrast with a generation ago, the two most distinctive aspects of the Intentional Communities Movement today are: a) the impact of the internet on our ability to find out whats happening; and b) that so many people over...Daugiau...
XI. Green Building, Ecovillage Design, and Land PreservationThe thing about buildings and land-shaping is that they are the longest-term statements about who you are and what you value.You can change your garden every year, rearrange your demographic...Daugiau...
XV. The Peripatetic Communitarian - The Best of Geoph KozenyGeoph wrote a back-page essay for Communities for nearly 15 years.After living in community (in a variety of settings) for most of his 20s and 30s, Geoph went on the road to visit communitie...Daugiau...
