Best of Communities II - Seeking and Visiting Community

Best of Communities Magazine – Volume II

Communities magazine is the leading publication for all topics related to intentional community. From the broad-stroked overviews to the intimate details, this quarterly publication covers it all. With so much content to explore, we’ve distilled it into a single compilation!

Seeking and Visiting Community

Are you curious about living in intentional community? Number one advise: visit first! Not only because reality may not align exactly with your mental image, but because what you think you want and what you actually want aren’t necessarily the same thing. And it’s far cheaper to discover that before you sell your home and move to another zip code.

In this book you’ll learn how to:

• get the most out of your visit
• properly set up a visit
• put your hosts at ease
• ask the right questions

The articles inside will also provide tips to communities themselves on how to deal optimally with community-seekers.

You will recognize authors leading the intentional community movement, representing cutting-edge thinking and how-to explorations of the social, ecological, and economic aspects of sustainable living.

Volume II includes the following articles:

1. Red Carpets and Slammed Doors: Visiting Communities
2. Visiting Communities: Tips for Guests and Hosts
3. The Art and Ethics of Visitor Programs
4. Planning a Community Visit
5. Excerpts from a Community Seeker’s Journal
6. The Dilettante’s Journey, Part I: How Do You Pick a Community to Join if You’re Interested in . . . EVERYTHING?
7. The Dilettante’s Journey, Part II: How Do You Pick a Community to Join if You’re Interested in . . . EVERYTHING?
8. What Interns and Work Exchangers Say About Us
9. Wilderness Journeys Meet Cooperative Culture: Teens in Community on the Trail
10. A Mental Health Patient Seeks (But Does Not Find) Religious Community
11. Nashira: An Ecovillage from the Grassroots
12. Ecovillage Radio
13. Hopeful New Stories from the Old World: A New We
14. Cycling toward Sustainable Community: Within Reach

You can have ALL the BEST

Volume II is part of a 15-volume compilation of the Best of Communities magazine. The set includes over 200 articles about intentional communities from the 1990’s and 2000’s. Purchase the entire set and save!

Communities magazine is now published

For over 30 years, the Foundation for Intentional Community had the pleasure to publish Communities magazine.

Although we are no longer its publisher, Communities is still alive and thriving with GEN-US. Subscribe to the magazine today!