Best of Communities XIV - Challenges and Lessons of Community

Best of Communities Magazine

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!

Volume XIV – Challenges and Lessons of Community

Let’s be real. As inspiring as intentional community is, it is also created by humans who bring their shadows along with them. We are not immune to hurt, danger, or conflict living in community. However, we have the tools to make those instances more endurable.

The following 19 articles shares from the heart, simultaneously presenting what’s compelling and what’s at risk when living closely with others.

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 XIV includes the following articles:

1. Noble Suffering and Appropriate Sacrifice
2. More Confident, Less Idealistic (How We Grow in Community)
3. Balancing Justice and Mercy at Aprovecho
4. The ‘Shadow Side’ of Community: Denial and the Demise of Kerista
5. The Hard Road to Accountability
6. More Change . . . 100 Mile House & the Emissaries Today
7. Healing from Sex/Power Abuse in Community
8. Hard Lessons from Our Children
9. Twin Oaks’ Labor Credit System: How members of one income-sharing community feel about their labor-contribution system
10. Hard Times at Orinda
11. Building Community in Hard Times
12. Cigarettes, Alcohol, Visitors, and Events
13. Avoiding Abundance’s Traps
14. Balancing Inner and Outer Ecology
15. From Visions of Utopia to “The Many Faces of Community”
16. Gifted, Mad, and Out of Control
17. Diversity Issues in Los Angeles Eco-Village
18. Vision and Reality in Ecotopia: Making Lemonaid out of Lemons at the Port Townsend EcoVillage
19. Gratitude, Loss, Rebirth, and Community

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Volume XIV 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!

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