While it is generally understood that a clearly-defined set of values are at the heart of every successful community, it is less well-known how we might achieve that clarity and then use those values towards better decision making. Join social designer and facilitator, Tristan Holme, for a webinar on how communities can understand their values to make better group decisions.

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Discover the essentials of starting your own intentional community with April's Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities featuring Nicole Reese.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

A wise communitarian once said, the best thing about living in community is the people, and the worst thing about living in community is the people. And one of the places this shows up most is around governance. Join long-term communitarian and movement builder Sky Blue to for a deep dive into cooperative self-governance for communities and beyond. You'll gain a greater sense of clarity and possibility for how your group can align your governance system with your vision & culture.

Looking to join a community without the hassle of starting from scratch? It's possible! With hundreds of communities in various stages of development, finding one that matches your values, lifestyle, and vision is more achievable than ever.
Join community matchmaker Cynthia Tina for A Practical Guide to Joining an Intentional Community, a step-by-step approach to finding your ideal community.

Ecovillages have always been beacons of hope and laboratories for how we might live in greater harmony with each other and our planet. In times of climate breakdown, what roles do intentional communities focused on living well and lightly play for society at large? In the rising tides and storms, are they lifeboats, rescue ships, and/or parts of a larger flotilla? 
Join us for an engaging conversations amongst a few legendary elders about the current and future role of ecovillages in our growing climate crisis.

When conflict arises, it's often unclear how to best tackle it or where to even begin. Join us for this 1-hour webinar to learn how to prepare for conflict as well as get a taste for our upcoming 6-week course, Working with Conflict in Community.

Join us for 6 Surprising Truths About Building Effective Relationships, to get a taste of best practices for communication and connection whether you’re on the journey to starting a community or are currently residing in one. Karen Gimnig will cover these topics and more in greater depth in our upcoming 6-week course, Communication & Relationship Building in Community. 

Generally, we think of cults as bad, and based on what we’ve heard in mainstream news, it’s hard to imagine how they could possibly be good. But how do we define good and bad, and what exactly is the definition of a cult? How do we sift through all of this information to determine what is right for us?
Join FIC Co-Director, Daniel Greenberg, and Cult Expert, Steven Hassan PhD, for a stimulating conversation on the controversial topics of cults.

Discover the essentials of starting your own intentional community with May's Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities featuring Zarinah Agnew.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

When you hear stories of how established Intentional Communities were founded, it often feels like fate. But there are best practices that can help us tempt fate.
Join long-term communitarian and movement builder Sky Blue to learn pro tips for starting an intentional community.

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

Given the increasingly dramatic impacts of climate change, economic collapse, and social inequality, intentional communities are set to become models for how humans can live high-quality and low-impact lives together.
Join community veterans, Crystal Byrd Farmer, Sky Blue, and Daniel Greenberg for this panel discussion + Q&A exploring how we can truly become pivot points upon which humanity can turn towards a better future.

Calling all intentional communities! What is your vision for the communities movement in the coming years? What do we need to become as our global crises deepen? We have an incredible opportunity to become the pivots of change and the only way to get from here to there is by working together! 
Join us for an engaging webinar where we delve into the unique advantages of our newly launched Community Membership.

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

Join us for an inaugural meeting of the FIC's Intentional Communities Council.

Community Life is full of emotional challenges... relationships, conflict, meeting disagreements, day to day "Who left the dishes out" and so much more. We need to come to our community lives (whether we live in community or are just around folks every day), with the tools and resilience that are necessary to stay balanced and grounded.
Join Emotional Resilience Trainer, Aaron Kahlow, to learn how to become emotionally resilient and process somatic energy for healing in community.

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

Contemplating death, ours and others, is a deeply empowering practice that allows us to live more fully in the present and gives us access to an immense gratitude for the miracle of our own existence. There is no other mechanism quite as powerful in bringing us face to face with profound awe. Join seasoned and end-of-life educator Lee Warren for a 2-part exploration of end of life literacy, death positivity, and the conscious dying movement.

Contemplating death, ours and others, is a deeply empowering practice that allows us to live more fully in the present and gives us access to an immense gratitude for the miracle of our own existence. There is no other mechanism quite as powerful in bringing us face to face with profound awe. Join seasoned and end-of-life educator Lee Warren for a 2-part exploration of end of life literacy, death positivity, and the conscious dying movement.

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

Thinking about joining an intentional community? Curious to learn about communities from them directly? Want to peek inside community living and get your questions answered? The Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities is the event experience for you!

This workshop introduces an integrative map of the human nervous system, blending science-based, psycho-spiritual and somatic models into an accessible framework. Join embodiment practitioner and relational resilience coach, Karta Elise Allred, for a 2-hour workshop on How to Transform Conflict & Deepen Connection in Community.

Join "Blueprints for Belonging" to gain the knowledge and connections needed to successfully launch your intentional community.
This event series is crafted for emerging community founders, offering direct access to practical advice and insights from experts in the field. Led by Cynthia Tina, who brings her experience from visiting over 200 communities worldwide, each session features one-to-one interviews with community consultants, founders, and educators.

How can groups make grounded decisions while using the abundant opportunities at their disposal?
Join community designer and facilitator, Tristan Holme, for a 1-hour webinar on how communities can build a framework to use community resources effectively and use it towards making better decisions and becoming more effective and efficient.

Despite our best intentions at creating an alternative space to the exterior norms of our society, we can't help but bring the power imbalances instilled in us from birth into our new communities. Join decolonial scholar and consultant on relationship management and organizational development, Jahia LaSangoma, for a one-hour webinar on Power Dynamics in Community.