Filling Leadership Positions in Your Community
Power and leadership are tender yet potent topics when it comes to community dynamics, and often times communities don't plan well for filling leadership roles. During this workshop, we’ll unpack what might be happening in a community that struggles to fill and maintain leadership positions. Join Laird Schaub for an introductory workshop on what you should consider when filling leadership roles in your community.
Integrating Seniors into Community Life
All community members—seniors included—are encouraged to contribute volunteer labor to the maintenance and well-being of the community. Join longtime communitarian Laird Schaub to explore the ways seniors can contribute and how to best integrate them into community life.
Facilitating Conversations Where You Expect Disagreement
When a community issue is multi-faceted, it’s often unclear how to best tackle it, or where to even begin. In this one-hour webinar, facilitation expert Laird Schaub will unpack the dynamics and choices at play when facilitating messy conversations.
Join us for an introduction on how to facilitate a complex topic, as well as get a taste for our upcoming 5-week course, Facilitation in Community.
Creating Support Teams for Elders in Community
We all need help sometimes, and living in community can make this stressor such a relief when handled responsibly.Join communitarian Laird Schaub to learn how to address and meet needs through the creation of support teams for elders in community.
A Path of Purpose: Intuitive Mind Mapping
Join us on this inspiring journey of self-discovery and unlock the pieces that bring your life into greatest harmony. Find your path, clarify your mission, and co-create a beautiful future with the Universe and others building community.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities September
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!
Intentional Community for Families: What it is, isn’t, and can be
Intentional communities exist in various forms and can provide a multitude of benefits for you and your family. Join therapist, coach and community builder Amy Saloner to explore intentional community for families and learn what it is, isn't and can be.
Reclaiming Death and Dying in Community
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.
The Joys and Challenges of Children in Community
Having this vast network of parents to help raise your kids can be life-changing -- and the challenges just as great. Join us for this workshop to discover the joys and challenges of raising children in community, and learn how to mitigate these community circumstance with ease and grace.
Rematriation: Returning Indigenous Lands to Indigenous Hands
How can we take the necessary steps to healing and repairing the relationships we have to the land we live on? How can we be good guests? How can we contribute to healing? Join the urban Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te Land Trust to reflect on relationships land and how to weave cultural and traditional knowledge back in harmony with the land.
Co-Parenting in Community
What happens when we intersect multiple parenting styles that vary in skills, disciplines, and educational preferences? Join us for the Co-Parenting in Community workshop to discover how you can share the responsibility of raising children and make the work of being a co-parent a deeply spiritual and fulfilling practice.
Options for Educating Children in Community
Each community is different and has its own approach for educating their children. Join us for this workshop to learn how to navigate through all of the educational options that are available to you and come to a decision that feels right for you and your community.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities October
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!
Participation in Community: Understanding Tensions and Resolutions
Most communities encounter bumps in the road when it comes to non-monetary member contributions to the maintenance and well-being of the group. Join us for this introductory 1-hour webinar, to gain an understanding of healthy group dynamics around shared work in community, as well as get a taste for our upcoming 5-week course, Work & Participation in Community.
Planning for Children in Community
Looking at the capacity of your community and their willingness to support families will be an important factor to consider when planning for children in community. Join us for this 2-hour workshop to learn how to navigate the conversations that are needed when planning for children in community to ensure the happiness and comfort of everyone involved.
Place Justice 101: Making, Taking and Keeping Place
To varying degrees, we all shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit. Join place justice facilitator, artist and educator ridhi d’cruz on a journey of designing justice at the intersections of healing, creativity and place.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities November
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!
Creating Community in the Modern World
What is lacking in the modern society model? When we think about human connection, ecological balance, existential purpose, spiritual meaning: what could be different?
Join Damanhur resident, Celastrina, for Creating Community in the Modern World, a webinar on how to build modern eco villages in today's society.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities December
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!
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities January 2024
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!
The Impact of Ecovillages Worldwide
Ecovillages are regarded as real-life laboratories of sustainable change. They are communities in which people develop sustainable, social, ecological, economic and cultural practices. These emerging innovations can provide important insight for the broader society and drive sustainability transitions.
Join sociology researcher Lasse Kos to explore the impact of ecovillages in North America and worldwide, via a presentation on the results of the largest global survey on ecovillages.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities February 2024
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!
Death & Dying in Community
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.
Best Practices in Membership & Recruitment
Having a membership selection process is critical to long term community viability and mission fulfilment. In this session, Yana Ludwig will provide you with detailed guidance for how to create a seamless and transparent process for both your community and potential members.
Blueprints for Belonging: Introducing New Interview Series
Kick off your journey into intentional community building with the inaugural event of "Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities."
In this opening session, Cynthia Tina will introduce the overarching themes, provide a clear framework for the discussions to come, and demystify the key terminology you'll need to navigate the world of intentional communities.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities March 2024
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!
Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities March
Discover the essentials of starting your own intentional community with March's Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities featuring Jan Martin Bang.
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 Brief Intro to Sociocracy
Every community has to decide (and redecide) how to govern itself. Join Sociocracy for All's Jerry Koch-Gonzalez for a brief introduction to Sociocracy to learn how dynamic governance can help your community.
Common Legal Issues in Community
Strong and responsive legal agreements within communities are key to both their long-term success and maintaining healthy relationships between community members. In this webinar, you’ll learn about some of the most common legal issues that communities face and how to prepare for them.
Addressing Participation Issues in Community
Most communities begin with the sweet hope that all members will contribute meaningfully to the maintenance and well-being of the group...but then find that reality doesn't match the dream. Join longtime communitarian Laird Schaub to learn about tensions around participation in community and how you can resolve them.