- This event has passed.
7 Membership Questions All Cooperative Groups Need to Address
October 5, 2022 @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
7 Membership Questions All Cooperative Groups Need to Address
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
- Pacific: 11:00am-12:00pm
- Mountain: 12:00-1:00pm
- Central: 1:00-2:00pm
- Eastern: 2:00-3:00pm
Join our webinar with long-time communitarian Laird Schaub to get clear on the membership questions you should be asking. This is a teaser for the upcoming Designing a Community Membership Process course.
About the event
While most cooperative groups do not discuss all these questions or even any of them, all groups should. The important thing to keep in mind is not so much what is the right answer – there are many of them – as it is to avoid the price of ambiguity down the line.
Get clear on the membership questions your community should be asking now in this free, one-hour webinar. If your group already has agreements or at least a working understanding about how you want to handle these basic areas, great! If you haven’t gone there yet, you’ll be returning with homework from this session.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
- what it means to be a member of cooperative groups
- what membership questions group should anticipate discussing
- how to be a savvy shopper when considering whether to join a cooperative group
- what’s included in the upcoming 5-week course, Designing a Community Membership Process.
Who should attend?
You should attend if you’re:
- part of a membership team
- part of a new community creating a membership process
- part of a new community wanting to attract new members
About your presenter
Laird Schaub
Laird’s specialty is up-tempo inclusive meetings that engage the full range of human input, teaching groups to work creatively with conflict and diversity—all the while being ruthless about capturing as much product as possible. He lived for four decades at Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing rural community that he helped found.
Laird also helped found the Foundation for Intentional Community, where he served as the main administrator for 28 years. In 1987, he created a self-insurance fund for healthcare among income-sharing communities called PEACH (Preservation of Equity Accessible for Community Health) that he ran for 22 years.
In addition to his expertise in community living, he’s parlayed his passion for good process into a consulting business focused on cooperative group dynamics, styled CANBRIDGE (Consensus And Network Building for Resolving Impasse and Developing Group Effectiveness), since 1987.
Read his blog Laird’s Commentary on Community and Consensus
Location
You’ll get the Zoom link after you register in your confirmation email. Please check the spam folder of the inbox you use to register.
Registration
The Online Event Experience
Live Zoom Sessions
Nothing pre-recorded here! When you sign-up for an event with FIC, you’ll have the opportunity to join a live session on Zoom with the event presenter/facilitator and other participants.
Affordable and Accessible
All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.
Watch the Recording
You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for up to one month (unless otherwise noted). So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you.
Loved by Community Builders
What a beautiful gift to our intentional community builders and leaders! FIC’s programs provide a way for thinking and concerned people to collaborate for solutions to our multitude of global crises. Thank you FIC! – Terri Garcia
I am constantly impressed by the down-to-earth practicality of the FIC workshops combined with the philosophical questions that are so vital for us to explore. I’m grateful for the excellent planning and delivery of the workshops by skilled and inclusive presenters, who create a space that is both welcoming and invites participants to challenge existing ideas and world views. Well done and thank you FIC. – Claire Ogden
