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Rethinking the Future of Intentional Communities
June 14 @ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
Rethinking the Future of Intentional Communities
Friday, June 14, 2024
- Pacific: 10-11:30am
- Mountain: 11am-12:30pm
- Central:12-1:30pm
- Eastern:1-2:30pm
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Join community veterans, Crystal Byrd Farmer, Sky Blue, and Daniel Greenberg for this panel discussion + Q&A on rethinking the future of intentional communities.
About the event
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. The world will be looking at us! This scenario raises two questions for us, both as individuals and as communities:
- Who will we need to be then? And
- How will we get from here to there?
Intentional communities have done a great deal in creating safe, nourishing, and sustainable spaces. However, how can communities measure up to a meaningful impact in the context of larger society?
To truly become pivot points upon which humanity can turn towards a better future, we need to take a step further; we need to see more collaboration and coordination amongst intentional communities–to create a movement of intentional communities.
This is the time to come together and use the strength of collective power to be the change we want to see in the world. “Regional self-sufficiency and resilience, combined with cooperative and equitable economic and political systems, are our best bet for weathering the coming storm, regardless of its strength.” –Sky Blue’s Open Letter to Intentional Communities. This event is an open invitation to community members to discuss the future of intentional communities. Collaborate with us on how we rethink the communities movement and help to move towards the kinds of cooperative, equitable, and resilient cultures and systems that are needed to create a world that works for everyone.
In this webinar we’ll address:
- What would a meaningful impact of Intentional Communities look like?
- How can we create more solidarity, alignment and collective action in the Intentional Community movement?
- How can we balance our needs to change the world and to live good lives?
- What are major hurdles getting from here to there and how might we address them?
About the panelists
Crystal Byrd Farmer
Crystal is an organizer and consultant in the intentional communities movement. She serves as Co-Director for the Foundation for Intentional Community and is on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States. She also serves as Co-President for the BIPOC Intentional Community Council. In 2020 she published The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization. Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity, relationships, and the world.
Learn more about Crystal and her work here.
Sky Blue
Sky has spent 25 years living, working, and organizing in intentional communities, cooperatives, and community organizations. Their parents met in Twin Oaks Community in the late 70’s, where Sky moved as an adult and raised a child. Sky has visited over 130 different communities, worked with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities and Global Ecovillage Network of North America, co-organized numerous communities conferences, and has served as Executive Director and on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Intentional community. They contribute to a variety of groups as an organizer, consultant, and speaker.
You can learn more about Sky’s work here.
Daniel Greenberg
Daniel was Founding Director of Living Routes, which partnered with the University of Amherst to run study abroad programs based in sustainable communities, including Auroville and Findhorn. He co-founded Gaia Education, served as President of the Global Ecovillage Network, and was the Director of Education at the Findhorn Foundation before they closed in 2023. He currently co-directs the Foundation for Intentional Community along with two social ventures: Earth Deeds, which provides online tools to meaningfully account for CO2 emissions; and CAPE, which develops Custom Academic Programs in Ecovillages.
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Rethinking the Future of Intentional Communities
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