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Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities November
November 12 @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities November
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Pacific: 11am-12:00pm
- Mountain: 12-1:00pm
- Central: 1-2:00pm
- Eastern: 2- 3:00pm
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Discover the essentials of starting your own intentional community with November’s Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities featuring Katrina Zavalney.
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.
This is more than an event series—it’s a launchpad for future community leaders.
“Blueprints for Belonging” zeroes in on the practical aspects of community building. Our guests share real-world experiences and actionable strategies, covering everything from legal setup and financial management to culture building and governance. This series is an invaluable resource for anyone at the beginning stages of creating a community, providing a roadmap to avoid common mistakes and implement best practices.
The format encourages active participation, with opportunities for the audience to ask questions and engage directly with speakers. This interactive approach ensures that you can get specific advice relevant to your project.
About Blueprints for Belonging November
What you get from this conversation:
- Learn the basics of starting an intentional community
- Understand legal and financial requirements
- Discover how to build a positive community culture and effective governance
- Learn conflict resolution techniques
- Explore strategies for sustainability and self-sufficiency
- Connect with other community founders and experts
About this Month’s Guest Speaker
Katrina Zavalney
Katrina Zavalney is a community organizer with 25 years of experience in community development, sustainability, event management, and nonprofits. She often leads strategic planning, facilitation and organization development consulting with a Masters in Organization Development. Katrina is dedicated to creating sustainable livelihood on a global scale.
Katrina has been at the forefront of the sustainability movement, including greening Disney, writing environmental policies that went company-wide, and developed into one of Disney’s most influential environmental policies. She is a systems thinker and network weaver, with an ability to authentically connect; building high impact collaborative programs and community-oriented solutions. Additionally, as a professional facilitator, she has an ability to work through seemingly impossible interpersonal challenges to achieve win/win lasting results. Katrina is a self-starter and founded a nonprofit, Aranya Solutions, to support communities to be self-sustaining developing programs, training, skill building, and resilience. She is one of the leads for the Kona Resilience HUB in Hawai’i, Big Island. She partnered with Rotary International multiplying funds to increase impact. Serving 40,000 people internationally directly + thousands more indirectly, with 3 villages in Nepal and 3 schools in Uganda. Katrina is ready to further collaborate with the world’s most impactful and inspiring leaders to develop transformational sustainability initiatives, climate resilience, and elevate world class culture.
She now lives in Hawai’i in Kona with the goal of developing a Sustainability Center that will host educational workshops on natural building, growing food year round, and retreats. She also trains youth on conflict resolution and mediation skills with the West Hawai’i Mediation Center as she is passionate about human development and emotional intelligence.
Her website that showcases organization development and strategy work is: www.KatrinaZavalney.com. Her nonprofit, Aranya Solutions, website is https://aranyasolutions.org. Katrina is delighted to be here and has a passion for emotional intelligence and healthy communication.
About Your Host
Cynthia Tina
Cynthia is a leading consultant in the field of intentional communities. She’s the founder of CommunityFinders, offering programs to help people join and start residential communities. She’s also the founder of Ecovillage Tours, bringing people on inspirational journeys to regenerative communities around the world. She has visited more than 150 intentional communities globally, including the Vermont ecovillage where she lives in her self-built passive solar home.
Formerly a Co-Director, Cynthia is a partner and educator with the Foundation for Intentional Community. She’s a former trustee of the Global Ecovillage Network and former Director of the youth ecovillage network, NextGEN North America. She holds a degree in Sustainability from Goddard College, as well as certificates in Permaculture and Ecovillage Design, and Yoga Teacher Training.
Get started on your community journey with a short quiz to find out which type of community is a fit for you! https://communityfinders.com/quiz
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Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities
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