Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities August 1, 2024 (rescheduled from July)
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 August 8, 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 August
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.
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.
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.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities September 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 September
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.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities October 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!
How to Transform Conflict & Deepen Connection in Community
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.
Blueprints for Belonging: Conversations on Creating Intentional Communities October
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.
Building a Framework to Use Community Resources Effectively
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.
Power Dynamics in Community
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.
Communities’ Resiliency to Face The Climate Crisis
In this webinar we will discuss lessons learned from members of three ICs that have been recently impacted by hurricanes as well as key findings from the two-year Ecovillage Resiliency Project.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities November 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 November
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 Do We Network As Communities?
In this webinar we will discuss lessons learned from members of three ICs that have been recently impacted by hurricanes as well as key findings from the two-year Ecovillage Resiliency Project.
How To Shift From An Individualistic To A Cooperative Mindset
Our capitalist and individualistic world has taught us skills to survive in a competitive environment. What do we need to learn to shift to a collaborative mentality?
Come hear two of FIC’s star educators discuss the essential skills and mindsets to thrive in community and help communities thrive.
Developing Regenerative Community Businesses
How can communities build regenerative economies within our capitalist societies? Come learn about and discuss successful models with members that have built businesses within their communities.
What’s Next for the FIC and the Movement
As the African proverb says, “If you wanna go fast, go alone; if you wanna go far, go together.” The FIC exists to support the movement and the FIC needs the movement to align our efforts. In this webinar we will lift the veil on some in-progress initiatives including major redesigns to our website and directory, launching a CommUniversity, and updates to our membership plans and benefits – that we think you’ll really like!
Attracting People and Resources for Long-Term Community Success
Join Sandra Rueda, of Les Pas Sages, to learn about legal, financial, and governance mechanisms that will help attract people and resources for long-term community success.
Membership Process: A Do or Die for Healthy Community
Membership processes are part of how your intentional community will be and remain truly intentional.. Join Yana Ludwig for an overview of why having a fair, transparent and functional membership selection and orientation process is one of the most important structures you will ever create for your community.
6 Surprising Truths About Building Effective Relationships
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.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – Mission Peak Village
Meet Mission Peak Village during the Virtual Tour of Communities February 13, 2025. Get a vibrant taste of the communities movement without leaving home!
Seeking, Finding and Building Alignment
This session will provide an introduction of how values and agreements shape our relationships and impact community living for our upcoming 4-week Aligning Values and Creating Agreements in Community course.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – Heartwood Commons Tulsa
Meet a vibrant, progressive 55+ cohousing community in one of our country’s most livable cities. Tulsa features a friendly, small town feel with all the amenities of a larger city, and an affordable, low cost of living.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – Rachel Carson EcoVillage
Introducing an EcoVillage that welcomes individuals of every race, ethnicity, culture, age, ability, gender identity, and sexual identity to join in creating an inclusive, caring, and diverse 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.
Learning to Labor Together
Longtime communitarian Yana Ludwig helps us all think about the dynamics around getting work done in community. From labor budgets to hard conversations, this session is a high-level look at ways we can do a more balanced job of managing work in the Learning to Labor Together webinar.
Five Ways to Respond to Conflict (And When to Use Them)
Join us for a conversation about the varied ways we experience conflict in community, and the choices we have about how to respond to those conflicts in the Five Ways to Respond to Conflict webinar.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities – La Ecovilla
Introducing an EcoVillage that welcomes individuals of every race, ethnicity, culture, age, ability, gender identity, and sexual identity to join in creating an inclusive, caring, and diverse community.