Compassion in Meetings: Sociocracy and Nonviolent Communication
Join Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez of Sociocracy for All for a FREE introduction to how using nonviolent communication and sociocracy TOGETHER provides us with a container for becoming the type of community members we know we can be. Applying the basics of nonviolent communication in meetings is a skill that can make sociocratic decision-making easier and community meetings more connecting.
Hard Conversations: Why They Matter and How to Have Them
Is there a conversation you need to have that you are dreading?What if a free one-hour webinar could move you from dread to readiness? This webinar will give you what you need to embark on that dialogue you're dreading--and come out of it stronger than you started.
Intro to Intentional Communities Around the Globe
Are you thinking about joining an intentional community and want to get your search underway? You’ve come to the right place! This 90-min webinar will cover all the basics about intentional communities — where they are, why they matter, and how to find one that's a good fit for you. Get your questions answered and leave with practical tips.
Consensus for Cooperative Groups: Building Solidarity by Accessing Group Wisdom & Commitment [2-part Training]
Consensus sounds great on paper...but a lot of groups struggle to know how to actually build inclusive decision-making systems. Join intentional community consultant and trainer, Yana Ludwig, for a 2-part intensive training on what consensus means in a community context and how to make it work for your group.
Unleash the Power of our Differences Series: White Fragility
Facing our own fragility can feel vulnerable. In this workshop we’ll explore safe structures to transform fragility and vulnerability into heart-strengthening assets for ourselves and our communities.
Virtual Tour of Communities
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!
Sustainable Living in Community
Join workshop presenter, Dan Schultz, and learn how to transform to a more sustainable, soulful and connected life, through a strong relationship with land and tribe,
Addressing Harm in Community
Learn how to acknowledge and repair different types of harm when it happens in community. We’ll hear about the larger context in which harm happens and how to restore relationships.
Using the Enneagram to Become a Better Communitarian
Join longtime communitarian Lee Warren for a 2-hour introductory overview of the Enneagram and how it applies to life in community. Learn how understanding the enneagram and your own enneatype can make you a better communitarian.
The Future of Cohousing
Join presenter Bryan Bowen of Caddis Collaborative to learn how the traditional model of cohousing in the US is being cleverly adapted to reflect emerging community needs. You’ll learn what’s new, cool, and interesting within cohousing and discuss the many ways different communities are shaping adaptations and innovations within cohousing today.
Unleash the Power of our Differences Series: Cross Cultural Communications
Join Elliott Butler-Cisneros, to explore safe structures to transform fragility and vulnerability into heart-strengthening assets for ourselves and our communities. Another workshop in our Unleash the Power of Our Differences series.
Intro to Intentional Communities around the Globe + live Q&A
Are you thinking about joining an intentional community and want to get your search underway? You’ve come to the right place! This 90-min webinar will cover all the basics about intentional communities — where they are, why they matter, and how to find one that's a good fit for you. Get your questions answered and leave with practical tips.
Community Connect — an online networking event!
Community Connect is a fun and informative virtual coffee hour for people who love intentional community. Imagine a sweet gathering in the common house, but online and with communitarians across the world. There will be opportunities for you to share about your project, community-themed games and networking activities.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities
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!
Intro to Gaia Education’s framework for sustainability
Join Giovani Ciarlo of Gaia Education to learn about the four dimensional aspects of their sustainability mandala - economic, ecological, social and worldview - and how they can help you create an equal, functional, net zero community.
Intro to Intentional Communities around the Globe
Are you thinking about joining an intentional community and want to get your search underway? You’ve come to the right place! This 90-min webinar will cover all the basics about intentional communities — where they are, why they matter, and how to find one that's a good fit for you. Get your questions answered and leave with practical tips.
Developing a Prosocial Ecosystem in Intentional Communities
Join Prosocial World Master Facilitator Pip Atkins for an interactive workshop to design your community model using the Prosocial Design Principles. It is a method for culture change that sets out principles for an organization to enact to support it flourishing. Prosocial provides tools which allow groups to balance self interest and group interest.
Facilitating Your Group through Anything
Learn how to unpack the dynamics and choices at play when facilitating difficult topics. Join facilitation expert Laird Schaub for an introduction on how to support group conversations, using the topic of non-monetary contributions as an example.
Common Legal Issues in Community and How to Avoid Them
Strong and responsive legal agreements within communities are key to both their long term success and maintaining healthy relationships between community members. Join us for this bird's eye view of legal topics to consider when starting, maintaining or reforming a community.
Rising Together: The Power of Singing in Your Community
What muses live beyond the obligatory food gathering tune? Join artist and healer Lyndsey Scott for an interactive workshop on the uplifting and relaxing power of song in your community.
Intro to Intentional Communities around the Globe + live Q&A
Are you thinking about joining an intentional community and want to get your search underway? You’ve come to the right place! This 90-min webinar will cover all the basics about intentional communities — where they are, why they matter, and how to find one that's a good fit for you. Get your questions answered and leave with practical tips.
Virtual Tour of Intentional Communities
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!
Q&A with Consensus Expert Laird Schaub
Do you have burning consensus questions? Join us for a 1-hour, casual Q&A session with longtime communitarian and consensus instructor Laird Schaub to learn best practices.
Aging in community: From isolation to belonging
Social isolation and loneliness is on the rise. Join Applied Human Sciences Associate Professor Darla Fortune for an academic presentation on inclusion and belonging as we grow older.
Community Connect — an online networking event!
Community Connect is a fun and informative virtual coffee hour for people who love intentional community. Imagine a sweet gathering in the common house, but online and with communitarians across the world. There will be opportunities for you to share about your project, community-themed games and networking activities.
Q&A with Consensus Expert Laird Schaub
Do you have burning consensus questions? Join us for a 1-hour, casual Q&A session with longtime communitarian and consensus instructor Laird Schaub to learn best practices.
Intro to Aging Gracefully in Community: A Panel
Join us for a 90-minute panel discussion with the course instructors for Aging Gracefully in Community. In this discussion, you’ll learn about the expertise and experiences Margaret Critchlow, Laird Schaub, Danielle Williams, Alline Anderson, and Lee Warren have with aging in community.
Managing the Moment When Conflict First Emerges in Community
When conflict arises, it's often unclear how to best tackle it or where to even begin. Join facilitation expert Laird Schaub for an introduction on how to work with conflict for the well-being of your community.
7 Membership Questions All Cooperative Groups Need to Address
While most cooperative groups do not discuss all these questions or even any of them, all groups should. Get clear on the membership questions your community should be asking now in this free, one-hour webinar.
Q&A with Consensus Expert Laird Schaub
Do you have burning consensus questions? Join us for a 1-hour, casual Q&A session with longtime communitarian and consensus instructor Laird Schaub to learn best practices.