Diana Leafe Christian

An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations. The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional communities and ecovillages in North America: the number of intentional communities listed in the Communities Directory increased 60 percent between 1990 and 1995. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded. Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak. After visiting and interviewing founders of dozens of successful and failed communities, along with her own forming-community experiences, the author concluded that "the successful 10 percent" had all done the same five or six things right, and "the unsuccessful 90 percent" had made the same handful of mistakes. Recognizing that a wealth of wisdom were contained in these experiences, she set out to distill and capture them in one place. Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step, practical "how-to" information on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage or intentional community. Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about real communities, and by profiling seven successful communities in depth, the book examines "the successful 10 percent" and why 90 percent fail; the role of community founders; getting a group off to a good start; vision and vision documents; decision-making and governance; agreements; legal options; finding, financing, and developing land; structuring a community economy; selecting new members; and communication, process, and dealing well with conflict. Sample vision documents, community agreements, and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant resources for learning more.

Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities

Creating a Life Together

Daniel Greenberg

Kristina Jansen

Orenda Lyons

Simona Gabriel

Lee Ann Kinkade

Ina Meyer-Stoll

Jesika Feather

Kim Scheidt

Skye Rios

Arizona Nashoba

Zane Hamm

Allegra Willet

Karin Iona Sundberg

Alyson Ewald

Brent Levin

Sam Makita

VIII. Children in Community Across the board, community is an amazing place to grow up. It's good for parents (who get considerable, caring help with a plethora of instant aunts, uncles, and surrogate grandparents), and good for kids (who get instant playmates, intriguing facilities and landscapes to explore without taking a car ride to get there, and role models beyond Mom and Dad). While intentional community is about making the purposeful choice to live cooperatively, the key word is "choice" when it comes to schooling community kids. Some are home schooled, some are unschooled, some go to private schools (including Waldorf and Montessori), and some go to public school. Some communities run their own schools, and some just leave it up to the parents.The best part is the range of options available to fit the opportunity to what that child needs to thrive. The 22 articles in this Children in Community bundle will help you understand what's being learned in community about children learning. This Digital Issue on Children in Community includes: 1. Children in Community: Fairyland or Fairy Tale? by Daniel Greenberg, Directory 2000 2. Raising and Educating Children in Community by Diana Leafe Christian, Directory 1995 3. Multiple Parenting in Community: The Advantages by Daniel Greenberg, #86 4. Multiple Parenting in Community: The Disadvantages by Daniel Greenberg, #87 5. Child-Adult Friendships, Part I by Daniel Greenberg, #90 6. Child-Adult Friendships, Part II by Daniel Greenberg 7. Keeping Our Children Safe by Daniel Greenberg, #107 8. My Tribal Childhood by Kristina Jansen, #114 9. Growing Up in the Miccosukee Land Co-op by Orenda Lyons, #86 10. The Person I Became by Simona Gabriel, #84 11. Who's the Meta Tonight? Communal Child Rearing at Twin Oaks by Hilke Kuhlmann interviewing Lee Ann Kinkade, #103 12. Family Dramas by Laird Schaub, Ina Meyer-Stoll, #146 13. Parenting in Community: The Voyage from Fantasy to Reality by Jesika Feather, #146 14. When an Ecovillage Is Raising Your Child by Kim Scheidt, #146 15. An Abundance of Dads by Skye Rios (with Melanie Rios), #146 16. Second Family by Arizona Nashoba, #146 17. Creating Family Where We Are Now: Building Sustainable Communities with the Next Generation Zane Hamm, #153 18. Growing Up in Ecovillage at Ithaca by Allegra Willet, #156 19. Reminiscences: Growing Up in Intentional Community by Karin Iona Sundberg, #160 20. Raising Superheroes: How Our Kids Are Learning to Use Their Power for Good by Alyson Ewald, #160 21. Esther and the Princess of the Fairies Brent Levin, #160 22. Community, Public School, and Culture Clash: Food for Thought from Rural Missouri by Sam Makita, #160

Best of Communities: VIII. Children in Community

Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling well-established model communities. This exhaustive guide includes excellent sample documents among its wealth of resources. Diana Leafe Christian is the editor of Communities magazine and has contributed to Body & Soul, Yoga Journal, and Shaman’s Drum, among others. She is a popular public speaker and workshop leader on forming intentional communities, and has been interviewed about the subject on NPR. She is a member of an intentional community in North Carolina.

Bugün pek çoğumuz kentte ya da kırda daha ekolojik ve onarıcı bir hayatın hayalini kuruyor, bu hayali gerçekleştirebilmek için birlikte yol alabileceğimiz bir topluluğun izini sürüyoruz. Ancak bu yolda karşımıza çıkan engeller, aklımızı karıştıran sorular ve sorunlar bizi yıldırıyor, yoruyor hatta hayalimizden vazgeçmemize neden olabiliyor. Öyle ki, bütün dünyada topluluk girişimlerinin yalnızca yüzde onu başarıya ulaşabiliyor. Peki, bu başarılı yüzde onun sırrı ne? Birlikte Bir Yaşam Kurmak; başarılı yüzde onun sırrını açıklayan, ekoköy ya da niyetli topluluğunuzu kurarken iyi bir başlangıç yapmanıza yardımcı olmaya çalışan muhteşem bir rehber. Bu kitapta, 90’lı yılların başından beri kurulan hayallerini hayata geçirmiş düzinelerce topluluğun yaşadığı zorlu deneyimler damıtılarak sizin bir grup olarak nasıl başlayacağınıza dair elle tutulur tavsiyeler sıralanıyor. Vizyon belgelerinin oluşturulması, karar verme sürecinin ve topluluğun idaresinin belirlenmesi, anlaşmalar ve ilkelerin oluşturulması, arazi için para kaynağı bulunması ve arazinin satın alınması, iletişim ve işleyişinden size katılacak insanların seçilmesine kadar bu büyülü yolculukta karşınıza çıkabilecek bütün meseleler tek tek irdeleniyor.

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