If you missed Songaia’s May Day celebration, here’s just a taste of what happened!
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Building Gift Community: We Need Each Other Imagine “your” community: Living in your own home, easy travel distance apart, a tribe of men and women, safely intimate and committed to each other. In these times of rapid change you’ve claimed your place and this family of choice. Together you’ve created safety nets of bonded connection, as you support each other’s action in the world to literally reinvent the new Gift Culture. Seminar Intention:
Participants will reference their own community experience and a new book: We Need Each Other: Building Gift Community with 52 chapters of powerful context and “How-To” specifics. Visit the website: http://www.weneedeachother.net/ Bill Kauth: Since 1984 Bill has co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure of the ManKind Project, Inner King and Warrior-Monk Trainings. Author: Circle of Men published in 1992. His new book We Need Each Other is co-authored with his wife Zoe Alowan. Zoe has been deeply engaged in sacred art for decades. As painter, sculptor, dancer, songstress, storyteller her work in women’s circles reclaims beauty and wisdom. She facilitates with humor, co-honoring the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. Gift Community seminar in Bellingham
Gift Community seminar in Marysville
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Join the Songaia Community to celebrate Earth Day and the community’s 10 Anniversary May Day! DETAILS
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The Ananda Community of Lynnwood invites you to an Open House of our community. Featuring tours of the community, apartments, gardens, our temple, our CSA operation, hoop house, chicken coop and more. There will be booths, information on other intentional communities, refreshments, live music, a solstice celebration – all are welcome DETAILS:
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NICA will hold its annual Spring Gathering this year on Saturday, March 26, from 10:15 to 4:15 at Maxwelton Creek CoHousing on Whidbey Island. The theme of the gathering will be Permaculture. Suggested donation at the door is $10. Shuttle service will be available meet for those who depart on the 9:05 AM ferry from EDMONDS (see note below!); return time trips to the ferry will start at 3:00 pm. We encourage people to bring a contribution for a potluck lunch, but we will provide some warm main dishes so you don’t have to bring more than you can carry on the ferry. RSVP here to help us anticipate how many will be coming. Additional information, including agenda, will follow soon!
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After four years of planning and site development, Clearwater Commons is beginning phase-one house construction, building 8 of 16 units and opening up the opportunity for new buyers to select choice lots alongside North Creek in Bothell. An informational meeting about Clearwater Commons, a 7.5 acre property presenting a rural oasis close to urban amenities, will be held Sunday, January 23rd at 1pm. Clearwater Commons is located at 1415 196th St SE, Bothell, WA 98012. For more information, call Tom at (206) 919-7449 or visit us on the web at clearwatercommons.com Map powered by MapPress
NICA recently received this invitation from Cohousing USA: The 2011 National Cohousing Conference (NCC) will be held June 17-19th in Washington DC. We are in need of speakers, presenters, panel members and workshop makers extraordinaire to share their expertise and knowledge during this exciting event. We need you! As the absolute best place to reach the entire cohousing world in one fell swoop, there will also be unique opportunities by holding this event in Washington DC, to show how cohousing is relevant, resilient and a path forward. In fact, that is exactly how we are structuring the conference to help all this information come together holistically for the people and groups that make up the cohousing constellation. Friday will be focused on the ways that cohousing is relevant to an individual, family, community and to our society at large. Saturday will be focused on building skills for a resilient and joyous future; looking deeply into issues that are basic to creating, maintaining or understanding cohousing – and applying them to the real world. On Sunday we will be looking for the conference goers to help build a path forward and to steer the future of cohousing itself. Pretty exciting stuff. We have developed this conference with a close focus on the constituent groups involved. While we have organized them into five ‘tracks’ we all know that no one person or community ever falls solely into one track and that any given presentation could appeal to a wide range of interests, so these are provided mostly as guidance as to who we feel is being served by this event.
Please review the themes and tracks suggested for the 2011 NCC to determine how best to contribute your time and energy to this effort. Suggested topics and the information that will be required for submission can be found by clicking here. Additionally, if you believe you have an outstanding topic for presentation that we have not listed, we will review all submissions for possible incorporation. We are trying to avoid duplicate or similar presentations, which will be screened during the review process after the submission deadline. The “Call for Speakers” will be reviewed through an online database that allows potential speakers to provide submissions electronically. Please use the link below to send your submission to become a speaker at the 2011 NCC. Your participation is encouraged and appreciated! You don’t have to submit your actual presentation at this time, just provide the electronic submission with the information outlined on the link above. Go to EasyChair to start your submission to participate as a speaker at the 2011 Conference. Submissions must be received by January 28, 2011. Again, your presentation topic and summary are required by this date, not the full written paper and/or PowerPoint presentation. For more information about the 2011 National Cohousing Conference, please click here. Before, after or during submissions, if you have any questions, please use the EasyChair system. In dire circumstances you can contact program@cohous.org. Video segments from the Hope for a Better World panel discussion, hosted by NICA at East West Bookshop, October 13, 2010, are now available on the nwcommunities Youtube site. Communities represented on this panel included Bright Morning Star, Ananda Community Lynnwood, Jackson Park Co-housing, and Sherwood Co-op. Each community provided an introduction as well as a reflection on specific benefits of living in intentional community, such as Satisfying Relationships, Harmonious Living, Shared Resources, and Cooperation. Here are a few samples: PANEL DISCUSSION WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS: BENEFITS OF LIVING IN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY The entire playlist can be viewed here. And the playlist from the previous Panel Discussion (Models for Sustainable Living) can be viewed here. Thanks to all who participated. The Duwamish Cohousing Fall Community Clothing Swap and Bash is THIS SATURDAY, October 23, from 12-8 pm!! There will be food, drink, socks, pants, dancing, and dancing pants! There is unlimited space for people and dresses, so feel free to tell your friends, your house, everyone! This is a fun opportunity to tour and meet the community and ask your questions about life in cohousing as well! Please FORWARD WIDELY!!! Please bring a drink or snack to share, and plenty of lovely clothes! Children’s Halloween crafts are likely, so bring the wee ones also… Please BRING YOUR CLOTHES ON FRIDAY, if you can! This is preferred, but of course you can come with clothes Sat as well. We’ll be in the common house setting up all day Friday, so drop on by! DUWAMISH COHOUSING is located at 6000 17th Ave SW in West Seattle, WA. Visit the website at http://www.duwamishcohousing.org/ Map powered by MapPress
Join on a “traveling workshop” and very special tour of some of Seattle’s cohousing communities. As you travel between locations on a comfortable bus, the Cohousing resident guide(s) will give you a chance to introduce yourselves, and will share general information about cohousing, answer questions, provide fact sheets and site plans, and prepare you for your ~45-60 minute visit to each community. At each stop, a community host will guide your group through his or her neighborhood and answer questions. We look forward to having you join us for a day full of learning, community building and fun. On this tour you will visit these communities: Itinerary:
This tour will be led by one or two knowledgeable local cohousing residents. We will enjoy lunch together in one of the communities in the company of some of their residents. We will start and end this tour at one of these communities (not yet decided). Specific location details will be posted here as soon as we have them and included in your registration comfirmation email. Group Discounts: Groups of 5 or more individuals can save up to 20% per person. Groups of 5 to 9 pay $80/person. Groups of 10 or more pay $75/person. To register a group, email Neil at tours@cohousing.org and include your phone number. To register 1 to 4 individuals, proceed to Register Now! below. When November 13th, 2010 8:30 AM through 5:30 PM Event Fee(s)
For more information on the cohousing bus tours: To register for the Seattle/Vashon Island tour: |
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