Starting and Sustaining Thriving Intentional Communities: From Cohousing to Ecovillages October 28, 2006

Workshop with Diana Leafe Christian:
Starting and Sustaining Thriving Intentional Communities
From Cohousing to Ecovillages
Communities magazine editor and author Diana Leafe Christian will be
leading a day and a half workshop, Starting and Sustaining a Thriving
Intentional Community: From Cohousing to Ecovillages on Saturday and Sunday, October
28-29, in Northampton. The workshop will run from 9:00 to 5:00 on
Saturday and 9:00 to noon on Sunday. The cost is $150.
A nationally known speaker and workshop leader on intentional
communities, Diana is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow
Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, and the forthcoming book,
Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers, Spring 2007).
Designed for people starting new intentional communities: from cohousing
to ecovillages as well as people who live in communities now, the workshop will distill Christian's findings into what practical steps people can take to make communities healthy and successful, as well as common pitfalls to avoid. Through experiential exercises and practical, step-by-step advice,
the workshop will explore mission and purpose documents, decision-making and power issues in groups, typical time-frames and costs for starting new projects, important steps to reduce "structural conflict", good process and communication skills, and recommended antidotes for four common sources of community conflict.
As you may know, Diana speaks widely at conferences and leads workshops on ecovillages in the United States and Canada. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, the Washington Post, New Dimensions Radio, NPR, and the BBC.
"Diana is a sparkling trainer," says Lois Arkin, co-founder of Los Angeles
Eco-Village about Christian's workshop. "My community was energized for a year with follow-up activities inspired by her workshop."
"Diana's workshops have been outstanding, and are consistently one of the highest-rated sections overall in our two-month program," says Marc
Tobin,Program Coordinator at Lost Valley Educational Center, an intentional community in Oregon.
The workshop will be held at the offices of Countrywide Mortgage, 241
King Street, suite 123, Northampton, MA. To register for the workshop, or for more information, contact me, Bill Cole, at 413-624-5599,
bill@katywil.com.
For more information on Diana and her work, see
http://www.CreatingaLifeTogether.org.
Thank you very much.
Bill Cole, Katywil: An Ecovillage
Colrain, Massachusetts
http://www.katywil.com/

Official Website: http://www.CreatingaLifeTogether.org