East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

September 23, 2009 12:00 PM - 15 attended

Lunch talk about communities movement w/FIC leader Laird Schaub (Berkeley Dwntn)

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As a boardmember of Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC), I'm delighted to have this rare opportunity to welcome our Executive Secretary, a longtime movement leader, facilitator, and trainer. If you can make it to downtown Berkeley (a block from BART) midday on a weekday, we'd love for you to join us, in our new EBCOHO clubhouse office in Berkeley's greenest building. -- Raines

Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) is an umbrella education group for the communities movement, publishing Communities Magazine and the Communities Directory, as well as putting on Art of Community conferences and supporting regional community-organizing efforts.

We cordially invite you to join FIC Executive Secretary Laird Schaub for a brown-bag (BYO) lunch conversation about community, the Fellowship, and how you can be most effective in connecting with the movement. For more about Laird, who lives at Sand Hill Farm in Rutledge, Missouri, but travels all around the continent to visit cohousing communities, EcoVillages, co-ops, communes and more and help facilitate, see his Community and Consensus blog.

Please bring your own lunch; we'll have some drinks available.
No pets or service animals, please; we are guests in this private office workspace.
The building is fully wheelchair accessible.

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15 attended

5.003 (3 ratings)

Event Host

Raines Cohen
Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer

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Event Host

Betsy Morris
Cohousing Coach, Organizer
scott adams
North Bay Cohousing Organizer/Communities International leader

I thought the meeting was great and could have gone on for another hour. Laird was very clear and positive about the benefits and challenges of community living. I thought some of the questions were insightful. The meeting room was almost too small but comfortable. For those of who drive parking can be difficult.
Linda DeNike
Libby Wenger
Jenny Guy
North Oakland Cohousing organizer - supporting group member
Natalie Johl
David J.
Parker Street Coop, supporting EBCOHO member group thru 10/2011
spring friedlander
Supporting EBCOHO Member through 4/27/11&Prudence Crandall House
Ann Parsons Greer
A former member
A former member

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

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