Join East Bay Cohousing members for a group in-person participation from the new EBCOHO clubhouse in The Hub social-entrepreneur coworking space at the ultra-green Brower Center in downtown Berkeley in a national Simple Living America conference call with Vicki Robin, bestselling author of Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Talk with Vicki and fans of simplicity across the country about "Having Enough for Life: the Your Money or Your Life approach to money...and life"

We're hosting this as an EBCOHO event because we find that community can be a key tool in simplifying our lives, decluttering (mentally as well as physically), letting go of attachments. And simplicity is a key core value of many communities. While Raines sometimes refers to cohousing as "voluntary complexity," the reality is that with sharing, you don't need as much yourself. EBCOHO is a Simple Living America member.

The event will run precisely 5-6 PM, and will feature speakerphone connection to the conference call as we pull up relevant websites on the big screen and use the wall-to-wall frosted glass whiteboard surface to do our own graphic expression during the call and introduce ourselves.

Please arrive promptly. The meeting space we are using has limited capacity, so advance payment is required when you RSVP to save your spot.

Please let us know if you have any problems making your payment; you do not need to have a PayPal account, just click on the link at the bottom of the left-hand text rather than the login/create an account part on the right on the payment screen.

Your payment helps pay for the space rental, refreshments, and our Simple Living America membership. Half price for current paid EBCOHO supporting members and Hub members - contact us to get the discount when registering. To upgrade to a supporting membership, get a cohousing book and a cohousing coaching session, use the "Pay Dues Online" link on the EBCOHO home page.

The Hub is a private coworking space, so please don't disturb the other members; no pets or service animals, please. The building is fully wheelchair accessible, with accessible facilities.

Called the prophet of “consumption-downsizers” by the New York Times, she is a frequent speaker on this issue at conferences; to corporate, academic, religious and environmental institutions; and at professional meetings of organizations seeking to understand and contribute to the national trend toward sustainable lifestyles.

Vicki has helped launch many sustainability initiatives including The New Road Map Foundation, The Simplicity Forum, The Turning Tide Coalition, Sustainable Seattle, The Center for a New American Dream, Transition Whidbey and more. In the 1990s she served on the President’s Council on Sustainable Development’s Task Force on Population and Consumption.

Vicki will be conducting an inexpensive 4-session teleclass in October (Saturdays or Mondays), Discover Your Enough Point, to explore:

• How much is enough – of anything?
  
• How do you know when you have enough?
  
• How can you have enough – for life?

By providing mainstream America with a means to The Satisfaction of Enough through its unique Get Satisfied book, campaign and website, Simple Living America is helping to launch a satisfaction movement in this country. House parties, community events, the member newsletter, and on-line postings nationwide are building the momentum. SLA calls for balance in a complex world.

In the U.S., the rat race for "stuff" often leaves us hungry for more and on an endless quest for satisfaction. It is the mission of Simple Living America to help people satisfy these cravings by sharing their paths to simplified lifestyles, leading to societal change.

Based in the Los Angeles area, Simple Living America is a project partner of the 501c3 tax-deductible CRESP Center for Transformative Action at Cornell University (CRESP also was involved with Ithaca EcoVillage --R). Since 1996, it has carried out Transformative Action principles that replace the traditional us-vs-them approach to social change with cooperation, synergy, and reciprocity.