East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

October 8, 2009 2:00 PM - 1 attended

Creating Sustainable Decisions through Community Engagement

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(This international conference call with local discussion may particularly be of interest for cohousing facilitators and others interested in group-process best practices. Making effective, sustainable decisions through consensus and similar processes is a key element of what makes cohousing work well. --Raines)

An Interview with Vivien Twyford - Author, Teacher, Community Engagement Practitioner

A PublicForum Book Talk (via conference call) (60 minutes)

Community engagement efforts are always well intentioned . . . yet they can easily go wrong and lead to 'bad' decisions. To design and implement a successful engagement effort, you need to know the essential steps that lead to a quality outcome—and the pitfalls to avoid.

Join us for a lively one-hour discussion with Australian practitioner Vivien Twyford about what you need to know to create sustainable decisions. Drawing on more than 20 years experience with public, private, and NGO/nonprofit organizations, Twyford will share her insights and illustrate her talk with examples of community engagement done well—and not so well. The event will include a participant Q&A session.

Twyford is co-author of Beyond Public Meetings: Connecting Community Engagement with Decision-Making. Based on this insightful book, our interview will highlight:

Why communities must be engaged to create better decisions
How engaged communities can help make better decisions
How to go beyond the public meeting by focusing on desired outcomes rather than tired techniques
How to engage communities in a positive and productive way
What successful community engagement looks like

Vivien Twyford is the founding partner of Twyfords, an Australian company that specializes in community engagement. Twyfords offers a range of services including strategic advice on designing purposeful engagement policies; evaluation frameworks; and training for decision-makers and practitioners in planning and undertaking engagement processes.

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

Berkeley, CA

Founded Oct 22, 2003

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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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There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups like East Lake Cohousing (formerly North Oakland Cohousing).

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