East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

SF Backyard Neighborhood visioning meeting

Jan 2010 10

Sun 2:00 PM

Description: January 2010 meeting announcement:

What:
Cohousing/Ecovillage/TIC with Joint Homeschooling/Unschooling

When:
January 10, 2010
2 to 5 p.m.

Where:
CPMC Davies Campus, North Tower, Level B, Conference Room B-2 (near the cafeteria)
601 Duboce Avenue, at Castro, across from the N-train stop at Duboce Park
San Francisco

Map: www.cpmc.org/visiting/directions/directions-dav.html

Contact:
Kelly
sfbackyard.wordpress.com/contact

Agenda:

This will be a visioning meeting, in which we begin to talk about specific things we want in a multi-unit building, a homeowners association, and an intentional neighborhood. Anyone planning to attend is encouraged to think in advance about their ?must haves,? their ?must not haves,? and their preferences. We could also start a Decision Log and begin writing a Vision Statement.

The meeting organizer, Kelly, will be the facilitator if nobody else volunteers, but she would like for people with more facilitation skills to contact her at sfbackyard.wordpress.com/contact about taking over that job. For guidance in developing an agenda, she is using the book Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, by Diana Leafe Christian (DianaLeafeChristian.org/Creating.html).

Like the December meeting, this meeting will be mostly of interest to families who homeschool or unschool their children and would like to live close to other such families in San Francisco, but it may also be of interest to people who would like to live in cohousing where there are often many children playing/learning in the common area.

If you cannot attend this meeting but would like to make sure you get announcements about future meetings, please contact Kelly at sfbackyard.wordpress.com/contact. And please feel free to forward this invitation to friends who might be interested.

***The meeting room is fairly large, so children will be welcome as long as the adults can still hear each other easily. If the children get too restless, some of the parents could take them to the park across the street or, possibly, to a nearby empty meeting room.***

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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.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico.

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).

Extra bonus for 2012: The National Cohousing Conference is coming to town in June!

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Join us for an orientation, for social events, discussion, talks with exciting speakers, and hands-on workshops to learn the tools for developing good group relationships, and the real estate development process.. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2012 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.