Cohousing-L Mailing List: Finding Community fair, workshops, cohousing/ecovillages (Berkeley, CA)

[Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-L]

One final reminder for folks in the Bay Area and around Northern
California, living in and seeking and creating cohousing:

If you're looking for community in your life, planning to retire with
friends, doing a group house, or looking to create your own ecovillage,
intentional community, or cohousing neighborhood, one of these events can
be worth the trip to Berkeley.

There's THREE events this weekend:

    * Friday Night: Community Seeker's Fair at Green City Gallery in
Berkeley with Finding Community author (and Communities magazine
Editor Emeritus) Diana Leafe Christian of Earthaven Ecovillage near
Asheville, NC. She will present on how to research thoroughly, visit
enjoyably, evaluate intelligently, and join gracefully an ecovillage
or other kind of intentional community. This is the subject of her new
book, Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional
Community. Copies of this book; Diana's first book, Creating a Life
Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional
Communities; the new Communities Directory; and other books will be
available.

    * Saturday all-day at Green City Gallery in downtown Berkeley:
Communities Convergence featuring an ecovillage slide show and Slow Is
Beautiful author / Phinney Ecovillage creator / voluntary simplicity
movement leader Cecile Andrews from Seattle. And Open Space for you to
meet other seekers and creators and people living in community, to
talk about ecology and affordability and permaculture, Aging In
Community (both designing for creating community where you live and
Senior/Elder Cohousing), and condo/coop law. Videos including "Visions
of Utopia" and local community documentaries (with filmmakers
present). Retrofit community creation. Green Building. And more, based
on what YOU bring to teach and share. Bonus session: eight common
sources of conflict and how to avoid them. (optional Saturday evening
field trip to local ecovillage calendar potluck or biofuels
sustainable roadshow caravan fundraiser party)

    * Sunday all day: Creating and Sustaining Intentional Communities,
Ecovillages and Cohousing workshop. Nearly 100 pages of handouts.
Learn from Diana how to get started, attract members, arrange
financing, recruit, select sites, work out vision and mission, and
other essential elements.

Pricing (including some sliding scale options), locations, descriptions,
and RSVP forms can be found at the Northern California Cohousing website:
http://www.norcalcoho.org/

Raines

P.S. For those in Silicon Valley / the Peninsula: An additional ecovillage
slide show will take Monday evening at the Green Building Exchange in
Redwood City.