Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Forming Groups and the National Open House Day!

[mira Danyel brisk (mirabepeace]

That sounds great.

What about in situations where the forming group isn't within the same city
area, but a couple hours away?  What would you suggest then?

 let's say, the existing communities may still want to have information
tables for the forming groups while most of the group members hold another
event in their own city.

I'm in this situation - I don't think it would make sense for the forming
group to hold their event AT the existing community, on the other hand, the
existing community would still promote the forming group!

What I'm realizing in this discussion is that ANY existing community could
in fact have a table or some space dedicated to info on forming groups in
general, with an emphasis on region ones.  Perhaps the forming groups could
have a couple or so people representing the group there to talk to people
about it.  That in itself would be great and very useful for all parties!

The rest of the 'crew' could still hold some event back in their home
town.

Again, just brainstorming!

This is the situation for my forming group in Charlotte, NC - we are at
least 2 hrs away from a number of existing communities to the North, East,
and West.   This is something we are going to have to consider, and the
other NC / VA communities will want to consider how they want to handle  /
represent the forming groups as well.   Look forward to seeing how this
works out.





On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Kathryn McCamant <
kmccamant [at] cohousing-solutions.com> wrote:

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> Existing communities could include forming groups in their area by
> inviting them to have information about their forming community, and
> members of that group, to have a table in their common house, which would
> be open for tours.
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> Katie
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> On 10/16/15, 4:51 PM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of mira Danyel brisk"
> <cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on
> behalf of mirabepeace [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi again,
> >I might as well be the first to brainstorm.  This is brainstorming,
> >remember!
> >
> >As I was writing the note above, the idea of literally having each of the
> >dedicated forming member (who want to and can) open their house and invite
> >people in.   This may not be practical for some groups or people, but
> >could
> >be interesting to have almost a 'tour of open houses' in the area of the
> >members.  Perhaps there are different activities people can do at each
> >location..    and then meet up at the end of the day...
> >
> >Having an event where the forming members are all together would be nice
> >too.  I was imagining that having it at the people's actual houses helps
> >to
> >give the feel for what cohousing may be like when those that are close by
> >come to visit Inside someone's home and have a chance to casually hang
> >out,
> >do activities together, learn, etc.
> >
> >...
> >
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:13 PM, mira Danyel brisk <mirabepeace [at] 
> >gmail.com
> >
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> YES!
> >>
> >> With almost as many 'Forming' group as there are 'Completed' ones now
> >>(see
> >> the stats from the coho/us site below), there definitely will be support
> >> around having these groups be an active part of the 'National Open House
> >> Day'.
> >>
> >> So, maybe you won't be opening your own house.. or maybe you will!  How
> >>you
> >> want to do it is really up to you and your group.   It may not be as
> >>'easy'
> >> as in a Completed location where the people Already live close together,
> >> but honestly, they will have their own challenges and questions to face.
> >>
> >> I'm a part of a forming group myself.  I would like to use this email
> >>chain
> >> to start brainstorming ways a forming group could accomplish an 'open
> >> house'.   After all, we are Actively in the marketing and outreach mind
> >>set
> >> all the time. This event could be especially important for us to get
> >> publicity and put 'on the map', even before you have a site to call
> >>home!
> >>
> >> Completed = 131
> >> Building* = 24
> >> Own Site = 20
> >> Forming = 98
> >>
> >> Peace,
> >> *Mira Danyel Brisk*
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