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Synopsis
While the 90s saw a surge of revitalized interest in intentional communities, only 10% of the new communities formed actually succeeded. "Creating a Life Together" is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information on how to establish a successful intentional community. Based on the experiences of intentional community founders, this inspiring book is filled with vivid anecdotes, success stories, and samples of vision statements, member agreements, meeting minutes, and other legal documents. Diana Leafe Christian is the editor of "Communities" magazine and has contributed to "New Age Journal, Yoga Journal, Shaman's Drum," among others. She is a popular public speaker and workshop leader and has been interviewed on NPR. She is a member of an intentional community in North Carolina.
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About the Author
Besides editing Communities magazine since 1993, Diana Leafe Christian offers workshops nationwide in the USA on the process of forming new ecovillages and intentional communities. She is a member of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.
Review
An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations.
The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional communities and ecovillages in North America: the number of intentional communities listed in the Communities Directory increased 60 percent between 1990 and 1995. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded. Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak. After visiting and interviewing founders of dozens of successful and failed communities, along with her own forming-community experiences, the author concluded that "the successful 10 percent" had all done the same five or six things right, and "the unsuccessful 90 percent" had made the same handful of mistakes. Recognizing that a wealth of wisdom were contained in these experiences, she set out to distill and capture them in one place.
Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step, practical "how-to" information on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage or intentional community. Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about real communities, and by profiling seven successful communities in depth, the book examines "the successful 10 percent" and why 90 percent fail; the role of community founders; getting a group off to a good start; vision and vision documents; decision-making and governance; agreements; legal options; finding, financing, and developing land; structuring a community economy; selecting new members; and communication, process, and dealing well with conflict. Sample vision documents, community agreements, and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant resources for learning more.
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- PublisherNew Society Publishers
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0865714274
- ISBN 13 9780865714274
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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