# A Holistic Community Network Seeking Members (Seattle and surrounding areas)

**URL:** <https://forum.ic.org/t/a-holistic-community-network-seeking-members-seattle-and-surrounding-areas/2765>\
**Category:** Discussion\
**Tags:** community-vision, seeking-members\
**Created:** [August 24, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.ic.org/t/a-holistic-community-network-seeking-members-seattle-and-surrounding-areas/2765 "2023-08-24T07:06:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![robert123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@robert123](https://forum.ic.org/u/robert123)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.ic.org/t/a-holistic-community-network-seeking-members-seattle-and-surrounding-areas/2765/1 "2023-08-24T07:06:40Z")

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## The vision is to build a holistic community network

A network that is operated by and serves members of the collective residing in surrounding neighborhoods. Imagine a shared living experience enabled by interactions, collaborations, and mutual support among members - thereby disrupting the prevalent culture of hyper-individualism and isolation.

Bright Star aims to be a hub where individuals can genuinely get to know each other over time, build camaraderie, and organize various events and initiatives that benefit each other.

## Inspired by characteristics of Intentional Communities and applied in a decentralized way

We usually think that intentional communities are restricted to a specific building, house, or a tight grouping of houses (cohousing for example). We are trying to incorporate many of the characteristics of Intentional Communities in a decentralized way and spread across neighbors in surrounding neighborhoods.

## Looking for dreamers and members

We are building out a network in the **Seattle and surrounding areas** and looking for dreamers who would like to build and be part of a community network. Visionaries, community builders, and early adopters willing to embrace a work-in-progress experience are especially invited, as your input and engagement are key in shaping our evolving community.

# Bright Star Collective

Please visit our website for more details [www.cooperativeculture.org](https://www.cooperativeculture.org)

Questions? Please post here or use the contact form on the website to reach out to us.

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**Author:** ![RionaAndLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a4c791/32.png) [@RionaAndLogan](https://forum.ic.org/u/RionaAndLogan)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.ic.org/t/a-holistic-community-network-seeking-members-seattle-and-surrounding-areas/2765/2 "2023-11-15T09:02:25Z")

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I like this idea, creating more intention in unintentional neighbourhoods/proximity, making neighbourhoods into villages again, I think its a great idea, especially for people who aren’t sure they want to live in an intentional community, but they want more intentional closeness in their community they’re already in 🙂