Hi everyone, I’m Brandon and I’m currently living in east Tennessee. I’ve fancied the idea of starting my own community in the past and I found this website/group while I was initially researching free land and ghost towns for sale. Then I saw somewhere mentioned intentional communities and reminded me of the idea. So now I’m considering joining a community nearest me. I’m all about true green living and returning to living harmoniously with nature and spiritually as our ancient ancient ancestors were practicing before. You can call me a visionary for a world better than what we were born into and want the highest good for all beings and as well as allowing redemption because we’re all works in progress and not everyone has the best tools in the toolbox provided they have said metaphorical toolbox. I’m a firm believer in the golden rule and striving to be the example one wants to witness in the world whatever it may be. Essentially, just be the change you want to see in the world. Anyway, one of my greatest passions is a new architecture I’m designing for not just homes, but cities as well as well as anything in between being all self sufficient and carbon neutral to negative in harmony with a given local landscape both geologically(including invisible telluric forces(electric/magnetic/ley lines) and celestially(solar/lunar cycles). I also incorporate sacred geometry in the mix. And last but not least, my preferred and ideal diet is pescatarian(fish and veggies as well as fruit) which is in my blood anyway being 1/8th Portuguese with relatives out of the island of Madeira. Other than that, feel free to ask me any reasonable questions. Glad to be here!
Hello. I can not access my starter course or contact by email. Please help!
Hi Catherine! I’m in western Mass, super close to CT. I’d love to talk more about your vision.
Hi Lila! I just read your post and I appreciate your sharing. I love the desert! I only lived a brief while in Arizona (most of my life I have been in Connecticut) but I truly fell in love with it. I too just purchased The Cooperative Culture Handbook and I would love to join a discussion group about it! Please let me know when you think to begin.
Hi Renee!
Glad to hear from you! I am happy to talk about visions and dreams with you! Let me know when you are available. I am around most weekends and evenings.
Blessings…
Catherine
Hello All, I am Korey, and am familiar with many pronouns and don’t mind how they are applied to me, though I’m commonly known as a male, or a man, but not a mailman, aged about 46 sun cycles. I am alive currently in the Western Finger lakes region in NY about 40 minutes south of Rochester.
I’ve been dreaming of fostering and building a community for about six years and have been taking part in managing a property very conducive to such an endeavor known as St. Michael’s Mission. St. Micheal’s was originally built as a seminary school and here is a quick look: St. Michael’s Mission aerial, January 30, 2021 - YouTube . The deeper history surrounding the property is Catholic and communal and as one may imagine very structured.
My aim, or at least my hope is that a group forms to live with intent in as self sufficient a manner as possible, for today we seem to be facing societal challenges of all sorts and to live closer to how our elders did I believe can and will be very rewarding.
Yes, I am “spiritual”, love to study various books, but do not hold to any one religious ideology except love and that there is an ever loving presence, or creator whom can make himself, herself, or itself present at any moment and can speak however it suits, and we can agree to call it God, and it probably loves all pronouns.
I have much to be thankful for in my skill set; flying airplanes, building things, carpentry, mechanics, computer / internet business experience. I’ve been self employed for more than 20 years. My primary aim in life seems to be creating little versions of myself and I call them my children, six of them boys, one of them a lady, and one unknown. (yet to be born).
I am here as I am hoping to meet other people with experience in forming community, maybe some who would want to take on this epic task at St. Michael’s. There is a group of people here now though not so much intentional.
Among the biggest challenge in today’s world is money and the creation and love thereof. I’ve studied Bitcoin and things like it for the last decade. I envision a community not based on money per say, but value. I someday hope to marry the consensus building mechanisms of cryptocurrency with the virtues needed to live intentionally in a community and can speak fluently in crypto and how this may work. I started a Telegram group for anyone that wants to discuss any intentional community aspirations. See my profile if you’d like a link. =]
Korey
I sure will Catherine, still working out some details. Hopefully I’ll get it figured out and post it next week.
Why were Korey’s posts flagged/hidden?
Hi everyone,
I’m part of Herding Cats Collective. We are an urban intentional community based out of Calgary, AB.
We are a 11 or so group of people — ages 24 to 69 — six of us live together in a home that I own and plan to share ownership within the next year.
We are together since a little over two years, we all trained with Diana Leafe Christian in Sociocracy as a governance method and in Non-violent communication. We have transformed the back and the front of the property into garden space, we cook for each other every night, have fire.
Our aim is to create living spaces that caters to the needs of visionaries leaders that wants to have more their life energy available to do the work that needs to be done in this world whether it is to heal ourselves, start alternative schools, ecovillages and generally grow a culture where most of people most of the time have abundant options to act from the natural joy of contributing.
We aim in the next few month we will be confident to commit to a legal entity to own this home and offer the framework to other friends and allies to buy other homes in the neighbourhood using the same model.
Check us out on instagram:
Welcome, I love the name of your collective! I look forward to hearing about the journey y’all are on with starting up, and deciding on your legal framework.
I read Diane Leafe Christian’s book Creating a Life Together before moving into my current community, and flip back through it from time to time as different conflicts come up. Thoughts come up like “I think Diane mentioned something like this once or twice in her book… I’m going to go check.” It has become a good resource.
Hey Ryan, just wanted to ask a quick question. I just got into low-income housing near Boston but will be getting involved in PUSH Buffalo. But i need a way to stay there maybe a week at a time for making connections, then come back here. I have not really gotten connected there enough yet to ask anybody but thought i would start with you. I know it is a long shot. Congrats on working for FIC!
Very cool! Have you tried getting in touch with anyone from anyone from PUSH about this? Could also try getting in touch with someone from Cooperation Buffalo. There is a hostel in Buffalo. If you couchsurf, and have an account, there are many active couchsurfers in the area as well.
Hello from Palm Springs CA, where it is getting hotter and drier every year. I’ve been interested in cooperative living and working most of my life and was able to work for a collective in San Francisco for a while. Participated in the Green Party and consensus in the 80’s. Now my spouse and I are in our 60’s and in the beginning of the adventure of finding a community that’s a good fit for us. We have an RV and are traveling across the north of the US in May and in October, we’ll travel across the south. We spend our summers in Provincetown MA. In 2014, we moved from Oakland CA to Provincetown, but the winter was so dark and cold and isolated that we came running back to California. We love cities or towns with lots of art and lively community, so rural living is probably not for us. We love being in multi-generational and diverse community, so over 55 places are probably not for us. We are queer and obvious, so probably red states aren’t a good fit (also healthcare.) We are excellent communicators but not great gardeners. We have a cat, and love dogs. I’m a former horse-trainer, and would love to be somewhere with animals. Felice is a book-keeper as well as an author/editor, somatic sex-educator and artist. I am an embodiment and resilience educator and dance/movement arts facilitator.
Here to learn about intentional communities, make connections and perhaps visit places in our travels.
Hi Adam, i think we met in. FIC forum!
Glad to see you are still interested in So Cal! !
I love your idea of a book club! I just listened to the author’s interview on the new Inside Community podcast and really enjoyed her energy. She has a lot of really great ideas and just the “get er doneness” to get those ideas off the ground!
I am a passionate holistic health advocate who values treating the whole person: mind, body, soul. I want to transition into that as a career, but as of now for financial reasons I work as a Medical Lab Scientist at a hospital, although I believe that prevention is the best cure and many of the reasons for illness is living in a sick society. My purpose in this life is a healer and I think one way to do that is to live in supportive communities.
I value relationships, authenticity, regenerative living, simplicity, compassion, non violent communication, and health freedom and have been interested in intentional community since 2004 when I first heard of the concept. I have lived in shared housing since 2010 - even spending time in a cohousing neighborhood for several months which I loved! I have visited a few ICs, including an Ecovillage which I LOVED and am learning all I can about this movement through books and podcasts and seminars on ic.org.
I am ready, however, to plant my roots somewhere. A place where I can put my energy toward a place which matches my values. I am in the process of really learning those skills which I will need to thrive in community. The soft skills of communication as well as the hard skills of the practical side of things. Community is not an easy journey and I do believe, in the words of Diana Leafe Christian, that it will be “the longest and hardest personal growth workshop that you will ever take” - but I value personal growth and know it will be worth it in the end.
I’d love to connect with others! Please send me a PM if anything resonates. I’m looking to join or help form a community somewhere in the US.
I’m curious myself as he did not say anything remotely flagable.
Hi! Im also in Baltimore County, have a background in science and science journalism, and am looking to form a community. Please contact me if you want to connect.
cindyspitzer@gmail.com
HI,I resonated with your post. I’ve never lived in an intentional community but have worked on assorted hospitality type farms and looking for help in starting something of my own in the middle of the desert…not most peoples idea but right now looking to just learn about communal living and start a business from there.I am going to start a book group using The Cooperative Culture Handbook. I’ll be posting it on this forum once I get a couple things worked out. Hope you will be able to join.
OUTSTANDING!! Thank You Ryan; will follow up. mark