Description: Creating a Life Together : Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, Paperback by Christian, Diana Leafe, ISBN 0865714711, ISBN-13 9780865714717, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK
Everything you need to know to create an intentional community from scratch
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, th 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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Book Title: Creating a Life Together : Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages an
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 505 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Diana Leafe Christian
Subject Area: Social Organisations
Item Width: 184 mm
Format: Paperback
