Are you ready to build your dream community? Creating deeper connections, harmonious collaborations, and more supportive relationships is a benefit to everyone and can start today, wherever you are in your community journey.
Todays conversation dives into the how with three seasoned community veterans, Thomas Wall, Aaron Kahlow, and Leyla Makris. Recorded at the June Bloom Festival at the Emerald Village in San Diego, this conversation will leave you inspired and ready to take the next step towards living your community dreams.
Thomas Wall is the Director of First Impressions at Liberty Arising healing sanctuary in Boulevard California. Thomas has been living at Liberty for 8 years and has been living in community for over 18 years. He holds a masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and has been guiding people in their relationship health for the past 25 years. LibertyArising.org
Aaron Kahlow communitarian, dedicated to Meaningful Human connection. Experienced circle facilitator, somatic healing & co-regulation guide, Emotional Resilience trainer & mens work guide. Supporting families, organizations, schools and communities locally.
Leyla Makris is one of the founders at the Emerald Village. She has brought her background in education to serve the community for the past thirteen years. She is lovingly known as Mama Leyla for being a stand for growth and connection. Her wisdom is an integral part of our thriving village.
Learn more about the Emerald Village and get the details for their next event on Instagram @EmeraldVillageOasis or at www.EmeraldVillageOasis.org
If you want to learn more about being a creating your dream community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. become a member so you can access even more of their incredible resources if it’s within your means, donate to help them continue to do their amazing work in the world.
Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
Stay in touch with me during our break! Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there and am available for consulting! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
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This Bonus Episode is all about the perspective of the kids! Listen in on a funny and heartwarming conversation I had with 6 kids ranging in age from 5-24 about their experience growing up in community. This panel was conducted at the Emerald Village's Full Bloom Festival in San Diego and if you are considering community life, having a family or already have a family, or just like kids…Put this episode on your must listen list!
Learn more about the Emerald Village and get the details for their next event on Instagram @EmeraldVillageOasis
Check out Jakob Saloner's Portrait Project @P0rtraitproject
If you want to learn more about being a kid in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. become a member so you can access even more of their incredible resources if it’s within your means, donate to help them continue to do their amazing work in the world.
Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
Stay in touch with me during our break! Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there and am available for consulting! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
Check out my work with Shibori and Natural Dyes @BoundForColor and just follow me and the events I'm producing in Southern Oregon @RebeccaMesritz
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Inside Community Podcast theme music by Rebecca Mesritz
Recorded by Christian Shimer
Editing by Dave Booda & Rebecca Mesritz
We're closing out our second season with an examination of how to navigate inevitable interpersonal conflict and move towards restored connection. Social architecture can be what makes or breaks a community, business, or organization. How we process our own pain and trauma and interact with the trauma of others offers rich opportunities for growth and learning. In this conversation with Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners we cover emotional hygiene, strategies for reconnection, the importance of humility and validation, when to ask for help, and when to call it quits.
Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners, MA, MFT, Ed.D. is a social architect, community builder, and leadership expert who teaches leaders and organizations how to operate at their highest potential and resiliency by truly serving people, planet, purpose, and profit.
With a Master’s in clinical psychology, a doctorate in Organizational Leadership (Ed.D. Pepperdine University), and 20-year psychotherapy practice, she applies a whole human approach to consulting that nurtures body, mind, and spirit so the wisdom of the heart can be awakened. After years of witnessing the limitations of Western psychology, Jessica sought training in Eastern approaches to healing and wellness. With certifications as a yoga and qi gong instructor and massage therapist, she utilizes a holistic and somatic approach to her work.
Her penchant for social entrepreneurialism has led Jessica to consult for nonprofits, grassroots movements, start-ups, major corporations, and their leaders, helping align them with their core values and serve the greater good. The co-founder of an eco-village in San Diego, CA (theemeraldvillage.com), she is steeped in collaborative thinking and decision making, incorporating what she has lived, learned, and tested herself. The reclamation of our communities at the local level, she believes, is the solution to the panoply of problems we find ourselves in – ecologically, economically, and socio-politically.
Jessica has had the honor of learning from countless teachers- whether clients, mentors, professors, or guides. She humbly recognizes that so many of the healing traditions she has studied were gifts given from native people with an unencumbered connection to creation. Jessica strives to deeply embody and pay homage to their wisdom by passing it on to her clients.
https://fiercegraceconsulting.com/
SUMMER FUN!
Books and Resources Mentioned:
If you want to learn more about interpersonal relating and conflict resolution in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
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There’s a rich opportunity to push the needle forward when it comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, but navigating Race, Class, Privilege, Ability, and all the ways folks face different levels of adversity can be vulnerable and uncomfortable. Sometimes we need support to know what to ask for, how to be better allies, and to push us to grow in our capacity to accept others… and recognize our own blindness to our priviledge. In this conversation with Diversity Consultant, Crystal Byrd Farmer we cover code switching, how to have safe conversations, microagressions, call out culture, hidden diversities, tools and resources, and how to create communities and spaces that are welcoming to all people.
Crystal Byrd Farmer is an engineer turned educator, organizer, and speaker. She attended University of South Carolina and received dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Russian Studies. After working in engineering for six years, Crystal became a freelance technical writer and eventually found her way into the world of self-directed learning and intentional communities. Crystal has been active in the intentional communities movement for over six years and serves on the board of the Foundation for Intentional Community and Co-President of the BIPOC Intentional Community Council. She is the former website editor for Black & Poly and is active in her local polyamory community. In 2022 she served as the committee moderator for PolyamProud.
Crystal’s day job is as owner and facilitator of Gastonia Freedom School, an Agile Learning Center for children with disabilities. She lives in Gastonia, NC and has one daughter.
Books and Resources We Mentioned:
If you want to learn more about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
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Bringing new life into the world requires levels of support practically unheard of in modern, western culture... unless you've cultivated community that is up for the task! Seasoned midwife and communitarian Monique Gauthier joins us today to help us envision birth from a deeply held and conscious space that brings about the creation of new culture on the planet. We’ll cover the fascinating intersection of natural birth practices with the communities movement, how women and families can be supported through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum times, rites of passage around birth, and even how various types of loss can be held with tenderness and love.
Monique Gauthier has been a midwife in the U.S and Canada for 30 years. She has lived in intentional communities for most of her adult life. She currently lives in Auroville, in Southern India. She was faculty for Living Routes, which ran college-level programs in ecovillages such as Findhorn, Auroville and Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Plum Village, in France. She has produced the documentaries "Follow The Dirt Road; An Introduction To Intentional Communities in The 1990’s" and "Birthing Peace", about her mindful water births. She calls herself a “cultural midwife” who is tending to the birth of a conscious culture. She leads workshops and coaches for empowered birth, conscious families, mindfulness, and other mind-body-spirit topics. You can find her upcoming courses and offerings at
BOOKS mentioned:
The First Forty Days by Heng Ou
https://motherbees.com/pages/the-first-forty-days
The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson
https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/the-fourth-trimester/
If you want to learn more about birthing in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
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My conversation with Monique Gauthier was too full of inspiring and helpful information, so I created this bonus episode to share some of the wisdom that couldn't fit in the full length episode. Here, Monique leads us through the centering meditation she does with her midwifery clients as they arrive in her office as well as shares some very practical tools for expecting families to cope with and prepare for labor.
Monique Gauthier has been a midwife in the U.S and Canada for 30 years. She has lived in intentional communities for most of her adult life. She currently lives in Auroville, in Southern India. She was faculty for Living Routes, which ran college-level programs in ecovillages such as Findhorn, Auroville and Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Plum Village, in France. She has produced the documentaries "Follow The Dirt Road; An Introduction To Intentional Communities in The 1990’s" and "Birthing Peace", about her mindful water births. She calls herself a “cultural midwife” who is tending to the birth of a conscious culture. She leads workshops and coaches for empowered birth, conscious families, mindfulness, and other mind-body-spirit topics. You can find her upcoming courses and offerings at
If you want to learn more about birthing in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
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As we close out 2023, it's time to take stock of the Communities Movement and consider where we might be headed in the future. In this episode we are joined by new FIC co-director Daniel Greenberg, who brings his deep experience from the ecovillage world, as well years living in and researching international communities like Findhorn and Auroville to his visions for what is possible for collaborative culture, communities, and the people who live and grow inside them.
In 1999, Daniel Greenberg founded the non-profit Living Routes, which partnered with UMass-Amherst to run study abroad programs based in ecovillages around the world. Over 1,500 students were transformed by these immersive experiences. Daniel left Living Routes in 2012 to start a new social venture called Earth Deeds, which offers online tools for individuals and groups to “onset” their unavoidable CO2 emissions and support meaningful sustainability projects. Daniel has been a leading advocate for sustainability within international education and the ecovillage movement. He chaired Sustainability Task Forces for NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the Forum for Education Abroad, is co-founder and past Board Member of Gaia Education, served as President of the Global Ecovillage Network from 2015-2019, and is currently co-director of the Foundation for Intentional Community.
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If you want to learn more about international communities, the new visions for the communities movement or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast.
Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
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Cults get a pretty bad reputation in the mainstream world, but are they really evil? Or just misunderstood? Jesse Stone, co-host of the Cults I'd Join podcast comes on the show to shed some light on the upside of cults while giving us some helpful advice on what to look out for if manipulation just isn't for you.
Down in the Ozarks, Jesse Stone lives and loves with her young son Solace, two dogs, and two cats. Jesse is an artist, writer, and maker, and has lived her life immersed in the wide variety of subcultures. Sharing these experiences through art and storytelling is her passion. Her latest venture is the new podcast "Cults I'd Join" with co-host Ameran Link, now rounding out its first year.
If you want to learn more about cults and how to creating one or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
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The subject of death is seen by many as morbid or taboo, but what if this dark topic could be life-giving, affirming, and empowering? Join me as I talk with Angela Franklin about the possibilities of end of life and death care, how communities and individuals can reimagine how they view their final days, how to plan for the end, and the importance of creating containers for grief.
Angela is a practicing Death Midwife and Home Funeral Guide. She currently provides workforce and community trainings on a variety of topics surrounding end of life support, grief literacy, advanced care planning, and suicide prevention/postvention. She is a founder of Journey Home, a community-driven organization based on practical death care, education, outreach, and community grieving support. Angela has lived in a variety of collective spaces and intentional communities. She is working toward death literacy and sovereignty to be brought back into our lives.
Journey Home journeyhome.care
Journey Home journeyhome.care
SOLADA Southern Oregon Living and Dying Alliance solada.org
LINKS Angela mentioned:
The Death Deck use code INSIDE20 for 20% off Death Decks
National Home Funeral Alliance
The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Book by Francis Weller
Birth Breath and Death Institute- work of Amy Wright Glenn
If you want to learn more about death and dying in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
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There are as many ways to structure a community as there are communities, but perhaps one of the most controversial models are those with central leadership. I mean... is that even REAL community?!? Today's guest and self-proclaimed "evil dictator," Paul Wheaton comes on to explain the benefits of top-down power structures and the great responsibility that comes with taking on the role.
Paul Wheaton is a powerful advocate of permaculture. He was dubbed the "Duke of Permaculture" by Geoff Lawton and Sepp Holzer, and the "Bad Boy of Permaculture" by Occupy Monsanto. Paul is the owner of permies.com, coderanch.com, richsoil.com, and Wheaton Labs. He has produced over 600 podcasts, 200 youtube videos, and a dozen feature-length films. He has presented at over 100 events around the US and has written dozens of articles and 2 books on topics ranging from luxuriant environmentalism to homesteading skills. The events he hosts at his property, Wheaton Labs, have resulted in the development of rocket stove and rocket mass heater technology, massive earthworks featuring extensive hugelkulture, solar food dehydrators, lots and lots of round wood timber frame structures like a truly passive earth-bermed solar green house and a mega-cheap and luxurious home design called the Wofati, as well as many, many other permaculture innovations.
If you want to learn more about different structural models of community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
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We're re-releasing this awesome interview with Laird Shaub in preparation for FOUR upcoming classes he's going to be teaching through the FIC!
There are also some re-run courses that are available, on demand:
Moving groups through tough decisions can be tricky, if not impossible, without a skilled and well-trained facilitator to hold folks through the process. Laird Schaub joins us today to talk about the how’s and why’s of excellent facilitation. You'll learn from his 40+ years of lived community experience and training in facilitation, and leave with practices you can use in your community conversations.
Read Laird's incredible bio in our show notes at ic.org/podcast.
Podcast listeners, use this code INSIDE30 and get 30% off FIC courses. Use code INSIDE20 for 20% off on the FIC bookstore.
Laird leads a two-year facilitation training program where students meet eight times for intensive 3-day weekends. In addition to classroom time where he teaches the elements of skilled facilitation, half the time is spent preparing for, delivering, and debriefing live facilitation, where the students run the meetings and the trainers are a safety net. For more info email laird@ic.org
If you want to learn more about facilitation or any aspect of building community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
In this episode we will chat with intimacy nerd Dave Booda, about why intimacy is so important, get new ideas on prompts that can lead towards deeper connection, and discover ways to create a safe container to meet people where they're at when building deeper bonds and creating more vulnerability.
Dave Booda is a writer, musician, and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Intimacy Fest and hosts The Darkness Experiment. He's led over 400 workshops on connection, touch, and relationships and has consulted for and facilitated experiences for companies, communities, retreats, and gatherings of all kinds with the intention to inspire authenticity, connection, and group cohesion. He's published over 200 essays for boodaism.com and played over 1000 shows as a touring singer songwriter. He is a former naval officer and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, currently serving on the board of directors for the Foundation for Intentional Community, while touring and living at different intentional communities in North America.
Link Dave mentioned:
If you want to learn more about intimacy in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
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Margaret Critchlow, PhD, taught anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada for 25 years before retiring to Vancouver Island. She loved learning from villagers in the south Pacific islands of Vanuatu and from residents of Canadian housing co-ops. She has written or co-authored more than 50 academic article and 7 books. She was a founding member of the first senior cohousing community in western Canada, Harbourside Cohousing, where she has lived with her husband since it opened in Jan 2016. Margaret enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for cohousing with people of all ages, independently and as a Community Building Facilitator with Cohousing Development Consulting. Her online courses, “Planning for aging in community” and “Is cohousing for you?” have supported people to better understand what they are getting into when they join a cohousing community.
Margaret will be teaching the FIC Course Exploring Community for Aging Well 5 weeks starting June 23rd
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LINKS that Margaret Mentioned:
Karin Wells' CBC radio documentary "It's Their Life" about how Denmark is changing ways to care for the elderly. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2304600412
CBC Radio documentaries by Karin Wells about Harbourside Cohousing 2016
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-june-10-2018-1.4695635/a-b-c-experiment-in-cohousing-has-become-an-adventure-in-co-caring-1.4695653
Anne P. Glass "Aging better together, intentionally" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352846544_Aging_Better_Together_Intentionally
Elder Spirit Community, Abingdon, VA https://elderspirit.org
Harbourside Cohousing, Sooke, BChttps://www.harbourside.ca
Quimper Village, Port Townsend, WAhttp://www.quimpervillage.com/
West Wind Harbour Cohousinghttps://www.westwindharbour.ca
If you want to learn more about aging in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.
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We are so grateful to for our show's sponsors:
Caddis Collaborative - caddispc.com
CohoUS - www.cohousing.org
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For many looking for community a primary goal is to be a part of a multigenerational reality where they can raise their own children or be in that special relationship of co-parent or auntie/ uncle. Whether folks are looking for support or to be supportive in the care of the young, it is important to create a safe container, clear agreements, and attune to the highest needs of each individual child.
Amy Saloner, LCSW FNTP has worked with children and families for the last 30 years as a therapist, educator, speaker event producer and coach. Her work has spanned the developmental spectrum from birth through young adulthood and specializes in raising resilient teens and young adults. Twelve years ago she and her husband co-founded the intentional community The Emerald Village in north county San Diego with four other families. They have raised their three children (23, 16 and 13) there and have co-parented 9 other children during that time. Amy is currently in private practice as a parent and teen coach and nutritional therapist. She teaches courses and runs support groups on parenting adolescents and sees private clients online and in-person for nutritional, relational and emotional support.
You can find her at amysaloner.com
Instagram: @resilientfamily_resilientteen Facebook: @amysalonerprofessional
For those who a) follow her on Instagram, b) sign up for her newsletter and c) send her a message with the word COMMUNITY, she will send you her worksheets and video for Creating a meaningful Rites of Passage Ceremony for your child.
She currently co-runs a monthly support group for parents of 11th and 12th graders called The Fireside Chats with Carolyn and Amy. Learn more and register here.
FIC Course Exploring Raising Children in Community 5 weeks starting June 20th at 8am PT
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Yana Ludwig is one of our most beloved guests on the Inside Community Podcast. In honor of her new book, Building Belonging, we are re-releasing episode 004 of Season 1: Finding Co-Founders and Creating Cooperative Culture with Yana Ludwig. The episode focuses on creating a cooperative culture when starting an intentional community, finding your people, and coming together with the like-minded visionaries that will be your co-founders. Her new book Building Belonging takes this conversation a step further. The book is both a practical guide for how to start a residential intentional community and is a collective framework for addressing the racial, social, ecological, and economic disparities affecting all aspects of the living experience for humans, land, and its co-inhabitants. Building Belonging is now available for pre-order at www.ic.org/building-belonging. Get your copy today!
Yana Ludwig is cooperative culture pioneer, group process trainer, and consultant and anti-opression activist who has lived in community for 25 years. She is the former Executive Director of both the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, and Commonomics USA, an economic justice organization, and currently serves as the Executive Director of Leadership Eastside in Washington. Yana is a dynamic, compassionate and thoughtful speaker and teacher, committed to creating a world that supports the well-being and vibrancy of all beings. Her writing includes Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption (published under the name Maikwe Ludwig) , The Cooperative Culture Handbook (co-authored with Karen Gimnig), and numerous articles in Communities magazine. She has spoken on Tedx and hosted the Solidarity house podcast which centers on policy, culture and law. She was also a candidate for US Senate in 2020, ultimately placing 2nd in a crowded Democratic primary field.
You can learn more about Yana and her work at www.yanaludwig.net.
If you want to learn more about finding YOUR people or any aspect of building community check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. You can learn more about FIC and access show notes at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating through our website while you are there.
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We're kicking off Season 2 with a pair of episodes about Placemaking, how we design and consider creating environments for healthy thriving humans. In this second episode, Ridhi D'Cruz approaches the topic from a liberatory and healing perspective.
ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender queer Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India and moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist. their life artistry roots at the intersections of place, healing, design and creativity. they have dedicated over a decade of their life to designing community processes that cultivate liberatory and healing senses of place. they strive to honor and benefit the sacred and stolen lands of the Chinook people and several other tribes both recognized and unrecognized that they are a guest upon.
ridhi has cultivated a place justice practice through more than a decade of service on Chinook lands. Currently, they co-facilitate an annual herbal immersion program for BIPOC called the Moon & Mirror Apprenticeship Program, are an nature educator with and for QT/BIPOC community through Wild Diversity and humbly support various place justice projects including the Native Gathering Garden at Cully Park and the Justice for Justice for Keaton Otis Memorial Art Project. you can find them online via their website ridhidcruz.net, on IG as @ridhidcruz and email them at ridhidcruz@gmail.com
Ridhi's FIC course, Reclaiming Permaculture and Placemaking for Liberation starts May 8, 2023
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We're kicking off Season 2 with a pair of episodes about Placemaking, how we design and consider creating environments for healthy thriving humans. In this first episode I talk with Bryan Bowen about the ins and outs of designing sustainable spaces for healthy, connected, thriving humans from a design perspective.
Bryan Bowen is an architect, cohousing nerd, and sustainable community-based designer. Bryan grew up in a passive solar home in an artists’ community at the foothills of the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA with minors in art and anthropology, and has been a practicing architect for almost 25 years. He lived in Wild Sage Cohousing in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two boys for 18 years. Bryan loved life in cohousing and enjoys the simple benefits of community – friends right outside the front door, casual interactions, great food, and a rich life for his kiddos. His firm, Caddis, is a 20 year old multidisciplinary design collaborative that explores how we may live more lightly upon our earth in beautiful and healthy environments. Caddis has become a well-respected national cohousing expert, creating beautiful, innovative, highly functioning communities. Bryan has served on the City of Boulder’s Planning Board, the board of CohoUS, and now sits on the board of Better Boulder.
Some references from the show:
James Rojas - Urban planner
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America -Book on zoning by Richard Rothstein
Superbia - Book on designing better neighborhoods by David Wann
If you want to learn more about placemaking or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 and 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
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Welcome back to Season 2 of the Inside Community Podcast! On this show we explore the beautiful and messy realities of living inside community and this season we are diving into more of the messy and the nitty gritty of what it takes to build cooperative culture.
This trailer features a song from dear friend Dave Booda, whose music you can find at davebooda.com
If you want to learn more about living inside community or learn more about this podcast, visit our website, hosted by the Foundation for Intentional Community, at ic.org/podcast. We have a survey up there and would love to hear from you about how this show can best support your journey. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating through our website while you are there.
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We wrap up our first season with a thoughtful conversation with communities experts Yana Ludwig, Sky Blue, and Cassandra Ferrera on the state of the communities movement (and if it is even a "movement"!) We discuss the complexity of challenges facing both individual communities and the greater collective Community to meet both the everyday social, financial, and emotional needs of members as well as address larger systemic issues that are being dealt with in society on a broader scale. Yana, Sky, and Cassandra have been engaged in these discussions together for years as friends, FIC board members, and community advocates and today they share their insights in what could be considered "advanced community theory."
Yana Ludwig is a cooperative culture pioneer, intentional communities advocate, and anti-oppression activist. She serves on the FIC board, and is a trainer and consultant for communities, worker owned cooperatives and nonprofits. She is the author of Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption, The Cooperative Culture Handbook (with Karen Gimnig), and the soon-to-be-released Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Land-based Intentional Community. Yana Ludwig Training and Consulting
Sky Blue (They/Them) has spent 22 years living, working, and organizing in intentional communities, cooperatives, and community organizations. They are currently working with a group of people to start a new community, and work as a community consultant as part of The Next Big Step. They take a whole systems approach to helping groups uncover and address underlying issues and dynamics, develop shared understanding, and find ways to move forward together. sky@ic.org.
Cassandra Ferrera's real estate career and community activism has focused on the edge of cultural innovation where cooperation meets land stewardship. She has provided agency, complex contract design, consulting and cooperative governance support to dozens of communities and land projects. A licensed real estate agent in California since 2003, Cassandra’s license is with the progressive Green Key Real Estate brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently co-founding The Center for Ethical Land Transition, a non-profit organization that supports solidarity and justice in land transitions. www.cassandraferrera.net
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Are you ready to see how other communities are doing it or perhaps are looking for a community to join? Well, visiting communities in person is the best way to learn what works and what doesn't work for you. Communing With the Campbells is the project documentary filmmaker Anthony "Campo" Campbell and his family have been sharing with the world through TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, sharing their global communities tour and bringing a new spin to how the world sees the movement. Campo joins me in this episode to talk about how to best engage with communities you would like to visit so both you and your host gets the most benefit from your time together.
Join their journey on TikTok @Communing_with_Campbells on YouTube @ Communing With the Campbells and on Instagram @Communing_with_the_Campbells
Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there! If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. If you want to learn more about Sociocracy or any aspect of building community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners use code INSIDE20 for 20% off the FIC Bookstore and INSIDE30 for 30%off on courses. You can learn more about the show and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating!
Communities Magazine is a primary resource for information, stories, and ideas about intentional communities—including urban co-ops, cohousing groups, ecovillages, and rural communes. Each full-color quarterly issue focuses on a specific theme. Subscriptions are available and more than 400 back-issue articles are posted for free public reading on the website.https://www.gen-us.net/communities/