Finding Your Ideal Cohousing Community

Saturday 10:30 – 12:00 am
This workshop is for people longing to join a forming cohousing group, or an already existing cohousing community but who aren't sure how to go about it. This workshop offers the best tips author Diana Leafe Christian knows about how to research existing and forming cohousing projects, visit your favorite cohousing neighborhoods or cohousing core groups and get the most out of your visits, evaluate what you’ve seen, and join your chosen community gracefully. Plus, the pros and cons re joining an existing cohousing neighborhood or core group or starting your own! Diana wrote about both processes her books, Finding Community and Creating a Life Together.

AUDIENCE: people searching for community

PRESENTER: Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers, 2003 & 2007). She hosts a blog on the Coho/US website with frequent postings on communication and process issues as well as how to join a cohousing community. Editor of Communities magazine for 14 years (1994-2007), she now publishes Ecovillages, a free online publication. Diana speaks at conferences, and leads workshops for and does consultations for cohousing communities, ecovillages, and other kinds of intentional communities in the U.S. and Canada. She’s been interviewed by Time, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, AARP magazine, NPR, and the BBC. She lives at Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina. Her website is www.DianaLeafeChristian.org.