Diana Leafe Christian
Are you longing to join a forming cohousing group, or an already existing cohousing community, but 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 of joining an existing cohousing neighborhood or core group or starting your own! Diana wrote about both processes in her books, Finding Community and Creating a Life Together.
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 and 2007). Former editor of Communities magazine, she now publishes “Ecovillages,” a free online publication (EcovillageNewsletter.org/subscribe). Diana speaks at conferences, and leads workshops for and does consultations for cohousing communities in the U.S. and Canada. She lives at Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.