Journey Toward Creating a Regenerative Life Together

Saturday 4:30 – 5:30 pm
This participatory workshop using a ‘mind map mandala’ to collectively create
a personal plan for living more sustainably in community. Includes an introductory short
film, and series of video clips and slides from cohousing and other sustainable communities
visited around the US, as well as leaders in the movement such as Chuck Durrett, Raines
Cohen, Betsy Morris, Diana Leafe Christian and others. Participants will also be invited to join in the creation of the Within Reach documentary film project.

PRESENTERS: Mandy Creighton and Ryan Mlynarczyk are traveling 12,000 miles around the US by bicycle on a journey to visit and document people living in sustainable communities of all types. One of the main foci of the project is to explore how people live more sustainably in cohousing communities. The journey is currently underway, and a feature-length documentary film is set to be made at the end of 2009. They plan to move into one of the communities they visit at the end of their journey.

Joanna Perry-Folino became interested in cohousing three years ago and has been
actively pursuing the search for her new home in a cohousing community
ever since. She met Ryan and Mandy at a workshop presentation at the
Berkeley Cohousing Community. Immediately taken with their enthusiasm,
exuberance and passion to spread the word, she decided to help them in
whatever way possible to see that their film is produced. Her background in film and theatre
production is extensive from over 25 theatrical productions to her own film, The Silence of
Bees,, which was recently awarded an Accolade. She is a member of The Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood and Women in Film in Beverly Hills as well as an
award-winning professor of film and dramatic arts and a playwright and screenwriter.