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Growing Smart Communities: Mid Atlantic Cohousing Regional Conference March 20

Are you passionate about community? Join me this month for a one-day in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Growing Smart Communities: Mid Atlantic Cohousing Conference

What: Cohousing: Growing Smart Communities
When: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Followed by area community visits on Sunday.

Come rub shoulders, elbows and toes with the people who have created, are creating or helping others to create their cohousing community. This is YOUR regional conference for those of you who are building cohousing, living in cohousing, interested in the idea, or who are professionals in the field.

Process Consultant: List of Facilitation Trainers

Consensus & Sociocracy Facilitation Trainers
& Group Facilitators

2009 Featured Developers

register nowCohousing Developers are a rare breed in the United States. While many have been involved as developers (of their own, self-developed cohousing community), very few have been involved in more than one project. All of these developers have, and will share what they have learned with you. Developing property in the United States is a very difficult thing and it's far too easy to make very costly mistakes - some of which are easily avoided if you have the right information. Whether you want to self-develop or work with a professional developer, come learn from these experienced Cohousing Developers about how to create a more successful project.

2009 Featured Process Consultants

register nowOn June 24-28, 2009, our Annual National Cohousing Conference will feature a number of Top Cohousing Process Consultants - some very well-known, established consultants with years of experience with facilitation, consensus training, and group process consultations and numerous Cohousing Communities - and some who's emerging practices are generating new ways of thinking about group decision making.

Those who attend the 2009 conference have the opportunity to enjoy and learn with...

2009 Featured Architects

register nowOn June 24-28, 2009, our Annual National Cohousing Conference will feature a number of Top Cohousing Architects - some very well-known, established green architects with many built sustainable communities - and some whose emerging practices are generating new ways of looking at Cohousing and green architecture. We are also sharing the work of some architecture graduate students who are addressing the challenges of cohousing design for their very first time.

2009 Featured Speakers

register nowThe 2009 National Cohousing Conference has three Featured Speakers presenting at the Keynote, Opening and Closing sesions:

  • Jan Gudmand-Hoyer, Cohousing Architect and founder of the Cohousing Movement in Denmark
  • Mark Lakeman, Cohousing Architect and founder of Portland City Repair
  • Robert Gilman, noted sustainability speaker best known for his work helping to form the ecovillage movement

All have made important contributions to the Cohousing and Ecovillage movements. All are excellent speakers who are sure to inspire and bolster your spirits as you do your part to create a better world, one neighborhood at a time. Several other noteworthy and well-known Cohousing presenters are leading Pre-Conference Workshops and the many Conference Break-out sessions. The 2009 Conference offers you the chance to directing learn from some remarkable people, including:

Architect: Bryan Bowen Architects, p.c.

bryan bowen architects, p.c. is a multi-disciplinary design collaborative that explores how we may live and work more lightly upon our earth in beautiful healthy environments. Expertise in custom commercial buildings, cohousing, multi-family, and affordable housing is supported by our passion for energy and resource conservation. Our professional values extend to and draw from our personal lives as well. Bryan is a resident of Wild Sage Cohousing in Boulder, which he also helped design while working at Jim Logan Architects. This experience led him to start his own firm where he has collaborated on several cohousing projects including the award winning Silver Sage Cohousing (with McCamant & Durrett Architects) and the site design for Lyons Valley Village and several others. In addition to full architectural services, we also offer insight and guidance in the discovery phase for forming groups, community master planning, and project visualization.

McCamant & Durrett honored with Best of Senior Housing Award

McCamant & Durrett received the received the Silver Award for Best of Senior Living by the National Association of Home Builders at its annual 50+ Housing Symposium and awards dinner on May 20 in New Orleans. The award was for Silver Sage Village, a senior cohousing project in Boulder, Colorado, NAHB is the nation’s largest association of builders, with 235,000 members. Competing against hundreds of firms across America, McCamant & Durrett’s design was rated by the NAHB as one of the country’s best senior housing. Firm principal Charles Durrett was on hand to receive the award, “We are excited to see our ideas become working realities in communities shaped by residents, like Silver Sage.”

The firm also won a Golden Nugget award for the Best Affordable Project of 30 Acres or More for their Sacramento Senior Homes.

Development: Cohousing Collaborative, LLC

COHOUSING COLLABORATIVE, LLC is a full service development company that joint ventures with
future residents to bring their projects from dream to reality. We embrace the principles of
sustainable community and stewardship of our natural resources, holding to the highest standards
of ethics and excellence. Through a collaborative process, we

• Foster community, and
• Provide professional project management to coordinate marketing, finance, legal, planning &
design teams

With this approach, the values of living lightly on the land, accessibility, and sustainable economy
are enfolded into the both the social and physical structures of our projects.

Cohousing Collaborative is currently forming communities in the MidAtlantic region and offer
experienced and capable professional marketing, cohousing workshops and seminars throughout
the United States.

Ann Zabaldo
703-663-3911
info [at] cohousingcollaborative [dot] com

Process Consultant: Diana Leafe Christian

Diana Leafe Christian
Diana Leafe Christian
phone: 828-669-9702
email: diana [at] ic [dot] org

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