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join the Evolver SF HiveMind Consciousness Party & Bay networking nite (Berkeley

November 10, 2012 · 7:00 PM
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HiveMind: Consciousness Party and Bay Networking Night

A night of music, learning, connecting, and being. Our friends in The Evolver Network invite us to gather in celebration and connection, with the intention to create stronger relationships among Bay Area organizations, and establish Evolver community here. With your help, we can connect this crack team of community-builders to our visions for sustainable community living, cohousing and EcoVillages. Raines will be bringing along visiting Seattle-area cohousing founder David Weinstock, of Liminal Somatics, who will provide a taste of his Sunday EBCOHO Body of Wisdom workshop at The Long Haul. Magenta, a Bay Area "sporeganizer" for Evolver, is an EBCOHO member and we have other connections across communities.

Several organizations' leaders will be present to share what their groups are doing. Please come share your presence and gifts, and meet your fellow amazing lights. Evolver is for Evolving consciousness, individually and in collaboration. We look forward to waking up with you.

What we require is a trans-local movement of civil society, on a global scale, where people come together in local communities to address the complete scope of our situation in "living learning laboratories," sharing the best practices and techniques for re-localizing basic production of goods, foodstuffs, and energy. We need a movement away from the industrial-age ideals of growth, toward "slow living," toward enhancing the quality of life, and an equitable sharing of resources on a planetary scale.

The Evolver Network provides a prototype for a self-organizing social movement that meshes together local communities who are creating an alternative model for future society, which we call "The New Planetary Culture."

::SPEAKER::

Gift Circle Facilitation and Time Bank Introduction by Rick Simon - http://timebank.sfbace.org/

::MUSIC & VISUALS::

Dr. Paradise (Paradise2012, SF) - http://paradise2012.com/
Rich DDT - http://soundcloud.com/richddt
Eyelove - http://soundcloud.com/eyelove

::BELLYDANCE::

Gina Bruno - http://bellydancewithginabruno.wordpress.com/

::ORGANIZATIONS::

Evolver - http://evolvernetwork.org
Psychedelic Society SF - http://www.psychedelicsf.org/
Transition SF - http://www.transitionsf.org
Transition Berkeley - http://www.transitionberkeley.com/
ERIE - Entheogentic Research, Integration, and Education - http://erievision.org/
BACE - Bay Area Community Exchange - http://timebank.sfbace.org/
The Happiness Institute - http://www.thehappinessinstitute.org/sf/
Electronic Awakening - http://electronicawakening.com
Bay Food Shed - http://www.facebook.com/bayfoodshed
RE-Volv: People Funded Renewable Energy - http://www.re-volv.org
IONS - Institute of Noetic Sciences - http://noetic.org
The Singularity Institute - http://singularity.org
Cohousing California/East Bay Cohousing - (yep, that's us! http://www.ebcoho.org/ )
Edible City - http://ediblecitythemovie.com/

more TBA

$15
Or members of the Bay Area Community Exchange time bank can gift us one hour of their time bank balance. To register for the local time bank and begin participating, go here: http://timebank.sfbace.org/

"The BACE Timebank is like a local community bank, but we keep track of time. For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one hour to use to have someone do something for you. It is an alternative way to give and receive resources. It’s that simple."

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Raines Cohen

If you liked the HiveMind Evolver evening last November, there's a full 12 hours this afternoon/evening: http://www.ebcoho.org/events/10... -- we recommend going after the Group Works Deck workshop from 1-5, it's less than a mile away.

0 · February 23
Luyanda Koboka

Will there be food etc or is it a potluck!?

0 · November 9
- Magenta
  
  Hi Luyanda - Cloud 9 will have some vegetarian food available for purchase. Doug Reil of Bay Food Shed is gifting Kombucha, and I believe Jessalynn, the chocolateer, is gifting a chocolate elixir and selling her herbal cacao paste.
  
  0 · November 9

55 attended

Magenta +40

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Raines Cohen +2

Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer

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sabrina

EBCOHO Supporting Member through 4/15/14
Jeff Billings

Golden Gate Cohousing project manager/community organizer
Anin Utigaard
Adam Cohen
James Kalin

Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm organizer
Violet
Demarris

Supporting EBCOHO Member through 5/31/2013
Bonne
Peggy Reskin
Audra Lehman
Janet McFarland

Supporting EBCOHO Member through 2/26/2012

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. It is hosted by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris of Berkeley Cohousing and their business, Planning for Sustainable Communities. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico. Sister meetups and other online sites hosted by PfSC include: San Francisco Cohousing, Silicon Valley Cohousing, Aging in Community, and Future of Community.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities in our network. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups.

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Start your journey with an ORIENTATION or join us for social events, talks, slide shows training and community-building workshops to learn the tools for developing good group process, healthy relationships, and on the other side, the community finance, the sharing economy, and real estate development. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2013 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.

East Bay Cohousing is a labor of love organized by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris. It is a project of our business and consulting firm, Planning for Sustainable Communities. PfSC combines 40 years of experience providing research and technical assistance to public and private clients in the areas of community and economic development, business planning, data management and software development.