East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

New Member Orientation:Introductions, Updates, Events & Openings (S. Berkeley)

December 1, 2012 · 9:15 AM
Long Haul

December is here, at the closing of the year, the time for you to act on the many new opportunities for living in and co-creating sustainable community in the East Bay - including new opportunities for groups to go in together on purchases, and recent rental openings and resales at established communities like Swan's Market Cohousing, Doyle Street, and Temescal Commons. Now with 1900 members (and congratulations to Aging-in-Community organizer Victoria Stone, our 1900th!) - and ongoing members who haven’t yet stepped out into the light. Welcome, welcome! We do regular info sessions/orientations everyone has a chance to make one of these and get connected and identify the next steps on their path to community.

Here’s a chance to see and be seen, ask all the questions you want and share a virtual tour of what’s going on in the world of cooperative culture in the Bay Area including the latest openings and opportunities in our network of community-minded people and participating communities.

It’s the UN’s International Year of the Co-operative. There’s a LOT going on!

Cohousing, cooperatives, and ecovillages. Intentional communities and transition towns. Neighbors who want to get to know each other. Your natural building, permaculturing, off-the-grid soulmates. Collaborative coworking and hacker spaces. Community capital and affordability strategies. Openings for sale and rent in existing communities. Forming groups, and upcoming conferences; learn how to join, visit, or start a community. Yup, it’s all happening at the zoo!

Get a first-hand taste of the tools and resources used for building a sense of community anywhere.

From an Orientation last fall: Betsy and Raines were excellent facilitators - they shared a wealth of knowledge about the different communities and their styles, and wove in discussion that addressed the specific questions of each attendee. They did not hesitate to think creatively about solutions that met the constraints of attendees. (Member Gautam Agarwal, Nov. 13, 2011)

Doors open at 9:15 for setup and socializing. Program runs from 9:30-11:30 or so, including introductions, short talk on the types and differences of intentional communities in our area, followed by discussion, exercises, and general brain exchange on the things that most interest you. Raines Cohen, cohousing coach and community organizer will facilitate.

The door fee of $20 per household helps cover EBCOHO ongoing expenses. Bring a friend and save up to $5 each; supporting members (and members of supporting groups) pay just $10. Your contribution is refunded if you become a supporting member on the spot. (Supporting members get a free Cohousing book, a free coaching session, and discounts on many of our events, among other benefits).

If you can't make this gathering, fear not... we're planning additional intros/orientations on a Sunday morning, a Saturday morning, and a weekday evening. Keep an eye on the EBCOHO calendar for details.

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Raines Cohen

Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer

Event Host
Katie +1
Joe Morris +1
Ann Lehman
Martha Richards +1

EBCOHO Supporting Member through 12/1/2013
Frieda
Tom Maris
Jean
Diannne Quinley
Terra
Ed Medley +1
Deborah Houy
K. in Berkeley

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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.