About us
We're taking charge of the last third of our lives by learning together about how to design our own retirement/senior cohousing/ecovillages, with privacy plus community. We're building on our shared wisdom, going beyond 'aging in place' to build connections for Aging In Community, alternatives to loneliness or institutionalization, bringing in the experts so we don't waste our time. Join us in this quest for Audacious Aging, and help us help you design the last home you'll need, one that fits like a glove, not a boot, where you know your neighbors and live sustainably yet with all the privacy you need!
Upcoming events
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- Network event
Visit us at ADU Expo this weekend: Tiny Home EcoVillages? (San Jose)
Hayes Mansion, 200 Edenvale Avenue, San Jose, CA, US1 attendee from 7 groups# Visit us at booth N102 (Hayes building downstairs foyer) at Bay Area ADU Expo 2026 in San Jose, this Feb 28-March 1 weekend.
Meet Cohousing Coaches Raines & Betsy, plus other area community organizers. See lots of tiny homes / Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) / backyard cottages and the folks who make them and help people build them.
At our table: Learn about area Tiny Home EcoVillages and models for tiny home communities across the country.
Saturday 11-6, Sunday 9-3. Free (register in advance on the Tickets link to save time on arrival)Silicon Valley Cohousing organizer Robert will be at our table Saturday 1:30-3 or so.
Let us know if you'd like a time slot to share about your vision for community.
We will be between the Rebuilding Together and San Francisco Planning booths.
- Network event
new date TBD: The Dr. is IN! Finding Unity in Community: Consensus Q&A (Virtual)
·OnlineOnline49 attendees from 20 groups(this is just a placeholder to keep it on the calendar until the new date is set)
The Cohousing "Doctors" are coming in from the golf course to talk to YOU!Mid Atlantic Cohousing (MAC) will reprise its popular and well-attended The Doctor is IN! event.
Our panel of "Doctors" will happily answer your questions about decision-making in cohousing and other collaborative community living:
- What are the myths we share about consensus?
- What have we experienced good and bad in our group process?
- What simple steps make it possible to move forward?
- What is different about how you operate at different stages of community building, from forming, during development, to move-in?
- How do you get new members up to speed on community culture and process?
- How can you avoid folks promising "block" feeling like a veto?
- How does initial and ongoing training make a difference?
Your questions, observations, comments will be welcomed.
The Doctor Is IN! ... is NOT a tour of any community. Rather, it's a Q&A session designed to support the work of those who are Forming, Building or are Living in a cohousing community. Inquirers, seekers, the curious ... old hands, new hands ... all are welcome at this Zoom meeting. To wit, MAC invites YOU -- no matter where you live, or what stage in your dream you find yourself -- to meet the one and only Attending Doctors, deeply experienced in different phases of community:
- Martie, Liberty Village (long-established and growing)
- Daisy, Eastern Village Cohousing (long-established)
- Raines, Cohousing Coach, Cohousing Open network, living in Berkeley (California) Cohousing
All are Members of the Board of Directors for MAC.
Other "Doctors" may join us as their golf games end ...
With all those questions above and your questions at hand, the "Doctors" will address the all-important social side of community, and how we use Consensus decision-making to do more than any of us thought possible.
Please join us for this fun event! Sign up on this Meetup or via the Mid-Atlantic Cohousing website: https://www.MidAtlanticCohousing.org/ or Text CONSENSUS to +19252815643
NOTE: After signing up, you will see the link to the zoom room. Do not lose the link! Put it in your calendar.
Looking forward to meeting you!
3 attendees from this group
Past events
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