What we’re about
We are interested in supporting the growth of intentional communities and ecovillages in the St. Louis Area. This means helping people find each other, find the projects that meet their needs, share strategies and resources, and build community across projects and groups.
A diverse range of folks and interests show up at our meetings, though people tend to be community-minded, oriented toward social change, and with a bent toward ecologically-minded living. If at some time you have become excited about sharing resources, wanted to feel more connected to your neighbors, or worked to reduce your impact on the planet, this Meetup could be for you!
Note: This group was started as "Intentional Community St. Louis" in 2011, and, as of August 2013, has been revitalized by combining with a group that has been meeting around these topics since late 2012, the St. Louis Ecovillage Network.
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•OnlineNEW DATE! The Doctor is IN! Finding Unity in Community: Consensus Q&A (Virtual)
Online22 attendees from 20 groupsThe Cohousing "Doctors" are coming in from the golf course to talk to YOU! (Note corrected start time and new date)
Mid Atlantic Cohousing (MAC) will reprise its popular and well-attended The Doctor is IN! event on Saturday, November 15, 2022, 2pm-3:30pm EST (1:00p Central, 12 Noon mountain, 11 AM PST).
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/
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 this Saturday, November 15. 2-3:30pm EST :-)
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