What we’re about
Imagine living in a small Western North Carolina mountain town where community is a way of life. Where you know and care for your neighbors and your neighbors know and care for you.
That’s what we offer here in Franklin, NC and in our new in town community Sanctuary Village.
The Village will feel familiar to those who have enjoyed life in the best of our nation’s oldest neighborhoods, where shops, cafes, book stores, cultural events, and community gathering spots are within a short walk.
Would you like to learn more? Explore our website (www.SanctuaryVillage.com and join our Meetup group. Better yet, come to Franklin and let’s build our community together!
Upcoming events
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- Network event
New date: The Doctor is IN! Finding Unity in Community: Consensus Q&A (Virtual)
·OnlineOnline40 attendees from 20 groupsThe 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.
(Note corrected time, 1 pm EST, 10 am PST. Right after the seniors in cohousing Q&A, in the same zoom room)
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!1 attendee from this group
Past events
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