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This Meetup focuses on the many and varied activities related to building and living in sustainable communities - - particularly cohousing communities. If you want to organize or publicize an event through this Meetup, one of our organizers will assist you. Call or email Ann Zabaldo 202.546.4654; zabaldo@earthlink.net
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•OnlineVirtual Tour of Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington, DC / Sat, Dec 13, 3-4:30pm
OnlineLearn about life at Takoma Village Cohousing in Washington, DC, a thriving community where residents know and support each other.
Join our virtual tour by Zoom from the comfort of your couch on Saturday, December 13, from 3:00–4:30 pm Eastern Time.
During the tour we’ll provide a comprehensive introduction to cohousing in general and Takoma Village in particular. We’ll share a slideshow of our community’s extensive common facilities, provide a peek inside a couple of homes, and make plenty of time for Q&A.
If you think you'd like to live at Takoma Village, check out our Guide for Prospective Residents for a list of activities to pursue and contact us to request a schedule of meetings, social events, and work days you can attend to learn more about us. Read our website thoroughly and follow us on Facebook and Instagram to get a glimpse of daily life here!
Another virtual tour will be offered again next year in March. In-person tours will take place in June and September.21 attendees- Network event
•OnlineNEW DATE: The Doctor is IN! Finding Unity in Community: Consensus Q&A (Virtual)
Online25 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.
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!4 attendees from this group
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