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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; annzabaldo@me.com
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Newark DE Cohousing Intro
·OnlineOnline1 attendee from 3 groupsNewark Area Cohousing is a forming, multigenerational community in the Newark, DE area. Come to our free virtual Intro session to learn how our intentionally designed community balances private home ownership with shared amenities like a common house and gardens to foster social connection.
Currently in the site-search phase, the project is building a core group of residents who use consent-based decision-making to create a sustainable, walkable neighborhood.
Discover the future of neighborhood living with Newark Area Cohousing, a vibrant, multigenerational community forming in Delaware to bridge the gap between private ownership and deep social connection.Join us to explore how our intentionally designed shared spaces—from common houses to lush gardens—create a sustainable, walkable lifestyle where neighbors truly know and support one another.
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Visit us at https://www.newarkdecohousing.org/1 attendee from this group 
In-Person Tour of Takoma Village Cohousing in DC, Sat, June 13, 1-3pm
Takoma Village Cohousing, 6827 4th St NW, Washington, DC, USCome learn about life at Takoma Village Cohousing in Washington, DC, a thriving multigenerational community where residents know and support each other. Join our in-person tour on Saturday, June 13, from 1:00–3:00 pm.
Registration is required. Sign up here on the Washington DC Area Cohousing Meetup.
During the tour we'll provide a comprehensive introduction to Takoma Village, make plenty of time for Q&A, lead a walk-through of our community's extensive common facilities, and peek inside a couple of homes. Light refreshments will be served.
Whether you're someone looking to raise a family, a singleton in search of community, or an environmentalist interested in green living, the cohousing experience has something to offer you.
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!
You can take public transit to the event. We’re two blocks from the Takoma Station on Metro’s Red Line. Driving? Street parking is available in the neighborhood.
NOTE: This is the first in-person tour in 2026. Another will take place in September. Virtual tours will be offered online in December and in March 2027.
24 attendees
Shepherd Village (WV - One hour to DC metro) Virtual Open House
·OnlineOnlineTo join us, please reply to this event on Meetup AND complete the registration using the link above. That is how you will receive the Zoom link.
Attend our Virtual Open House to Learn About Shepherd Village Cohousing!
Are you:
- Wondering whether you might want to join Shepherd Village, a friendly cohousing community where you can really get to know your neighbors?
- Interested in living in a historic, walkable university town, just an hour northwest of Washington D.C.'s Dulles Int'l Airport?
- Eager to experience one-level, accessible living?
Grab your coffee and join us for an insider’s view of Shepherd Village!
5 attendees- 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!
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