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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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Upcoming events
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In-Person Tour of Takoma Village Cohousing in DC, Sun, Sept. 20, 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 Sunday, September 20, from 1:00–3:00 pm.
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.
Registration is required. Sign up to attend here on the Washington DC Area Cohousing Meetup.
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 the Guide for Prospective Residents on our website.
You can email us to request a schedule of meetings, meals, and work days you can attend to learn more about us: welcome@takomavillage.org
Take public transportation to the event. We’re two blocks from the Takoma Station on Metro’s Red Line. Street parking is also available in the neighborhood.
NOTE: This is the last in-person tour this year. Virtual tours will be offered online in December 2026 and in March 2027.
25 attendees
TOUR DAY at Eastern Village Cohousing!
Eastern Village Cohousing, 7981 Eastern Ave NW, Silver Spring, MD, USLearn about life in Cohousing at Eastern Village on our TOUR DAY Sunday October 18 starting at 1:00 PM.
We'll provide an introduction to Eastern Village, a green co-housing community in the Downtown Silver Spring Arts & Entertainment District. Members will discuss life in our community and do a Q&A. You will then tour our community’s extensive common facilities, including award-winning eco-features and several of our condo units. Please join the tour promptly by 12:45 PM for a 1:00 PM start.
Light refreshments will be served
PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS TOUR AT THE WASHINGTON DC AREA COHOUSING MEETUP.
https://www.meetup.com/washington-dc-area-cohousing/events/316317249
If you are interested in living at Eastern Village, Montgomery County’s only cohousing community, we strongly encourage you to observe at least one of our monthly community meetings and attend one or more of our social activities. That way you will be able to see if cohousing and Eastern Village, in particular, is right for you.
Eastern Village is just 4 blocks from the Silver Spring Metro station on the Red Line. Parking is available behind the building in the Montgomery County Kennett Street Garage (no payment needed on Sunday) or on the street.
Eastern Village Cohousing
7981 Eastern Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 209102 attendees- Network event
new date TBD: The Dr. is IN! Finding Unity in Community: Consensus Q&A (Virtual)
·OnlineOnline40 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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