Take an inside look at the beautiful and messy realities of creating and sustaining an intentional community. Enjoy useful and inspiring stories to support you on your journey towards resilience, sustainability, and connection. Join community builder Rebecca Mesritz for interviews with experts in a variety of topics related to living communally --- from governance and decision making to ownership models, from navigating coparenting to navigating finances, from how to find your people to how ...
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#026: Preventing and Mending the Fissures with Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners
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We're closing out our second season with an examination of how to navigate inevitable interpersonal conflict and move towards restored connection. Social architecture can be what makes or breaks a community, business, or organization. How we process our own pain and trauma and interact with the trauma of others offers rich opportunities for growth …
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#025: Embracing Diversity and Inclusion with Crystal Byrd Farmer
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There’s a rich opportunity to push the needle forward when it comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, but navigating Race, Class, Privilege, Ability, and all the ways folks face different levels of adversity can be vulnerable and uncomfortable. Sometimes we need support to know what to ask for, how to be better allies, and to push us to grow in …
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#024: Community Supported Birth with Monique Gauthier
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Bringing new life into the world requires levels of support practically unheard of in modern, western culture... unless you've cultivated community that is up for the task! Seasoned midwife and communitarian Monique Gauthier joins us today to help us envision birth from a deeply held and conscious space that brings about the creation of new culture…
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Bonus: Centering and Preparing for Birth with Monique Gauthier
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My conversation with Monique Gauthier was too full of inspiring and helpful information, so I created this bonus episode to share some of the wisdom that couldn't fit in the full length episode. Here, Monique leads us through the centering meditation she does with her midwifery clients as they arrive in her office as well as shares some very practi…
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#023: New Visions for the Communities Movement with Daniel Greenberg
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As we close out 2023, it's time to take stock of the Communities Movement and consider where we might be headed in the future. In this episode we are joined by new FIC co-director Daniel Greenberg, who brings his deep experience from the ecovillage world, as well years living in and researching international communities like Findhorn and Auroville …
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#022: Cults! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Jesse Stone
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Cults get a pretty bad reputation in the mainstream world, but are they really evil? Or just misunderstood? Jesse Stone, co-host of the Cults I'd Join podcast comes on the show to shed some light on the upside of cults while giving us some helpful advice on what to look out for if manipulation just isn't for you. Down in the Ozarks, Jesse Stone liv…
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#021: Community Held Death and Dying with Angela Franklin
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The subject of death is seen by many as morbid or taboo, but what if this dark topic could be life-giving, affirming, and empowering? Join me as I talk with Angela Franklin about the possibilities of end of life and death care, how communities and individuals can reimagine how they view their final days, how to plan for the end, and the importance …
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#020: Central Leader Communities with "Evil Dictator" Paul Wheaton
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There are as many ways to structure a community as there are communities, but perhaps one of the most controversial models are those with central leadership. I mean... is that even REAL community?!? Today's guest and self-proclaimed "evil dictator," Paul Wheaton comes on to explain the benefits of top-down power structures and the great responsibil…
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Skillful Facilitation for Any Situation with Laird Schaub (Re-Release)
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We're re-releasing this awesome interview with Laird Shaub in preparation for FOUR upcoming classes he's going to be teaching through the FIC! https://www.ic.org/designing-a-community-membership-process/ (starts mid Sep) https://www.ic.org/facilitation-in-community/ (starts mid Sep) https://www.ic.org/working-with-conflict-in-community/ (starts l…
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#019: Intimacy in Community with Dave Booda
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In this episode we will chat with intimacy nerd Dave Booda, about why intimacy is so important, get new ideas on prompts that can lead towards deeper connection, and discover ways to create a safe container to meet people where they're at when building deeper bonds and creating more vulnerability. Dave Booda is a writer, musician, and social entrep…
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#018: Aging Well Together with Margaret Critchlow
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Margaret Critchlow, PhD, taught anthropology at York University in Toronto, Canada for 25 years before retiring to Vancouver Island. She loved learning from villagers in the south Pacific islands of Vanuatu and from residents of Canadian housing co-ops. She has written or co-authored more than 50 academic article and 7 books. She was a founding mem…
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#017: Raising Children in Community with Amy Saloner
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For many looking for community a primary goal is to be a part of a multigenerational reality where they can raise their own children or be in that special relationship of co-parent or auntie/ uncle. Whether folks are looking for support or to be supportive in the care of the young, it is important to create a safe container, clear agreements, and a…
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Cofounders and Creating Collaborative Culture with Yana Ludwig(Re-Release)
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Yana Ludwig is one of our most beloved guests on the Inside Community Podcast. In honor of her new book, Building Belonging, we are re-releasing episode 004 of Season 1: Finding Co-Founders and Creating Cooperative Culture with Yana Ludwig. The episode focuses on creating a cooperative culture when starting an intentional community, finding your pe…
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#016: Reclaiming Placemaking for Liberation with Ridhi D'Cruz
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We're kicking off Season 2 with a pair of episodes about Placemaking, how we design and consider creating environments for healthy thriving humans. In this second episode, Ridhi D'Cruz approaches the topic from a liberatory and healing perspective. ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender queer Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern …
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#015: Designing Shared Spaces with Bryan Bowen
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We're kicking off Season 2 with a pair of episodes about Placemaking, how we design and consider creating environments for healthy thriving humans. In this first episode I talk with Bryan Bowen about the ins and outs of designing sustainable spaces for healthy, connected, thriving humans from a design perspective. Bryan Bowen is an architect, cohou…
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Welcome back to Season 2 of the Inside Community Podcast! On this show we explore the beautiful and messy realities of living inside community and this season we are diving into more of the messy and the nitty gritty of what it takes to build cooperative culture. This trailer features a song from dear friend Dave Booda, whose music you can find at …
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#014: State of the Communities Movement
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We wrap up our first season with a thoughtful conversation with communities experts Yana Ludwig, Sky Blue, and Cassandra Ferrera on the state of the communities movement (and if it is even a "movement"!) We discuss the complexity of challenges facing both individual communities and the greater collective Community to meet both the everyday social, …
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#013: Visiting Communities with Anthony "Campo" Campbell
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Are you ready to see how other communities are doing it or perhaps are looking for a community to join? Well, visiting communities in person is the best way to learn what works and what doesn't work for you. Communing With the Campbells is the project documentary filmmaker Anthony "Campo" Campbell and his family have been sharing with the world thr…
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#012: Creating Inclusivity with Sociocracy
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Sociocracy brings an incredible opportunity to cooperative groups to embody higher levels of inclusivity through their governance. As a sociocracy trainer and transgender man living in community, Ted Rau has a unique story and perspective on how to make organizations function better and be more supportive to all their members. In this episode we ta…
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#011: Exploring Cohousing with Trish Becker
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For many folks interested in more interconnected ways of living, yet not financially or energetically prepared for something like an income sharing community, cohousing provides the benefits of greater sustainability and resource sharing, more social and emotional connection, and that beautiful neighborhood vibe all while allowing members a higher …
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#010: Navigating Conflict and Restoring Connection with Alyson Ewald
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Conflict in life is inevitable. Today's guest Alyson Ewald talks about how to have a good fight, how to transform harm into connection, and the importance of creating conflict systems that are personal and effective for your community. Alyson Ewald works with individuals and groups to design systems and practices that support learning, connection, …
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#009: Skillful Facilitation for Any Situation with Laird Schaub
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Moving groups through tough decisions can be tricky, if not impossible, without a skilled and well-trained facilitator to hold folks through the process. Laird Schaub joins us today to talk about the how’s and why’s of excellent facilitation. You'll learn from his 40+ years of lived community experience and training in facilitation, and leave with …
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#008: Income Sharing and Innovating Economy with Sky Blue
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In this episode, I'm joined by Sky Blue to discuss income sharing and innovating economic models by living in community. We examine some of the ways communities and collaborative culture endeavors are reimagining the way they design and live into their economies using the Twin Oaks Community, of which Sky is a former member, as a jumping off point.…
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#007: Governance & Decision Making with Diana Leafe Christian
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When it comes to deciding who gets to make decisions and how decisions get made, the communities movement has done a lot to innovate more equitable and transparent strategies. In today's conversation with Diana Leafe Christian, we talk about the importance of solid governance models and decision making structures, how these structures and a lack th…
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#006: Finding Your Land with Jonah Mesritz
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Sometimes the community dream only starts to "feel real" when the time finally comes for forming groups to purchase land. Putting down a large sum of money and taking that responsibility on with other people often brings up a load of fear and hesitation in addition to excitement. The process may feel daunting, but today's guest, Jonah Mesritz, has …
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#005: Demystifying Legal Frameworks with Clifford Paulin & Jonah Mesritz
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Do legal structures and documents make your head spin? Fear not! In this episode we're diving into the financial and legal issues all communities face (but many dread looking at) with two expert guides. Solid agreements are essential for creating a sense of safety for community members. My guests Clifford Paulin and Jonah Mesritz are going to not o…
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Bonus: Facilitation and Politics with Yana Ludwig
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There was so much richness in these two parts of my conversation with Yana Ludwig, I just had to share them with you. Enjoy! Thinking of starting an intentional community? The first step is finding “your people” — the fellow founders you will join with to build community. This is no easy task! Timing, personality, finances, vision, and values are …
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#004: Finding Co-Founders and Creating Cooperative Culture with Yana Ludwig
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Thinking of starting an intentional community? The first step is finding “your people” — the fellow founders you will join with to build community. This is no easy task! Timing, personality, finances, vision, and values are but a few of the considerations. How are you supposed to find and come together with the like-minded visionaries that will be…
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Ep:3 Preparing for Community with Lee Warren
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There are many communities out there looking for capable and eager new members to become a part of their project and help build their vision. Today we are going to focus on how you might best approach those communities, how to prepare yourself for community life, and how to find the community that best matches your personal vision. To talk with me …
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#002: Vision and Values with Dave Henson
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This episode explores the topic of Mission, Vision, and Values in community. These guiding principles and founding documents help communities determine who they are and what they do. In many ways, this is the “intention” part of intentional community. Joining me on a deep dive into this topic is Dave Henson. Dave Henson is a co-founder and current …
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#001: What is Community? Fantasy vs. Reality
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Hello friends and welcome to the Inside Community Podcast where I bring you along for an inside look at what it takes to create and sustain community. In this first episode we are going to take a look at what we actually mean when we say "community." This episode is going to cover a lot of the basics, but we will also get into some of the projectio…
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Why Me? Why Now? an Introduction
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In this introduction episode, I tell you the story of my journey creating and living in community, and why this podcast felt so important for me to create now. If you want to learn more about living inside community or learn more about this podcast, visit our website, hosted by the Foundation for Intentional Community, at ic.org/podcast. Your finan…
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If you want to learn more about living inside community or learn more about this podcast, visit our website, hosted by the Foundation for Intentional Community, at ic.org/podcast. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating through our website while yo…
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