Building Cohousing To Do List: Find Land, Invite New Members, Plan (another) Info Meeting, Hire Architect . . . For those creative and industrious people who are birthing brand new cohousing communities, the list can feel endless, so why would you add “Attend the NE Cohousing Summit”? My answer is “energy and passion”. Of all… Read More
A storyteller, a photographer and an architect walk into a bar . . . or maybe it is a common house. They are joined by a teacher, a lawyer, a developer, a farmer, an activist, a mother, an artist, a grandchild, a musician, and a whole bunch of other cool people. They hug and laugh… Read More
Cohousing Policies
What shall we discuss as we are forming our communities? Every forming community (I hope!) asks this question and communities that have already moved in give lots of different answers. Many of those answers are in the form of “I wish we’d resolved this” and “we decided x which was irrelevant and should have decided… Read More
Marketing for Cohousing – no car salesman techniques needed!
“I don’t want to be a used car salesman.” This is the response I most often hear when I ask forming cohousing groups to describe their feelings around using sales techniques in their membership recruitment. And I get it. We tend to stereotype sales people as sleazy movie car salesman: they pounce aggressively and they… Read More
Why I Contribute to Cohousing.Org Every Year
I just made my annual contribution of $100 to Cohousing.org. I do this every year because of the many benefits the organization has provided me: support, friendship, resources, and inspiration. Each year I choose ten organizations that are important to my life and my community, and I make a donation. To me, it’s a privilege… Read More
Such a High in Boulder Without the Colorado Drugs! (Regional Cohousing Conference, April 2018, Boulder, CO)
I recently returned from the Coho/US Regional Conference in Boulder, CO and I’m still high on the vitality that we shared the entire weekend. Wherever you looked, the almost 200 attendees were talking intently, meeting new people, sharing experiences, hopes, and dreams for the future. Plus it all felt positive, even when we discussed challenges,… Read More
Curious about cohousing? Want to see what it’s really like? Compare communities? Get inspired? Now’s your chance. It’s that time again! National Cohousing Open House Day is tomorrow, Sunday, April 29, 2018. We’ve got over 60 cohousing neighborhoods across the country participating this year, plus a few on alternate dates this or next week; one… Read More
What a Fantastic Conference!
I don’t hardly know where to start! Thank you so much to Silver Sage Village and Wild Sage to hosting our day of intensives which attendees very much enjoyed. We all met new people and reconnected with cohousing friends during the reception. Katie McCamant talked about ‘reintegrating community in this fast paced world’ in a… Read More
Bryan Bowen on This Weekend’s Regional Cohousing Conference
The Regional Cohousing Conference this weekend in Boulder, CO will bring cohousing professionals, those seeking cohousing and existing communities all together – there to share and gather knowledge to bring back to their established/new/in-process communities. Hear from Bryan Bowen of Caddis Architects (and resident at Wild Sage Cohousing) on why you should be excited for… Read More
In less than 1 week, one of our special guests for the Regional Cohousing Conference, Katie McCamant will give a FREE presentation. Hope you can join us in Boulder on Friday, then stick around for the full Conference Program! See flyer below. Mainstreaming Cohousing: Re-integrating Community in Our Fast-Paced World First United Methodist Church 1421… Read More
Conference Bus Tours: Spend Time In Community!
While there is an abundance of information on our Coho/US website about the variety of cohousing communities, as well as the option to post inquiries to the Cohousing-L list serve, nothing compares to spending time at a community. Whether you are forming a community and in the process of learning all that you can, or… Read More
Cultivating Resilience at the Regional Cohousing Conference
Let’s talk resilience! That’s what I’ll be doing at the Regional Cohousing Conference this year and I hope you all are coming and want to dig in to that concept. What does it mean for our communities to be resilient: economically, ecologically and socially? I’ve been playing in the domain of community for a couple… Read More
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