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Creating a Life Together
Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional
Communities
By Diana Leafe Christian
Foreword by Patch
Adams
An intentional community is a group of people who have
chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common
ideal or vision.
An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community
that intends to create, ecological, social, economic,
and spiritual sustainability over several generations.
The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional
communities and ecovillages in North America: the number
of intentional communities listed in the Communities
Directory increased 60 percent between 1990 and 1995.
But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community
groups actually succeeded.
Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak.
After visiting and interviewing founders of dozens of
successful and failed communities, along with her own
forming-community experiences, the author concluded
that "the successful 10 percent" had all done the same
five or six things right, and "the unsuccessful 90 percent"
had made the same handful of mistakes. Recognizing that
a wealth of wisdom were contained in these experiences,
she set out to distill and capture them in one place.
Creating a Life Together is the only resource available
that provides step-by-step, practical "how-to" information
on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage
or intentional community.
Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about
real communities, and by profiling seven successful
communities in depth, the book examines "the successful
10 percent" and why 90 percent fail; the role of community
founders; getting a group off to a good start; vision
and vision documents; decision-making and governance;
agreements; legal options; finding, financing, and developing
land; structuring a community economy; selecting new
members; and communication, process, and dealing well
with conflict. Sample vision documents, community agreements,
and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant
resources for learning more. About the Contributor(s)
Besides editing Communities magazine since 1993, Diana
Leafe Christian offers workshops nationwide on the process
of forming new ecovillages and intentional communities.
She is a member of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.
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