creating a life together by diana leafe christian

Sample vision documents, community agreements, and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant resources for learning more.

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. Recognizing that a wealth of wisdom were contained in these experiences, she set out to distill and capture them in one place.Ĭreating 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. 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. Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded. 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 19. and families to live in support of one another, sharing a common vision in work.

An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations. She lives at Earthhaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.

Everything you need to know to create an intentional community from scratchĪn intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. Diana Leafe Christian is the author of Creating a Life Together and editor of Communities magazine.

Creating a life together by diana leafe christian