Inside Community Podcast

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 late Oct) https://www.ic.org/participation-and-work-in-community/ (starts late Oct) There are also some re-run courses that are available, on demand: https://www.ic.org/consensus-for-communities/⁠ ⁠https://www.ic.org/power-and-leadership-in-community/⁠ 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 practices you can use in your community conversations. Read Laird's incredible bio in our show notes at ⁠i⁠⁠c.org/podcast⁠. Podcast listeners, use this code INSIDE30 and get 30% off ⁠FIC courses⁠. Use code INSIDE20 for 20% off on the ⁠FIC bookstore.⁠ Laird leads a two-year facilitation training program where students meet eight times for intensive 3-day weekends. In addition to classroom time where he teaches the elements of skilled facilitation, half the time is spent preparing for, delivering, and debriefing live facilitation, where the students run the meetings and the trainers are a safety net. For more info email laird@ic.org If you want to learn more about facilitation or any aspect of building community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts 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! Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.

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 entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Intimacy Fest and hosts The Darkness Experiment. He's led over 400 workshops on connection, touch, and relationships and has consulted for and facilitated experiences for companies, communities, retreats, and gatherings of all kinds with the intention to inspire authenticity, connection, and group cohesion. He's published over 200 essays for boodaism.com and played over 1000 shows as a touring singer songwriter. He is a former naval officer and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, currently serving on the board of directors for the Foundation for Intentional Community, while touring and living at different intentional communities in North America. Link Dave mentioned: The Autistic Culture Podcast If you want to learn more about intimacy in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, ⁠⁠The Foundation for Intentional Community⁠⁠. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠⁠⁠FIC Bookstore ⁠⁠⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠⁠⁠FIC courses⁠⁠⁠ with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts 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!⁠⁠⁠ Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠⁠⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda ⁠⁠davebooda.com⁠⁠ ICP theme by Rebecca Mesritz We are so grateful to for our show's sponsors: Caddis Collaborative - ⁠⁠⁠caddispc.com⁠⁠⁠ CohoUS - ⁠⁠⁠www.cohousing.org⁠⁠⁠ Communities Magazine - ⁠⁠⁠gen-us.net/subscribe⁠

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 member of the first senior cohousing community in western Canada, Harbourside Cohousing, where she has lived with her husband since it opened in Jan 2016. Margaret enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for cohousing with people of all ages, independently and as a Community Building Facilitator with Cohousing Development Consulting. Her online courses, “Planning for aging in community” and “Is cohousing for you?” have supported people to better understand what they are getting into when they join a cohousing community. Margaret will be teaching the FIC Course Exploring Community for Aging Well⁠⁠⁠  5 weeks starting June 23rd Use Code INSIDE30 for 30% off LINKS that Margaret Mentioned: Karin Wells' CBC radio documentary "It's Their Life" about how Denmark is changing ways to care for the elderly. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2304600412 CBC Radio documentaries by Karin Wells about Harbourside Cohousing 2016 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/hisham-matar-judge-lynn-smith-co-housing-spotlight-investigation-1.3732577/b-c-seniors-build-a-new-way-to-age-in-place-1.3737140?x-eu-country=false2018 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-june-10-2018-1.4695635/a-b-c-experiment-in-cohousing-has-become-an-adventure-in-co-caring-1.4695653Anne P. Glass "Aging better together, intentionally" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352846544_Aging_Better_Together_Intentionally Elder Spirit Community, Abingdon, VA https://elderspirit.orgHarbourside Cohousing, Sooke, BChttps://www.harbourside.caQuimper Village, Port Townsend, WAhttp://www.quimpervillage.com/West Wind Harbour Cohousinghttps://www.westwindharbour.ca If you want to learn more about aging in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, ⁠⁠The Foundation for Intentional Community⁠⁠. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠⁠⁠FIC Bookstore ⁠⁠⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠⁠⁠FIC courses⁠⁠⁠ with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts 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!⁠⁠⁠ Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠⁠⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda ⁠⁠davebooda.com⁠⁠ ICP theme by Rebecca Mesritz We are so grateful to for our show's sponsors: Caddis Collaborative - ⁠⁠⁠caddispc.com⁠⁠⁠ CohoUS - ⁠⁠⁠www.cohousing.org⁠⁠⁠ Communities Magazine - ⁠⁠⁠gen-us.net/subscribe⁠

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 attune to the highest needs of each individual child. Amy Saloner, LCSW FNTP has worked with children and families for the last 30 years as a therapist, educator, speaker event producer and coach. Her work has spanned the developmental spectrum from birth through young adulthood and specializes in raising resilient teens and young adults. Twelve years ago she and her husband co-founded the intentional community The Emerald Village in north county San Diego with four other families. They have raised their three children (23, 16 and 13) there and have co-parented 9 other children during that time. Amy is currently in private practice as a parent and teen coach and nutritional therapist. She teaches courses and runs support groups on parenting adolescents and sees private clients online and in-person for nutritional, relational and emotional support.  You can find her at amysaloner.com  Instagram: @resilientfamily_resilientteen Facebook: @amysalonerprofessional  For those who a) follow her on Instagram, b) sign up for her newsletter and c) send her a message with the word COMMUNITY,  she will send you her worksheets and video for Creating a meaningful Rites of Passage Ceremony for your child.  She currently co-runs a monthly support group for parents of 11th and 12th graders called The Fireside Chats with Carolyn and Amy. Learn more and register here. FIC Course Exploring Raising Children in Community  5 weeks starting June 20th at 8am PT  Use Code INSIDE30 for 30% off If you would like to access the Emerald Village's Raising Children at the Emerald Village doc, click here. If you want to learn more about raising children in community or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, ⁠The Foundation for Intentional Community⁠. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠⁠FIC Bookstore ⁠⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠⁠FIC courses⁠⁠ with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts 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!⁠⁠ Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda ⁠davebooda.com⁠ ICP theme by Rebecca Mesritz We are so grateful to for our show's sponsors: Caddis Collaborative - ⁠⁠caddispc.com⁠⁠ CohoUS - ⁠⁠www.cohousing.org⁠⁠ Communities Magazine - ⁠⁠gen-us.net/subscribe⁠

Yana Ludwig, a cooperative culture pioneer and anti-oppression activist, shares her rich 25-year journey through intentional communities. She discusses the importance of finding like-minded co-founders and the challenges of fostering a cooperative culture. Insights from her new book, Building Belonging, guide listeners on overcoming ego and navigating tensions in community ownership. Yana emphasizes essential traits like trust and collaboration, encouraging a shift from individualism to shared power in creating vibrant, sustainable communities.

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 India and moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist. their life artistry roots at the intersections of place, healing, design and creativity. they have dedicated over a decade of their life to designing community processes that cultivate liberatory and healing senses of place. they strive to honor and benefit the sacred and stolen lands of the Chinook people and several other tribes both recognized and unrecognized that they are a guest upon.  ridhi has cultivated a place justice practice through more than a decade of service on Chinook lands. Currently, they co-facilitate an annual herbal immersion program for BIPOC called the Moon & Mirror Apprenticeship Program, are an nature educator with and for QT/BIPOC community through Wild Diversity and humbly support various place justice projects including the Native Gathering Garden at Cully Park and the Justice for Justice for Keaton Otis Memorial Art Project. you can find them online via their website ridhidcruz.net, on IG as @ridhidcruz and email them at ridhidcruz@gmail.com Ridhi's FIC course, Reclaiming Permaculture and Placemaking for Liberation starts May 8, 2023 Use Code INSIDE30 for 30% off If you want to learn more about placemaking or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠FIC Bookstore ⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠FIC courses⁠ with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts 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!⁠ Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda davebooda.com ICP theme by Rebecca Mesritz We are so grateful to for our show's sponsors: Caddis Collaborative - ⁠caddispc.com⁠ CohoUS - ⁠www.cohousing.org⁠ Communities Magazine - ⁠gen-us.net/subscribe⁠

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, cohousing nerd, and sustainable community-based designer. Bryan grew up in a passive solar home in an artists’ community at the foothills of the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA with minors in art and anthropology, and has been a practicing architect for almost 25 years. He lived in Wild Sage Cohousing in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two boys for 18 years. Bryan loved life in cohousing and enjoys the simple benefits of community – friends right outside the front door, casual interactions, great food, and a rich life for his kiddos. His firm, Caddis, is a 20 year old multidisciplinary design collaborative that explores how we may live more lightly upon our earth in beautiful and healthy environments.  Caddis has become a well-respected national cohousing expert, creating beautiful, innovative, highly functioning communities. Bryan has served on the City of Boulder’s Planning Board, the board of CohoUS, and now sits on the board of Better Boulder. Some references from the show: James Rojas - Urban planner The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America -Book on zoning by Richard Rothstein Superbia - Book on designing better neighborhoods by David Wann If you want to learn more about placemaking or any aspect of community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, ⁠The Foundation for Intentional Community⁠. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners get 20% off in ⁠⁠FIC Bookstore ⁠⁠with code INSIDE20 and 30% off ⁠⁠FIC courses⁠⁠ with code INSIDE30. You can learn more about FIC and access transcripts 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!⁠⁠ Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram ⁠⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda ⁠davebooda.com⁠ ICP theme by Rebecca Mesritz We are so grateful to for our show's sponsors: Caddis Collaborative - caddispc.com CohoUS - www.cohousing.org Communities Magazine - gen-us.net/subscribe

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 davebooda.com 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.  We have a survey up there and would love to hear from you about how this show can best support your journey. 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 you are there. Follow the show and see inspiring images and video of community life on Instagram ⁠@InsideCommunityPodcast⁠ - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.

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, financial, and emotional needs of members as well as address larger systemic issues that are being dealt with in society on a broader scale.  Yana, Sky, and Cassandra have been engaged in these discussions together for years as friends, FIC board members, and community advocates and today they share their insights in what could be considered "advanced community theory." Yana Ludwig is a cooperative culture pioneer, intentional communities advocate, and anti-oppression activist. She serves on the FIC board, and is a trainer and consultant for communities, worker owned cooperatives and nonprofits. She is the author of Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption, The Cooperative Culture Handbook (with Karen Gimnig),  and the soon-to-be-released Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Land-based Intentional Community. Yana Ludwig Training and Consulting Sky Blue (They/Them) has spent 22 years living, working, and organizing in intentional communities, cooperatives, and community organizations. They are currently working with a group of people to start a new community, and work as a community consultant as part of The Next Big Step. They take a whole systems approach to helping groups uncover and address underlying issues and dynamics, develop shared understanding, and find ways to move forward together. sky@ic.org. Cassandra Ferrera's real estate career and community activism has focused on the edge of cultural innovation where cooperation meets land stewardship. She has provided agency, complex contract design, consulting and cooperative governance support to dozens of communities and land projects. A licensed real estate agent in California since 2003, Cassandra’s license is with the progressive Green Key Real Estate brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently co-founding The Center for Ethical Land Transition, a non-profit organization that supports solidarity and justice in land transitions. www.cassandraferrera.net If you want to learn more about Community, check out the The Foundation for Intentional Community. You can learn more the show and access transcripts at ic.org/podcast. Podcast listeners use code INSIDE20 and get 20% off in the ⁠FIC bookstore⁠ and INSIDE30 for 30% off FIC courses. Your financial support of Inside Community helps us to continue to create meaningful and exciting content and I hope you’ll consider donating! Communities Magazine is a primary resource for information, stories, and ideas about intentional communities. Subscriptions are available and more than 400 back-issue articles are posted for free on the at www.gen-us.net/communities Insta & FB @InsideCommunityPodcast

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 through TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, sharing their global communities tour and bringing a new spin to how the world sees the movement.  Campo joins me in this episode to talk about how to best engage with communities you would like to visit so both you and your host gets the most benefit from your time together. Join their journey on TikTok @Communing_with_Campbells  on YouTube @ Communing With the Campbells and on Instagram @Communing_with_the_Campbells Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos of community life on Facebook and Instagram @InsideCommunityPodcast - I’d love to hear from you there!  If this content has been meaningful or useful to you, please subscribe, rate and review, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community. If you want to learn more about Sociocracy or any aspect of building community, check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community. FIC is an incredible resource center with weekly events, online courses, classified advertisements, an extensive bookstore and lots of free educational materials. Podcast listeners use code INSIDE20 for 20% off the FIC Bookstore and INSIDE30 for 30%off on courses. You can learn more about the show and access transcripts 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! Communities Magazine is a primary resource for information, stories, and ideas about intentional communities—including urban co-ops, cohousing groups, ecovillages, and rural communes. Each full-color quarterly issue focuses on a specific theme. Subscriptions are available and more than 400 back-issue articles are posted for free public reading on the website.https://www.gen-us.net/communities/