Inside Community Podcast

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 about this today is Lee Warren. Lee Warren is reclaiming wisdom through conscious relating to self, land, and others. She has 25 years of experience with innovative solutions to mutually empowered relationships, land-based food systems, residential community, non-violent communication, and sustainability education. She is the principal and founder of Reclaiming Wisdom and co-founder of SOIL, School of Integrated Living. Lee is a writer, teacher, and activist, with a passion for embodiment practices, rural wisdom, sustainable economics, conscious dying, and community of all kinds. You can learn more about Lee and her work at https://reclaimingwisdom.com/ This episode was recorded in 2022, so her live workshops have passed, but “Becoming a Communitarian” is now available as a pre-recorded, at your own pace course. The FIC has a full and incredible curriculum of courses you can access any time.  Podcast listeners, use this code:  INSIDE30 and get 30% off any course.  You can also get 20% off in the FIC Bookstore with code INSIDE20 If you want to learn more about preparing for community life or any aspect of building community check out the Inside Community Podcast sponsor, The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC). 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 show notes 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 you are there. Follow the show and see inspiring images and videos 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.

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 member of the 27-year old Sowing Circle intentional community, as well as a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, OAEC.org. Sowing Circle and OAEC share living and working at an 80-acre organic farm and social movement training and retreat center in Sonoma County, Northern California. An ecologist, educator and facilitator for 40 years, Dave has served as a strategy and organizational design consultant to hundreds of environmental and social justice organizations, movement networks, foundations, and land-based projects in the US and around the world. Within the intentional communities’ movement, over the past 25 years Dave has led more than 50 weekend or week-long “Starting and Sustaining Intentional Communities” workshops at OAEC for more than 1000 participants, and has consulted with over 100 projects around the U.S. seeking to develop shared living farms, centers and Communities. If you want to learn more about creating Mission, Vision, and Values, 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, access show notes,  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 you are there. Podcast listeners receive 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30 and 20% off in the bookstore with code INSIDE20. 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.

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 projections, fantasies and realities of what community is.  So whether you are new to this topic or someone who's been wondering if community is right for you… hopefully you’ll all find some useful nuggets here! 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 you are there. Podcast listeners receive 30% off FIC courses with code INSIDE30 and 20% off in the bookstore with code INSIDE20. 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 on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and folks you know who are curious about living Inside Community.

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 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.

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 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.