Decision Making in a Fog
One of the challenges faced by forming groups is who makes decisions at the outset. When people first come together to explore whether or not…
Tag: forming communities
New Life for a Former Convent: Aria Cohousing Community
A new neighborhood to cultivate life! Aria Denver is moving ahead with the renovation of a signature building on the former Marycrest Convent property to…
Giving Form to Our Aspirations
[Join Mission Peak Cohousing for the April 9 & 10 Getting It Built Workshop in Fremont, CA – Sponsored by Mission Peak Cohousing (early-bird rate…
Cohousing Déjà vu
Our Getting It Built Workshop comes almost exactly on the nine-year anniversary of the day I first heard of cohousing. At the time, I was…
Founders Band Together to Showcase Innovative Ways to “do” Aging
[Editor’s Note: Village Hearth Cohousing is a sponsor of the Aging Better Together Conference. Come join us!] These are exciting times on the cohousing front…
Gathering Critical Mass for North Bay Cohousing
Over 50 folks joined us, North Bay Cohousing, on Sept 13th in Novato, CA to learn about two real and now cohousing opportunities in the…
PDX Commons in the media
In Portland (OR), the cohousing cauldron is beginning to boil with one project about to go to construction and as many as three others in…
Not on everyone’s map
True story: for three years my wife and I looked for a small town to call home. People thought we were crazy to leave Portland,…
Building Community. Learning from others while not attempting to duplicate
As one of the co-founders of Daybreak Cohousing, I spent a lot of time in the early stages researching what communities who had come before…