Fellowship for Intentional Community
Events and Conferences

Here are some opportunities to learn more about creating, finding and living in intentional communities. These events are sponsored or co-sponsored by the Fellowship for Intentional Community or other organizations whom share our strong commitment to promoting community and a more cooperative world.

Fellowship for Intentional Community Organizational Meeting

Open to all!

April 5th - 7th, 2013 in Prescott, AZ

The FIC will be holding its spring organizational meetings at Manzanita Village—the only cohousing community in northern Arizona—and you’re invited!

Please join us for any or all of our three days of conviviality, conversation, and conniving to make the world a more cooperative place.

Highlights of our agenda include:

progress on our capital campaign to raise funds for our new Green Office in Missouri
roll out of the new capacities on our family of websites
early returns on the release of Within Reach movie
fine tuning our Events program
selection of the 2014 winner of the Kozeny Communitarian Award

If you’re interested in community networking—or have questions about how to handle challenges your group is facing—this is a terrific opportunity to hobnob with community veterans and perhaps figure out how you can join the team. We hope you’ll join us!

Email Us for reservations or additional details

The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability

May 24-26, 2013 in Summertown, TN

Come to The Farm Community in Summertown, TN to set your course for the future, Life In Community! Our fourth conference in partnership with the Fellowship for Intentional Community, this gathering is a unique opportunity to tour Green Homes of all types, see Sustainable Food Production at work, over 890 KW in Solar Installations, learn about Alternative Education, Conflict Resolution, Land Trusts, Midwifery and so much more.

An FIC co-sponsored event

Ecovillage Education US

July 5 – August 11, 2013

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

Rutledge, MO

Join us for the 37-day summer immersion course for visionaries, culture-creators, and community organizers seeking experiential training in building or transitioning sustainable community.

A premiere training set within one of the US' leading ecovillages, Dancing Rabbit in Rutledge, MO, this life-changing course gathers the wisdom of ecovillages worldwide to train new leaders in creating a more sustainable future.

Staff members include FIC staff and board members (and community founders) Laird Schaub of Sandhill Farm, Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig of Dancing Rabbit, Alyson Ewald of Red Earth Farms, Tony Sirna of Dancing Rabbit and several other leaders in the sustainable communities movement!

Early Bird Registration is now open

Only 20 spots available!

www.ecovillageeducation.us

Communities Conference 2013: Community Vs. Uncertainty

Aug 30-Sept 2, 2013 at Twin Oaks Community - Louisa, VA

What role do intentional communities have in the uncertain times we live in?

How can we leverage cooperation and resource sharing to deal with the challenges we face? How are people coming together to create a society that might able to weather the coming storms and end up being satisfying and sustainable?

Fellowship for Intentional Community Organizational Meeting

September 12 -14, 2013 at Whole Village (Caledon ON)

Details to come!

Other Community Related Conferences:

Annual Conference of the Communal Studies Association: Transitions in Leadership

October 3-5, 2013

Historic Harmony Butler County, PA and Old Economy Village, Beaver County, PA

Deadline for Submission of Paper and Session Proposals: April 17, 2013

Annual Conference of the AASHE

Resiliency & Adaptation

October 6 -9, 2013 in Nashville, TN

NASCO Institute

November 1-3, 2013 in Ann Arbor, MI

Hosted by the North American Students of Cooperation

Over 400 participants will converge in Ann Arbor, Michigan from November 1st - 3rd to share ideas, learn new skills, and look at issues affecting the cooperative movement world wide. Since 1977, NASCO's Cooperative Education & Training Institute has been widely recognized as one of the most important training and networking opportunities available to members, directors, staff and managers of housing cooperatives. The annual NASCO Institute is always a one-of-a-kind opportunity to network with hundreds of cooperative leaders and employers, to caucus about pressing issues, and to work on building an inclusive and accessible cooperative movement. Participants include student coopers and others who choose to continue the lifestyle after college.