[Lapg] How to Start a Successful Urban Ecovillage or Intentional Community Sat/Sun August 26 -27, 2006 and Slide Show Friday August 25 7:30 pm: L.A. Eco-Village

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

http://www.laecovillage.org/UseUpcoming%20events.html

Friday August 25      7:30 pm:
"An Introduction to Ecovillages" Slide Show and Talk with Diana Leafe 
Christian

Sat/Sun August 26 -27, 2006    10 am - 6 pm      2-Day Workshop at L.A. 
Eco-Village:
How to Start a Successful Urban Ecovillage or Intentional Community

     with Diana Leafe Christian

Diana Leafe Christian is the author of Creating a Life Together: Practical 
Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities and editor 
"Communities Magazine."  See <www.creatingalifetogether.org>

Fees
Friday night 8/25, 7:30 pm:           Public talk $15 (included for those 
attending 2 day workshop)
Sat & Sun 10 am - 6 pm:               Two day workshop $150

Location
L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004      Directions

Reservations required.  Reserve early (this slide show talk and workshop 
sold out last year):   213/738-1254 or <crsp at igc.org>. For two day 
workshop, send $50 deposit to CRSP, 117 Bimini Pl. #221, LA CA 90004. 
Deposit must be received by August 20, 2005.

Sponsors:  These events are sponsored by KPFK and CRSP in association with 
L.A. Eco-Village,  Southern California Cohousing , LegacyLA, and 
Sustainable Habitats

Note:  If you would like an electronic flyer, please email your request to 
crsp at igc.org

About the Friday night slide show & talk 8/25 at 7:30 pm:
Everyone interested in ecovillages and intentional communities will enjoy 
this slide show and talk. Lively, engaging, funny, and full of the joys and 
pitfalls of community living.  Features 9 ecovillages across the U.S., 
Mexico, Denmark, Australia and Italy.

About the Two Day workshop 8/26-27, 10 am - 6 pm:
For the workshop, you'll want to be more serious about starting a community 
or "retrofitting" an existing community.  If you are part of an ecovillage, 
cohousing and/or intentional community start-up group or want to begin such 
a group, or are considering joining a start-up group, this may be the most 
important workshop you will ever take. Diana will help you get it right at 
the front end, ultimately saving time, money and often heartache. For 
groups already planning their community, this is the quickest way to get 
your group on the same page for the hard and exciting work ahead of you. 
The workshop will cover the full spectrum of what it takes to get started 
and thrive including envisioning, core group issues, legal structures, 
buying buildings/land, communications, conflict, financing, site planning, 
creating community spirit, and more. The eco aspects of creating an 
ecovillage are integrated throughout the workshop. Representatives of 
groups that are part of, or would like to join, the emerging Ecovillage 
Network of Los Angeles are encouraged to attend.

What people say about the workshop
"Truly astounding! Clear, concise, direct, informed, and fun. Your workshop 
powerfully distilled both what I have and have not learned from 20 years of 
exploring community!"  -- Don St. Clair, Eugene, Oregon

"The workshop covers all the bases. The presentation is articulate and 
lively, engaging participants at every turn."  -- Garuth Chalfont, 
Greenbelt, Maryland

"Worth six months of individual research on how to form a new community."-- 
David Boddy, San Mateo, California

What People say about Diana's book Creating a Life Together
"Before aspiring community builders hold their first meeting, confront the 
first realtor, or drive their first nail, they must buy this essential 
book: it will improve their chances for success immensely, and will 
certainly save them money, time, and heartbreak. In her friendly but firm 
(and occasionally funny) way, Diana Leafe Christian proffers an astonishing 
wealth of practical information and sensible, field-tested advice." 
--Ernest Callenbach, author, Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging

"While anyone can build a village, a subdivision, or a housing development, 
the challenge is filling it with people who can get along, who can reach 
agreements, and who can achieve far more together than they ever could 
alone. If your aspiring ecovillage or intentional community gets even this 
far - and this awesome book will show you how - then maybe you have a 
realistic chance of living sustainably, and by example, of changing the 
world. My appreciation grows daily for this thorough, practical, and 
engaging guide." --Albert Bates, Director, Ecovillage Training Center, and 
Board member, Global Ecovillage Network

"A really valuable resource for anyone thinking about intentional 
community. I wish I had it years ago."
-- Starhawk, author of Webs of Power, The Spiral Dance, and The Fifth 
Sacred thing -- and long-time community member.

"Creating a new culture of living peacefully with each other and the planet 
is our number one need--and this is the right book at the right time. 
Creating a Life Together will help community founders avoid fatal mistakes. 
I can't wait to tell people about it."  -- Hildur Jackson, cofounder, 
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN); co-editor, Ecovillage Living: Restoring 
the Earth and Her People.
About Diana Leafe Christian

Diana Leafe Christian lives in an off-grid homestead at Earthaven 
Ecovillage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

She hosted radio interview programs on KORL in Honolulu in the 1970s and 
KVMR in northern California in the 1980s, and wrote articles for New Age 
magazine, Yoga Journal, and East-West Journal. In 1993 she became editor of 
Communities magazine, a quarterly publication published by the nonprofit 
Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC), about intentional communities 
and organized neighborhoods in North America.

Diana learned from dozens of community veterans and founders about what it 
takes to start successful ecovillages and intentional communities in 
today's financial and zoning climate. In Creating a Life Together she uses 
success stories, cautionary tales, and step-by-step advice to cover typical 
time-frames and costs; the role of founders; getting started as a group; 
vision documents; power, governance, and decision-making; legal structures; 
finding and financing land; zoning issues; sustainable site plans; 
selecting new members; and good process and communication skills for 
dealing well with conflict.

At Earthaven Diana works in construction and gardening projects on the 
sustainable homesite she shares with her mom and other Earthaven residents, 
and edits Communities magazine in her home office. She participates in 
Earthaven's consensus governance process, serving on its land-use, 
strategic planning, membership, and promotions committees.

Diana speaks, leads workshops, and shows slide presentations on ecovillages 
in the United States and Canada, including Ecovillage Training Center at 
The Farm in Tennessee, Los Angeles Eco-Village, Lost Valley Educational 
Center in Oregon, O.U.R. Ecovillage in British Columbia, and Easton 
Mountain Center in New York. She has led workshops at the North American 
Cohousing Conference, Twin Oaks Communities Conference, and FIC's Art of 
Community gathering. Her articles on ecovillages and intentional 
communities have appeared in publications ranging from Mother Earth News to 
Canada's This Magazine. She has been interviewed by New Dimensions Radio, 
NPR, and the BBC.

Diana's next book  is Finding the Ecovillage or Sustainable Community of 
Your Dreams: A Field Guide (working title),about visiting, evaluating, and 
joining ecovillages and sustainable communities (New Society Publishers, 
Spring 
2007). 
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