Lessons on the Road to Community Stability
By Kara Huntermoon We treated each new person as if they would be the answer to our problems. Our founder, Reba, begged the renters at every meeting to help figure out how to keep the land and community going. “I can’t do this!” she moaned. “It has got to be...
Communities #186: Picking Up the Pieces: New Beginnings
Communities #186 Spring 2020 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Following up on our Passing the Torch theme, our new issue highlights cases where intentional communities experience not so much generational shift as total or near-total collapse or...On Community: A Graduated Series of Consequences and the “Community Eye”
Just knowing the community has this process in place deters people from breaking agreements. People don’t want to get a knock at the door by one fellow community member, much less three or four.
Whatever Happened to the Renaissance Community?
Despite the lethal combination of power, ego, and spirituality that brought the Renaissance Community to an end, most of its ex-members cherish their time there as a growth experience that made them better people.
Missed Opportunity at the Goat Ranch
Ted and Sally were truthful when they said they had no idea what they were doing, either running the business or establishing a community. They didn’t, much to the dismay of their departing managers and volunteers.