Living Library
An evolving collection of books, frameworks, constitutions, and resources connected to fieldwork and research on intentional communities. This knowledge layer grows alongside our interviews and field notes, offering pathways for slow exploration and return visits.
Curated Collections
On How Groups Decide
6 resources
On Hosting Conversations
9 resources
Books that Reframe the Field
4 resources
On Co-Living Agreements
7 resources
Indigenous and Stateless Governance
4 resources
On Money and Common Ownership
23 resources
Federation as a Constitutional Choice
10 resources
On Conflict Resolution
11 resources
The Five Cornerstones
5 resources
Resources (150)
The Invisible Architecture: Why We Gather
Sharon Avraham's founding letter for the ToGather Project, on growing up in a fading socialist village, finding Burning Man, and turning fifteen years of community fieldwork into a living archive.
What I Got Wrong About Intentional Communities
After dozens of field interviews, Sharon's assumption that people who choose community have it figured out gave way to a harder finding: the hard parts are the same everywhere, and the answers are unglamorous.
The Conversation That Breaks Them
The conversation communities avoid, usually the one about money, is the one that decides whether they hold. Drawn from interviews across the archive, including Kibbutz Samar and ADM Amsterdam.
Nobody Taught Us How to Fight
Communities rarely fall apart because they fight. They fall apart because no one ever taught them how. On conflict practice, drawn from Tamera, Traditional Dream Factory, and others.
What I Took From Watching Communities Hold Through Conflict
On shared rituals, Forum work, and the practices that keep people together long after the founding dream has been accomplished or quietly faded.
You Have to Build It Before You Need It
What field research tells us about the part that comes after the run club: building the social infrastructure of a community before the moment you actually need it.
The Tools Exist. We Rarely Use Them.
The same three things break intentional communities, and the toolkits that address them have sat on a shelf for forty years. On why proven governance and conflict tools go unused.
The Community You Build at Forty Is the One That Holds You at Eighty
On building a place to grow old in before you need one. How Kibbutz Samar and Tamera handle aging, care, and the generational handoff.
What Happened When a Dozen Community Hubs Met for a Weekend in Spain
A closed-door weekend with the people who run Europe's community houses, and why their stuck points, money, power, and belonging, are everyone's stuck points.
The Uncooperative Society
We were trained to be customers, not collaborators. On why cooperation feels so hard, and what relearning it inside intentional communities reveals about the rest of us.
Self-Actualization in the Age of Crisis
Ron Rivers translates Smolin's cosmology and Unger's political philosophy into nine sacred rights for community practice. The Eight Dignities are the practice end of temporal naturalism.
The Religion of the Future
Unger asks what religion looks like once metaphysical consolation fails. His answer: a future spirituality that transforms rather than escapes, for a universe that is always becoming.
Time Reborn
Lee Smolin's argument that time is genuinely real, and that the laws of nature themselves evolve. The cosmological grounding for why treating any social arrangement as final is a category mistake.
The Triad of Commoning
The framework from Helfrich and Bollier (2019) describing any living commons through three entangled spheres: Social Life, Peer Governance, and Provisioning, with 27 named patterns.
Free, Fair and Alive
The 2019 synthesis by Silke Helfrich and David Bollier that reframes the commons as a living social process built on the Triad of Social Life, Peer Governance, and Provisioning, with 27 named patterns.
Democratic Experimentalism
Roberto Mangabeira Unger's proposal for how any self-governing group keeps its institutions revisable over time. The antidote to false necessity: treating historical choices as natural facts.
Twelve Design Principles of Permaculture
A design system for sustainable human settlement and agriculture, grounded in three ethics and twelve operational principles. Practiced directly by communities in the ToGather archive across Portugal and India.
Member Transitions and Departure
The practices through which community members navigate change: seasonal cycles, role shifts, planned departure, and invited exit. Documented from the ToGather archive.
Membership and Selection
The practices through which a community decides who joins, on what terms, and how new members are integrated. Documented across three communities with divergent approaches.
Community Purpose-Setting
A deliberate practice in which a community articulates, tests, and revises the shared purpose that holds it together. Documented across four communities in the ToGather archive.
The Homo Faber Trilogy
Richard Sennett's three-book project on craftsmanship, cooperation, and the open city. The Craftsman (2008), Together (2012), and Building and Dwelling (2018) read together as one extended argument about the skills people need to live together.
The Craft of Cooperation
A framework distilled from Richard Sennett's Homo Faber trilogy: cooperation as a craft, the dialogic-dialectical distinction, three rituals of exchange, and the open-city design principles for communities that hold difference without forcing synthesis.
Emergent Strategy
A framework for organizing and community-building built on six elements (fractal, adaptive, interdependent, nonlinear, resilient, generative) and nine principles, developed by adrienne maree brown.
Emergent Strategy
adrienne maree brown's 2017 book reads movement strategy through Octavia Butler, Grace Lee Boggs, and complexity science, naming six elements and nine principles for shaping change at the speed of trust.
Tuckman's Stages of Group Development
Bruce Tuckman's 1965 model of how small groups move through forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. A useful map with documented limits when applied to long-running communities.
Closing and Commitment Cycle
The sequence of practices that lands a week-long gathering: Forgiveness, Commitment Circle, Goal Setting, Closing Check-in, and the Appreciation Circle. The last 36 hours of a JAM.
Gender Day at a JAM
A day-long fishbowl structure for working with gender, patriarchy, and conditioning. Single-gender inner circles, cross-gender witnessing from the outer circle, with the structure flipping after lunch.
Class-Race Stand-Up and the Heart Exercise
Three linked embodied practices for working with race, class, and privilege in a residential group: the Heart Exercise, the privilege walk, and the Racism Stand-Up.
Truth Mandala
Joanna Macy's whole-group grief ritual. An altar with four symbolic objects, a witnessing circle, and a structure for speaking what we carry about the state of the world.
Deep Partner Sharing
A family of two-person practices, structured around a question or a sentence stem, that bring strangers into honest contact faster than a group circle can.
The Daily Check-In Practice
A morning circle where each person speaks in turn and gets listened to. The heartbeat of a week-long gathering, and the most portable practice from the JAM tradition.
Setting the Container at a JAM
The opening ritual stack at a week-long JAM. Six small moves on the first evening, with an altar at the centre, that turn thirty strangers into a working group.
The JAM Method
A week-long residential gathering for 30 young change-makers built around two principles, uncompromised truth and unconditional love. Developed by YES! since 1990.
The Mietshaeuser Syndikat: A Network Against Selling
A German network of 170-plus collectively owned housing projects that can never be sold. Founded in Freiburg in 1992 by housing activists from the autonomous left and squatter movements. Each house is a GmbH with two shareholders: the residents' association and the Syndikat, which holds one share carrying a permanent veto over any decision to sell. Financing comes from Direktkredite, direct loans from solidarity lenders at below-market rates, typically 0.5 to 2.5 percent.
Steward-Ownership: Separating Profit Rights from Voting Rights
A legal structure in which a company's voting rights and profit rights are permanently separated. Stewards hold the voting shares and cannot sell them; profits above a capped return are reinvested in the mission or donated. The structure dates to Ernst Abbe's 1889 transfer of Carl Zeiss in Jena; the Purpose Foundation named and systematized it around 2015. Patagonia completed the most visible contemporary transfer in September 2022, directing roughly $100 million per year in profits to the Holdfast Collective.
Les Pas-Sages: The Cooperative of Uses Model
A non-speculative housing cooperative in Lyon, France, legally constituted in 2016, housing 36 households on the Presqu'ile peninsula. Members hold usage rights rather than property titles, pay a monthly charge d'usage instead of rent or a mortgage, and cannot capture any appreciation in the building's value when they leave. One of the first documented instances of the French cooperative d'habitants form created by the 2014 loi ESS.
Community Land Trust: Non-Speculative Land Ownership
A land trust model in which a nonprofit holds land permanently and leases it to residents who own the buildings above it. When a resident sells, a formula limits what they can take out, keeping the home affordable for the next buyer. New Communities Inc. in Georgia launched the first CLT in 1969; the Champlain Housing Trust in Burlington, Vermont, is the most documented case with more than 650 homes held permanently affordable.
The Communitarian Economy: Trust-Based Donation Funding at Tamera
The financial model that has sustained Tamera, a peace research village of around 100 people in southern Portugal, since 1995: no membership fees, no salaries, no ownership of the land. The community runs on donations and on income from week-long seminars on love, water, and peace research. Diogo Serras Lopes and Vera describe it as a political will-based economy: the funding exists because people who share the vision choose to sustain it.
Pay Solidarity: Wage Ratios in Worker Cooperatives
The practice of capping the ratio between the lowest and highest paid workers in a cooperative, most famously established at Mondragon in 1956 at 3:1 by Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta. The ratio has since drifted to 9:1 at Mondragon following international expansion; other cooperatives hold ratios from 1:1 (Suma Wholefoods) to 8:1 (Organic Valley). Documented across the worker cooperative movement as the primary mechanism for institutionalizing economic solidarity.
Labor Credit Systems: The Twin Oaks Model
The contribution-tracking system developed at Twin Oaks, Virginia, in 1967, in which every approved task carries a credit value and members sign up for roughly 42 hours of credited work per week. Credit balances determine standing; no cash changes hands between members. Documented in Kat Kinkade's A Walden Two Experiment and still in use at Twin Oaks after more than five decades.
Pooled Income and Needs-Based Maintenance: The Commune Economy
The income-sharing model used by Twin Oaks, Acorn, and the Federation of Egalitarian Communities: all earned income goes into a common fund, all needs are met from it equally, and no member holds personal savings. Documented in Kat Kinkade's 1973 account and practiced at Twin Oaks for more than fifty years. Kibbutz Samar in Israel's Arava desert ran an open-money variant for its first decade before partially privatizing.
Pour Tous: The All-Goods-Free Economy
Auroville's community provision system: contribute five or more hours of daily work, receive food, housing, and healthcare without cash exchange between residents.
Restorative Justice and Transformative Justice (1990 onward)
Three overlapping frameworks for addressing harm without incarceration. Restorative Justice (Howard Zehr, 1990, Mennonite tradition) asks what harm was done, who is responsible, and how it can be repaired. Restorative Circles (Dominic Barter, mid-1990s, Brazilian favelas) adds a three-stage community facilitation structure. Transformative Justice (INCITE! and Generation FIVE, 2000s, abolitionist feminist) adds the question of what conditions produced the harm and how to change them. Used in schools, criminal justice, and intentional communities navigating consent and accountability.
Holacracy (Brian Robertson, 2007; Constitution v5.0, 2021)
A full-scale governance operating system built around a published Constitution now at version 5.0 (2021). Brian Robertson developed it at Ternary Software in Philadelphia from 2001 and co-founded HolacracyOne in 2007 to implement and license it. All authority flows through explicitly defined roles nested in circles; two meeting cadences, governance and tactical, are kept strictly separate. Zappos adopted it in 2013 for 1,500 employees; roughly 260 employees took a buyout rather than comply, and the company had quietly modified the system by 2019.
Sociocracy For Communities (SoFA + FIC, 2016 onward)
A 10-hour pre-recorded course on sociocracy governance, taught by Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez of Sociocracy For All (SoFA) and hosted by the Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC). Five classes covering linked circles, consent decision-making, feedback design, meetings, and implementation strategies. Built for residential and forming communities. $79-$129 USD sliding scale.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Jo Freeman, 1970/1972)
Jo Freeman's foundational 1970 essay (delivered as a talk in Beulah, Mississippi; published in The Second Wave 1972, Berkeley Journal of Sociology 1972-73, Ms. magazine 1973) that delivered the structural critique of leaderless organizing from inside the women's liberation movement. The argument: there is no such thing as a structureless group, and the rhetoric of structurelessness becomes a way of masking power. The seven principles of democratic structuring that close the essay are the operational ancestor of every contemporary participatory governance framework.
Liberating Structures (Lipmanowicz & McCandless, 2014)
An open Creative Commons library of 33 named facilitation methods developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless and incubated at the Plexus Institute. Each method is defined by the same five design elements (Structuring Invitation, Space and Materials, Participation Distribution, Group Configuration, Sequence and Time) and is designed to be picked up and used by anyone, not only by trained facilitators. The motto: including and unleashing everyone.
Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider & Srivastva, 1987)
A strengths-based method for group inquiry and organizational change developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva at Case Western Reserve University in the 1980s. The 4D cycle (Discover, Dream, Design, Destiny) is built around the premise that organizations evolve in the direction of the questions they most persistently ask. Now one of the foundational practices in dialogic organizational development and the Art of Hosting facilitation family.
Theory U (Otto Scharmer, 2007)
Otto Scharmer's 2007 book introduces presencing, an awareness-based approach to leading deep change drawn from 150 interviews with innovators and thought leaders. The U-process moves a group from downloading past patterns, through seeing and sensing, to presencing at the bottom of the U, then up through crystallizing, prototyping, and performing. The line at the heart of the book, from the late Bill O'Brien: the success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.
Circle / The Way of Council
An ancient meeting form gathered into modern shape by two parallel lineages: the Way of Council (Ojai Foundation, Zimmerman & Coyle, 1980 onward, codified 1996) and The Circle Way (Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea, PeerSpirit, 1994 onward, codified 2010). A center, a rim, a talking piece, a guardian, and three principles plus three practices that make a different kind of speech possible.
ProAction Café
A small-group facilitation method that turns a roomful of personal projects into structured peer coaching, in three rounds of twenty-five minutes each. Designed in Brussels around 2005 by Rainer von Leoprechting and Ria Baeck as a blend of Open Space Technology and World Café, now a core method in the Art of Hosting network worldwide.
World Café
Juanita Brown and David Isaacs's 1995 method for large-group conversation. Small tables, three rounds, rotation between rounds, paper tablecloths, gallery-walk harvest.
Open Space Technology
Harrison Owen's 1985 meeting format for groups of 5 to 2,000 people gathering around a single compelling question. The participants build the agenda themselves and self-organize the conversation.
Reinventing Organizations
Frédéric Laloux's 2014 book mapping the developmental progression of organizations from Red through Teal, with Buurtzorg, Morning Star, and FAVI as flagship self-management cases.
Plurality
Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl's 2024 book arguing for a third way in digital democracy: bridging social capital, rough consensus, broad listening. Authored as a CC0 commons.
Burning Man's Ten Principles
The cultural document Larry Harvey wrote in 2004 to articulate Burning Man, eighteen years in. Now used as a touchstone by intentional communities, hackerspaces, and theme camps worldwide.
DAO Governance
Governance through on-chain voting, weighted by token holdings, often layered with off-chain deliberation. Documented in the ToGather archive at Traditional Dream Factory in Portugal.
Doocracy
A governance pattern where authority flows to whoever shows up and does the work. Common in open-source projects, Burning Man camps, and seasonal communities like Feÿtopia.
Sociocracy 3.0 (S3)
A pattern library of more than 70 modular practices for governance, collaboration, and structuring, designed to be adopted piecemeal rather than as a whole system. Released as Creative Commons in 2015.
Embassy Network: Design Patterns and Do-ocracy
The published design patterns and do-ocracy governance model of the Embassy Network, a network of urban co-living houses that ran a famous 8-month live-in governance experiment in 2013, rotating through four different decision-making structures.
Radish: The FriendLLC Model
Phil Levin's published two-entity legal and governance structure for Radish, a 20-adult, 8-child co-living compound on a third-acre lot in Oakland, California. A landlord LLC owns the property, the resident community governs daily life, and the same person can be both an owner and a resident with different decision rights in each role.
Supernuclear: A Guide to Coliving
The published guidebook to co-living by Phil Levin and Gillian Morris, drawing on their experience starting three co-living communities and living in seven. Functions as the meta-framework for the contemporary co-living movement.
Dreamship Co-Ownership LLC Agreement
The publicly-shared LLC operating agreement template that four families used to co-own a home together as the Dreamship intentional community in Berkeley, California. One of the few cases where a working co-living constitution has been published as a downloadable, adaptable document.
Mietshäuser Syndikat (MHS)
The legal architecture binding the Mietshäuser Syndikat, a German federation of 191 housing collectives serving over 3,800 residents, with a two-entity structure (resident association + property LLC) that contains a built-in veto preventing any project from ever being re-privatized.
[DEPRECATED] Auroville Charter (merged into auroville-charter-1968)
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Kibbutz Movement: Degania and the Constitutional Tradition
The constitutional tradition of the kibbutz movement, beginning with Degania Alef in 1910 and running through the 20th-century kibbutz movement bylaws, with their commitments to common ownership, democratic assembly, and the separation of work and compensation.
Foundations of Our Faith and Calling (Bruderhof)
The 1926 founding manifesto of the Bruderhof, a communal Anabaptist Christian movement now numbering around 3,000 members across communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Paraguay.
The Rule of Saint Benedict
The 73-chapter rule written by Benedict of Nursia for the monastic community at Monte Cassino around 530 CE, governing virtually every Western monastic community for the next 1,500 years and shaping European institutional design more broadly.
Catholic Worker: The Aims and Means
The aims and means of the Catholic Worker movement, founded in New York City in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, organized around houses of hospitality, voluntary poverty, nonviolence, and Christian personalism.
Hutterite Gemeindeordnungen
The Gemeindeordnungen (congregational orders and church disciplines) that have governed the Hutterite communities since the 16th century, through expulsion from Moravia, migration through Eastern Europe, and the establishment of more than 500 contemporary colonies in North America.
The Great Law of Peace (Gayanashagowa)
The oral constitution binding the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Six Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and after 1722 the Tuscarora), one of the oldest continuously functioning constitutional systems in the world.
Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno
The Good Government Councils governing the Zapatista autonomous communities in Chiapas, Mexico, organized around the principle of mandar obedeciendo, to govern by obeying, with rotating, recallable representatives drawn from the communities.
Ostrom's Eight Design Principles
Elinor Ostrom's eight design principles for long-running community governance of shared resources, derived from more than 800 case studies and published in Governing the Commons (1990).
Social Contract of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava)
The 134-article Social Contract of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, governing roughly 5 million people across the Kurdish-majority and multi-ethnic regions of northern Syria, structured around democratic confederalism, gender equality, and ecological commitment.
The Rochdale Pioneers Rules (1844)
The 1844 Rule Book of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, the founding document of the modern consumer cooperative movement and the source of what the International Cooperative Alliance later codified as the Rochdale Principles.
Cecosesola: Self-Management Through Consensus
The flat, consensus-based, anti-hierarchical operating principles of Cecosesola, a Venezuelan federation of around 50 cooperatives serving 100,000 families, awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2022.
Cooperation Jackson: Principles and the Jackson-Kush Plan
The cooperative principles and the Jackson-Kush Plan that frame Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi, building a Black-led solidarity economy in the U.S. South.
The Ten Basic Principles of Mondragon
The ten principles guiding the Mondragon cooperative federation in the Basque Country, Spain, the largest worker cooperative system in the world, with around 70,000 worker-owners across more than 80 cooperatives.
Federation of Egalitarian Communities: Constitution and Seven Principles
The seven principles all member communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities must hold as core values, and the federation's own constitution governing how those communities relate to one another.
Christiania: Mission Statement and Common Statutes
The mission and consensus-based governance of Christiania, a 19-acre self-declared free town inside Copenhagen, founded in 1971 on the site of an abandoned military barracks.
ZEGG: Seven Values, Forum, and Sociocracy
The constitutional practice of ZEGG, a 37-acre community in Brandenburg, Germany, held together by seven values, the ZEGG Forum communication method, and a sociocratic decision structure.
Twin Oaks Bylaws
The Bylaws of Twin Oaks, a 100-person income-sharing community in Louisa County, Virginia, founded in 1967 and one of the longest-running secular communes in the United States.
Lakabe: The Three-Step Decision Practice
The three-step decision practice of Lakabe, an ecovillage of around 50 people in the Pyrenees of Navarra, Spain, where major decisions are processed across three separate meetings (emotional, logical, community impact) developed and refined over four decades.
Earthaven: A Federation of Neighborhoods
The federated legal structure of Earthaven, an ecovillage of around 100 people on 329 forested acres in the mountains of western North Carolina, where 12 residential neighborhoods organize as separate housing cooperatives and LLCs under a common homeowners association.
Sieben Linden: Guiding Principles
The guiding principles, four-dimensional sustainability frame, and association-based governance structure of Sieben Linden, an ecovillage of around 150 residents in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Findhorn Common Ground
The shared values, principles, and behavioral guidelines that bind the residents of the Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland, structured as Principles, Essence, and practical Guidelines.
The Constitution of Damanhur (2007)
A 15-article constitution governing the Federation of Damanhur, a community of around 600 people in northern Italy, distilled from a 1981 draft of more than 130 articles.
The Auroville Charter (1968)
Four sentences, written by The Mother and read aloud at Auroville's inauguration in 1968, that frame the township as belonging to humanity rather than to any nation, religion, or owner.
The Healing Biotopes Plan (Tamera)
The founding charter of Tamera, an 800-person peace research village in southern Portugal, framing the community as Healing Biotope 1 in a planned global network of replicable peace research sites.
Tamera Forum
A ritualized practice of transparent self-disclosure inside a witnessing circle, developed in the Black Forest in 1978 and held daily at Tamera since the community's founding.
The Art of Speaking and Presenting (GEN and your own story!)
This course teaches the art of speaking and presenting, focusing on personal storytelling and authentic communication.
Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times: Community Incubation Package
This resource offers a comprehensive package designed to guide communities in developing resilient ecovillage solutions during extraordinary times.
Ecovillage Research, Themes, Methodologies, and Results
This course offers insights into ecovillage research, focusing on various themes, methodologies, and results pertinent to sustainable community living.
Cultivating Community: From I to We
An online course aimed at teaching community building principles and practices.
Resources for Transition Communities
Community resilience resources; Tools, guides, and knowledge
How to Deal with Stress in Teams
This resource provides guidance on coping with stress and enhancing team dynamics.
How to Influence without Authority
We talk with E3 Alliance’s founder Susan Dawson about the essential skills backbone teams need to effectively influence their collective.
Building Belonging through Conversations
We talk with Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono about what they’ve learned hosting Belonging Conversations, and what factors have been most helpful in creating empathy across community divides.
How Does Emergent Learning Help Collaboratives Learn and Adapt?
We dive into Emergent Learning and discuss how its principles and practices can support collaboratives navigating uncertainty and change.
Socioeco.org - The Social Solidarity Economy resource website
Socioeco.org is an online library dedicated to the social and solidarity economy and its associated concepts, providing access to 27,421 references in multiple languages.
Democracy Rising 34: On Ghosted Nature, Moloch, Alternate Futures, Shatter Zones, Elites, Power Laws, and [d]emocratic Crypto-Revolution
We support building community resilience as a hopeful and practical response to multiple emerging ecological and social challenges.
Welcome
A resource focused on cooperative economics and community development.
Creative tools for a more just world…
Beautiful Trouble offers creative tools and resources for activists to advance social justice and community-based solutions.
Conversation Café | Conversations that Matter!
A platform for hosting meaningful conversations that foster community engagement.
OpenSpaceWorldNET
OpenSpaceWorldNET is an open workspace intended to show the practice of Open Space Technology (OST).
Simple meeting design
This resource provides guidance on designing effective meetings that engage participants and promote productive outcomes.
A list of books in my library
This is a list of books helpful to support the practice of hosting, participatory leadership and working in complexity.
Planning an Open Space Technology meeting
This article provides guidance on planning and facilitating an Open Space Technology meeting.
Open Space Resources
A resource page providing information and tools about Open Space Technology facilitation.
Facilitation Resources
A collection of resources related to facilitation practices and techniques.
World Cafe and the Art of Hosting
A selection of techniques for bringing people together to build friendships and create collective cohesion.
Art of Hosting
Art of Hosting utilizes participatory methods like circles and World Café for effective community engagement and leadership.
Democracy Resource Hub Directory of Networks, Training Organizations, and Resource Libraries
Explore a comprehensive directory of global networks, training organizations, and resource libraries dedicated to strengthening democracy.
The Movement Compass and Worksheet
Understand movements better - A framework that can help organisers identify what they need to be doing and thinking strategically about.
Learn from Joanna Macy
Learn from the work of Joanna Macy about how to transform despair and apathy into collaborative action with this list of curated resources.
Exploring Social Movement Frameworks
Want to understand social movements better? Explore this list offering snapshots of key social movement frameworks and models.
Pillars of Support: Start Here
What are Pillars of Support? Here is a curated collection of resources including introductory resources, videos, templates and case studies.
Applying for a Grant: The General Approach
This section provides guidance on the general approach to applying for a grant, including the necessary steps and considerations.
Developing a Plan for Financial Sustainability
This section provides guidance on developing a plan for financial sustainability, focusing on essential strategies and considerations for organizations seeking to ensure their ongoing financial viability.
Evaluating the Initiative
This resource provides guidance on evaluating community initiatives.
Enhancing Cultural Competence
This resource is designed to help individuals and organizations enhance their cultural competence.
Increasing Participation and Membership
A resource that provides guidelines and strategies for increasing participation and membership in community groups.
Developing an Intervention
This resource provides guidance on developing effective interventions for community health and social initiatives.
Building Leadership
This resource provides guidance on developing leadership skills within a community context.
5. Developing Strategic and Action Plans
This resource provides guidance on how to develop strategic and action plans for community initiatives.
4. Developing a Framework or Model of Change
This resource provides guidance on developing a framework or model of change for community initiatives.
3. Analyzing Problems and Goals
This resource provides guidance on how to analyze problems and set goals effectively in community settings.
2. Assessing Community Needs and Resources
This resource provides guidance on assessing community needs and resources to facilitate community development and improvement efforts.
1. Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
This resource provides guidance on forming and sustaining coalitions and partnerships for effective community action.
Community Events
Community Events is a fundamental component of regenerative village development.
Community Treasury
Community Treasury is a fundamental component of regenerative village development.
Regenerative Architecture
Regenerative architecture goes beyond sustainable design to create buildings and spaces that actively regenerate ecosystems and human wellbeing.
Circular Economy
This guide synthesizes knowledge from re:build gatherings to provide practical insights for implementing circular economy in community projects.
Funding Elements
Funding Elements is a framework for organizing and integrating different funding approaches in regenerative village development.
Grants & Institutional Funding
Grants & Institutional Funding is a fundamental component of regenerative village development.
Investment Strategies
Investment Strategies are essential for regenerative village development, providing the capital structures and return mechanisms needed to attract and align investors with regenerative projects.
Resource-Based Economy
Resource-Based Economy represents a fundamental shift from monetary-based to resource-based economic systems, where communities intelligently manage resources directly rather than relying primarily on monetary exchange.
Funding Models
Funding models encompass various financial strategies to secure capital for land acquisition, development, and operations.
Intentional Community Basics
Join us for the history of a global movement and gain tips for how to join or start a community in the intentional community basics course.
Facilitation Skills for Community Decision-Making
This course teaches facilitation skills for effective community decision-making.
Legal Basics for Communities Course
This course provides essential legal knowledge for communities, helping participants understand the legal frameworks applicable to intentional communities.
Working with Conflict in Community
Learn where to anticipate conflict, how to problem solve, and how to establish a care team in the Working with Conflict in Community course.
Sociocracy for Communities
Discover a way to make fast, clear and inclusive group decisions in your community with the Sociocracy for Communities course.
Designing a Community Membership Process
Learn how to attract and cultivate prospective members, and retain members in the Designing a Community Membership Process course.
Power and Leadership in Community
Learn how to set the stage for healthy power dynamics in your group in the Power and Leadership in Community course.
Understanding Diversity in Community
Learn how to foster inclusive communities that are welcoming of people across marginalized identities in Understanding Diversity in Community
Consensus for Communities
Learn how to work through issues effectively with remedies for key traps and how to support diversity in the Consensus for Communities course.
Starting a Community
This resource teaches individuals how to successfully establish and launch a community, including practical steps and considerations involved in the process.