Building Intentional Community
Course Cancelled

Teacher: Melanie Mindlin

How do we co-create an interactive neighborhood and more engaged lifestyle with others?  How do we express our ethics of sustainability and connection with the earth as a community?   From organizing your existing neighborhood to building a new cohousing project from the ground up, we’ll look at the many ways to bring our desire for a sustainable lifestyle to the process of cultivating a more intentional community.   

If you’re working on a land-based Intentional Community or Cohousing project, you probably don’t want to label yourself as a “developer”,  yet those are the skills needed to accomplish many of your goals.  This is a course for people who want to learn about the nuts and bolts of bringing people together to build a community, both the residents and professionals who will inform, design and implement your ideas.  We’ll discuss ownership models, group formation and process, site design, land use planning, community organizing, government interface, financing, budgeting and project management. The workshop includes site visits to Ashland Cohousing Community and other communities in the Ashland area.

Melanie Mindlin has worked with permaculture design, home design, consensus process, land use planning and intentional communities for three decades.  She was the founder, developer and project manager for Ashland Cohousing, a community of 13 passive solar homes  with a common house and community garden.  She has an intimate knowledge of the process of creating community from the first discussion groups through completion of construction, and continues with the group as a resident.  Melanie is also on the Ashland Planning Commission and a founding member of Transition Town Ashland.

Cost: $240.00 with lunch and camping space.
Register online. Questions: Melanie Mindin, 541-482-7909 • sassetta@mind.net

Courses at held at Restoration Farm unless otherwise noted.
1133 Old Highway 99 S, Ashland OR 97520.
541 941-9711 • courses@restorationfarm.org
Courses subject to change.