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INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: "A group of people who have chosen to live together with a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their shared core values," (from the Fellowship for Intentional Community).

Intentional communities (co-housing) offer independent living in a social setting with peers who share common values. An eco-friendly wise use of land, service to others, and economic sustainability are key factors. Join with members of the Triad Intentional Communities Network as we explore paradigms that offer an affordable alternative to living in isolation or institutionalized settings.

Intentional communities offer alternatives to living alone in separate, isolated dwellings or in impersonal institutionalized settings. Each design combines autonomy and privacy with neighborhood living, and each may offer the following, in a campus-like setting:

Resident Management: Residents make decisions of common concern using a group process at community meetings.

Intentional Neighborhood Design: The physical design facilitates social interaction to encourage community.

Private Dwellings: A kitchen, living-dining room, den, one or 2 bedrooms and bathrooms may be owned or rented by residents.

Common Facilities: A community building, designed to supplement the private living areas, includes a common kitchen for shared meals, large dining area, office, lounge, library, and studio. It may include suite(s) for guests as well as a coffeehouse and classrooms where folks from outside the intentional community are welcomed. Gardens and outdoor living spaces are available to share.

Share-A-Home: A larger dwelling, where up to ten older folks choose to live together as a family, with private bedrooms and baths. A resident manager is available on the premises to offer gentle assistance with household chores.

The labyrinth: An ancient spiritual tool, an opportunity for meditation or a body prayer. Labyrinths offer a healing and peaceful way to slow the pace of our lives, serving as a metaphor of our journey here, one step at a time.

"What most intentional communities have in common is idealism: they're founded on a vision of living a better way, whether community members literally live together in shared houses, or live near each other as neighbors. A community's ideals usually arise from something its members see as lacking or missing in the wider culture." (from Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian)

Values That Matter:
Spirit, Interdependence - Helping one another
Service - Good citizenship
Shared energy, gardens: Low impact, sustainability
Sharing with Others: Services and resources
Peaceful living - Visual arts
Healing Arts - Good health naturally
Performing arts - Learning, Fun
Diversity - Inclusive
Safety - Security
Living economically, below our means - No waste
Village concept - Human interaction
Intergenerational - Simplifying Life
Reverence for All

TICN meets on the second Thursday of the month from 6 PM to7:30 PM at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, 501 S. Mendenhall St.
Come in the back door, where you see the words "Fellowship Hall". If you have never attended one of our meetings, you are invited to come thirty minutes before our regularly scheduled meeting for an introduction to intentional communities and the Triad Intentional Community Network (TICN). At 5:30 we will share a taste of our vision and learn about your particular interests.
Please call 1-336-852-6272 or e-mail Euphie@bellsouth.net to let us know you are coming, and to be notified of the month's agenda and any possible change in meeting location, date, or time.

For more detailed information, please log on to our blog at : http://triadicnetwork.blogspot.com/ or contact:
Carolyn Biggerstaff at Euphie@bellsouth.net tel: 1-336-852-6272
or
Gratia Wright P.O. Box 21146, Greensboro, NC 27420, tel: 1-336-358-6008

Agenda for the next (April) meeting

For more information about the co-housing or intentional living concept, please visit
www.cohousing.org/what_is_cohousing
www.communitysolution.org
www.ic.org

Share-A-Home of Guilford County, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your contributions are 100% tax deductible.
Donations will be accepted for TICN's educational efforts through Share-A-Home of Guilford County, Inc. Share-A-Home is a 501(c)(3) organization, and your contributions are 100% tax deductible.

Intentional Communities: Empowering All of Us to Live Our Values