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Host Communities

in the Intensive Series

Host community benefits:

  • Host communities from other regions of the U.S. have spoken very enthusiastically about their participation in the programs!
  • Host communities receive facilitation and agenda planning support for up to 10 hours of meeting time in the weekend (mainly facilitated by students, with Tree involved in the agenda planning and stepping in to help with facilitation if needed), for free. This is your chance to really focus in on that issue that's been sitting on your plate.
  • Your community's process skills will likely be boosted by seeing teaching moments in action.
  • When you host it's easy for your members to attend the training portions of the weekend, they can join in the class at your community even if they have not attended previous weekends. Five slots are reserved for members of the host community at each location, so they can attend even if the workshop fills up. (More members are also welcome, they just need to sign up ahead of time.) Members of the host community who want to participate in the training portions are welcome on a gift economy basis just like other trainees.
  • Opportunity to hang out and connect with folks from other cohousing communities.

    Host communities give:

  • Space for the class to meet.
  • 6-10 hours of community meetings for the group to facilitate. You are encouraged to select tough issues.
  • Lodging to Tree and students who need it.
  • Meals for Tree and the student group either in the common house or at individuals' homes, from Thursday dinner through Sunday dinner. (The training group can also go out to dinner together on Sunday evening.)
  • A liaison to help figure out lodging and meal arrangements, and a liaison or committee (could be the same person or different) to help do meeting prep and work on agenda planning for the plenary sessions.
  • Transportation: If needed, pick Tree up from the train station and/or drop her off at the end.

    If your community is interested in hosting, please get in touch with Tree!

    Comments from host community members in the MAC program:

    Martie: We accomplished the training we wanted and our members got a lot out of it, too. We got a lot of thanks from our participants for hosting them and a lot of compliments for how open and sharing we are in our community. I also heard many pleased responses from my community. We have since used what we did in the weekend to plan for 2004 and are re-energized for moving ahead.

    Betsy: I was very pleased with my guest. She was very easygoing and easy to talk with, made no demands and respected my privacy and time. She even liked my cats.

    Naomi: The facilitator training weekend was a great example of cohousing in action. Those of us in LV got to play host to a very interesting group of students who greatly enriched our weekend of meetings by bringing their unique styles of facilitating and ability to cut to the heart of issues without carrying the baggage of our community.

    Click to see a Sample Schedule for a weekend in the Intensive Series

    Click here to read one student's Report Back after attending the first weekend of the Series

    Click here to return to the Series overview page

    Tree Bressen
    1990 Orchard Street
    Eugene, Oregon 97403
    541-343-3855
    tree@ic.org