🌱Join us at the Rebel Market Re/Source event Sunday 4/14 2-8 PM at Gold Vibe Kombuchary.

Connect & kindle your inspiration at this community gathering of local change-makers, artists, healers, musicians, families, & more!

Rebel marketplace is filled with local makers, creatives & vendors.

Chuck Durrett of The Cohousing Company will be featured on the panel discussion on sustainable housing and community at 4:30pm.

$10 advance, $15 door / Kids under 14 FREE

Purchase Tickets Here

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Upcoming In-Person Event: Discussions on Therapy

Charles Durrett to Present on Community Therapy & a Forming Neuro-Inclusive Cohousing Community in Grass Valley, CA

Hosted By: EnGaged Services, a Nevada County California organization who focuses on building inclusive community by empowering those with special needs and their families.

Paul Platner, Independent Facilitator and Co-Founder of EnGaged Services, says there’s a huge need for a neuro-inclusive community here in Nevada County, CA. “Sure, there are expensive places where we can send our family members to live, but there aren’t a lot of places where families can live together in community.”

With discussions on art and music therapy, horse therapy, gardening/cooking therapy, and community therapy, it’s sure to be an inspiring event. During Chuck’s Presentation, he will describe his trip to Sólheimar Ecovillage, a neuro-inclusive community in Iceland, as well as his new book about it, One Life, Live It! He will also talk about how to find a site in Grass Valley, CA that will have potential to be a neuro-inclusive cohousing community for families and their loved ones with disabilities.

Email us for questions about the event and to RSVP.

3-hour LIVE Online Workshop / $125      
Friday March 15, 2024      
9:00 am (Pacific Time) / 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Description 

Organizing is the long-lost art of working with people to make things happen locally. At this juncture, where national governments are debilitated by division and divisiveness, we need to work at the neighborhood level to get things done.

In essence, the formula is about initiative – who do I have to talk to today? You wake up and figure out what is the next step to move the project forward.

This course will mainly focus on the proven methods for grassroots organizing in creating cohousing communities, though other examples will be included as well. Grassroots Community Organizers are necessary out there, whether it is getting a new cohousing community built, or a new clinic, store, or school all made locally.

Chuck Durrett has helped over five dozen cohousing communities get permitting, and he is passionate about defining a consistent strategy for doing so. While many groups struggle with how to build municipal support, Chuck will demystify the challenge by sharing case studies of his numerous successes. He will also talk about the risks and limitations of making “cohousing” a loophole developers use as another important perspective in how to work with local decision-makers. We will also be hearing from others about their successes and challenges, and will have breakouts for you to reflect on how to engage in advocacy on both a local and national level.

Learning Objectives

1. Success stories of municipal approval for cohousing

2. Risks of cohousing being misappropriated by developers

3. Next steps for building local support for cohousing

4. Easy ways for you to join the movement

More info and sign up here.

Coin Street Community Builders

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

More info and registration here.

Open Lecture & Conversation

Venue: Det Kongelige Akademi, Auditorium 6

Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53 København

More info here

Sponsored by the Danish Social and Housing Agency, Aalborg University (BUILD), Bofællesskab.dk, and Trudeslund

Sign in and coffee/cake at 2:30pm, Presentations 3pm - 5pm.

Venue: Social- og Boligstyrelsen, Holmens Kanal 22, 4. sal, 1060 København K

More info and register here (Please register by Sept. 10)

VIA the Danish Social and Housing Agency:

BUILD, Bofællesskab.dk and the Social and Housing Agency invite you to a walk-in meeting with Charles Durrett about the development of shared housing in the USA and Denmark.

Charles Durrett came to Denmark in the 80s to study housing communities. He lived in Bofællesskabet Trudeslund. It laid the seed for the development of the 'co-housing' movement in the USA and for a long series of books. Now Charles Durrett is visiting Denmark again in connection with the publication of his new book, Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Communities.  

We would like to take the opportunity to invite Charles Durrett and John Vagn from Trudeslund together with Danish researchers and practitioners to give a historical sketch of the housing movement in Denmark - and the inspiration for the USA.

We hope that the go-home meeting can partly create insight into how Denmark has inspired the US's housing communities; provide a common, historical outline and frame of reference for the development, and in addition bring together the network of actors with an interest in housing communities.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

From 9:15-10:15am, Dr. Sandi Hilal will present on “Commoning the Private.” In this presentation, Dr Hillal will draw upon previous projects (including DAAR’s Livingroom) to examine the opportunities to challenge the dichotomy between official, municipal and public forms of hosting people in common spaces versus private initiatives that have the potential to inspire new modes and spaces of commoning.

Chuck’s presentation will take place from 10:15-11:15am. In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

We’ll have time for Q&A from 11:15-Noon, with a meet and greet afterwards.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, how high-functioning neighborhoods benefit residents, and how to incorporate participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, where it has gone further in Denmark, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

Chuck is in Iceland to visit the model community, Sólheimar Eco-Village, and to learn how to work with neurodiverse folks to make it easier for them to be involved with cohousing. Architects have the unique opportunity to help solve local and global issues by using community as the secret ingredient to sustainability. He believes there are great opportunities to design cohousing in Iceland and more neurodiverse communities world-wide.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

In this presentation, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it got started, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities. He will also discuss how Danish cohousing has influenced cohousing in the U.S., where it has gone further in the U.S., especially addressing issues like diversity and affordability, where it has gone further in Denmark, and what we have yet to learn from each other.

Chuck is in Iceland to visit the model community, Sólheimar Eco-Village, and to learn how to work with neurodiverse folks to make it easier for them to be involved with cohousing. Architects have the unique opportunity to help solve local and global issues by using community as the secret ingredient to sustainability. He believes there are great opportunities and potential to design cohousing in Iceland.

More information here.

"At Elliott Pond, you’ll see a lot of people. Our town square, with its restaurants and events, will be Ramona’s social center. It will also make Ramona a place to go to, not just go through."

Please spread the word to anyone you know (your email list) who might be interested in joining a new community in Ramona, CA, or just wanting to know more about cohousing.

Location: Ramona Community Center — 434 Aqua Ln, Ramona, CA 92065

Date & Time: March 16th, 2023 @ 6:00 PM

For more information, please email jim@redleafvillage.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

Register through this link HERE

Charles Durrett will be giving a public presentation on the future of this innovative housing concept, with a focus on the potential for community-designed cohousing in East Vancouver.  

Durrett’s presentation will also explore the potential for forming East Van Cohousing, a community where residents design and build their own homes and community spaces. This model has already been successful in many cities worldwide and provides a unique solution to the affordable housing crisis, while also fostering strong social connections and a sense of community ownership.

For more info, visit www.eastvancohousing.ca.

This event will focus on a specific type of solution using “community first” as a priority concept and including people exiting homelessness in the design and development of the project.

New Hope Resource Center and Whitworth University are partnering to host this event, and we invite you to join us to learn, discuss, imagine, and begin implementing solutions to the homeless crisis North of Spokane.

Let’s spread the word of caring and sharing with others - we all need hope and more possibilities for housing, especially affordable and supportive housing.

For more information, please visit: https://www.newhoperesource.org/hhtf

FREE PUBLIC EVENT

Come join Charles Durrett at Takoma Village Cohousing speak on the issues of cohousing that pertain to affordability, sustainability and the benefits of intergenerational living.

WHEN: Friday, October 21st 5:30pm- 7:30pm

WHERE: Takoma Village Cohousing 6827 4th St. NW Washington, DC 20012. Common House

HOW: Free Event, but you must register here https://www.meetup.com/washington-dc-area-cohousing/events/288916629/

Masks Required. Limited to 60 people.

For more information contact us a 916.716.6721 or charles.durrett@cohousingco.com

Join us for a free presentation on cohousing! Charles Durrett is one of the nation’s leading experts on cohousing and has designed over 50 cohousing communities in the U.S and Canada. Cohousing features private homes with generous common facilities full of people that know and care each other in a village setting.

Come join us in creating a ground swell of movement to help get Seattle homeless citizens safely and affordably housed. Author/ Architect and Activist will be speaking about his book, “A Solution to Homelessness in Your Town” and discussing the methods in this book that helped house a homeless community in Valley View, CA and how this process can and is being applied in other communities. This live event will be at the University Friends Meeting (UFM) 4001-9th Ave NE in Seattle @7:30 pm on April 8th