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Practical Tools to Grow an Intentional Community

Peak Moment TV: Communities Magazine editor Diana Leafe Christian concisely spells out what the successful 10% of intentional communities do: common vision and purpose, fair participatory decision-making, clear agreements in writing, good balance of right and left-brain knowledge, methods of staying accountable to agreements, criteria for new members, good communication and processing skills. She also discusses peak oil effects on the wider community.
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Community
Community
The Case for Solarpunk
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
Learn These 3 Triggers To Navigate Conflict Like an Expert
We Went To a Texas Town Emptied By ICE Raids
Conversation with Lakeisha Wolf, Executive Director Ujamaa Collective Pittsburgh PA
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity
What If You Didn’t Need a Paycheck to Live? A Short Introduction to the People's Library
“Living In This Ecovillage Costs $200 per Month (All Inclusive)”
5 Solarpunk Communities That Will Bring You Hope
How Two Billionaires Erased a Rural Ohio Town
The Left Needs to Start Taking Accountability For its Losses
Public Banking 101
After Winter, Spring (2015) ($4)
Free For All: The Public Library (trailer)
The 'Friendship Recession' Is Killing Us.
The Man Who Feeds Gaza's Children
From Awra Amba to Ethiopia and the World (2023)
1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy (2024)
Power 2 the People (2013)
Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)
Living Without: How Much is Enough?
SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance (2014)
How This Car-Free Neighborhood Unlocks Sustainable Cities
Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons
Charles Eisenstein On Community & The New Story
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
Emotional Literacy
The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose
The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves
Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.
Core Nonviolence Commitments
How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)
A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees
The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
Let Yourself Grieve
How Cynicism Masks Pain
No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)
Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
Join the Empathy Revolution!
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
Dealing With Painful Emotions
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence
Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?
Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma
Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts
Control is a Trap
The Demoralized Mind
The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World
The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
The Root Cause of Addiction
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
Patron Documentaries
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Affluenza (1997)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
We Are Many (2020)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Blood and Oil (2008)
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