Multigenerational communities, multigenerational households and
multigenerational cohousing. There seems to be a real move afoot away
from the large subdivisions of single family homes and a heavy reliance
on cars. And as the effects of the economic crisis deepen, these types
of intentional living arrangements are receiving more interest.
Cohousing is a type of intentional community (a community planned,
designed and built for people who are committed to living together in
community) in which there is a focus on mutual support, shared
resources and communal living to minimize everyone's impact on the
environment. Once the community is built, everyone moves into an
'instant neighbourhood' where they already know each other.
Multigen cohousing brings together older adults with families and children, and includes the benefits of 'neighborliness', cooperation
and easily accessible community support. For those who don't want to
reside near families, elder cohousing offers an alternative. For more information, visit The CoHousing Association of the US and the Fellowship for Intentional Communities.[ Read More]
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
Today is ‘Family Day’, a public holiday in
the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and
Saskatchewan. It is also celebrated in South Africa, in the Australian
Capital Territory, in the state of Arizona in the U.S., and in the
Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. In Alberta where I live, ‘Family Day’ was declared to recognize the values[ Read More]
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By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Samantha Tan | World Cafe website Read the previous post in this series. Together for Tomorrow Exciting multi-generational collaborations are emerging as we continue
to explore this rich terrain. One outcome of the Ojai InterGen
dialogues at Meditation Mount will be a series of intergenerational
programs in Ashland, Oregon that will be aired on-line and distributed
globally. Multi-generational Global Cooling Cafes are being organized
in other local communities. The 10th anniversary celebration of the
Pioneers of Change, with young change makers in 70 countries, will
include a focus on ways to ignite greater multi-generational
partnering. Planning is also underway [ Read More]
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By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Samantha Tan | World Cafe website Read the first post in this series.
What Are We Learning?
At the Shambhala Institute and in
subsequent gatherings exploring multi-generational partnership, we have
experienced a similar outpouring of excitement and engagement. Key
multi-generational dialogues aimed at building bridges between the
generations have now been sponsored by Pegasus Communications at their
international Systems Thinking in Action conferences, by the Institute
for Noetic Sciences, the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, Meditation
Mount and the Ojai Foundation, the World Café, and others. In 2005,
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
Nathan Oates, a Christian minister who writes a very thoughtful blog called “ Theologically Speaking”,
did a nice piece on loneliness. His point: how we seem to fragment our
society into all kinds of niches and end up not relating to or
connecting with most of the people around us. Even in the churches that
one would imagine to be the most community-oriented institutions, the
norm is to break the congregation into oriented ‘special interest’
groups according to age—the tots, teens, 20 ‘somethings’, 30
‘somethings’, middle-agers and seniors. While such segregation might
make sense in terms of some ‘educational’ objectives, it makes no sense
spiritually and undermines the whole idea of a multigenerational
community.[ Read More]
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
Traditionally, a generation was defined as the time between the birth
of parents and the birth of their offspring (about 30 years). Recently,
however, a more accurate definition would be a group of people born and
shaped by a particular span of time. The eras of Generations X, Y and Z
span much less than two decades each. And every generation experiences
life from a different perspective including changing societal values,
technologies and career options. These different perspectives are very
apparent when we communicate with each other. [ Read More]
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By Shae Hadden | Bio
The premise being that we CAN talk it through…
This is the question that epitomizes the possibility that the World
Café represents. It is the question that informs Anne Dosher, the
80-something ‘Elder’ of the World Café and Board member of the World
Café Community Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing and
disseminating this and other innovative dialogue approaches. I recently
had the privilege of interviewing this gracious, generous and engaging
lady—the human embodiment of what I imagined the World Café phenomena
itself to be—with a few inquiries of my own.[ Read More]
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