Learn how to use design thinking to birth new social architectures.
Learn how people came up with social architectures like time banks, Nonviolent communication, World Cafe, sociocracy, transition town, and permaculture. You will understand how to apply design thinking to creating new methodologies. Then we will get a chance to design some of these new structures together.

Presented By: Alpha Lo

The Integral Center in Boulder Colorado is a forerunner in developing social technologies that build community, increase relational intelligence, and develop leadership skills. Their immersive courses such as the Authentic Relating Comprehensive, Authentic Leadership and Facilitation Training, and Authentic Man Program transform peoples relationships with themselves and others. One of the tools they’ve used to build community is Authentic Relating Game Nights. In this workshop you’ll experience how Authentic Relating Games can make our communities stronger and more resilient.

Presented By: Jaclyn Saorsail

Jacki Saorsail is the Membership Coordinator and Building Manager at The Integral Center, a 14,000 square foot transformational community center in Boulder, Colorado. She has been through Aletheia, Authentic Relating Comprehensive, and Authentic Leadership and Facilitation Training at The Integral Center and is working on a Masters Degree from Gaia University studying Regenerative Enterprise Design. Through her business consultancy, Regenerative Dynamics, she guides people through building their own community centers, cooperatives, and intentional communities.

2016 Convergence Workshop: Building Community with Authentic Relating Games

Over the last 18 years, Sky Blue has been a member of Twin Oaks Community, a housing collective, a student housing cooperative, a cohousing community, and two small worker co-operative businesses. He current works as the Executive Director for the Fellowship for Intentional Community. He’s visited dozens of communities and cooperatives, in the US and in Europe. Living in community and furthering the larger cooperative movement has been a primary focus of his entire adult life.

He’s played a formal or informal role in a number of organizations, as well as forming or developing groups. At Twin Oaks he’s had many jobs, including, manager of the Twin Oaks Communities Conference. He also serves as one of the Twin Oaks delegates to the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, and serves on the Council for the Global Ecovillage Network of North America.

On a more personal level, Sky is an amateur musician and DJ and loves organizing all manner of events, from parties to conferences. Personal growth and healthy interpersonal relationships are another focus of his life. He is the father of a teenager. His life is about bringing people together to make the world a better place for everyone.

Makin’ It Happen, Cooperatively: Pathways for success in Intentional Communities, Worker Co-ops, and other collective projects and endeavors

Saturday, Oct 7| 2pm| Hops Tipi

Beyond Diversity to Liberation: Intentional Communities as platforms for social justice

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