Hakhel Resources: Experimentalism
A unique resource library for Jewish Intentional Communities.
Inspiration. Tools. Support.
Social Permaculture: Applying the Principles
What does it take to apply nature's wisdom into community life? In few minutes you can step into a new experiment with your community.
Section: Care for Community
Overcoming Our Americanness
The desire to connect and co create is not new. What is it than which makes people want to establish new communities instead of joining an existing one? Something to think about.
Section: Care for Community
Tags: Experimentalism
Off-Grid, and In Community: ?Tis Easier to Find than to Found
Some wisdom based off a true story
Section: Care for Community
Moshav planner eyes cohousing for Jews in Berkeley
Want to start or join cohousing? Read more here
Section: Care for Community
Making a Case for Urban Cohousing
Here is a professional view about this hot topic. Cohousing is something to learn, here is the first step
Section: Care for Community
Life Lessons for Community Longevity
So many of the points here are familiar to us all! The wisdom of an expirienced leader can help others avoid some crucial mistakes. Take some time for reading it.
This must-read is not an easy one. Turn it into a public discussion: Divide chapters between members and ask them to read it in a community gathering and lead a talk around the text. Worth the effort!
Section: Care for Community
Learning from Our Past
What do you think are the core components of intentional community? This is a sharp summary of insights that can give you a useful perspective.
Section: Care for Community
Innisfree Village: Lifesharing in a Service Community
The wider range of intentional life and community life appears in this beautiful story
Section: Care for Community
Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond
Social and ecological can and should go hand in hand.
Section: Care for Community
Grassroots Activism Starts at Home
Where is your personal mission touching the communal mission? It's all about crystalizing it. This is a beautiful perspective to take with you.
Section: Care for Community
Four Steps to a Stronger Community by Aharon Ariel Lavi and Meredith Levick, eJewishPhilanthropy
If make it simple, history tells what made communities stand strong. Read the basic conclusions fron the leaders of Hakhel.
Section: Care for Community
Five Tools to Help Groups Thrive
How difficult it is to run a community is no a secret. Useful obsevation of the common challenges will spare some conflicts.
Section: Care for Community
Calls for More Cooperative Housing
Read how to make intentional communities rise up in the urban setting. This is a nice step!
Section: Care for Community
Back to the City!
Urban life opens the chance for an inspiring change within the communiyu and in society in general.
Section: Care for Community
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Charles Eisenstein tells the story of our enviromental crisis from a spiritual perspective. It's about the terms he uses, the language we choose to redefine our mission. Let this piece touch you.
Once you are busy with motivating people to protect enviroment, you need a strong bond with your own motives. What is your own drive when it comes to sustainability?
Section: Be Inspired, Care for Sustainability
