Sat 21st February 09 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm
The Edge
hosted by | SLIC: Sustainable Living - Intentional Communities
The keynote address by Bill Metcalf will highlight the cultural and historical context of Intentional Communities from local and international perspectives. Bill is an enthusiastic, well-informed and enjoyable speaker.
Small Group workshop: This presentation will incorporate a facilitated opportunity for participants to explore their own potential journey in regards to intentional community. The workshop aims to help participants identify their attraction to intentional community, the barriers to joining/creating intentional community and supporting the actions and impetus needed to move toward intentional community. Then take any vexing issues or pearls of wisdom back to the panel to discuss.
Panel: At the close of the workshop, a panel including Dr Metcalf, with experience in intentional community, will tackle some of the thorny issues arising from the small groups and identify possible solutions and share inspiring insights.
This is part of the Cohousing Key Forum Series.
Dr William (Bill) James Metcalf
Dr. Bill Metcalf of Griffith University, Brisbane, is one of the foremost scholars of intentional communities worldwide. He has also lived in several intentional communities. Past President of the International Communal Studies Association (Israel), and member of the Communal Studies Association (US), and Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation (Scotland), Dr. Metcalf has written numerous articles for scholarly journals such as Communal Societies and Journal of Utopian Studies. Bill is author of seven books on intentional communities, including The Findhorn Book of Community Living (Findhorn Press, 2004); Herrnhut: Australia’s First Utopian Commune (co-authored with B. Huf, Melbourne University Press, 2002); The Gayndah Communes (Central Queensland University Press, 1998); Shared Visions, Shared Lives: Communal Living Around the Globe (Findhorn Press, 1996); and From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Cooperative Lifestyles in Australia (University of New South Wales Press, 1995). Bill is currently researching and writing the complete history of utopian communalism in Australia, with the working title, The Encyclopaedia of Australian Utopian.
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