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CHICAGO COHOUSING NETWORK
CREATING COMMUNITY
through neighborhood design,
resident participation and management,
and common facilities
Local Cohousing and Related Groups
National and Regional Organizations
Living in Cohousing: Residents Comments
NOTE:
I monitor and change this website regularly- note web site updates
and keep posted of late breaking events and news.
Keep me posted so I
can up date the web site.
Hal Mead, Secretary Chicago Cohousing Network,
847-869-8493, halmead@comcast.net
ACTIVITIES
May - June 2008
(Updated May 12, 2008)
PRAIRIE ONION COHOUSING , www.prairieonioncohousing.org
Our Vision
Prairie onion cohousing core group
New people are encouraged to come-
(All are welcome)
WORKING GROUP - regular meetings
Normally the first Thursday of each month.
Thursday, May 1, 7-9 pm
Thursday, June 5, 7-9 pm
Thursday, July 3, 7-9 pm
Edgewater Library, Edgewater Library,
1210 W. Elmdale, Chicago
JUNE 22
INTRODUCTION TO COHOUSING AND PRAIRIE ONION
There will be an introduction to cohousing and Prairie Onion scheduled
on Sunday June 22 , at 2pm. At 1418 Balmoral, Chicago
Call first to check on date, time and location)- these are all subject to change
call : Jolynn 773-854-6879, or Marty 773 764-5065
Chicago Green Festival May 17-18
Saturday 10AM- 8PM, Sunday 11AM- 6PM at Navy Pier
Cost
$15 Festival Pass (per person)
Entry to all activities for one day or the entire weekend
Prairie Onion will be at the fest again this year. Prairie Onion’s booth number is 818 located across the isle from Coop America near the middle of the exhibit hall and one isle away from the City of Chicago stage at the back of the fest
Remember if you help
us in our booth you get into the fest free.Contact Jolynn 773-764-4914, jldoerr@core.com
Help, have fun, and enjoy the fest
2008 COHOUSING CONFERENCE PROMISES TO BE BEST YET
Mark June 12–15, 2008 on your calendars for the national Cohousing Conference to be held at Bentley College in Waltham, MA.
Main Conference presentations run Saturday all day, and Sunday morning. Presentation areas include Process, Management, Green Design, Development, Professional, and General Interest.
Registration
$250.00 through May 31, 2008
$295.00 after June 1 and beyond.
Conference Presentations: There is something for everyone at the conference this year, whether you have been living in community for years, or have just recently felt the burn to join or form a group. Come and network, share, create, lead, grow, and sustain your experience.
Pre-conference Workshops are available for $50.00 each, and begin on Thursday afternoon, and continue all day on Friday.
Here is small sample of a few pre-conference workshops
Developing cohousing communities
This workshop will give you an overview of the steps involved in taking your cohousing project from vision to reality,
Nonviolent Communication
So many decisions. So many relationships. And so many feelings, opinions and variety of communication skills and styles. Can we really listen to each other and work through conflicts? Nonviolent Communication
Green Design:
Choosing the right site for your community. How do you know what will work? This workshop will explore the process of searching for sites, recording your efforts to share with others, and evaluating sites for actual development.
2008 Pre-conference Tours
Thursday, June 12: Full Day Bus
Tour, Western Massachusetts
Visit Amherst, Florence, and Hampton area cohousing communities in the
Beautiful Berkshire mountains!
Friday, June 13 Morning: Half Day Bus Tour, Boston Area Visit Cambridge Cohousing, Cornerstone Cohousing, and Jamaica Plain Cohousing
Friday, June 13 Afternoon: Half Day Bus Tour, Boston Area II Visit Cambridge Cohousing, Cornerstone Cohousing, and West Acton
Keynote Speaker
We’re excited to welcome John Abrams, founding member and resident of Island Cohousing in Martha’s Vineyard, as our keynote speaker. John is co-founder and CEO of South Mountain Company, an employee-owned design-build firm. He chairs two nonprofits – the Island Housing Trust and the Island Affordable Housing Fund – and speaks often on affordability issues, socially responsible business and ecological building issues.John’s book The Company We Keep explores "the role of business in preserving and restoring local culture, social equity and ecological balance."
Why You Should Attend the Cohousing Conference
You’d need to travel to and attend dozens of separate workshops to gain the knowledge that's packaged all together in this one place.
The support and advice you’ll receive from our cohousing professionals will cost thousands less than if your group were to contract with them to consult just with you.
With more than 12 pre-conference sessions and 40 workshops to choose from, you'll be able to structure the conference experience that suits you to a tee.
You’ll meet many of the committed individuals who created the earliest U.S. cohousing communities and who continue to drive the cohousing movement today.
Sensational keynote speaker John Abrams will put "affordable," "cohousing" and "Martha's Vineyard" together in one sentence. Over and over again.
Pre-conference Workshops are available for $50.00 each, and begin on Thursday afternoon, and continue all day on Friday.
Members of Prairie Onion Going
Several members of Prairie Onion will be attending this national conference. Hal Mead will be driving with two others to Boston. Hopefully after 2 ½ days on the road this will be a fully functioning cohousing car when we arrive. We will start community with the car in June and work our way into housing later.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY?
Community is more than a place where people live, work, and raise their children. A true community is made up of relationships among and between people living whole and interdependent lives. It includes, too, the natural world-plants and animals, the earth and the elements-as well as the human and built world. An ideal community is the locus for education, economy, culture, and our civic, social, and spiritual life. There, the best in each of us is nurtured and encouraged; there, we are supported during our difficulties and accepted always. There we feel we belong. Community Service - Yellow Springs, Ohio
PUBLICATIONS
CHICAGO COHOUSING NETWWORK NEWSLETTER
Plant the seeds of community now - enjoy the fruits of community later
The Chicago Cohousing Network has published a small monthly newsletter since the early 1990's.
(As of January 2002 the newsletter is now published every 2 months.)
The newsletter includes dates of local cohousing events, local contacts,
and information on cohousing activities locally, in the
Midwest, and nationally.
Send $10 check payable to the Chicago Cohousing Network for a one year subscription to the newsletter.
(The Network does not take credit cards)
Chicago Cohousing Network
c/o Hal Mead 2205 Maple C-1
Evanston, IL 60201-2729
Contact the network:
Hal Mead, Secretary
(847) 869-8493,
halmead@comcast.net
COHOUSING -
a contemporary approach to housing ourselvesAvailable at most book stores
Newly revised 2005
The Cohousing Handbook
Build A place for Community
Chris and Kelly Scott Hanson
$26.95
A Community Approach to Independent LivingCreating a Life Together
Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
Diana Leafe Christian
$22.95
SENIOR COHOUSING:
1997 National Cohousing Conference - Seattle, Washington
Organized society grows out of community,
and can thrive only so long as the spirit of community
pervades and vitalizes it.
- Arthur E. Morgan
