Learn More

The follow are key starting points for learning more about Sunward, the cohousing model and how it fits into the broad umbrella of the intentional communities movement. Please explore them as you consider Sunward Membership. Hard copies are often available to barrow from the Sunward Library.

Web

www.ic.org
Intentional Communities web site - the source for community information since 1994.

Communities Magazine
Journal of cooperative living since 1972. A quarterly publication of the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC). See issue #106 (Spring 2000) for a special focus on the cohousing movement and experience and edited by one of Sunward's members.

Communities Directory
The central resource for finding communities and related information. Amazing.

www.cohousing.org
The Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) web site featuring up to date lists of cohousing communities across N. America, news, events, resources & more.

Print & Video

Visions of Utopia: Experiments in Sustainable Culture
Video Documentary new for 2002 featuring: A brief history of 2500 years of shared living; Insights about what works and what doesn't; Exploration of the "glue" that holds communities together; Profiles of 7 very diverse contemporary communities.

Cohousing, A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves
Katrhryn McCamant and Charles Durrett (Ten Speed Press, 1994). The book that helped launch a movement in the US.

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, Diana Leafe Christian, New Society Publishers 2003.

Yellow & Blue Group Process Books
Good community requires good group process. Check out these two essential volumes, by the Center for Conflict Resolution and published by the FIC. A Manual for Group Facilitators, (yellow) Build United Judgement, (blue)