Inside Community Podcast

Mar 11 2024 33 ep. 67 mins 74

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Take an inside look at the beautiful and messy realities of creating and sustaining an intentional community. Enjoy useful and inspiring stories to support you on your journey towards resilience, sustainability, and connection. Join community builder Rebecca Mesritz for interviews with experts in a variety of topics related to living communally --- from governance and decision making to ownership models, from navigating coparenting to navigating finances, from how to find your people to how to actually live with them. Learn more and support at ic.org/podcast

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#026: Preventing and Mending the Fissures with Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners

Mar 11 2024 94 mins

We're closing out our second season with an examination of how to navigate inevitable interpersonal conflict and move towards restored connection. Social architecture can be what makes or breaks a community, business, or organization. How we process our own pain and trauma and interact with the trauma of others offers rich opportunities for growth and learning. In this conversa

#025: Embracing Diversity and Inclusion with Crystal Byrd Farmer

Feb 02 2024 70 mins

There’s a rich opportunity to push the needle forward when it comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, but navigating Race, Class, Privilege, Ability, and all the ways folks face different levels of adversity can be vulnerable and uncomfortable. Sometimes we need support to know what to ask for, how to be better allies, and to push us to grow in our capacity to accept others…

#024: Community Supported Birth with Monique Gauthier

Jan 05 2024 91 mins

Bringing new life into the world requires levels of support practically unheard of in modern, western culture... unless you've cultivated community that is up for the task! Seasoned midwife and communitarian Monique Gauthier joins us today to help us envision birth from a deeply held and conscious space that brings about the creation of new culture on the planet. We’ll cover

Bonus: Centering and Preparing for Birth with Monique Gauthier

Jan 04 2024 27 mins

My conversation with Monique Gauthier was too full of inspiring and helpful information, so I created this bonus episode to share some of the wisdom that couldn't fit in the full length episode. Here, Monique leads us through the centering meditation she does with her midwifery clients as they arrive in her office as well as shares some very practical tools for expecting famili

#023: New Visions for the Communities Movement with Daniel Greenberg

Nov 28 2023 67 mins

As we close out 2023, it's time to take stock of the Communities Movement and consider where we might be headed in the future. In this episode we are joined by new FIC co-director Daniel Greenberg, who brings his deep experience from the ecovillage world, as well years living in and researching international communities like Findhorn and Auroville to his visions for what is pos

#022: Cults! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Jesse Stone

Nov 02 2023 89 mins

Cults get a pretty bad reputation in the mainstream world, but are they really evil? Or just misunderstood? Jesse Stone, co-host of the Cults I'd Join podcast comes on the show to shed some light on the upside of cults while giving us some helpful advice on what to look out for if manipulation just isn't for you. Down in the Ozarks, Jesse Stone lives and loves with her yo

#021: Community Held Death and Dying with Angela Franklin

Oct 05 2023 96 mins

The subject of death is seen by many as morbid or taboo, but what if this dark topic could be life-giving, affirming, and empowering? Join me as I talk with Angela Franklin about the possibilities of end of life and death care, how communities and individuals can reimagine how they view their final days, how to plan for the end, and the importance of creating containers for grief.

#020: Central Leader Communities with "Evil Dictator" Paul Wheaton

Sep 07 2023 77 mins

There are as many ways to structure a community as there are communities, but perhaps one of the most controversial models are those with central leadership. I mean... is that even REAL community?!? Today's guest and self-proclaimed "evil dictator," Paul Wheaton comes on to explain the benefits of top-down power structures and the great responsibility that comes with

Skillful Facilitation for Any Situation with Laird Schaub (Re-Release)

Aug 17 2023 75 mins

We're re-releasing this awesome interview with Laird Shaub in preparation for FOUR upcoming classes he's going to be teaching through the FIC! https://www.ic.org/designing-a-community-membership-process/ (starts mid Sep) ⁠https://www.ic.org/facilitation-in-community/⁠ (starts mid Sep) https://www.ic.org/working-with-conflict-in-community/ (starts late Oct) https:/

#019: Intimacy in Community with Dave Booda

Aug 03 2023 90 mins

In this episode we will chat with intimacy nerd Dave Booda, about why intimacy is so important, get new ideas on prompts that can lead towards deeper connection, and discover ways to create a safe container to meet people where they're at when building deeper bonds and creating more vulnerability. Dave Booda is a writer, musician, and social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder