Community - RESOURCES
Supporting And Creating Community
Communitas is the degree of togetherness, solidarity, and spirit in a community.
One of the best and simplest ways we can develop communitas is by eating together. People who frequently share meals with others live happier and more meaningful lives.
Bryn Gweled is a collectively owned 240-acre wooded oasis near Philadelphia. It’s home to about 75 families who live in privately owned houses. Once a month, members gather to cooperatively conduct the community’s business. They work, share a meal, and nurture friendships that for many have lasted decades.
Wherever you live, we hope you’ll encourage communitas in your community.
An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle. They typically share responsibilities and resources.
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
Here are some excellent resources for more information on how you can help to create and support community in our world.
The intent of the Sustainable Community Network is to pool information on sustainability to make it more readily accessible to the public.
A community in the truest sense, Bryn Gweled is made up of a diverse group of people who share a vision of a way of life. In fact the name itself, “Bryn Gweled” means “Hill of Vision.” We are an intentional community of folks, young and old, who have chosen to live together on our wooded oasis and work cooperatively to maintain the place we call home.
The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC) has over 35 years of partnership with hundreds of intentional communities around the world. At a time when people are desperate for more social connection and answers to complex problems, intentional communities offer hope in an increasingly broken world.
From tree house villages in Costa Rica to yoga communes in Hawaii, these 10 intentional communities are havens of peace, creativity and sustainability.