Community Discussion: Exploring the Joys, Challenges and Importance of Communal Living

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This episode focuses on the joys, challenges and importance of communal living (which we shifted to calling "shared living" during the discussion). 

0:00 Intro

2:18 What do I mean by communal living?

13:58 - Discussion - Give us a snapshot of your journey with shared living/ communal living - we hear some incredible rich experiences and learnings from each of the folks that attended live

49:05 - Why communal living? Tying to a larger vision for the world

53:23 - Wicked questions related to communal living
- When there is tension, which is inevitable, there can be so much processing needed. How can we live in a communal way without getting bogged down by the processes?
- One of the responses - coming back into our animal bodies, for example through ritual 

59:43 - What are we longing for? What does success look like in shared living? What are we longing to feel or experience in community, and if we can imagine an ideal community or shared living setting, what might that look like?

1:13:18 - Plan for Community of Practice for Shared Living

Link to the YouTube video for this episode: https://youtu.be/4MNeP5G7SVs 

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