Post-event:

Here's the Youtube channel with the recorded sessions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv1KmzS1MDO_LgqS6TSgaE6Qf1vb4-RLZ

And the Google Drive with slides/notes and other info: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h_h2LpBX5y_g_iKHBTPruOEp8LqAuntG

Google Group to hear about future events: https://groups.google.com/g/clwe

Google Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WNogorXZTyWSGPmn9

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See the schedule here: https://tinyurl.com/clwe-2023-schedule

Livestreams:
Link 1 (Downstairs): https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4245941067?pwd=aFpsaGhhOVhOSVBtM29WbkhpbWg1QT09&omn=82446441848
Link 2 (Studio A): https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9017820391?pwd=w3HW0pal3Ca7oHc3gZp8NEwhSOW2aR.1

Email the organizers if you run into livestream issues.

See full event description and policies here: https://tinyurl.com/clwe-2023

Read about our approach to financial accessibility: https://tinyurl.com/cc23-financial-accessibility

As highly social, interdependent creatures, many humans love the connection and support they get from living communally. While co-living was not as common during the 20th century across the United States, the Bay Area has consistently been a place where this form of housing has been alive and well, e.g. in community house triplexes, multi-family compounds, tiny home villages, ADUs, and third spaces. Through experimentation and often hard-earned experience, people have developed new ways of living together and unearthed old ones. However, much of that information is contained within small networks and is not broadly discoverable or accessible.

We aim to change that, and have created this conference to bring together community members from different walks of life to consolidate our collective wisdom into shareable resources that can be distributed and built upon throughout the world. We will bring together seasoned practitioners, subject-matter experts, and curious newcomers for a day of discussions, workshops, talks, panels, storytelling, writing, art, and organic connections. The intention is to connect like-minded folks, share both practical skills/learnings and inspiring ideas/visions, and plant the seeds of collaboration to co-create an inclusive, accessible, and caring housing future. We will examine our past, contend with our present, and envision our future.

If you’re interested in attending and/or speaking/facilitating, please fill out our interest form. For specific inquiries or access needs, feel free to email coliving-conference@googlegroups.com. This conference is hosted for the benefit of the community by District Commons, a 501(c)(3) organization.

District Commons is a small community organization that emboldens communities to use their power for liberation. Through education and experimentation, we amplify community needs, power, and potential to create visionary collective possibilities.

Our work includes supporting formerly incarcerated lifers to build their own intentional communities, creating new models of alternative justices, running numerous weekly support circles, advising dozens of new communities, creating free lecture series on topics from the future of work to new approaches to inter-species relations, maintaining free community meeting spaces for radical projects, supporting permaculture, indigenous communities and community retreat spaces in Costa Rica, and scheduling and wrangling large groups of volunteers.

Community Living Wisdom Exchange 2023

By District Commons

Community Living Wisdom Exchange 2023

An event to bring together like-minded folks, share both practical skills/learnings and inspiring ideas/visions, and plant the seeds of collaboration to co-create an inclusive, accessible, and caring housing future.

Team Members