Community Organizers

What is a Community Organizer? For the purposes of community building, we consider organizers to be the ones who are the true culture shifters in the movement. You know who you are.

These are the pioneers who are actively bring people together, engaging with trailblazing ideas, finding and using tools that work, and bringing something new and important into the world.

Community Organizers often already have a core group who are engaged in some type of coliving project. Some are members of existing communities while others are working on bringing a new community project into being. Others live in more conventional neighborhoods and are working towards bringing their neighbors together into more meaningful and nourishing relationships. Still others are co-creating non-residential tribes and cooperative organizations.

As revolutionary as it can seem, collaborative and engaged community living is hardly a new idea.

Many of us are old enough to remember when our society felt fundamentally different than it does today, with neighbors helping neighbors and people supporting one another through trying times while sharing their joys and celebrating the rewards of hard work. Looking further back into our history, it seems that it always been this way for common people, reaching back into our furthest history where community and tribe was a given, a birthright.

Despite the progress we’ve made in so many areas, meaningful community has been all but lost for most modern people and must be fought for in order to be regained. Community organizing takes work, determination, skill, and, perhaps most of all, a remarkable amount of personal healing and relational nurturing in order to pull off.

But it’s worth it and necessary in every way if the best of what we are is going to make it. And that’s where Community Organizers step in, often serving as profound healers without even knowing it.

Overcoming Obstacles to Organizing Your Community

Why Is Community Organizing So Hard?

Building a community can often feel like swimming upstream. With a foundation based on clear agreements and managed expectations, members and organizers can feel like they’ve been broadsided when things get real. And then poof – where did everybody go.

Maneuvering through real estate development and structural improvements is like fumbling in the dark without experience or a knowledgeable guide. And the expectations that each person brings of what a community should be and do can be loaded.

What Does Success Look Like?

Successful communities are manifested through a combination of heart-centered design and collaborative co-creation. Based on a foundation of clear expectations and trust, people eventually learn that all of them is welcome and are able show up with their gifts, faults, and the entirety of how they are.

Through work and authentic engagement, a process evolves that ends with committed members on the other side who can collaborate and co-create as their full selves. It takes planning, communication, discretion, and commitment to a clear shared vision and set of agreements.

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Our Process For Helping Community Explorers

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Step #1

Initial Consultation: Getting to know you and where you are at, particularly what's working and what's not with building community.

Step #2

Self-Exploration: Getting clear on who you are and what you want so you can look for and communicate about it.

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Step #3

Resources & Tools: Guidance and recommendations on trusted sources and proven tools for getting out of your head and into community.

Step #4

Action Plan: Coaching and follow up for realistic and appropriate steps for exploring and co-creating a community that's right for you.

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Do-it-yourself (with consult option)

Introduction to Community Living
Introduction to Community Development
Introduction to Nurturing a Cooperative Culture
Project planning tools
- Vision, Mission, Aim, Values
- Canvas strategizers
Marketing planner
Marketing packet templates
- BoWe intro
- Sales flyer
- Culture
- Explore path
- Website

Project Consultation and/or Management

Real estate search
Due diligence
Site design
Permitting process
Land development
House design
Permitting process
Home construction
Financial / Investor package
Legal structures / documents
Website design
Social media
Email marketing
Local promotion
Sales process
Blueprint of We
Decision making
Community Building

Training

Exploring Community Living
- Preparation
- Essentials
- Aging / Wellness
Community Development Process
- Vision / People
- Place / Plan / Build
Nurturing Cooperative Culture
- Heart / Foundation
- Circles / Practices / Tools
Relational Tools

Focusing on What Matters Most

The Right Culture

As community organizers, the responsibility of cocreating and sustaining a nurturing culture that works falls largely on you.

We help clients like you by providing the tools, resources, and coaching on the relational essentials. Some examples of ways that we help include fostering collaborative organization, using the Blueprint of We, approaches for compassionate communication, and coming to agreement on community objectives, goals, and best practices.

More about Nurturing Culture

The Right Structures

The physical structures you choose, build or improve create the container for your community efforts to be manifested and co-evolve.

We have hands-on experience with constructing and developing community spaces and have resources and consulting services that can serve as your guide.

More About Creating Structure

The Right People

There is an art and a science to getting your message clear and accessible to the right people at the right time.

With a long, strong background in modern marketing strategies and tools, it’s something we know a lot about. From guidance on how to do it yourself to services that do a lot of the heavy lifting for you, we can help you find your people.

More about Finding Your People

The Right Support

As a Community Organizer, you often need a lot of support, even if you can’t always find it out there.

Community that Works can provide you with support in a few ways. By joining our network, you’ll be connected to an existing community of other organizers, explorers, developers, service providers, and different types of existing communities.

We also have an online course that covers the many steps of creating a sustainable community from first steps to end, as well as an active forum to network and chat.

More About Getting Support

Click Here to See a Full List of Our Services

Do-it-yourself (with consult option)

Introduction to Community Living
Introduction to Community Development
Introduction to Nurturing a Cooperative Culture
Project planning tools
- Vision, Mission, Aim, Values
- Canvas strategizers
Marketing planner
Marketing packet templates
- BoWe intro
- Sales flyer
- Culture
- Explore path
- Website

Project Consultation and/or Management

Real estate search
Due diligence
Site design
Permitting process
Land development
House design
Permitting process
Home construction
Financial / Investor package
Legal structures / documents
Website design
Social media
Email marketing
Local promotion
Sales process
Blueprint of We
Decision making
Community Building

Training

Exploring Community Living
- Preparation
- Essentials
- Aging / Wellness
Community Development Process
- Vision / People
- Place / Plan / Build
Nurturing Cooperative Culture
- Heart / Foundation
- Circles / Practices / Tools
Relational Tools