NCCCR Conference

Creating Intentional Communities for the Second Half of Life

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Friday July 28, 2006 - 8:30 – 5:00 pm at UNCA Reuter Center

Responding to regional interest, NCCCR will showcase a conference on “Creating Intentional Communities for the Second Half of Life” on July 28, 2006. For those who would like to understand the basic ideas, organizing principles, funding and cost structures, and even the architecture and environmental implications, we offer the following daylong program:

Communes for Grownups: An Overview of the National Trend
Ben Brown, freelance journal whose articles on this growing movement have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, AARP Bulletin and USA Today also writes on boomer trends and New Urbanism.

Elder Co-housing: What It Is and How to Get One Started
Zev Paiss, Co-director, The Elder Co-housing Network
Zev and his wife Neshama have lived for 10 years in a co-housing community in Boulder, CO. He is a national consultant on creating sustainable neighborhoods for aging in community.

Building Affordable Green Communities
Don Tucker, architect/developer, Eco Housing Corporation, Bethesda, MD has aided the design, development and creation of such co-housing communities as Eastern Village, a 56 unit development in downtown Silver Spring, MD

Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities: Variations on a Theme
Neshama Abraham Paiss, Co-founder, Abraham Paiss & Assoc.
Neshama will moderate this panel of experts exploring the many variations of collaborative existing neighborhood endeavors, such as Beacon Hill Village in Boston, that integrate health care, mutual care, and other supportive services to enable people to remain in their homes

How We Created an Affordable, Beautiful and Spiritual Community
Dene Peterson, Executive Director, Trailview Development Corporation, Abingdon, VA
Hear the story of how a group of retired nuns designed and developed the non-denominational Elder Spirit community in Abingdon, VA

Eldershire: Variation on a Co-housing Theme
Alex Mawhinney, formerly general manager of Village Green at Gilroy (CA) and now co-initiator of an Eldershire project in Asheville will share his vision of this new community.
 

Saturday July 29, 2006 - Optional site visits

Conference participants are offered a chance to visit two communities -- one in Asheville and about two-hours away in Abingdon VA:
     Westwood Cohousing, Asheville, NC (morning)
     ElderSpirit Community, Abingdon, VA (afternoon)

It will be possible to make both site visits. There is no additional charge for the site visits.
You may elect to drive to one or both or arrange car pooling with other participants.

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Registration is limited to 150 and includes lunch and refreshments. The cost is $100 (refundable minus $10 until July 1, 2006). After July 1 the fee is $125 non-refundable.
Click here for printable Registration form.

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