Subject to change
Thursday, May 18, 2017: Pre-Conference Intensives / Activities
| 7:30 AM | Registration Opens |
| 8:30am - 4:30 pm | Intensives - Full Day (registration required) Building a Better Meeting: Facilitation Skills for Everybody: Laird Schaub & Joe Cole (International) Aging Better Together By Design or Destiny: Janice Blanchard and Ann Zabaldo (Forum) How to Make Housing that People Really Want and that EveryTown USA Needs: Wendy Wiesner (Embassy) |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Sponsor and Presenter Reception (Overton Executive Suite 2nd floor) |
| 6:00 pm | Cohousing: Building Resilient Neighborhoods with Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett (Sponsored by the Nashville Civic Design Center, open to the public) |
| 7:30pm - 9:00pm | Creating Traditions, Celebration and Ceremony: Catya Belfer (free drop in) - International |
Friday, May 19, 2017 - Pre-Conference Intensives; Conference Starts at 4:00 pm
Friday, May 19, 2017 - Pre-Conference Intensives; Conference Starts at 4:00 pm
| 7:00am | Registration Open | |
| 8:00am - 11:30am |
Intensives - 1/2 Day (registration required)
Conflict Tools for Successful Groups: Joe Cole (Embassy East) Hands-On Participatory Site Design: Mary Kraus (Embassy West) |
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| 12:30 - 4:00 pm | Intensives - 1/2 Day (registration required) | |
| 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
Intensives - Full Day (registration required)
How Cohousing can Bridge Socio-Cultural Divides: Alan O'Hashi (Titans 9th Floor) Introduction to Sociocracy: Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Diana Leafe Christian (Grand Ballroom Center) Cohousing as Resilient and Sustainable Community: CRN: Cohousing Research Network (Forum) |
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| 1:30 and 3:00 pm |
Tours of Cohousing Community (registration required) Tour of Germantown Commons with Bryan Bowen and Diana Sullivan |
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm |
Network Gatherings Open to All - Drop In Ag & Rural: Working Farms & Enterprises: Bill Hartzell, Hundredfold Farm (Forum West) Aging in Cohousing: Raines Cohen and other AIC Committee members (Forum East) Let’s Meet! Seeking Community: Rita Bullinger & Diana Sullivan (International) Climate Leading Communities: Jenny Godwin (Embassy East) Parenting in Cohousing: Catya Belfer (Embassy West) |
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Speed Networking: Grace Kim (International) | |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner and Keynote with Sarah van Gelder (Grand Ballroom) | |
| 8:15 PM | Networking for Newbies (International); Films (Titans - 9th Floor); Remembering Rob Sandelin, Joani Blank and others (Forum) | |
Saturday, May 20, 2017
| 7:30 AM | Registration and Exhibitors Open |
| 7:30-8:15 am | Movement/Connections Class (Jackson Suite, 2nd Fl) |
| 8:30-10:00 am | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
| 10:30am -Noon | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
| Noon-1:30 pm | Lunch with City Views & Networking (Crown 10th Floor) |
| Noon - 4:30 pm | Video Showings (Titans - 9th Floor) |
| 1:30-3:00 pm | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Forming a Cohousing Consortium - A New Way of Working: Linda Herman (Johnson Executive Suite 2nd Floor) |
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5:30 PM | Celebrating Cohousing Reception at Germantown Commons |
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7:00 PM | Facilitated Dinners & Nashville Fun http://www.cohousing.org/2017/restaurants |
Sunday, May 21, 2017
| 7:45 - 8:30 am | Gentle Yoga Class (Jackson Executive Suite 2nd Floor) |
| 8:45 - 10:15 am | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
| 8:45 - 10:15 am | Intern Programs in Community: Laura Fitch (Johnson Executive Suite 2nd Floor) |
| 10:30am -Noon | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
| 10:30 am - Noon | 500 Communities Training Program: Katie McCamant (Johnson Executive Suite 2nd Floor |
| Noon-1:30 pm | Lunch on your own |
| 1:30-3:00 pm | Sessions and Facilitated Discussions |
