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Facilitator:

Bill Kauth co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure of the ManKind Project, the Inner King Training and the Warrior Monk. He is the author of A Circle of Men, published by St. Martins Press. Bill has been studying the state of the world for over ten years.

In 2005 we took the conversation to 23 cities including: Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Santa Fe, Taos, Durango, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Tucson, Washington DC, Baltimore, Raleigh, Charleston, Gainesville, Miami, Biscayne Bay, Mt. Shasta, Portland and here at home in Ashland, OR.

I came to three conclusions: people feel scared, want community and honestly do not know how to get it. Thus I felt called to learn what might make community really work. I have worked very hard, learning to embrace the divine feminine.

After meeting at Burning Man a few years ago Zoë Alowan brought her great feminine, shamanic energy into my life and we married in 2008. I feel blessed to be with a woman who celebrates life in creative expression and deep compassion.

Last year we sponsored a Community-Building Symposium in which we all learned a lot from some of the leading authors on the subject.

In our steady work to "build a Lifeboat" as a new and conscious process which works with the wisdom of the group, we experienced lots of "failing forward", the hard way (perhaps the only way) what does not work. Eventually we developed the form and structure of what we simply call “core community.”

We provide this site as a toolkit and as inspiration for you to build and launch your own sacred lifeboat.

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