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Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan are active learners and teachers of the values and structure of committed, non-residential Community they call “Tribe”. Together they have delivered 65+ seminars around the world and co-authored the book We Need Each Other.
In 1984, Bill 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. In his role as “Visionary-at-large” with MKP, Bill has been studying the state of the world and the need for small committed tribes.
Zoe has lived in community and been deeply engaged in sacred art for decades. As painter, dancer, songstress and storyteller, her work in women’s circles reclaims beauty and wisdom. She facilitates with humor, co-honoring the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine.
Tribe work is taking off.
This upcoming webinar will be the FIRST TIME we will be streamed live – you will be able to ask us questions directly directly, and listen to others from around the country who have created their own local non-residential tribes using our model. If you’ve ever wanted more in-depth understanding of our New Tribe Training model without having to travel far this is the opportunity!
Though the model we have discovered is about non-residential communities, it is also applicable to land-based intentional communities.
Creating Tribes?
Yes! It is daunting.
Yes! It is a new way of being and thinking.
Yes, it’s doable and so vastly rewarding.
We use the word “tribe” to focus our intention as we found the word “community” used for way too many groups of people, making it too big to be useful. Let’s name and identify some of these human “community” groupings as a context for “tribe.”
“Family of Choice” is a mini-community of between 5 & 15 people who have chosen each other with long-term commitment. Family is about being in relationship, how we are together, deep bonding, heart and soul. Family is consensual, everyone guides and structures the process. As peers, or equals they make decisions together for the greater good of the whole.
“Tribe” shows up as a mid-sized community of 15 & 30 people who have bonded, share values and feel committed to each other. Tribe is about who we are and what we do together. Tribe has on-going bonding which adds to the sense of security and belonging. Because they know and trust each other, a tribe may chose a leader, chief, headman-woman to guide and structure gatherings and tasks.
“Village” is a community of recognition with 150 to 15,000 people. People know each other, may or may not know each others names. They live close by in a neighborhood or small town and share schools, churches and other loosely connected civic organizations. They feel some kinship, identification and will help each other in crisis. When we’re together it feels good.
“City” is a community of proximity 15,00 to 150,000 people. They mostly do not know each other, but live within a several miles of each other in a broad metropolitan area. They may feel shared identity with a sports team or geographical uniqueness.
“State, nation and planet” exist as larger “communities” with which we sometimes feel identified, as in “I’m and Oregonian, American or Earth Citizen.