At this wonderful Guided Imagery and Collage-making Extravaganza you will be able to access creativity while at the same time building community and connection in the lovely setting of Madrigal:

MADRIGAL/THE GARDENS OF MADRIGAL

A Place for Inspiration and Renewal.

A Serene place to contemplate
A golden bridge to Spirit-the essence of it and you.

Make a commitment to self and come to Madrigal, a place for community, creativity, diversity and peace.

Madrigal has become a Participatory Gathering Place for people who are searching for A More Meaningful Life.

As you walk the Gardens of Madrigal, you will feel the magical energies that flow through its pathways and special places. On this walking mediation you will discover the many trees, animals and pieces of inspired art that call this place home.

WHO IS MADRIGAL?

Madrigal is the estate of Ellen Arcadi RN, MPH and artist, a creative thinker who dreamed Madrigal to reality. Ellen will help you discover the artist within by gorging new pathways to Spirit and a reconnection to the Earth. Through her journey, inspiration, and life forces she followed her spirit and connected with the essence of this land to develop a better understanding of the Purpose of Becoming All You Can Become.

Joining Ellen in the Gardens of Madrigal is psychologist-creativity coach Barbara Cox, PhD, whose life's work is to inspire people to find their inner joy, creativity, and community. See more at

This holistic body, mind and spirit approach will increase your creativity, reduce stress, and renew your sense of purpose and fulfillment.

Objectives

1. Introduce you to the Spirit of Madrigal
2. Create new paths to growth and fulfillment
3. Find the artist within.

Schedule:

2:30 : Introductions/Icebreaker game
3- 3:45: Creativity and Inspiration Guided Imagery
3:45- 5:30: Collage Instruction and Creation

-Bring Inspirational Pictures for your collage.

-A portion of the proceeds will go to a fund for the creation of a San Diego Co-housing project.

“The function of the artist is to be heard, and s/he cannot be heard, truly, if all s/he does is join the existing chorus.

"S/he must step out and make her own noise”
-There Should Have Been Castles

Hello San Diego Community Co-Housing Folks!

Our next meeting will be Saturday, June 6th from 5:30 to 7:30. We will be meeting at an intentional community called Madrigal in the La Mesa area. Note that since this is a private residence. we will e-mail you the address and directions when you RSVP. Madrigal is the latest expression of community living, of one woman's 30 year quest for meaning in community. If car pooling, please be at our place before 5PM! See below.

This will be a pot luck event so please bring a dish to share with others.

We can car pool from our place for those that would like. Please let us know in advance, and we'll try to orchestrate rides. We would like to leave here soon after 5PM to arrive at Madrigal by 5:30.

We will also be discussing our adventures and visit to Yalupa. See our photos at Pictures of Yalupa

If for some reason you don't get the directions e-mail, ping me at davecoxhome@gmail.com or call 858-427-1600 (Barbara's office/our home line).

Hope to see you next month!

Hello Co-Housing Folks!

We will be meeting this Saturday (March 7th) at our place (9767 Stonecrest Blvd). Pot luck dinner starts at 6:30. See instructions separately on the site.

We'll be discussing other intentional communities in the area, and continuing to build our group of community minded friends.

Any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at davecoxhome@gmail.com or call our house at 858-427-1600.

Additionally, this is a KID FRIENDLY event, so long as your kids are relatively self contained and play well with at least one other 5 Y/O - bring 'em on!

See instructions on how to get there in the files section at http://files.meetup.com/1278984/Directions%20to%20the%20Cohousing.doc

Also, please remember to promote the group to friends and other cool people that you'd like to have as neighbors! :)

Note again that we will be pulling out of Meetup and going to Google Groups. If you haven't already joined, please do -
http://groups.google.com/group/san-diego-cohousing

Dave

Hello Co-Housing Folks!

We will be continuing with planning for the co-housing project, reviewing financial questions and input, location options, and share our progress in looking for more Co-Housing group members, prospective investors, Realtors, and resources such as grants for renewable energy, urban re-use, etc.

The other agenda item is of course hanging out, eating great food, chatting and getting to know some really cool people!

This will be another pot-luck. Please bring a dish or drink to share.

Additoinally, this is a KID FRIENDLY event, so long as your kids are relatively self contained and play well with at least one other 5 Y/O - bring 'em on!

See instructions on how to get there in the files section at http://files.meetup.com/1278984/Directions%20to%20the%20Cohousing.doc

Also, please remember to promote the group to friends and other cool people that you'd like to have as neighbors! :)
http://files.meetup.com/1278984/Tear-off%20Flyer%20-%20Dave.pdf

Dave

This meeting will start with a Pot-Luck dinner. Bring food or drink as the spirit moves you. We'll have some stuff to take up the slack.

For this meeting, we'll start getting down to the nuts and bolts of Co-Housing project planning:
1) Promoting the group for other individuals that might be interested in joining us in community
2) Locating potential investors
3) Looking for possible areas for construction - either new or re-use
4) Researching options for grants, tax credits or other forms of support for specific environmental or community applications i.e. Solar, Straw Bale, High Efficiency lighting, Land Re-use/conversion, recycled building materials, etc. This may come from local, state or federal government, individual grants, corporate endowments or other.
5) Identifying opportunities to promote the project -
a) Increase awareness in the community
b) Look for political support
c) Media/publicity - press releases, meet the press options
6) Identify possible developers
7) Gathering resources, information and options
8) Other important stuff that I'm forgetting... :)

Anything else that we can do to help make this a reality?

Hope to see you there, and spread the word!

If you can look at the files that Dave and Vipol posted ( 1. an outline of our vision for what the cohousing project will look like, we discussed this and introduced each other at the first mtg. 2. The financial questionnaire.)

Please bring the questionnaire with you, we will be discussing costs and investing options. We are also actively looking for a Realtor that will be able to provide support on this large project. I hope to be looking at properties each Friday. I will bring information from her on properties to the next mtg. I have an email into Yalupa cohousing to see if I can tour it soon and get info on their architectual plans (their main architect Micheal Black died in July and I emailed his firm to see if we can help carry on his great legacy by working with some of his colleagues using their original blueprints-still waiting to hear.)

The quickest way to reach me is by cell phone (858) 531-5310 or the best email to reach me at is: info@drcoxconsulting.com.

All the Best!