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Building Better Neighborhoods
Being Better Neighbors

An experiential play, design, discuss and discover presentation to benefit Single Parent Resource Network (SPRN)

Saturday, April 29, 2006
1 - 4 pm
Ventana del Soul Community Cultural Center
1824 E. Oltorf, Austin, TX

Whether you’re a single parent or part of a “nuclear family,” old or young, living on the edge of poverty or middle class, the bottom is dropping out for many of us. Social services have dwindled to nothing or are simply nonexistent. Even those who are “doing okay” are working longer hours and/or more than one job. There’s no safety net, we have less time for ourselves, family and friends and our emotional, mental and physical health is suffering as a result.

It’s up to us as a community to support one another. Yet how do we build a community that synergistically serves the needs of us all when the old ways of doing things simply no longer work? We need new vision, new options, new ways to best utilize our inner and outer resources.

Building Better Neighborhoods; Being Better Neighbors is the first workshop in a new series presented by the Single Parent Resource Network (SPRN), which will offer visionary, yet practical approaches to community building and a more sustainable living and working lifestyle that augments, yet transcends merely buying locally. This experiential play, design, discuss and discover presentation promises to offer a new suite of practical tools to forge alive, caring and collaborative community.

For the person who:

  • Is interested in practical applications of sustainable living
  • Is looking for new models for affordable housing in a community setting
  • Never thought they could afford a house
  • Want to live in community, but can’t get along with his/her neighbors - but wants to learn how.
  • Wants an opportunity to network with others interested in sustainable, cooperative lifestyles
  • Wants to learn to live proactively, not reactively
  • Is interested in realizing the vision of childcare as “it takes a village.”

Highlights include:

  • Economic options for neighborhoods that give as much as they get: How can a neighborhood gain time and money by sharing services and amenities and make a profit at the same time?
  • The secret to successful relationships with self and others: A powerful life-mastery model for creating better relationships so you can live in community not only externally but internally as well.
  • Unique floor plan designs for mutually beneficial, perpetually affordable cooperative housing clusters of common affinity such as co-housing cluster, child-friendly cluster (including single parents), young people living above garages, live/work, seniors and more.
  • Personal growth options for cocreating vital, alive, awake and on-purpose living.

Your facilitators are Brian Skeele, president of Village Development of America (ViDA), www.beyondsuburbia.com, and Rebecca Skeele, author, master workshop facilitator, counselor, and president of Make It Heaven LLC, www.makeitheavenllc.com; www.spiritual-scientist.com.

The event will take place on Saturday, April 29 th from 1-4 p.m. at Ventana del Soul Cultural Center and Coffeehouse, 1834 E. Oltorf in Austin [Map]. Light snacks and beverages provided. Suggested donations are $10 at the door and will support Single Parent Resource Network (SPRN), a local non-profit servicing the growing single parent community in Austin, whose mission is “co-creating community.” SPRN members get in free if they register at the door. Teens welcome, but as this is an experiential workshop, it won’t work with smaller children present. For more information, please phone SPRN Director Maggie Duval at 512-694-5272.


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About Brian Skeele, President of Village Development of America LLC (ViDA)

Brian SkeeleBrian is a visionary developer/builder whose time has come.

Growing up in southern California and watching communities and neighborhoods destroyed by sprawl he began asking What else can we do? That life-defining question shaped the course for Brian creating opportunities to research, write, design, and present living designs of how we can live in harmony and balance with the planet and each other. Now, 25 years later, people, city councils and community task-forces all across American are asking the same question. Brian’s response? “I’m glad you asked!”

He has 25 years of building and 4 years of designing/developing sustainable communities experience. He holds a Masters in Spiritual Science and has been active on various task-forces in Santa Fe County. Presently, he is a member of the Executive Committee for the Santa Fe Chapter of the Sierra Club and co-chairs the Neighborhood Design Committee.

www.beyondsuburbia.com

Rebecca SkeeleAbout Rebecca Skeele, President of Make It Heaven LLC

Rebecca is a master facilitator, coach and counselor in the field of personal and spiritual growth. To lead the formation of new social models impeccably and not continue to follow old dead end paradigms Rebecca believes attention must begin inside. Figuring out what works for all, beyond limiting perceptions of lack, is her approach. If we are spiritual beings having a human experience Rebecca’s replies, “Let’s get on with it!

Rebecca Skeele facilitates professional spiritual growth workshops internationally. She holds two Masters in Spiritual Counseling and Spiritual Scientist. Published author of the book, You Can Make It Heaven: How to Enrich Your Life with Abundance and Loving and the professional course: Becoming a Spiritual Scientist: A Course for Cocreators.

www.makeitheavenllc.com

www.spiritual-scientist.com

About Single Parent Resource Network (SPRN)

Single Parent Resource NetworkThe Single Parent Resource Network is an Austin, Texas-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to co-creating community for healthier, happier families. We meet twice monthly and provide our single parent families the option of participating in babysitting cooperatives, clothing swaps, potlucks, social events and more.

Our mission is to offer resources, information and unique support to lessen isolation among single parents so they may achieve a satisfying, fulfilling, and empowering environment in the home, workplace and community.

We are mostly single parents (anyone who feels they are raising their children alone or in isolation) and allies (married and attached couples, as well as single people who want to create a more whole community). We also welcome single parents emeritus!

http://www.sprn.org

About Ventana del Soul (Window of the Soul)

Rooms with a view and visions of community. Ventana del Soul enriches our neighborhoods with a spirit of community by offering cultural and community activities that bring people together and stimulate minds, of all ages, in ways that make a positive and lasting difference.

They focus energy, creativity, and resources on providing cultural, community and vocational programs that improve the developmental foundation of the community. From this foundation, the community will be able to nurture the qualities that guide choices and have a sense of centeredness, purpose and focus.

www.ventanadelsoul.org

 



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