The Nurturing Communities Project is equipped to teach and train others on a variety of topics dealing with Christian community.
For workshop and presentation topics, see the “Table of Contents” for The Intentional Christian Community Handbook:
Part I: The Yearning for Community in Context
1. Five Stories of Longing and a Call
2. The Landscape of Disintegrating Community and Our Longing for It
3. Contours of Resistance to Community
Part II: Is Intentional Community Your Calling?
4. Seeking the Community Where I Am Called
5. The Gospel Call to Discipleship in Community
6. Searching for Your Community: Visits, Internships, and Mentors
7. Novice Membership: Testing Your Call Against the Community’s Questions and Your Own
Part III: Before You Move In Together
8. Dreaming the First Steps of a New Community
9. Transforming Conflict into Solidarity
10. Commitment, Membership, and Mission
11. Where Will You Put Down Roots?
12. Racial Reconciliation—Listening, Submitting, and Collaborating
13. Gender in Community—Conflict and Synergy
Part IV: The First Year of Community
14. Decision-making, Leadership, and Paths to Unity
15. Taking on Work Schedules and the Seduction of Careers
16. Making Connections Among Communities
17. Stop Going to Church and Become the Church
Part V: Growing Tasks for a Young Community
18. Covenant-making in Story, Rule, and Liturgy of Commitment
19. On Why Your Community Might Need an Onion
20. Creation Care, Food Justice, and a Common Table
21. The Economy of God and the Community of Goods
22. A Spiritual Life for (and in Spite of) Community
23. When People Leave
Part VI: A Mature Community Becomes Soil for God’s New Seeds
24. Healing the Hurts That Prevent Community
25. Developing Common Work and Ministries
26. Sustaining Prophetic Vocations and Families in Community
27. Becoming Accountable—Visitations and Community Associations
28. Birthing and Nurturing New Communities from a Home Base
29. Exceptionally Gifted Persons and the Challenge of Submission
Conclusion: Embracing Renewal