Soteria is a home. Explained in the piece is what people do when psychiatric hospitals are closed and there is no place left to go. Hope Family Village is similar to Soteria Shelter Home in that we don’t have a place, yet. We meet monthly at a restaurant. A W&M MBA Corporate Field Consultancy project…
Phil Borges: Storyteller and filmmaker Phil has done several TedTalks about a documentary (Crazywize) he has been working on for over four years. He has been exploring indigenous cultures to learn what they might tell us. This one (15 minutes) discusses serious mental illness over the decades. He shares some of the interviews they have preformed.…
You’re going to smile when you see Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things. It’s on Netflix. The main characters are compelling. They reach a point in their lives that it all comes together. What they do next just makes sense to them. They are not selling anything, except maybe a book. Their first audiences…
Home of Open Dialogue and Experiment in Basic Income As we think through designing Hope Family Village, we know that the cohousing platform is ideal. For a community to work requires everyone pitching in, in some way, to support their neighbors and their community. What brings us together is the need for mutual support and…