WATCH: Cohousing - The Future of Community and Human Connection
Trish is the owner of StorySpring Consulting and Director of Community Engagement at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. A social worker to the core, she advances social change by connecting leaders to resources, opportunities and each other. She is a passionate advocate for housing solutions that address both affordability and the global loneliness epidemic.
Trish is the owner of StorySpring Consulting and Director of Community Engagement at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. A social worker to the core, she advances social change by connecting leaders to resources, opportunities and each other. She is a passionate advocate for housing solutions that address both affordability and the global loneliness epidemic. At the University of Denver, she leads community engagement initiatives and creates gatherings that advance social justice. As a consultant with StorySpring, she provides strategy, facilitation and coaching to nonprofits, social changemakers, and intentional communities. Fueled by her own suburban loneliness and a desire for community, Trish became a founder of Denver’s newest cohousing community. She believes that we are most alive when we are connected, and that intergenerational communal living offers an alternative to our increasingly isolated world. Drawing upon years of experience living communally throughout the world, she urges us to find one another and build our own micro-villages.
Why Raise Children in Cohousing?
In cohousing, they enjoy a level of freedom and safety few Americans do today. We have about 35 kids, ranging in age from babies to the occasional returning college student. The kid culture is one of acceptance and inclusion of all ages. That didn’t just happen; that happened because we have a lot of very proactive parents who helped establish a healthy kid culture from the beginning.
A memo about raising children in cohousing by CoHousing Solutions President, Katie McCamant
Sitting on the back deck, summer evening, listening to the birds in the swale, kids in the pool, sunlight fading… It seems living in cohousing is pretty much a kid paradise.
“Our” kids at Nevada City Cohousing, like most American kids, go off to a variety of schools (local, public, charter, home school), but in cohousing, they enjoy a level of freedom and safety few Americans do today. We have about 35 kids, ranging in age from babies to the occasional returning college student. The kid culture is one of acceptance and inclusion of all ages. That didn’t just happen; that happened because we have a lot of very proactive parents who helped establish a healthy kid culture from the beginning.
Welcome to the Agri-hood
Burn Village and Farm was featured in Edible Nashville’s May/June 2022 Garden Issue. Along with grounding the community – quite literally – around a working farm, an agrihood is all about cohousing. While the homes are privately owned with their own full baths and kitchens, stakeholders in an agrihood share a communal space with a full kitchen and dining area of its own, allowing neighbors to get together for regular meals and providing their kids with a safe place to play.
Burn Village and Farm was featured in Edible Nashville’s May/June 2022 Garden Issue. Along with grounding the community – quite literally – around a working farm, an agrihood is all about cohousing. While the homes are privately owned with their own full baths and kitchens, stakeholders in an agrihood share a communal space with a full kitchen and dining area of its own, allowing neighbors to get together for regular meals and providing their kids with a safe place to play.