Dr. Joe Cole is a teacher, philosopher, writer, facilitator, and author of the bilingual picture book for all ages,

I Built My House on a Volcano/Mi casa en el volcán


Joe presented a paper discussing his research project “Interviews on Racial Justice Strategies in Intentional Communities,” at the International Communal Studies Association Conference in Denmark, July 2022

Permatopia Community, Denmark 2022


Joe presented a paper called “Rethinking Sustainability through a Racial Justice Lens” at the Intentional Communities: Real Utopias in History Conference, sponsored by the Transatlantic Network for the Study of Utopias, and hosted by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in October 2021


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Joe was a guest on the “Discovering Healing Through Community” Podcast series hosted by NextGenna, Ecovillage Youth Network of North America, March 2020:

http://www.nextgenna.org/resources.html



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Joe presented a paper titled, “Can Habermas Help Communities Talk about Racism? The Ideal Speech Situation and the Shift from Diversity to Racial Equity”, at the International Communal Studies Association Conference, July 18-21, 2019, at Camphill Communities near Hudson, New York.


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At the May-June 2019 National Cohousing Conference in Portland, Oregon, Joe offered an intensive half-day workshop on “How Communities Can Address Racism, White Privilege, and Social Justice,” as well as a weekend session on “Sharing Circles and Nurturing Community Bonds.”


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Joe wrote an article for Communities Magazine in December of 2018 on collaborative skill-building in intentional communities.

Cole, J. (2018). Skill building for a culture of collaboration. Communities, 181(181), 40-44.

https://www.ic.org/skill-building-for-a-culture-of-collaboration/


 
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Joe has an article in the Spring 2018 issue of Communities magazine titled, "I'm Not a Racist, but Racism is in Me--and in my Community."  The essay explores Joe's journey addressing racism in himself, US society, and in the intentional community movement.  Download a free copy of the entire issue here:

https://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/communities-magazine-178-spring-2018-class-race-privilege/


 


Joe taught a day-long Intensive on Facilitation and a half-day Intensive on Conflict Tools, plus a weekend session on Sharing Circles at the National Cohousing Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, May 18-21, 2017.

Link to the Conference: http://www.cohousing.org/2017

Link to the Intensives: http://www.cohousing.org/2017/intensives

 


Joe has a chapter in the 2016 book by Routledge Press, Experiential Learning in Philosophy.  His chapter is titled, "Studying War and Contributing to the Community," and describes the use of community-engaged learning and experiential learning in Joe's course on the ethics of war, conflict, and pacifism.


 

Philosophy and Teaching

Dr. Joe is a philosopher, teacher, and speaker

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Writing

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Enjoy these photos from the August 23, 2014 Book Launch Celebration

at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC 

Thanks to Silvia Pini for the photos.


Site Photography by Joe Cole

Illustrations by Stacye Leanza