Unbox Your Living
By Maria Selting
Previously called the Future of Coliving podcast.
Unbox Your Living Oct 06, 2020
Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability to Build a Strong Community
In today's episode, we are continuing to explore the topic of human connection and how to create strong bonds between people. To do so, we will dig further into vulnerability and how it can be such a powerful tool to create relationship that last. The same principles applies whether it is a love, family or friend relationship - or between members of a community.
In order to truly crack the code to human connection, we've invited Lemarc Thomas, who is a psychologist, professional matchmaking and conscious relationships coach. He's the founder of Sweden's only matchmaking industry lemarcthomas.com and has over 15 years of experience working with psychology and relationships.
In today's episode, you'll learn more about:
- What vulnerability means and why it is important to build strong bonds between humans
- Steps needed to create a safe space for vulnerability and the social mechanisms behind it
- How a company, leader or community can design space and social events to help members bonds through vulnerability
KPIs in Community Building: Four Approaches to Designing Commuity
In today's episode we have Gui Perdrix on the show - a true coliving expert who lives and breathes coliving in everything that he does. After a transformational experience a few years ago, he got hooked into the coliving community and has since then cofounded several coliving initiatives, such as a magazine called Coliving Insights. He also runs Co-Liv which is the world's largest coliving association, a consultancy and educational platform called Art of Co and he is soon about to publish his book Art of Coliving, which will come out in October 2020.
He is particularly interested in community building and has written some interesting articles about four approaches to building a community - and the financial KPIs connected to each one of them.
In today's episode, you'll learn more about:
- The four different types of community building and the financial ROI related to each one of them
- How co-living can be a transformational experience and an accelerated growth path
- Future opportunities within property technology and coliving
Conscious Coliving - Sustainable Living With Yourself, Others and the Planet
In today's episode, we have a true co-living guru on the show - Matthew Lesniak - who is specifically interested and specialised in sustainability within co-living, not only from a climate perspective but from all social aspects of life.
He is a co-founder and Head of Impact & Innovation at Conscious Coliving, which means he is designing community experience and impact strategies and measuring the social value of co-living communities.
In this episode you'll learn more about:
- What conscious co-living is
- The framework "Conscious Coliving Manifesto" and how you can use it to integrate sustainability and consciousness into your co-living space
- What an "intentional community" is and how you walk the talk to integrating sustainability/consciousness into your community
- Future gazing: sustainable co-living trends in the future
Creating Human Connection in a Co-Living Community
In today's episode, we dig into an interesting topic related to co-living. At the end of the day, what creates a strong community is human connection. Strong bonds between humans are what makes people wanting to stay and live together.
How do you then create a foundation for human connection?
In order to investigate this question, we have Philip Jonzon Jarl who is the co-founder of a values-based relationship app called Relate as a guest in today's episode. He is an expert on values and explains the power of shared values and how to create strong bonds between humans that last. He also lives in a co-living place himself, K9 Tech Farm, a strong community with over 50 people from all corners of the world.
In today's episode you'll learn more about:
- Why common values matter and why it is important as a community to articulate them
- The formula to create a human connection
- How a co-living place can live by their values and make community members connect
What Is Co-Living?
To kick off this show, let's start with answering the obvious question "What is co-living?".
To answer this question, we have invited two experts within the field, Anton Chernikov and Morgane Oléron.
Anton Chernikov is a trained architect, an entrepreneur within co-living who runs his own consulting business called Exponentials and has helped to launch several co-living spaces across Europe. Morgane Oléron comes from the community side of co-living and has worked for both co-working and co-living operators. She used to work as the Chief Happiness Officer for a co-living operator and is now developing her own consulting business within the community space.
In today's episode you'll learn more about:
-What is co-living?
-The difference between traditional cooperatives and the modern concept of co-living
-Key components needed to succeed within the co-living space
-How to build a strong culture and great communities from the start - and why it is key to long-term success
Hubville - Building the World's First Self-Sustaining and Sustainable City District
In today's episode, you'll learn about a fascinating project - in 2020 the world's first self-sustaining and sustainable city district will be launched in Vetlanda, Sweden. It is called Hubville and the founder of the project, Anders Varger, share his vision on the project and how we can once and for all rethink how we live and work and redesign our lifestyle to create a more sustainable way of living.
To Anders Varger sustainability is not only about environmental matters. According to him, sustainability is a multidimensional approach including everything from social sustainability, housing, schooling and transport to health and of course also co-living. In order to create a 100% sustainable city district every single detail on how we live and work have to be thought-through. Only then can we create a home where we can, not only survive, but also thrive.
In this episode you'll learn more about:
- Social sustainability, and why co-living is an integral part of creating a sustainable living
- What Hubville is and how they are planning on creating the world's first sustainable city district
- The future of sustainability from a multidimensional perspective
Why Community Building Is Good for Business
Co-founder and CEO of WiFI Tribe Diego Bejarano Gerke has built a successful global co-living company by building a strong community first. Community building is what creates loyalty and barriers to entry and is the strongest asset you can have within the co-living business. After all, it is about living and it is not just a business transaction. If people feel at home, they will stay regardless if something nicer looking comes along.
In this episode you will learn:
- What community building is and why it is good for business, especially within co-living
- How to build a strong community that follows you throughout good and bad times
- How to build a solid recruitment process
- Diego's thoughts on the future trends of co-living and where we are heading post-corona
The Rise of Coop Living - Live in a Castle at a Fraction of the Cost
Today's guest on the show is Samuel Delesque who is the founder Oasa which is a company specialised in coop living and sustainable living. Instead of living in a studio apartment in the city, they are making it affordable to live in a castle by organising co-owning of properties and cooperatives in castles.
In today's episode you learn more about:
- What coop living is
- How you can live in a castle and save money whilst doing it
- The rise of alternative ways of living, for example, co-living on boats
- Samuel Delesque's thoughts on living post-corona