Welcome, Future Explorer!
Explorers are people actively learning with us, actively community building, and helping stress-test ideas before anything is built or remodeled. It’s a structured participation stage—you attend orientations, join sociocratic circles, gather in Greece together, and get involved in practical exercises (site walks, layout tradeoffs, governance previews).
The aim is clarity and fit—for you and for the group—not a purchase promise. Many established cohousing groups use this step (sometimes called “Explorer,” “Associate,” or “Provisional” member) so newcomers can understand roles, expectations, and community culture before making any bigger decisions.
It’s also the stage where friendships start to form, ideas get tested in real life, and you begin to feel the spark of “this could be home."
🌿 Explorer Membership:
What You Get, What You Give
What you receive:
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Access to community development and explorer resources
From special tours in Greece to sociocracy trainings and visioning sessions—learn how a thriving village is shaped.
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Transparency & insider view
You’ll have full access to design plans, budgets, progress updates as your particpate in shaping them to reflect your vision and values and needs.
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Eligibility to become a Full Community Partner
After 3 months of active participation (and visiting the land), Explorer status is the key to the door to Community Partnership and moving in as our neighbor.
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Mutual support for your Greece transition
Get help navigating Greek residency, move logistics, and local life—supported by Evi, the community, and a trusted network of professionals.
What we ask of you:
Be Ready to Contribute. Your presence and energy matter. We’re looking for Explorers who are excited to build something meaningful together—not just for themselves, but for the whole community
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Attend monthly plenaries
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Join a working circle
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Think about where your skills could benefit at least one working circle (circles are sociocratic committees).
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Contribute your time and skills to community projects.
This isn’t passive evaluation—it’s active building, with purpose, heart, and respect for the group.
🚀 How to Become an Explorer Member
Step 1: Explore & Connect
Attend an Info Coffee (online or in-person) to learn about our mission, community, and values.
Button suggestion: Register for Info Coffee
Step 2: Express Your Interest
After the Info Coffee, let us know you’d like to become an Explorer.
We’ll send you an email with the Explorer Application & Fee details.
Button suggestion: Start Your Explorer Application
💳 Step 4: Pay Your Explorer
Membership Dues
Your membership becomes active once dues are received.
The amount depends on how soon you’re joining after your Information Coffee:
€150 — if you become a member on the same day as your Information Coffee (after speaking with Evi)
€200 — if you join within 1–14 days after your Coffee
€300 — if you join within 2 weeks to 2 months after your Coffee
€400 — if you join 2–6 months after your Coffee
You are welcome to become an "inactive" Explorer member if unable to participate. The rate for "supporting" Explorer is €350. Inactive supporting members activate their explorer membership several months before applying for Full membership.
🌿 Step 5: Begin Your Explorer Journey
🧭 Attend your 3 interactive orientations
🗓️ Join monthly Plenaries (and if Active Explorer, a circle as well).
🎨 Participate in visioning, workshops, and community projects, including transition to Greece and community development.
🤝 Start forming real connections and help shape what we’re building together.
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➡️ To be eligible to apply as a Full Community Partner, you must:
1) Remain an active Explorer for at least 3 months, and
2) Visit the land and projects in Greece within a reasonable amount of time after membership given full time work or children and caretaking (expectations are as soon as possible and during the year of membership)
This ensures your connection is rooted in real relationships as well as place.
3) Transparency: If you miss three plenaries and, as an Active Explorer, haven’t contributed meaningfully to any project (including those that directly support your values or your transition to Greece)—we’ll consider your Explorer Membership inactive.
You’ll be moved to our general mailing list as a supporter, no longer eligible for Community Partnership.
*Please know as well that while these rules are followed, we are about relationships, not rigidity. Those who demonstrate they are one of those special people who value community will be able to talk to us if something comes up.
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