This is my first post here, so hopefully it’s on topic and in the right place. I’m currently in the SoFA Academy, am building a systematic approach to being more prepared to collaborate, and I also have a personal love and passion for community.
A question I keep sitting with: how many of us are quietly waiting for the right intentional community while life keeps moving?
I got tired of waiting alone. So I’ve started building an on-ramp — and I’m looking for people who want to help shape it.
The Humanity Lab is a proposal: 4–10 people sharing a home in Tulum for 1–3 months, targeting around June. Real life, real work, real rent — alongside people chosen for alignment and heart, with an operating system built around self-awareness, conscious communication, and collaborative decision-making. Sociocracy in daily life, not just in meetings.
Not a retreat. Not a commune. A container — safe to enter, clear when it ends, and what you learn you carry home.
This is an early proposal, not a finished thing. The right people will help shape what it becomes.
Questions, ideas, and more details — Reply here, share with a friend, or email info@thehumanitylab.space
Hi Alan! I don’t know where Tulum is, which probably means it’s too far from home, but I did want to reply to let you know that this topic of WAITING for the right community is very alive for me! They way I’ve found to not feel like I’m waiting, is to dedicate 1-2h/week to exploration. It helps the exploration feel realistic, and me to feel in action towards my goal, while accepting that where I live now is already my current life, not a waiting room.
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Hi Audree,
It’s down on the East Coast of Mexico. It’s a plane ride away for sure 
My waiting tends to be a little more nomadic as I explore communities that might be interesting. I did make it down to Costa Rica to see what was going on there. I found an interesting community called Alegria which has many things going for it and has passed the point where the people are making decisions and choices together. They knew of concepts of Sociocracy but weren’t fully adopted. The other really interesting feature was the 3-4 communities were in close proximity to one another and would often support one another (although they each had different forms of governance and decision making). It was close to what I have been looking for, very informing and I loved my time there.
By the way, I’ve finished the next version of the diagnostic tools I showed you a few months back. Now there is one which evaluates your current capabilities in skills for collaboration, and a second which shows you where you might be stuck and how you can move forward. Happy to share where these are at if you have the time.