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

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

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.

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/

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.