Looking for 3 founding team members at Wild Life Ranch

The website is live and this is my first official blogpost, wohoo! The next step in building Wild Life Ranch for me is to find a founding team of awesome people that are excited about intentional community and are willing to take on the efforts of the early team building the foundation and first steps of our project. If you’ve always dreamed about living or building an intentional community, maybe this is the perfect opportunity for you.

The current situation

As I’m writing this on a sunny morning in early October 2023, I’m yet to move into the property I bought in Arvada, Colorado. It will happen in 2 days however! The property I bought is a 13 acre horse ranch with 2 big barns and 1 big house and loooots of space for more buildings and structures to expand into a full-on intentional community.

The big house on the property is a new 5-bedroom house, which I see as the perfect starting point for others to move in and begin living in community right away. I’m looking for 3 or possibly even 4 other humans to experiment living together with.

To read up more about the bigger vision and ideas for Wild Life Ranch, you can go here.

Finding you, a founding team member at Wild Life Ranch

I have never started an intentional community before. The closest comparison I’m drawing on from is my time of being a tech entrepreneur and finding and hiring an early team for our startup. I’d like to be uncertain whether that is a good comparison in the first place and be open to it not being. And yet, it’s the closest experience I’m drawing from. Here is a list of traits I’ve loved in the early team members that joined my startup, which I imagine will also make for great traits in early community members:

• Having some experience of having lived or even started an intentional community before. Even a community house experience I imagine to be helpful and relevant.
• A desire to invest time and money (at the minimum $1000-2000/mo in rent) into seeing a flourishing group of people living together in harmony and connection.
• The ability to wear multiple hats early on in navigating the many challenges and ups and downs to go through as we establish ourselves as a community.
• A core craft or skill-set you’ve developed where you can take the lead on (this can be any professional craft, blue or white collar that you are excited about and wanting to keep developing).
• A desire to expand your emotional and bodily awareness as well as some practice already in expressing and noticing your body sensations and emotions and ability to express them.

I’ve expanded more on what I believe will make a great member at WLR here. 

Small experiments, lots of fun

If reading this and anything else on the website has peeked your interest about me and about the Wild Life Ranch project, I’d love to hear from you. My hope is that through getting to know you and after feeling aligned we can begin with small experiments of living together. The idea I came up with in case you and I are interested in getting to know each other more for working and living together would be to have you move into Wild Life Ranch to begin with for a 14 day period (the house is fully furnished), to get a sense of what living together is like, have regular check-ins and then decide if we want to expand our experiment.

If you’d like to get in touch with me to chat about this opportunity, email me at l.widrich@gmail.com