Communities: Searching for Community, Finding Community, and Building Community – at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Communities: Searching for Community, Finding Community, and Building Community – at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Finding Communities at Consonance (Gleichklang)

The Only German-Speaking Dating Platform with an Active Community Search

At Consonance (Gleichklang), we are the only dating platform in the German-speaking world where members can not only search for partners or friendships, but explicitly also for communities, life projects, and alternative lifestyles.

In our Community Contact List “Communities and Projects,” there are currently almost 1,400 ideas, suggestions, search ads, and offers for the most diverse forms of community.

Members can use it to:

• post their own project ideas
• find companions for existing projects
• join existing communities
• initiate new lifestyles and housing forms
• find like-minded people for social, ecological, or cultural projects

All entries are active. If a member’s participation expires, the corresponding entries are removed. This keeps the list lively, up-to-date, and practically usable. An active membership at Consonance thus opens up a real opportunity to find a suitable community or to found one yourself:

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Prerequisites for Using the Community Contact List – at Consonance (Gleichklang)

This list is intended for members who want to initiate projects, alternative lifestyles, or communities together, or who wish to engage in other ways for their fellow human beings, nature, the environment, and animals.

The following binding prerequisites apply for using the list:

• Not compatible with participation are right-wing populist or right-wing extremist positions or projects, racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, discrimination against non-binary people, and the denial of the profound environmental problems on our planet, including human-made climate change.
• Also not compatible with participation are projects that involve the exploitation or killing of animals.

The common umbrella is binding: unifying, humane, ecological, mindful, and solidaristic.

Everything else – lifestyle, spirituality, political orientation, form of organization – is free.

So at Consonance, there are religious and spiritual members just as much as agnostic and atheist members. Some orient their community ideas more toward concrete political projects and demands, while others prefer to start something new at a distance. We extend appreciation and acceptance to all these different members and their diverse projects and community ideas.

The Community Contact List “Communities” at Consonance is supplemented by other community contact lists such as Nature Activities, professional cooperations, or Consonance meeting points.

Forms of Communities at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Below, different forms of community are named and defined. This list is deliberately broad, as people search for community in very different ways.

• Ecological Communities: Ecological communities are projects in which people organize their everyday lives consistently resource-efficiently and as self-sufficiently as possible. The focus is on self-sufficiency, permaculture, sustainable building, communal energy and water use, and a binding responsibility for nature and the environment, so that ecological principles are structurally anchored in communal living.
• Nature-Oriented Housing Projects: Nature-oriented housing projects combine communal living with a strong connection to nature, often in rural settings, on farms, in forest houses, or in smaller settlement structures. The goal is a close-knit coexistence that combines peace, landscape, gardening, and communal organization of the living space.
• Caravan and Trailer Park Communities: Caravan and trailer park communities organize living together in alternative housing forms such as caravans, tiny houses, or mobile structures. They often stand for reduction, mobility, shared use of space, and a conscious departure from conventional housing and ownership models.
• Dropout and Minimalist Communities: Dropout and minimalist communities are based on consciously reduced consumption and low material demands. The focus is on meaning-orientation, connection to nature, and solidaristic coexistence, whereby economic dependencies are reduced and living costs are lowered collectively.
• Solidarity Agriculture Projects: Solidarity agriculture projects organize production, financing, and responsibility collectively according to the principle of shared co-responsibility. Members participate in cultivation, planning, or financing of agricultural land, thus creating stable, transparent supply structures beyond purely market-logic.
• Work and Economic Communities: Work and economic communities are associations of people who work together economically, found businesses, or organize projects, for example in IT, education, crafts, culture, or social work. The goal is to shape gainful employment, value creation, and responsibility collectively, share risks, and combine economic activity with shared ethical or social guidelines.
• Multigenerational Communities: Multigenerational communities are lifestyles in which children, adults, and older people consciously live together and learn from one another. They are based on shared responsibility, intergenerational support, and the principle that care, experience, energy, and knowledge are not separated but interconnected in everyday life.
• Communities for Seniors: Communities for seniors are alternative housing and lifestyle forms for older people who wish to avoid isolation and live in a solidaristically organized way. They rely on mutual support, shared activities, co-determination, and an active, self-determined aging process in social integration rather than seclusion.
• Inclusive Communities: Inclusive communities bring people with and without disabilities together in an egalitarian coexistence. The focus is on acceptance, structural accessibility, and mutual support, so that diversity is understood not as a deficit but as a natural part of community life.
• Queer Communities: Queer communities are housing and life projects for LGBTQIA+ individuals or explicitly queer-friendly structures that ensure diversity, self-determination, and safe spaces. They create social security and communal visibility beyond heteronormative expectations.
• Intentional Communities: Intentional communities are consciously founded life projects with a clearly formulated vision, defined values, and often a binding organizational structure. They do not arise by chance but from a shared decision to structure coexistence, responsibility, and goals on a sustainable basis.
• Spiritual Communities: Communities with a spiritual focus – such as meditation, consciousness work, healing practices, shamanic work, or retreat structures. Spiritual communities are not necessarily tied to a religion but are based on shared approaches to consciousness, development, or practice. At Consonance, various forms can be found, such as meditation communities, where silent or guided practice shapes coexistence, mindfulness communities with a focus on conscious living and self-reflection, or yoga communities that combine physical practice, retreat structures, and philosophical depth. These also include tantra communities with conscious energy and relationship work, consciousness and development projects that place personal growth and interpersonal maturation at the center, as well as shamanic communities with nature-spiritual or ritual-oriented practices. Further manifestations are healing and retreat communities offering space for group work and self-exploration, mystical or contemplative communities emphasizing silence and inner focus, energetic or esoteric communities with alternative worldviews, and integral or holistic communities that connect spirituality, ecology, social responsibility, and personal development.
• Religious Communities: Lifestyles that explicitly refer to a religious tradition. Religious communities orient themselves toward a clearly defined faith tradition and can include communal living, shared practice, rituals, ethical conduct, or spiritual education. At Consonance, various expressions can be found, such as Buddhist communities with Zen, Theravada, or Tibetan-influenced practice, Hindu communities with reference to Bhakti, Vedanta, or Ashram structures, as well as Christian communities in ecumenical housing projects or monastery-like forms. In addition, there are Sufi communities within Islamic mystical traditions, as well as Islamic communities in general that base their coexistence on religious practice and social responsibility, alongside Jewish community projects with reference to faith practice and cultural identity. Beyond that, there are interdenominational models such as monotheistic communities referring to belief in one God, or polytheistic communities with nature-religious or reconstructed traditions, as well as interreligious communities in which people of different religions consciously live together and cultivate spiritual dialogue.
• Political Communities: Political communities are projects with a clear socio-political orientation, such as anti-racist initiatives, solidarity neighborhoods, or socio-political networks, as well as consciously anarchist, socialist, or communist life projects. They can be organized as action communities that develop local or global protests, campaigns, and forms of resistance, as publication or media communities that develop and disseminate political content, as educational and awareness projects, or as long-term housing and life projects in which political convictions are structurally implemented in everyday life. Political communities can be locally anchored or internationally networked, short-term campaign-related or long-term focused on the practical testing of alternative social models; what is decisive is that political engagement is organized and carried collectively.
• Vegan Communities: Vegan communities are life projects based on a consistently vegan lifestyle and are jointly committed to antispeciesism, veganism, and against animal exploitation. They can take various forms: shared vegan living with communal everyday organization, a consistently vegan lifestyle in all areas of coexistence, collectively organized vegan agriculture, or solidaristic supply structures. Also included are projects for the active dissemination of the vegan lifestyle, such as educational work, public relations, or event formats, as well as joint entrepreneurial ventures like vegan cafés, restaurants, hotels, or seminar and retreat projects. What is decisive is that the community not only lives its ethical stance toward animals individually but anchors it structurally in the shared project.
• Animal Sanctuaries: Animal sanctuaries – often also referred to as sanctuaries – are communities that offer rescued animals a permanent protected place to live and put animal ethics into practice. While the term sanctuary traditionally emphasizes care for individual animals, the term life sanctuary deliberately sets a clear antispeciesist focus: animals are not understood as objects of use but as independent individuals with their own right to life. At the center is not pity but equality, empathy, and the consistent rejection of exploitation. Life sanctuaries combine practical care – housing, nursing, medical care – with ethical education work, public relations, and often also political engagement against animal exploitation. They are closely connected to vegan communities, as the ethical foundation is identical: the rejection of the use and killing of animals and the active design of alternative lifestyles. Often, life sanctuaries are embedded in vegan housing or life projects or cooperate closely with such structures, thus forming not only places of rescue but concrete models of a community founded on care, equality, and compassion.
• Sociocratic or Grassroots-Democratic Communities: Sociocratic or grassroots-democratic communities are projects with clearly regulated decision-making structures in which power is not hierarchically concentrated. Sociocracy means that decisions are made by consensus or consent: a resolution passes if there is no justified serious objection; responsibilities are organized in circles and roles are defined and time-limited in order to combine equal participation with binding decision-making capacity. Grassroots-democratic communities are based on the principle that all fundamental decisions originate from the entire community, include the “grassroots,” i.e., all members, and that there is no superior management authority; decisions are discussed collectively and made by consensus or according to clearly agreed majorities, so that equality and shared responsibility are structurally secured.
• Artist and Creative Communities: Artist and creative communities combine communal living with collaborative work in the fields of art, music, theater, expressive painting, or other cultural projects. They create spaces for creative exchange, joint productions, and cultural experiments, whereby studios, stages, or workshops are an integral part of everyday life.
• Polyamorous Communities: Polyamorous communities are based on explicitly non-monogamous relationship models or a freely designed culture of love. They organize their coexistence on the basis of transparency, consent, and clearly communicated relationship forms, combining personal autonomy with communal responsibility.
• Education and Nature School Projects: Education and nature school projects develop alternative learning models beyond classical school structures, for example through vertical learning structures, cross-age groups, or collectively organized knowledge transfer. The goal is to integrate learning as a social, self-determined, and nature-oriented process into the community.
• Technology and Nerd Projects in Community: Technology and nerd projects in community combine communal living with a strong cognitive focus, for example in IT projects, radio technology, experimental networks, or technical infrastructure. In addition to social and emotional aspects, space is consciously created for analytical thinking, development, and technical innovation.
• Retreat and Healing Communities: Retreat and healing communities create structured spaces for self-exploration, constellation work, shamanic practice, group processes, or therapeutically oriented offerings. Communal life is thus closely linked to personal development, inner work, and consciously designed experiential spaces.

This list is not exhaustive. The diversity of projects registered at Consonance shows:

• Community can take many forms. Not every community will appeal to everyone, but as long as the common solidaristic umbrella is in place, all these communities are welcome at Consonance.

Literal Examples from the Community Contact List – at Consonance (Gleichklang)

To illustrate the breadth, here are sample original entries:

“Dear people, are there any among you who, like me, appreciate community and also enjoy quiet? I am looking for people who are already living together now or who would like to create such a project in the coming years. I have a beautiful caravan and am still looking for like-minded people, and I’m still feeling a lot about where, with whom, and how it can work. I like to inspire myself, but I also like to be inspired :-).”

“Projects and communities are sought that we can enrich with our very diverse experiences (construction, practical work, structure, etc.). I hope to find like-minded people here who want to start a cool non-profit project or perhaps have already started one that I can participate in. I used to work for an NGO and also spent several years in African countries. I now work in IT. Project management, finance, and IT are not entirely foreign to me. My dream would be to bring all these skills into a project whose value I believe in and that I find exciting.”

“I am looking for contacts in central Germany, for communities & schools. Both for founding and existing ones. I myself would like to build a Consciousness-Community from 2032 onwards, where women who want to have children can have them and be held by the community as a whole, and where people who want to accompany children can simply do so there without having a commitment for 30 years. Alongside this, a nature school should emerge that has a completely different concept from what we understand as school today, namely that children learn predominantly from other children and adults only input knowledge into the system that is missing. And there is no horizontal structure in classes with roughly the same age, but a vertical division into families where there is one child from each age group in every family. Then 11 out of 12 children in each group are system-supporting and no education by adults is needed. So it is completely natural.”

“Developing an environmentally friendly lifestyle alone is impossible. I am looking for motivated people who want to contribute their strength, ideas, knowledge and skills, and social abilities to a project in order to live in a good community in a natural environment. This can definitely be ‘elsewhere’ and is negotiable. The project should also be financially viable, and I would like to include people without large financial resources. Also check out my text on the topic of ‘Nature’.”

“Small communities are actually the beneficial forms of societal, or better yet, human togetherness. People who strive for these forms of coexistence already have an expanded consciousness. It is always enriching to get to know such people. My personal commitment to a worthwhile community, and thus the direct creation of a future that gives meaning, is a goal I strive for.”

“Are there actually projects where you can help plant trees? I would have a great interest in doing something good for my environment. If anyone knows of something like that, I would be grateful for any information.”

“Hey there, I like to engage myself for a colorful, diverse society in which people of all kinds, especially disadvantaged groups, have a place, especially for gender justice and people with refugee experience, against racism, right-wing extremist attitudes, toxic masculinity ideals,… I also love to sing and would really like to be in a band, singing around the campfire, or similar. I’m also happy to join in on sports activities of all kinds. Communal living is very exciting to me and I could well imagine it with the right people.”

“I would like to participate in a nature-oriented housing and life project, preferably multigenerational. Preferably in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. I myself have several years of experience in setting up such a project on a four-sided farm with partial self-sufficiency. After this experience, what is important to me is mutual reflection and support toward a new togetherness in the ups and downs of everyday life. I am a sporty young grandpa and love learning and growing together. I would like to be part of an alternative lifestyle in old age, with low consumption, mindfulness, and respect for people and nature. I am looking for an alternative lifestyle that fits me and where I can contribute. It would be nice to live in a community farm or neighborhood that also has space for retreats and healing work. I am a shamanic healer and like to devote myself to mindful practices, to which I also invite groups.”

“I have been living in (m)y wonderfully beautiful forest house for three years and would like to bring it back to life.”

“I am thinking about what I am allowed to experience and co-create here in the coming years ‘on the edge of time’ in a sensually finding circle of people. I experience and perceive myself as nature-connected, creative, and spiritually freely receptive. I ‘dream’ of communal self-sufficiency up to autonomous togetherness while the cranes and geese pass over my head. Everything from the chicken coop to the studio is included.”

“Intentional community: interest is there. Should also be nerd-compatible and not view the ‘head’ aspect negatively. However, the ‘heart’ and ‘gut’ aspects should also be present! Gladly also explicit interpersonal and personal development spaces. * Projects: I like tinkering with Reticulum-over-LoRa with people, and the current ‘nerdy’ topic is telephone technology.”

“I would like to contribute to a community of awakened fellow human beings in the area around Dresden (approx. 50 km) who want to live a communal togetherness, preferably on a farm or other suitable ‘spaces’. I appreciate doing things together, conscious growth together, but also the possibility of withdrawing for a short time. I love gardening, run an expressive painting workshop, do constellation work, human design, and more. Honesty, authenticity, and openness to new paths.”

How the Community Search Works at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Every Consonance member who actively participates in the search for interpersonal contacts can use the community search.

Options:

• Post your own community idea
• Read existing entries
• Make direct contact
• Join as an existing community (at least one member is a Consonance member)

To be listed, the partner search or friendship search option must originally have been selected. After that, both categories can be deactivated. So it is possible to use only the community contact list to search for community.

Living in Community – Social Significance – at Consonance (Gleichklang)

In an increasingly consumer-driven and market-oriented society, solidaristic structures are crumbling. Loneliness is increasing, traditional ties are dissolving, and social security is being privatized.

Community can provide a counterbalance here:

• shared responsibility
• mutual support
• economic relief
• emotional stability
• ecological sustainability
• intergenerational learning

For many, community is thus the answer to alienation.

Consonance – The Comprehensive Platform for Community Search – at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Consonance is the only comprehensive German-speaking platform where people can:

• search for communities
• find communities
• found communities

– within a vibrant, diverse, ecologically oriented, and discrimination-free community.

If you are looking for community, at Consonance you will find not only ideas – but real companions:

See for yourself and join in: ➨ SIGN UP NOW!