IC types I would live in or am forming:
Housing or shelter for a vulnerable group, Ecovillage or urban agrihood, Small farm or ranch, Recreation venture teams as a community, Life partner with community values, Medical risk bubble, Trial run: Join a household, Single-parent shared housing, Activist commune supporting shared work
Practical skills:
Cooking for groups, Childcare, Cleaning, Gardening, Permaculture, Carpentry & repair, Farm animal care, Grant-writing, Bookkeeping, Group facilitation
Experience or schooling:
Activism & organizing, Ecological science, Nutrition, Psychology, Sociology, Experience teaching adults, Animal training or care, Outdoor survival skills (e.g., hunting, foraging, fire starting), Sports or physical recreation, Travel, Social dance, Theater, Writing, Website design, Business management, Group therapy or processing, Mediation or dispute resolution, Short term rentals and hospitality
Occupation(s) and expertise:
wilderness-based youth therapy, foster care caseworker in U.S., academic researcher, dissertation editor
Years lived in an IC:
Lived with roommate(s) or housemate(s), Lived with sibling(s) or other non-parent relatives, Less than a year in IC
Experience in community:
4 months in an ecovillage homesteading