Drawn to living in community: ecovillages, cohousing, communes, land projects? Answer a few questions and we'll point you toward places worth exploring. You still do the real finding; this just gives you a first direction.
A tool for finding your way toward community. Every result shows you why it surfaced; the rest is yours to walk. Go visit, ask, stay a while.
✶ Want to be connected to more like this? We're weaving a living web of communities. Drop your email and we'll send the occasional note as it grows.
Community Compass is a free starting map for people drawn to living in community: ecovillages, cohousing, communes, land projects, shared houses. It points a direction; it doesn't tell you where you belong. That part is yours to walk. This page explains how it works, where the data comes from, and where it's still thin, so you can trust it the right amount, and no more.
Built by Gustaf Palm, part of the regen-community body of work and the Animate Intelligence project, under the hyphae brand. It grew from a stubborn problem: the world is full of intentional communities, and almost no one drawn to them knows where to begin. The directories are scattered and half the links are dead. This is one doorway in: a place to start the search, not a service that finishes it for you.
The communities are drawn from the regen-community database: 11,050 entries gathered from public directories, federations and networks, then checked one by one. As of June 2026 every entry has been individually web-verified. Nothing here is a scraped list we never looked at. Contact details come from those same public directories and are obfuscated on the page; the plaintext only appears after you click to reveal it, so listings can't be harvested by bots.
The Compass only shows the gold set: ~4,300 communities we've confirmed are active. Entries that came back rejected, dead-linked, unconfirmed or defunct are excluded entirely: a smaller map you can trust over a bigger one padded with ghosts. Coverage isn't uniform: richest in Western Europe, thinner elsewhere. Communities we've verified but don't yet have coordinates for still appear in your results, marked precise location pending; they just don't show on the map until placed.
You answer eight short questions; the Compass surfaces communities that echo what you asked for, sorted into bands: Strong fit, Good fit, Partial fit. Every card shows its receipts: the specific reasons it surfaced, and where we're guessing (a hedged "·") versus knowing (a "✓"). Read the band for exactly what it is: how closely a place matches what you told us you wanted, not a rating of how good it is. A "Partial fit" isn't a lesser place; it answered fewer of your particular asks. We don't rank communities against each other.
If you run or belong to a community listed here and something's wrong (out of date, mis-described, wrongly placed, or you'd like to be removed), reach out and we'll fix it. This map gets more accurate every time a real person tells us what we got wrong.
A starting map. The walking is yours.
Plain language, no legalese. The short version: we collect as little as possible, we don't sell anything, and you can have your data corrected or removed by asking.
The only personal data we collect from seekers is an email address, and only if you choose to enter one. It's sent to our form service (Web3Forms) and reaches our inbox so we can send the occasional note as the map grows. We don't sell or share it, and you can leave anytime by replying "remove."
Contact details for the listed communities come from public directories and networks. They're obfuscated on the page; the plaintext only appears after a human clicks to reveal it, so bots can't harvest them. Some communities are in Europe, so we treat this data with GDPR in mind.
If your community is listed and you'd like it corrected or removed, or you want to know what we hold, email gustaf@islands-of-coherence.com and we'll act on it. No account, no forms to fill.
Least data, held lightly.