2024/2025
in the Goodenough Community
What makes community meaningful and fun?
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The richness of life in community comes in many ways – getting together informally over a meal...celebrating a significant birthday with long- time and newfound friends...working together in a creative endeavor...collaborating in a work party...thinking deeply with others about what it means to be fully alive and connected with ourselves, each other, and the land...and more.
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In the Goodenough Community, we recognize such ways to connect as expressions of living life fully and in communities of all kinds. Throughout the year we offer programs that help you participate in your own development, learn about relating well with others, and discover your potential to have a good time in life and with others.
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We welcome your interest and your participation, and hope that you will join us at any – or many! – of this year’s events.
The Women's Program | November 16, 2024
is a long-established and ever-growing way for women to enjoy each other’s company, learn about themselves as women, and even to experience the Divine Feminine. The Women's Program will meet from 10 AM to 1 PM on upcoming Saturdays; 11/16, 1/25, and 3/22/25 via Zoom; our 2025 Women's Weekend at Sahale is tentatively planned for May 3 and 4, 2025. All female-identified people are welcome. For information, contact Laura Sweany.
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Holiday Open House| December 21, 2024
Goodenough President Tom George will be hosting our holiday festivities in Edmonds this year. Potluck contributions for desserts, drinks, sides and salads, and we will supply the roast beast (usually ham and salmon, but you get the picture). Games, bonfire, music and dancing will keep us jingling long into the night. Don't miss it!​
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Nature Systems Work Weekend | January 18-19, 2025
Come join us at Sahale for winter cleanup, chipping, weeding and volunteer landcare - as well as working side-by-side with your Goodenough friends! Join us for a day or for the whole weekend! With your help we can keep Sahale cared for during the long winter. We provide yummy meals, a restful bed and the rejuvenation of the cedar hot tub for your tired muscles - plus the camaraderie of friends old and new. Contact Laura Sweany for more information and to RSVP. 2025 Dates include 2/8-9, 3/15-16, 4/12-13 and Memorial Weekend.
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Fall Goodenough Organizational Retreat | November 8-9-10, 2024
We meet as a community several times a year to connect, strategize, and conduct community business. Are you interested in being (or becoming) an active participant in the community's governance? We welcome everyone drawn to attend - if you want to strengthen our foundation as an active and engaged part of the Intentional Community movement, and assure Sahale's well being into the future, you should plan to attend.
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Pathwork,
Pathwork offers support on our spiritual journey in these unpredictable times. Share deeply from your heart and enjoy the camraderie that group study offers. Participants come together and find support and encouragement, gaining insight and comfort from the world’s faith and wisdom traditions. All are welcome to join. Meetings are held via Zoom on alternate Sundays. Contact Kirsten Rohde for more information.
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Work and Community Parties Throughout the Year
Traditionally, the Goodenough Community sponsors work and community parties over Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends as well as other times to express gratitude for the presence of our beloved retreat center, Sahale, and to experience the satisfaction of learning, playing, and working together in community!
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The Men's Program
Our Men’s Circle sponsors the Big Tent placement and takedown each spring and fall. The Men's Circle is an expression of brotherhood and practice, with wisdom gathered from our own lives, other men’s work, advocates, and the founders of this circle. All male-identified people are welcome. Contact: Norm Peck
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