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About Us
Mission
Statement
Our mission is to show it is
possible to create a sustainable community with the many layers of
culture and
organization required for the development of mature, healthy human beings over a
whole life, and that it is possible to enjoy doing this by using learning games.
A Brief History
In January 1981, after a dozen years of developmental work,
Dr. John L. Hoff and his wife, Colette Hoff, M.Ed. called together a
group of 105 people to consider how to be more facilitative of people
interested in community. The group caught a vision of the need for
communities and within weeks incorporated as the American Association
for the Furtherance of Community. The Association currently has 25
shareholding members. The Association was formed to discover and apply
the best strategies for developing people and utilizing small groups for
personal and social change. The founding group decided to develop a
demonstration community. They explored models for
community development and chose one for a longer, deeper study. Thus was
formed the Goodenough Community, the Association’s first
demonstration project. In the search for a name, the term goodenough,
first coined by D.W. Winnicott, a British pediatrician and psychiatrist,
came to mind. He claimed that no orphan child survived who did not allow
in the love of a caretaker—what Winnicott called “a goodenough mother.” |
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The
Goodenough Community
