The Goodenough Community
 The Goodenough Community is a long-term experiment in community formation and
 development sponsored by the American Association for the Furtherance of Community.

Human Relations Laboratory
Experiencing Compassionate Community

John L Hoff, ThD, is a professional educator, counselor, clergyman, and organizational consultant. John demonstrates from his life the benefit of compassionate behavior and relationship. He is a social activist for whom creating community as an environment for growing “good people” has been his life’s work. John received his Th.D. in counseling from the Pacific School of Religion, was ordained in the United Church of Christ, and has served churches in the Midwest, California, and Washington.  Dr. Hoff has directed several human service organizations, and since 1981, has been Executive Director of the Goodenough Community System.
 

Colette Hoff, MEd. Prior to earning her Master’s degree from the University of Puget Sound and the Christian Counseling Service, Colette spent 10 years providing nutritional counseling and motivational workshops for the Northwest Lipid Research Clinic. Colette has extensive experience in adult and family education and in the use of community as a method for human growth and development. She has a special vocation for working with women and women’s spirituality and was ordained as a pastor by Convocation: A Church and Ministry.  Colette is also the manager of the Sahale Learning Center.

 

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Sahale  Center

Richard Kenagy, PhD, has been a research scientist in the life sciences for over 25 years. During this time he has also trained extensively in the Goodenough Community System as an individual, marriage partner, family man and organizational leader.  He currently coordinates the Goodenough Community with its various cultural programs and events such as this Human Relations Laboratory.


 

Kate Martin will be offering leadership for various activities. She is a well known story teller, and former manager of the Chautauqua Review, a traveling vaudeville troop. She offers this bio…” Kate began her life as a small baby, eventually moving through adolescence and is now an occasional adult.  She is a mother, a sister, a French fry connoisseur, and currently spends her time in northern California, where she is hard at work undermining the dominant corporate ideologies of materialism, and commercialism. Once this is accomplished, she will turn her attention to the joint problems of Auto-Immune Diseases and Universal Enlightenment.

Sue-Marie Casagrande, MHS, will be collaborating with Bill Scott and Bruce Perler in methods of meditation that enable growth in compassion. Sue-Marie earned her Masters degree in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, and has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism. She has studied with Geshe Jamyang Tsultrim, a former Sakya monk, and teaches mindfulness (Vipassana) meditation. She states, “I am now called to help make compassion a household ACTION in America. As informed by Mahayana Buddhism, I believe this is a matter of evolution and a requirement for the survival of all sentient beings including our very planet.”

Bill Scott, MSW, has studied Zen meditation for 17 years with Zen masters from both Christian and Buddhist traditions in Europe and the US. He now works with families, particularly fathers, of children with special needs at the Boyer Children’s Clinic and the University of Washington.

He  has also led Dialectic Behavior Therapy groups (a key component being mindfulness training) for suicidal women with borderline personality disorder at the University of Washington.  

Joe Crookston is a nationally touring performing artist, facilitator, and songwriter. He was born in rural Ohio in a family of Hungarians, surrounded by polkas, accordions and eastern European food.  Goodhearted and generous of spirit, Joe has worked for years as a song-leader, organizer and facilitator at  retreats, camps, and conferences throughout the US.

He has the gift of creating and building community through song, movement, play and ritual. He is a natural facilitator with a clear vision of inclusively, creative empowerment, and a strong vision for creating a "WE" experience rather than a "ME" experience.

Dyanne Harshman, M.S.Ed is a teacher and musician, who was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She has performed a wide variety of musical genre including classical, folk, jazz, and rhythm & blues. In her day job, she is humbled and fulfilled as a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher .  Dyanne is a trained dance leader of the Dances of Universal Peace.  Her voice, true and steady, will be found helping all kinds of musical things to happen and is her primary tool as she teaches us to dance out our souls.

Irene Perler coordinates and designs the program for children and youth. Irene has worked at a Waldorf School for many years and is currently in a training program for “Collaborative Counseling”. She also leads the Family Enrichment Network of the Goodenough Community (including the Sahale Summer Camp for youth and the Junior Staff Training Program). You may contact her at irene_perler@hotmail.com with questions.