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 and events that help you participate in your own development, learn about relating well with other people, 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.
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June
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Community Orientation Session | June 22, 1 - 3 pm via Zoom
NEW! These orientations, hosted by our Membership Circle, are an opportunity for new people to learn more about how the community works, how they can plug in, and to connect with each other. It is also a prerequisite to becoming a Friend member. Everyone is welcome!​
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July
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Summer Gathering '25 | July 13-18 at Sahale
Resilience, Resistance, Regeneration - Standing Strong in a Time of Stress
Here it comes - join us! Our 5-day immersion in community learning. A transformative and dynamic experience in taking a deep dive into personal development and community engagement. Join us as we welcome Tamara Staton and Lux Gypsum - vibrant and skilled facilitators who will guide us in experiences and strategies that will keep you open, flexible and able to find productivity, joy, and peace in the face of chaos around you.
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September
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​The Women's Program | September 27 via Zoom
is a long-established and ever-growing way for women to enjoy each other’s company, learn about themselves as women, and welcome the experience of the Divine Feminine. The Women's Program will meet from 10 AM to 1 PM on upcoming Saturdays; 11/22 via Zoom, All female-identified people are welcome. For information, contact Laura Sweany at alwaysgrowingdesign@gmail.com.
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October
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Nature Systems Weekend | October 3-5 at Sahale
Come help put Sahale to bed for the season! Our last public weekend of the calendar year, we invite everyone who is interested in tending, working, mulching, weeding and other end-of-the-year land care tasks. Our work starts after breakfast Saturday morning and continues all day; there are jobs for all skill levels both outside and in the kitchen preparing our community meals. After dinner there is fun at the firepit and relaxing in the cedar hot tub, then tumbling into bed tired but feeling satisfied. Sunday we tackle a few more chores, enjoy lunch, then clean up and return home. Join us for a day - or for the whole weekend!
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November
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Fall Goodenough Organizational Retreat | November 7-9 at Sahale
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 membership? Governance? Administration? 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. Email community@goodenough.org to RSVP.
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​The Women's Program | November 22 via Zoom
is a long-established and ever-growing way for women to enjoy each other’s company, learn about themselves as women, and welcome the experience of the Divine Feminine. The Women's Program meets from 10 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays. All female-identified people are welcome. For information, contact Laura Sweany at alwaysgrowingdesign@gmail.com.
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Pathwork
Pathwork offers support on our daily journey in these unpredictable times. Share deeply from your heart and enjoy the camaraderie that group support offers. Participants come together and find encouragement, gaining insight and comfort from the world’s wisdom traditions and members' personal development struggles and triumphs. All are welcome to join. Meetings are held via Zoom on alternate Sundays. Contact us 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 learning 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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