The Whidbey Institute at Chinook

Weekly Work Parties & Potlucks

Weekly Work Parties & Lunches

Join garden volunteers, Learning from the Land coordinator Cary Peterson and other Whidbey Institute staff for a weekly work party every Thursday afternoon, starting with lunch in the Farmhouse at 12:30 pm. We provide soup, bread, and fresh veggies from the garden. Share in a meal together, be in community, and enjoy being on the nurturing Chinook land while helping to grow veggies for the Good Cheer Food Bank and service learning programs of the Whidbey Institute. Tools and gloves provided. We're getting the garden ready for spring planting! Garden work begins around 1:00 pm; come for as long or short as you like!

Forming the Life You Want

Join Mitch Saunders and Maryliz Smith for a weekend of examining who we are becoming as advocates of sustainability. In doing the work of preserving the Earth, how do we work to also sustain ourselves? Engage in a unique blend of individual practices for tapping into the wisdom of your own body, using the group as a dynamic art to develop and test new strategies for conflict, and improvisational art to reveal and anchor the self in the work of personal and external renewal.

Money & Life

"I think we do have enough developed minds and spirits and hearts to engage a different conversation..." -Orland Bishop

Join a dynamic convening of changemakers for a conversation about how to create and live in the new economy, which emerges even while we are still swimming in the ocean of old money paradigms. Orland Bishop, LA-based human rights activist, will keynote the event, in tandem with vibrant discussions around how we can bring the story of the new economy to life.