Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring snack food to share.

We'll be gathering at Beaver Pond Natural Area, a land-and-waterscape nestled between pavement and apartment buildings, a site of human restoration efforts and ongoing beaver development projects. Connecting with the wisdom of place, we'll reflect on beaver and human built environments, cure, health, and restoration in our bodyminds and in ecosystems.

In 2024, we are gathering around the theme of imperfection. Things fail to live up to how we and others would like them to be. We experience illness, disability, and death – as individuals, families, societies, and ecosystems. What is (im)perfect, and who decides? How do we respond to “imperfection” in ourselves and in the world around us? How do we find wisdom (or beauty, joy, or love) in “imperfection”? Join us as we share, read, move, create, rest, and play with imperfection!

Email gatheringround.seattle@gmail.com to receive detailed meet-up location information, or for any questions or access needs. Location may move indoors if the weather is very wet and RSVPs and core email list will be sent the new address — final decision made a few days before.

COVID Safety Plan: We are hoping to gather outdoors, with an indoor back-up depending on the weather. Masks optional. Please stay home if you are having symptoms of anything contagious. If you need different guidelines, please email gatheringround.seattle@gmail.com so we can talk about an inclusive plan.