Please come outside and play with us! Join Art Adventures for nature walks where we learn about each other, make art, and enjoy our shared public lands. We are two artists sharing our perspectives hoping to inspire and help our neighbor's experience nature. We facilitate learning about art and our beautiful earth in an inspiring and encouraging environment.

Battling invasive ivy, blackberry, and caring for native plant communities is hard work with purpose and meaning. West Seattle has a little-known creek, Puget Creek, that is culturally important to the Duwamish Tribe. Salmon once spawned in this creek that drains into the Duwamish River near the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center. So, restoring habitat in the Puget Creek watershed has an environmental justice aspect to it. Puget Creek watershed is also important to King County Wastewater Tre …

6-29-12 Vivation is a skill to learn for living your most happiest, most creative, most loving, most sacred, most helpful to humanity life self.  Vivation is much more than just a skill of happiness.  You can't understand what this means until you begin to practice Vivation on a regular basis.  Learning to practice Vivation on a regular basis means that you finally learn to trust your body and all of the sensations that it brings up for you to feel.  The goal of Vivation is learning to love all …

This group seeks to open up a space for people to talk, on both conceptual and personal levels, about gender, particularly with concern for feminist issues;  this has historically spilled over into discussion of other forms of marginalization and privilege. We seek to explore ideas about feminism, gender, sexual identity, race, and class, bringing in theoretical ideas, but more pertinently, to how we experience these ideas in our lives personally. We are here to change our own awareness and the …

Since the full blown onset of the nationwide foreclosure crisis that started in 2006, mortgage defaults and property foreclosures have steadily increased to put downward pressure on most housing prices nationwide. Housing prices are down nearly 28% nationwide since 2006 with some areas such as Nevada, Arizona, California and Florida experiencing declines in the range of 40-50%. Now nearly every community is faced with the reality of homes in their neighborhood being auctioned off or Banks puttin …

GUGOOS are a laid back fun bunch of folks who like to spend time enjoying the outdoors! Join us on our adventures - hiking, kayaking, surfing, backpacking, bungee jumping, food, skydiving, sailing, white water rafting, urban hikes etc. We do encourage networking and going on side trips and spur of the moment trips. Feel free to post a trip and/or a RFI on the message board. The organizers are great people who want to explore the environment outdoors. Please respect them and their decisions. Ke …

Effective January 19, 2013, through a meeting of Charter Members, the Seattle Jeep Offroading & Camping Group became the Around the Sound Jeep Club. Our Mission: "Our mission is to provide a fun, comfortable and safe family friendly environment for individuals young and old. We aim to provide a place for Jeep enthusiasts to come together and enjoy camaraderie while out on the trails or around the campfire. We believe in treading lightly and sharing our collective knowledge to promote a sense of …

Seattle Sahaja Meditation Center, located in Seattle’s Northgate area, provides a variety of free meditation classes, from beginner to advanced level, following the relaxing and renewing Sahaja Meditation method. Practitioners of Sahaja Meditation learn to reach a state of mental silence known as “thoughtless awareness”, which calms the mind to gradually empty it of distractions, excessive thoughts, negative feelings and destructive emotions. With Sahaja Meditation you can access the subtle inne …

"It's a reason to put on pants in the morning." Working at home is not all it's cracked up to be. Interruptions from a less-than-professional environment and insanity-inspiring isolation can make you wonder why you left the office to begin with! This is a group for any professional who is looking for an alternative to a traditional office, coffee shop, and home environment. We meet every Monday armed with laptop and list of tasks to drink excessive amounts of coffee together. Oh yeah, and work. …

This group is for women who are highly sensitive (as coined by Elaine Aron), love to be outdoors, and want to meet some new people. All ages are welcome, except children. We may occasionally have a hike with children, but it'll be designated as so. Friendly dogs are welcome if the trail allows them. Most hikes will be during the weekday while my children are in school. We usually meet once a week. We will occasional have weekend hikes. If you want a hike on a certain day or time, please feel fre …

A Toastmaster club for individuals who would enjoy a mutually supportive, positive and conservative/traditional learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop verbal communication and leadership skills. An environment where views are shared, and ideas developed within a framework of uplifting language, traditional values and conservative ideals.

Domestic Violence Friends & Family Support Group was created by Domestic Violence Advocacy Services out of Everett Washington. The purpose of this group is to create a supportive and educational environment for friends and family of domestic violence victims and survivors. It is often the case that we have loved ones in a violent situation and feel out of control or helpless. It is our intention to help you understand domestic violence and be supportive to your loved ones. We will also provide a …

This is an opportunity to meet with a professional organizer in the company of others who share similar struggles with clutter and disorganization. My goal is to offer a safe environment for sharing personal day-to-day challenges and frustrations with getting and staying organized, that might include: ▪ Difficulty meeting family demands at home ▪ Struggling to meet expectations at work ▪ Challenges with being on time and meeting deadlines ▪ Misplacing / losing things on a regular basis ▪ Maintai …

Lets get together and train for the Tough Mudder and other local Mud Races! This group is created for women that would like to train for mud runs and have the support of other like minded women.  Most workouts will be based in Enumclaw, workout routine will be changed every week to keep the body guessing! Just a note, I am not a personal trainer. I am offering a training facility so that we can get in shape and kick some Tough Mudder Butt! This is a non competitive environment. We have all level …

Afraid of public speaking? Wanting to improve your communication and leadership skills? Like meeting interesting, friendly people in a structured environment? Toastmasters International is here to help; and if you're local and like to laugh, Northeast Seattle is the club for you! We meet once a week upstairs at Fairview Church for impromptu speaking and formalized speeches, helping each other hone our communication and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment.

Your help is needed to create an adventure. Let our combined talents create the future we seek. Let us keep our makerspace in downtown Seattle busy with projects to upgrade the future. ----------- Jigsaw Renaissance is a learning and making community, a collaborative community dedicated to collective education and creation. Our mission is to create an environment in which success, failure, and most of all discovery are celebrated. Our vision is that this environment will foster an enduring sens …

Regus is proud to host a monthly networking event for those in the tech community. Whether you are building a website, launching an app, or are a web programmer, we invite you to network with a number of like-minded individuals. Learn best practices from a variety of new and established companies, and experience the atmosphere of a coworking environment. Each monthly event will have a guest speaker within the community to speak about their company and network with the group. Bring your business …

The purpose of this group is to provide a relaxed and welcoming environment for meeting new people, married and single, from all age groups and various walks of life. Join us for some great conversation and fun activities (dinners, coffee get togethers, bike rides, hikes, plays, shows, dancing, picnics, whatever). If you have an interest in getting something fun on the calendar, please email your ideas to Deb.

The Seattle French Conversation Group offers opportunities to speak the French language in a warm and welcoming environment. Join us for great conversation in French in Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Ballard, Greenwood, Ravenna and other places around Seattle. Beginners through advanced level French speakers are all welcome! Many of our members are native French speakers and all of them are looking forward to meeting others who enjoy French language and culture. In addition to French conversation, we …

Before clicking Join Us, please read the following requirements for joining this group. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The purpose of 40 Something meetup is for 40+ singles and couples that want to socialize for dinners, shows, outings, mini-getaways, etc. Have you recently relocated, stressed with work, life and all of the other responsibilities that comes with being 40+ something? Do you miss belonging to a community of …

Are you a new mom who is looking to regain your prepregnancy shape? Are you looking to meet other moms in the area just like you? Are you interested in fun, FREE playgroups for your little one and great Moms events too? Then Stroller Strides and the Plum Mom's Club are for you! Stroller Strides® is the country's largest and fastest growing fitness program for new moms. The stroller workout combines a fitness walk with the stroller and body toning intervals where we use the stroller, the environm …

Let us live a long time by enjoying health and friendship of others. What better way than meeting for coffee or drinking wine at one of the wine bars? This is a great way to network. For those who are in a work environment or those trying to re-enter the work-place for a paying or volunteer job, this is the group to join. It would be cool to go on local trips together, eat out at restaurants, or simply go to a coffee shop. Any ideas are accepted.

This group is for everyone who walks, strolls, hikes, ambles, hoofs it, wanders, treks, and meanders to discover new trails, experience other places on foot, and meet people. We believe that walking together is a healthy, sustainable, and fun form of transportation that provides a better understanding of our built environment and the opportunity to share knowledge. Feet First is a local nonprofit working to ensure all communities in Washington are walkable, and we organize many fun walking event …

Marker Buoy Dive Club is one of the most active dive clubs in the Pacific Northwest with over 100 members. In addition to hosting many dives each month, monthly meetings are held at the Sunset Hill Community Center in Ballard. Monthly meetings give members an opportunity to give reports on club dives of the previous month, share information on upcoming dives, and occasionally show slide and video presentations of dives. A guest speaker related to scuba diving, the marine environment, or somethin …

Its all about glamour and fine art modeling and photography. This is the group for models to meet photographers, and to do individual, and group shoots. Photographers come and meet your next new model or catch up with your favorite model. We will be scheduling group shoots, workshops, classes, and events for both models and photographers. This is a small intimate private studio, and we have all levels of photographers from people that have been shooting for 30 years to people that are just bec …

We're a group of adult horse owning enthusiasts who mainly live in Snohomish, King, Skagit & Island counties. We schedule trail rides, fun horse camping trips, educational potlucks & generally enjoy horsin' around. Choose from meetups to attend each month with your horse or peruse a calendar of notes to let you know what is going on in your local horse community, other riding clubs, horse organizations, educational workshops, or with clinics. Consider this site your master horsey calendar! We po …

"Play Dates in Seattle" is a venue for making new friends with a similiar interest: live theatre . Through meetup, we plan "play dates" -- pick a show, pick a date and announce it to the group. We like to add a social component (dinner, drinks, dessert, etc) before or after the show to create social opportunity for friendship to grow. Some of us also have season tickets to certain theaters, but that's not required to join this group. We're a new group, and we're open to other ideas as well. If t …

Coworking spaces provide a way for entrepreneurs and non-traditional workers to share costs, resources, and ideas in a collaborative environment. Our aim is to provide the space and inspiration to make ideas happen. We use Meetup as an events calendar, and anyone is welcome to follow along. Our events are open to the public unless designated otherwise. You don't need to be a paying member to attend our events, though door fees may apply. The best way to experience coworking at Room to Think is t …