This past month, Holden Village welcomed students from Pacific Lutheran University and Wartburg Seminary for “January Term” classes. Together they studied vocation, considered what it means to lead a life that matters, and were welcomed into community with Villagers while participating in the daily rhythms of caring for one another and this place.

There's still time to register for Women’s Retreat! Join us February 3-6, 2023 for a weekend of teaching sessions, reflection, crafts, relationship building, cross country skiing (weather permitting), and snowshoeing. This retreat will explore the theme of Encountering Eden through connection with community, the self, and the world.

To register for the Women's Retreat, please visit the registration page and select the dates February 3-6, 2023.

Join us for a week of work and relaxation, transitioning our remote community from winter to summer! Whether this is your first visit or your fiftieth, Holden invites you to lend your time and talents for community projects and preparation for the 2023 summer season.

Learn more and apply below! Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the Volunteer page to the Work Weeks section to view more information about applications.

Spend time at Holden Village this summer! Registration for June 11, 2023 to September 3, 2023 is now open. Teaching sessions are scheduled for Monday-Thursday and all guest arrivals are on Sunday.

The 2023 teaching faculty will provide diverse opportunities for engaging body and spirit through creativity, embodied practices, thoughtful discussion, and faithful engagement with diverse perspectives and topics.

Learn more about this summer's programming and plan your summer 2023 visit below!

Holden Village depends on the service of a multitude of roles and positions to continue welcoming all into the wilderness. If you have a few weeks, months, or years to experience something new, we have a place for you!

Current and upcoming position openings:

...and many more!

Did you know that Holden Village is an AmazonSmile recipient? At no additional cost to you, Amazon donates 0.5% of eligible purchases to a charity of the shopper's choice. Make Holden your choice at checkout! You can support Holden on your next order before the program ends on February 20, 2023.

As this program ends, we also invite you to thoughtfully consider ethical and sustainable shopping. Check out this recent article from NPR about ethical shopping: Looking for Amazon alternatives for ethical shopping?

As the snow piles up and darkness consumes most of the day, there is a desire to go deep. Deep with one another, deep with God, deep with ourselves. In response to this craving for depth, Holden's Worship Team invites you to join the Village in the inspired monthly series Practicing Our Faith. Join us each month as we explore a new theme in relation to justice and worship.

January's theme is Honoring Our Bodies. Christians look to Jesus’s resurrected body as a theological foundation for the value of caring for our bodies. This month we invite you to honor your body through embodied practices as well as critical thinking,

We invite you into an attitude of acceptance over striving-to-be-different, of loving your own body exactly as it is. As the Psalmist reminds us: we are wonderfully made, and as Karen Drucker writes, “How could anyone ever tell you, you are anything less than beautiful?”

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PHOTOS: Hannah Lauber, Callie Mabry, Carter Schafer, Annika Berntsen, Jonah Jensen Young