About

Rockland was started in 2015 by Jodi Rockwell and Shawn Landis. Jodi is a potter, mother, teacher, artist, organizer, and handles all the admin work. Shawn is an artist, builder, designer, community leader, and father. As artists too, we know it’s important to have space to create, rest, immerse in nature, and connect with others or choose solitude.

Alone together.

We created Rockland to offer this space to our creative community and more. We rent the property most of the year to keep it free for a group of residents twice a year.

Located on the Kitsap Peninsula across the Salish Sea from Seattle, Rockland Woods is on native Suquamish land, nestled on 20 acres of Old Growth forest with access to a serene lake. The climate is lush and damp with seasonal wildlife and flora.

Land Acknowledgement

Written by the Suquamish Tribe

“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.”

-Chief Seattle  1854

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš Suquamish Tribe live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855.

Mission

Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a framework, Rockland strives to provide the base layers of the pyramid (food, shelter, love, belonging, safety) with the aim of enabling residents the possibility of reaching its peak of “Self-Actualization”. 

Hybrid Business Model

Professional Development