2025
Village Presenters + Keepers
“This Village space is incredible - I can’t express how fortunate and blessed I feel for the way my children were honoured. The experience they were gifted to be present in that space and how impactful it was for me to be there as a father - I have never had that experience of Villaging before.”
Astarte Sellars
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Join Astarte in a spiritual, and physical, practice of Dance of Universal Peace.
In this workshop Astarte will facilitate specific movements and songs that when combined create a meditative prayer.
Astarte had her first experience with Dances of Universal Peace on International Women’s Day 1993. Since then, she has been captivated by the feelings of embodied strength and unity with the circle.
After many years hosting the dances in Cranbrook BC with leaders from Spokane, a few dedicated dancers stepped up to become leaders. They travelled to Montana and in 2007 they completed a two year training to become leaders of this practice, offering monthly dances for community to participate in.
This practice was first envisioned by Murshid Samuel Lewis in the early 70’s in San Francisco. He predicted that it would spread over the world - and it has!
Freyja Ulveland
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Freyja will be hosting and tending to the Weavers Tent, a place for Villager’s to gather and learn the ancient trade of basket weaving.
Within the Weavers Tent quarters will be a specific area housing a casket made of willow. Villagers will be invited work quietly on the casket. This space will also be a designated Grief Altar, with an invitation to bring photos of loved ones past, human and non-human, to offer love letters, songs and a space for your dead and your grief.
Freyja is a basketry teacher and founding member of the Alberta Basketry Guild. She finds joy in exploring the connections between craft, community, and the natural world through the practice of weaving.
Freyja hosts a variety of workshops in central Alberta and shares what she has learned about working with cattail, bulrush, dogwood and willow.
Caroline Stewart
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A Practice of Deep Presence + Intuitive Touch
Step into a tender space of presence where the body is honoured as sacred messenger.
In this one-hour experience, we’ll explore what it means to truly listen - not with the mind, but through the body.
This gentle somatic session invites you into the art of attunement: sensing, witnessing, and responding with care. Through intuitive, consent-based touch, you’ll be guided to notice what is asking to be seen, held, or simply acknowledged - in yourself and in another.
This is not a space of giving or receiving, fixing or healing; but of deep listening and being with what is.
Together, we’ll co-create a container where simplicity, presence, and connection reveal the quiet wisdom of the body.
Open to all. No prior experience with somatics necessary. This is a non-sexual practice rooted in safety, mutual respect, and curiosity.
Caroline Stewart is here as a Village Anchor for Remembering the Village - a steady presence and a feeder of the dream. Alongside Michelle, she tends this vision from the moment it begins whispering each year, listening for what wants to emerge from the collective and from the quiet places within. Together, they carry the ongoing initiations of this gathering with reverence, curiosity, and deep trust in its evolution.
Caroline is also co-facilitating The Listening Body, a session rooted in somatic presence and sacred touch. This offering is a living expression of her devotion to the feminine mysteries - the slow, spiraling descent inward and downward. She is drawn to the spaces where silence speaks, where the body remembers, and where nothing needs to be fixed to be holy.
A settler living in Canada, Caroline walks a path of remembering, returning again and again to simplicity, to belonging, to what is most true. After years of striving and doing, she now finds herself in the sacred unraveling: a softening, an un-becoming, a reweaving.
She believes in creating spaces of deep listening and quiet strength, in the unseen yet potent ways we tend one another, and in the truth that our purpose is not a goal, but a rhythm revealed through presence and patience.
“My small children love attending this gathering! It’s a place where their whole, very busy, BIG selves are welcome and add to the vibrancy and joy of the village.”
Danny Floyd Cole
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Remembering the Village is thrilled to welcome Danny Floyd Cole to our small and humble stage.
During our time together, Danny will be the master of ceremony for our Sacred Theatre on Saturday night (a Remembering the Village tradition!) and will be performing live for us Friday night.
For those who aren’t familiar with Sacred Theatre - this is an invitation for all Villagers to take the stage and share their gifts. From singing and storytelling, to dances, jokes riddles and more - all are welcome to step into the light to share their hearts passion. Danny will hold the space, support those yearning to step forward to do so and weave together multiple experiences of true art - which is an essential component of culture.
Danny Floyd Cole is a full-time musician, singer and song writer based in Spruce Grove, AB. Since launching his most recent album and music videos, he has continued to tour through BC and perform on the road in Alberta & Saskatchewan and received a nomination for a Western Canadian Music Award.
Sharing an intimate portrait of personal experience and emotions with his songs and stories, Danny always brings a heartfelt performance to every stage he visits. With over two decades of performing live original music in Alberta, and abroad, he is no stranger to sharing about life experience through song.
Today, along with a production company, he operates an intimate home recording studio, and has been expanding his understanding of sound healing and music therapy, working primarily with adults with special needs and those in recovery from addiction.
Jeri Tourand
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In this heart-opening and transformational workshop, Jeri will guide you through a profound journey to birth The Next Level of Love within yourself.
You will discover the tools and practices to cultivate connection, trust, and unshakable inner peace.
This is your invitation to step into a new paradigm of conscious awakening, where love isn’t just something you seek but a state you embody.
When you align with your divine essence, you tap into a limitless well of peace, trust, and joy.
Are you ready to elevate your life and relationships to The Next Level?
Join us on this sacred journey and birth your next chapter of awakening and connection.
Jeri Tourand, B.Ed., is a self-love & relationship coach empowering visionary souls to bridge heaven and earth, embodying their authentic selves. A former school teacher and radio show host, she is now a dedicated Zen Trilotherapy practitioner, integrating transformative modalities like ho’oponopono and mindfulness to awaken self-love and inner freedom. Since 2009, she has led retreats and workshops guiding deep truth and self-love, helping clients release emotions, trust life's flow, and live fully. Through Zen Trilotherapy and Unconditional Love retreats, Jeri invites participants to experience "Heaven on Earth." Her mission: inspire you to embrace your Divine essence, express your potential, and live a life of love, vitality, and freedom.
Theresa de Rox
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In these times of great change, Mother Earth and the Crone archetype offer profound teachings about resilience, transformation, and renewal.
This intimate workshop invites people of all ages and backgrounds to explore these ancient wisdoms while weaving new understandings for our modern world.
The Crone - representing seasoned wisdom, fearless truth-telling, and deep connection to Earth's mysteries - guides us alongside Mother Earth's timeless teachings.
Through gentle, intuitive movement and creative imaginings, we will:
-Dance with Time's Wisdom
- Learn from Earth's cycles of death and rebirth
- Transform personal and ancestral experiences into present wisdom
- Envision futures rooted in Earth's ancient knowing
- Embrace the Crone's understanding that every ending births a beginning Cultivate Earth Connection
- Develop relationships with stones, plants, and natural elements
- Feel the pulse of seasonal rhythms in our bodies
- Listen to Earth's whispered guidance for these changing times
- Learn the Crone's ways of speaking with nature's wisdom In partnership with Mother Earth and the Crone's guidance, we can transform challenges into gifts, wounds into wisdom, and uncertainty into possibility.
The Earth's cycles teach us that time moves in spirals, not lines, revealing new layers of understanding with each turn. Together, we will:
- Learn practices for deep listening to Earth's guidance
- Develop personal ceremonies and rituals that serve our times
- Strengthen our bonds as an intergenerational community
- Discover what wisdom we each carry that is most needed now.
This workshop welcomes all people who feel called to explore their relationship with Earth's wisdom and the Crone's teachings, creating a rich tapestry of perspectives essential for navigating our changing world.
Sage, Mage, Crone, Mystic, Prophetess, Wise Woman, call her what you will, but she will bring the magic!
Theresa is an all-out Aliveness Advocate, an Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator, speaker, mentor, meditation teacher, author, and creative who believes in empowering people to love themselves, to love nature, to love life!
She has activated/reclaimed/honoured the Crone Archetype within herself, by sacred right, by holy inheritance, by seasoned authority. And she wants every one to know that they have access to this same capacity within them - Crone Magic. She believes that creativity - in the widest version of itself - is a tool for reclaiming our innate and inherent fire, that juicy stuff that flows through our veins, ignites our passion, and liberates our souls. She has devoted her life to facilitating personal growth, emotional regulation, and empowered living through creative expression because she believes it takes all of us standing in our power, in our wholeness, to create a beautiful world.
As we remember our dreams, reclaim our passions, find our voice, share our gifts, and celebrate all of life, together, we empower one another to live the best and highest version of ourselves, and thus influence and inform the beauty of the world through our own beauty.
Marcus Fung
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The Rhythm Cradle is a guided group healing protocol which incorporates gentle drumming melodic vibrational tones, gentle percussion, guided meditations & visualization, along with (when deemed appropriate) hands-on healing support.
This process is carefully crafted and is supported by a trained ICDC Facilitator to ensure a safe space for emotional healing, sound-based journeys, connection to the divine mothering healing energy that lives within all human beings.
With careful guidance, individuals are given the option to be curious when exercising self-agency and conscious choice throughout the experience.
This workshop is an intentional process that balances the process of giving and leverages active meditation components that teach us to embrace the present moments of life.
This process offers the opportunity to embrace and to honour the intuitive healer within us all - You are the medicine.
Marcus Fung blends his training as a classical and jazz musician, alternative healing and expressive arts therapy practicioner to facilitate transformative experiences using the original gifts of rhythm, sound, music and movement.
Marcus founded “Earth Harmony Sound & Wellness” and it has been operating for over 15 years. Serving diverse populations, they are pioneers, advocates and explorers in the field of using sound, rhythm and participatory music making for therapy and enhanced well-being. Their mission is to educate and empower holistic, personal and planetary well-being through the power of sound, rhythm and related therapeutic practices.
Matt Baillie
Before becoming a train conductor, Matt spent a decade running programming for youth and children. Originally from BC, Matt moved to the Alberta Prairies in early 2024 and is excited to participate in this years gathering.
In his spare time you can find Matt rock climbing, reading, playing any kind of game, fishing, and cooking dinner for others.
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When we live in a results-oriented society, matched with a high-stress modern culture, often ‘play’ and ‘games’ are the first things to go when there aren’t enough hours in a day.
Yet, imagination & play hold a crucial role within the community; and games support people of all ages to get out of their intellectual, connect with others and have some fun!
Not to mention, games allow us to be in our body.
Throughout the course of the weekend, Matt will offer a variety of games for the children, youth and adults of the Village.
Michelle and Chris Cunningham
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Drums have been used across many cultures, in ceremonies, prayer work, creating music, meditation, and so much more.
This workshop is your opportunity to create your own drum, a sacred journey in connection to self.
The drums created in our workshop are as unique as you are. From the size, to the hide itself, no two drums are the same. When you build a drum, you create a little piece of yourself, a tool that can assist you in connecting to your heartbeat, and the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
The heartbeat represents rhythm, the rhythm of life, the flow in which we all live. For me, drums have been an essential tool in reminding me to find daily rhythm.
About the workshop:
This four hour workshop will be about connecting to the animal and learning that you are a Creator in this world. You will work on building your drum and learn how to care for your hand drum. Chris will share his walk in this world to bring the drum to life and remember who you are.
16'' drum is $325, Participants will register by messaging Chris at 780-523-1482 to book their spot and register via e-transfer to wolfdrum@live.com
Chris and Michelle are the makers of TriSpirit Creations. Together, these two loving souls guide others along a sacred journey of building a personalized drum. Their passion is to assist others and offer insight and wisdom.
TriSpirits creates an exceptional experience that is felt deep within your heart and soul. Chris & Michelle guide each step of the way in creating your drum!
Chris is from Sucker Creek First Nation and has been a Master Drum Builder for 9 years he learned to build drums from his teacher (Okwaho Leblanc) Lisa Tardiff from Eastern Malecite and Anishinaabe tribes, he also learned from Annie Smith Drum maker from BC coast and Will Mcleod also from BC.
Over the years Chris has also been guided by Treaty 8 Elders and drum makers. Michelle is a matriarch of the Moonlodge and Medicine Woman, she has been supporting Chris’s dream of getting as many heart beats into the hands of those called to try spirit. Feeling the heartbeat of mother earth is so important in this day and age.
Together they have helped birth hundreds of drums across Alberta, BC and Saskachewan.
Michelle Christine
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Radical hospitality is what brings out the best in us, and in our culture.
It is what allows us to host others in a way that brings them in, closer to the hearth, nourishes their bones and their soul after their journey on the long and sometimes hard road.
Radical Hospitality invites us to lean into all we were entrusted with from those who came before us, and share it with those we meet along our way and those to come.
This workshop will explore an embodied sense of what radical hospitality can be, and how we might build our capacity for it.
Michelle Christine is a wellness practitioner who supports individuals, youth and families on their healing journey. She is a certified energy practitioner, ecstatic dance and breathwork facilitator and full time supervisor with Provincial Campus Based Care in Alberta.
Michelle is also one of the founders and core visionaries of the Remembering the Village gathering.
At her core, Michelle is a ritualist, earth lover and student of the old, mythic ways. She values storytelling, song and gardening as means to transform how trauma is experienced in the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual body.
Michelle is a passionate caregiver and is committed to creating collective experiences for individuals of all ages to explore the essence of healing, connection and culture.
Nathalie Jackson
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Join Nathalie for the basic introduction to kitchen herbalism. You will learn how to craft your own healing oil, infusion, tincture, decoction and salve and learn the basic components and ingredients for a first aid kit using plant medicine. The workshop will include making your own healing salve. Herbal First Aid Kits will be available for purchase in the vendor area.
Nathalie guides individuals in overcoming personal challenges, reaching new levels of growth by breaking through limitations and delving into their inner worlds through powerful healing practices such as Fire Walking (Sundoor Certified) and Shadow Work®.
As a dedicated holistic practitioner and healer, she offers a comprehensive approach to wellness and transformation. Nathalie is the visionary behind the 12 Archetypes of a Powerful Woman Wheel, Unveil the Mythic Feminine Oracle Deck, Women Unveiled Mystery School. and the 12 Archetypes Program. She is also the author of the spiritual fiction novel All the Light and Dark Things.
Natu Mbanefo (they/them)
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This workshop will include breaking into smaller groups to scout the woods and collect materials that you will need to create the parts of your bowdrill kits.
Natu will demonstrate the creation of a bowdrill while sharing teachings and songs. Once the bowdrills are created, you will work to create an ember of your own!
This is hard work and you will most likely break a sweat - an offering to the fire!
For this workshop please bring:
- Pocket knife
- Small hand saw
- Paracord
Natu has been an avid nature nerd (and technically an Environmental Scientist) with a passionate focus in plant identification and birding for the past 10+ years.
Anytime they are in nature, they have their keen senses tuned into the diverse plants and birds that surround them. In 2022 they took a 9 month Adult Immersion program with the famed Wisdom of the Earth nature school.
Some of the skills they learnt there included, animal processing, hide tanning, foraging, shelter building, basket weaving, tracking, bird language, nature connection, bushcrafting, and FIRE MAKING!
Nicole Hartley Bradford
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You may already be familiar with the agony that happens when your physical, emotional, mental, energetic and archetypal bodies are not well-fed.
Disease, overwhelm, confusion, hopelessness, despair…it can be crazy-making.
What if you were more clear about what is happening with these states and what you could do to shift into something completely different?
This workshop offers no quick fixes.
It took time for you to build the survival strategies you are still unconsciously using to survive. They worked to survive childhood, and many of them are now hindering you from what could be.
How a space is held determines what is possible in the space. YOU are the space. How you hold space for YOU determines what is possible for YOU, and then…for the world around you.
We will focus on how to feed your Five Bodies the foods they require to be ALIVE, not just surviving.
We will do this as a team of Villagers-in-the making, and there will be next steps laid out for when we diverge into our lives again.
Mothering her four children was ecstatic...and agonizing. The agony was about watching herself, them and their fathers end up in wars. It was about missing the village, and not knowing how to have it. Nicole could see the village in her mind's eye, but couldn't keep her own small family together.
In 2020, she encountered a global team committed to helping Gaia's risky human experiment succeed. Since then, armed with the new distinctions, tools, thought,-maps and processes from Possibility Management, among others, she has been on the adventure of her life!
Nicole is part of what she missed as a child, as a mother, as a person alive for this work: an expansive network of radically responsible Gaian ecovillagers, village-making - to the ends of the Earth.
Orest Zwozdesky
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If you’re looking for deeper meaning, understanding and purpose and you’re READY to let go (even though you might be a bit scared) we invite you to join us for the Ancestral Healing Experience.
You’ll be invited to call in the ancestors to create a safe and sacred space, as you explore forgiveness and ancestral release through your family lineage.
This change will uplift, elevate and empower you to create an amazing future.
This sacred sovereign event was created to allow you to:
- Forgive and release your past (self- forgiveness included)
- Move forward feeling assured and confident, knowing you are on the right path
- Deepen your spiritual connection and rejuvenate your sense of self
- Tap into the amplified energetic field of possibilities
- Connect to your Ancestral Guidance and access your deeper knowing.
Orest is a person of Metis ancestry born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His mother’s family comes from Green Lake, Saskatchewan.
Over the last 26+ years, he has spent thousands of hours studying, researching and participating in workshops, seminars and events, gathering teachings and lessons from Elders, Mystics and Innovative Thought Leaders.
Orest has accumulated a wealth of practical experience through sacred teachings, ceremonial rituals and inner reflections. He is a community minded leader who understands the power of life-long learning and growth.
He allows life to serve as a guide to expand his awareness and understanding of Ancestral Healing, Re-Generative Community and Conscious Leadership.
Tad Hargrave
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Often a story begins long before it reaches our ears; some begin so long ago you might be able to hear the sounds of the shore from where that story was first told.
Over the course of the weekend Tad will offer his gift and skill in storytelling to weave a through-line during our time together.
If we’re lucky, we might be able to make the link between storytelling and culture - but that might be up to us as the audience and the ones listening.
Tad’s cultural work is primarily on Substack where he writes on the deeper layers of European folklore and mythology, culture-making, the courting of beauty and spell-breaking for those descended from those people who wanted those of us who came later to live as creatures, not as machines.
Between Sept 2004 – Feb 2006, Tad dedicated himself to learning his ancestral language, Scottish Gaelic, in both Nova Scotia and Scotland. He can speak Gaelic with conversational fluency.
Tad currently lives in Duncan, BC, Quw'utsun territory, though he hails from Edmonton, AB (traditionally known, in the local indigenous language of the Cree as Amiskwaciwaskihegan (Beaver Hill House). His ancestors come primarily from Scotland with some from the Ukraine as well.
Stas Tron
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We know that emotions are important, and yet for many of us they seem to get in the way or can be overpowering.
By the end of this workshop you will know how alchemize your emotions to supercharge purposeful action, learn how to listen to the messages your emotions are bringing you, and learn how to change the intensity of your experience of emotions.
Stas has been keenly fascinated by human behaviour, working through trauma, building strong humans bonds, moving through conflict, creating culture and spiritual understanding.
After 20 years of deep diving into these topics, Stas is excited to start sharing some of his knowledge with the world.
Natasha Dupuis
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A Practice of Deep Presence + Intuitive Touch
Step into a tender space of presence where the body is honoured as sacred messenger.
In this one-hour experience, we’ll explore what it means to truly listen - not with the mind, but through the body.
This gentle somatic session invites you into the art of attunement: sensing, witnessing, and responding with care. Through intuitive, consent-based touch, you’ll be guided to notice what is asking to be seen, held, or simply acknowledged - in yourself and in another.
This is not a space of giving or receiving, fixing or healing; but of deep listening and being with what is.
Together, we’ll co-create a container where simplicity, presence, and connection reveal the quiet wisdom of the body.
Open to all. No prior experience with somatics necessary. This is a non-sexual practice rooted in safety, mutual respect, and curiosity.
Natasha is a somatic bodyworker who supports women and couples in reconnecting with their bodies through presence, touch, and nervous system awareness.
Her work weaves together somatics, emotional healing, and embodied listening to help people feel safe in their skin and more connected to themselves and in their relationships. Natasha specializes in supporting those navigating vaginal pain, intimacy challenges, and disconnection from their sensuality.
With a deeply intuitive approach, she invites others into spaces where the body’s wisdom can be heard, held, and honoured.
Monique Campsall
Monique Campsall moves through the world with a reverence for beauty, presence, and truth. As a visual storyteller, she captures not just images - but essence.
For Remembering the Village, Monique serves as both photographer and witness: attuned to the quiet, in-between moments that often go unseen, the gestures of connection, the sacred ordinariness of being human. Her work is rooted in deep listening - allowing the story of the gathering to reveal itself through light, movement, and emotion.
With a background in art, design, and energy medicine, Monique brings a soul-led, intuitive approach to her creative work. She believes in the power of being truly seen - not for how we perform, but for who we are when we are soft, open, and alive.
Her presence is gentle, grounded, and spacious - inviting those she photographs to come home to themselves.
“May this be a place for you and your people to gather with your neighbours and their people - from near and far - and somehow be in the practice of what it is to come together… the way our old once did.”