2014 Program
The program is still in development. Here are our confirmed presenters:
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Emissaries from the Future
Gifting Circle
(Descriptions for all three of Charles's workshops coming soon!)
Charles Eisenstein (www.charleseisenstein.net, www.sacred-economics.com) is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His books (The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics) as well as his other essays and blog posts on web magazines 
have generated a vast online following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. Writing in Ode magazine’s “25 Intelligent Optimists” issue, David Korten (author of When Corporations Rule the World) called Eisenstein “one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time.” Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. He currently lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania with his wife and three sons.
Empowerment by Embodiment
(Workshop description coming soon!)
Monique Darling, Authenticity, Vulnerability and Relationship coach, is the founder of Juicy Enlightenment, which provides workshops and experiential play-shops in the art of Tantra, Vulnerability and conscious loving. She has studied and taught with renowned Tantra teachers and extraordinary workshop facilitators since 1990 and is a certified Cuddle Party Facilitator. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s and has been interviewed by magazines across the USA. Monique is dedicated to empowering others utilizing her vast repertoire of cutting-edge teachings. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. She guides from a place of understanding and her natural exuberance is infectious! She is available for private sessions, experiential workshops and Cuddle Parties. www.juicyenlightenment.com
She is devoted to helping YOU uncover your magnificence!!! To empower YOU, who dream of something more, to awaken further and discover it is within you. You have all the answers – let her help you remember the questions.
Intimacy, Communication, and Awareness
(Workshop description coming soon!)
After sneaking awareness, intimacy and communication skills into his dance classes for years, Ted 
Maddry (www.tedmaddry.com) is excited to be facilitating personal growth more directly. Now he enjoys bringing movement and body awareness to an exploration of self. His intuition and keen attention to detail create a dynamic facilitation style that adjusts each session to the needs of the participants. Expect to be challenged in unusual ways. Expect Ted to say the things unsaid in "polite company," in support of your growth and self-awareness. Expect to use your body, and experiment with your boundaries. Ted is also the Ringleader of Beyond Blues, offering weekly Blues Dance venues in Berkeley and San Francisco, workshops, and dance camps.
Check Your Junk at the Door: Exploring and Expanding Concepts of Sex and Gender Identity
"Is it a boy or a girl?" The implications of this question affect us from womb to tomb, determining how people interact with us, our perception of ourselves, and how we interact with others. In this interactive, experiential, playshop we will: identify ways concepts of sex and gender enhance and limit our personal and social experiences; expand our sex/gender menu options from binary to buffet; play with our fears, excitements, preferences and bias around sex and gender; become empowered to redefine our community constructions of gender in and outside of camp.
Oblio Z. Stroyman is a Queer identified relational therapist (LMFT) in Eugene OR, and is the steward of "The Point" studio, an intimate venue that supports community through hosting events and skill share opportunities. She has always been passionate about community and social trends, focusing her undergraduate and graduate studies on family, gender and sexuality. She has been connected to the Network for a New Culture Community since 2000, participating as an organizer of Summer Camp West since 2010, and helping to bring gender to the forefront of New Culture dialogs. In her professional work, she focuses on raising awareness in professional organizations regarding polyamory, gender, LGBTQI concerns and community through offering regular trainings. She has been intricately involved in Eugene's ecstatic dance and contact improvisational dance community since 2008, and incorporates somatic healing modalities into her practice. Oblio strives to weave together strengths from the aforementioned communities into cohesive opportunities for increased intimacy, depth, learning and social change through group processes.
Feet First Into the 5Rhythms
The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body.
Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a practice of being in your body—that ignites creativity, connection, and community. Individuals interpret each rhythm —Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness™ — in a uniquely personal way, opening them to a new sense of freedom and possibility that can be both surprising and healing. By remaining committed to movement regardless of the chatter of the mind, dancers deepen their state of presence to this moment, to this body, to this community, to this land, to this possibility, to this spirit, and to this soul.
In this practice, we quiet the intellectual center of the mind and we awaken the creative and intuitive center of the body. We discover and uncover the body’s intelligence and wisdom through movement. In this workshop, we will start with a gentle wade through a 5Rhythms Wave providing an experiential introduction to the practice. In the morning session, we will explore the foundational rhythms of Flowing and Staccato – using movement and attention to breath as gateways to quiet the mind. In the afternoon session, we will cozy up to (or leap into) the rhythms of Chaos, launching us to the lessons of Lyrical and washing us up on the shores of Stillness.
Each session will include an opportunity to move through a full Wave of the 5Rhythms. We will move in connection with ourselves, in partnerships, and in community. Dancers are encouraged to stay on the “dance floor” and/or in motion ---especially when the mind may entice you to go elsewhere. Staying in usually yields the more powerful result. It is not necessary to attend both sessions but is recommended.
Bring water. Be prepared to sweat. And be prepared to drop all expectations.
Jilsarah has been practicing the 5Rhythms® since 2001 and has been a certified 5Rhythms teacher since 2011. She’s led classes for people of all ages and abilities. Currently, she teaches a class in NYC for people in bodies that may have been injured or are healing. She also leads classes for seniors, people with Alzheimer’s and NYC hipsters. Based in NYC, the hub of the 5Rhythms practice, she enjoys her own personal dance practice which she considers her “movement medicine”. She dances to shape-shift, to transform suffering into art, to explore distant edges, to experience ecstasy— and she teaches to offer her students the same opportunities. Her students describe her teaching style as “permissive”; she holds a space with safety for her students to express themselves without judgement. Jilsarah had the opportunity to study directly with Gabrielle Roth, the founder of the 5Rthythms practice, who passed away in October 2012. Before discovering the 5Rhythms, she was an active volunteer and leader in the Dance New England community. for more information, go to www.Jilsarah.com
Using NVC in your Primary Relationship(s)
In this workshop we'll explain what causes conflict (especially in intimate relationships), and teach you a few easy-to-learn techniques that will turn most of those potential arguments into opportunities for greater intimacy, instead of frustration and anger.
We’ll share with you our skills as professional relationship mediators and NVC* instructors, including some of the newer, body-centered ways of working with NVC.
Bring your spouse(s) or come alone. This class will also be helpful for people between relationships seeking to improve their partnership skills
Bio: Max and Elise Rivers pioneered combining NVC and mediation and focusing on using these 
powerful tools specifically on primary relationships over the past 15 years. They have developed a six session process for coaching people to find the benefit of their differences, specializing in helping people in nontraditional intimate relationships like their own.