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Radical Learning
The following workshops have been selectively curated to confront the deepest issues of our day through the lens of radical beauty and our common human experience. All workshops are intended to be participatory explorations, embodied practices, and shared discovery processes. Bring your curiosity, your voice, and your whole self!
Each incredible presenter below holds a wealth of experience, holds a deep complexity mindset, and a generative perspective on how to navigate our current times. Every workshop you participate in at the Summer Revival, will leave you feeling deeply satiated, in wonder, and inspired to take action. (You'll also likely have a lot of fun).
Click through the presenter links below and give em a follow... You won't regret it!
Becoming a BioSpiritual Human
We invite ourselves in to a way of being where body, Earth, and consciousness come alive as one integrated field. Guided by Samantha Sweetwater, this immersive workshop blends movement, inquiry, and relational practices to awaken your participation in Utter Aliveness. Explore how to align your body, psyche and leadership with the deeper intelligence of Life itself. (At a moment in human history when nothing less is called for).
with Samantha Sweetwater
Samantha Sweetwater is a bestselling author, wisdom teacher, and soul mentor devoted to personal and collective transformation. Founder of Dancing Freedom, PeaceBody Japan, and One Life Circle, she has trained facilitators worldwide in embodied awakening. Her work bridges ecology, spirituality, and complexity—guiding individuals and leaders to align their impact with human and planetary flourishing within the greater Song of Life.
earthsong - Dark & Tender
Earthsong is a multisensory workshop weaving music, movement, and meditation into a field of generative practice. Through communal song, ceremony, touch, and ancestral tending, participants root into presence and connection with land and community. This experience supports cultural and generational healing, offering resources for this moment—inviting us to remember, belong, and co-create a thriving collective future.
with AARON JOHNSON
Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, speaker, and touch activist devoted to fostering emotional and relational healing within Black communities. Founder of The Chronically UnderTouched Project, Holistic Resistance, and Grief to Action, he creates spaces for platonic connection, expression, and care. Through song, story, and touch, Aaron supports communities in reclaiming tenderness, balance, and belonging.
Sunday's Wisdom Council
Most of the gathering will pause for a pregnant moment on Sunday before the Closing Ceremony. During this time we'll collectively hold dear what's most important this day in age, and court courageous wisdom from the elders at the center of our wider circle. Together we'll explore our common humanity, integrate our weekend, and lean into what's most pertinent about what comes from this point.
with Council Members:
Chiyokten Wagner, Rev Pandora Canton, Laurence Cole, Sewa Valencia, Youssoupha Sidibe and more... These revered elders have been dedicatedly offering their gifts to the world for many decades, impacting millions of people through a grounded synthesis of worldview that is much needed this day and age. (We'll host this container as a hybrid fishbowl, moderated by the collective intelligence of the group).
breathwave ceremony
Breathwave is a gentle yet powerful journey into conscious connected breathing, inviting deep relaxation and embodied coherence. Gathering in circle, participants are guided to soften into a natural, continuous breath—unlocking unexpressed energy and restoring balance within the body-mind. Supported by skilled facilitators, curated music, and live sound, this experience opens pathways into connection, integration, and expanded states of awareness.
with patrick merle sellin
Patrick Merle Sellin, M.A. is a heart-centered healing artist specializing in psychosomatic therapy and spiritual guidance. Patrick is a certified facilitator and Senior Trainer in the Breathwave Conscious Breathing community, offering private retreats, breathwork trainings and psychedelic integration consultation worldwide.
four directions drum medicine
The Four Directions Path is a living ceremony, guided by the Medicine of the Drum. Journey through East, South, West, and North—honoring beginnings, growth, release, and wisdom. Through story, rhythm, and collective voice, we reconnect to heart, ancestors, and each other. This is a space of healing, remembrance, and belonging—where the heartbeat becomes prayer and we find our way home.
with sisters of the one drum
Sewa Valencia is a Yaqui ceremonial leader, storyteller, and medicine drum carrier devoted to healing through sacred song and rhythm. Founder of Sisters of the One Drum, she has spent decades guiding communities back to voice, connection, and Creator. Through ceremony and storytelling, Sewa weaves spaces of remembrance, belonging, and transformation—honoring the Drum as prayer and a path home.
West African Dance
Step into the vibrant rhythms of Guinea, West Africa in this high-energy drum and dance class. Build strength, coordination, and deep rhythmic awareness as live drumming guides you into authentic movement. Feel the unity of Denbaya—“family”—as music and dance become one. With pulsating rhythms and joyful expression, this immersive experience invites everyone to move, connect, and celebrate together.
with Manimou & Denbaya
Manimou & Denbaya are a vibrant West African drum and dance ensemble rooted in the traditions of Guinea. Founded by master drummer Manimou Camara, their work shares cultural knowledge, joy, and unity across diverse communities. Honoring lineage from Ballet Saamato, they bridge continents through rhythm and dance—inviting all people to connect, celebrate, and experience the heart of African tradition together.
Grief Ceremony & Song
In this 3.5-hour grief ceremony, Laurence Cole will guide participants into a communal space of honoring loss, love, and the full spectrum of feeling. Through ritual, reflection, and shared song, grief is welcomed as a vital, connective force. Rooted in collective practice, this experience invites release, witnessing, and renewal—transforming sorrow into belonging, resilience, and deeper connection to self, community, and life.
with Laurence Cole
Laurence Cole is a grief tender, ritualist, and community guide devoted to restoring our relationship with grief as a vital force for healing and connection. Drawing from years of facilitating communal grief rituals, his work invites emotional honesty, belonging, and renewal. Through grounded presence and skillful spaceholding, Laurence helps transform sorrow into shared resilience and deeper aliveness within community.
Homegrown herbal medicines
Dive into the art of growing and crafting your own plant-based medicines. This hands-on workshop explores cultivating medicinal herbs and creating elixirs, tinctures, oils, and more to support personal and community health. Learn growing conditions, plant properties, and seed saving while sampling herbal preparations. Come with curiosity, stories, and questions—this is an invitation to build your own living Farmacy.
with Reishi Strauss
Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker devoted to plant and fungal healing traditions. With over a decade of experience in wildcrafting and herbal science, she blends clinical training with deep ecological stewardship. Founder of Earth & Spirit Botanicals, Reishi crafts regenerative medicines and joyfully shares the magic of mushrooms and plants to support collective healing.
Protecting the sacred
This offering is a ceremonial workshop weaving ritual, flute, song, and storytelling into a powerful exploration of regional Indigenous lineage and what it teaches us about ourselves and our care for the Mother. Rooted in the teachings of the Salish Sea, this experience invites participants to connect with their inner strength, honor their ancestral wisdom, and deepen their relationship with local lands, waters, and the sacred.
with Chiyokten Wagner
Paul Chiyokten Wagner is a Coast Salish activist, storyteller, and musician dedicated to cultural renewal and environmental stewardship. As founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea, he weaves traditional knowledge, song, and ceremony to inspire responsibility for land and water. Through teaching and performance, Chiyokten invites communities into deeper relationship with Indigenous wisdom, resilience, and the living Earth.
the heart of community dance
Step into a 90-minute journey of collective coherence through Cocréa, Wren LaFeet’s somatic movement practice. Explore the six realms of connection as you move through expansion and contraction, dancing both shadow and light. This guided experience invites deeper presence, heart-opening, and integration—awakening your capacity for connection to self, others, and the living miracle of being.
with wren lafeet
Wren LaFeet is an embodiment guide and creator of Cocréa, a somatic movement practice devoted to connection, presence, and heart-centered living. Blending dance, mindfulness, neuroscience, and relational inquiry, he supports people in returning home to their bodies and each other. A TEDx speaker and trauma-sensitive educator, Wren creates spaces that foster belonging, integrity, and transformative interpersonal connection.
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Emergent Ritual Theater
This is a chance to remember the ancient practice of embodied storytelling. Guided by Regan Powers, participants will learn to tap into the intersection of deeply human expression, symbolic narrative, and connection to the divine mystery. This workshop will also lay the groundwork for those who wish to join Saturday night’s collective ritual performance and step into the sacred and healing act of being witnessed.
With regan Powers
Regan Powers is an embodiment and ritual movement coach, international performance artist, and founder of the Empowerment Method. She has devoted her life to the mysteries of body based expression, and helping others tap into their own innate wisdom, artistry, and aliveness. Her work weaves together nervous system attunement, clown technologies, and symbolic, archetypal storytelling- the space where movement becomes medicine.
Ancestral Futurism
Pan-Indigenous World Bridging: A ceremonial experience of lineage healing, multi-being relations, and the power of our spiritual sovereignty when embodying the world of mutual flourishing. Garnering the resilience of Earth, Ancestors, and more-than-human Kin, this is a circle to realize the healthy living systems needed for the world to come, the world of the future ones.
with alyx somas
Alyx Somas is a 2S Native North American Culture Tender, Re-indigenization practitioner, and liberationist devoted to restoring relationship with lineage, land, and kinship lifeways. Rooted in ancestral teachings and eco-somatic healing, they guide communities through ceremony, grief work, and belonging-based systems change. Their work, The Collectivity Project, nurtures ancestral healing, reciprocity, and collective liberation in response to modern crises.
ok, back to your regularly scheduled program
Modern Village Initiations
Initiations are powerful passages of transformation, often marked by descent, disorientation, and deep change. In this workshop, we explore the role of community in holding and supporting one another through these threshold moments. Through dialogue, skill-building, and song, participants will learn how to offer care, track one another, and create safer, more connected containers for navigating life’s initiatory journeys.
with jessica radovich
Jessica Radovich bio coming soon...
men's panel & ritual
Join several regional men’s work leaders for a journey centered around understanding and evolving masculinity this day and age. Through shared story, ritual, song, and inquiry, we’ll explore identity, intimacy, accountability, and cultural transformation. This heart-centered experience will invite deep reflection and connection. All genders are welcome - especially those identifying as men. Come with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to engage.
with manifest facilitators
Elia Serras, Finn Liengaard, Ben Browner and others will hold space for the unfolding of this container. Together they are the lead facilitators for the annual MANiFEST Gathering (June 24-28th 2026 near Port Townsend WA. Now the largest annual men's gathering on the West Coast). Together they approach this work without much prescription, and instead with a deep curiosity about the collective experience of masculinity, and how we can unearth together the warp and weave of its current expressions.
Womanhood as innate belonging
This experiential and educational workshop explores our shared understanding of belonging. Through psycho-somatic practices and exploration, participants will identify and unwind internalized patterns that disrupt connection to self, others, and source. Grounded exercises support embodied awareness, release of conditioned beliefs, and restoration of a stable, self-trusting sense of belonging rooted in the body.
with jenny jahlee
Jenny Jahlee is an artist, facilitator and integral depth coach devoted to women’s leadership, relational healing, and authentic expression. Through workshops, ritual and gatherings like The Temple of Belonging, she creates brave, nurturing spaces where humans can reconnect to their truth, belonging and grounded spiritual connection. She is the executive director of Cultures of Belonging 501(c)3 and works on bio-regional projects that promote personal and planetary well being.
cascadian eco-rhythms
Rooted in the rhythms of the natural world, this participatory percussion experience invites you to explore music as a living ecosystem. Through playful exercises, layered grooves, and collective creation, we’ll build rhythm from the ground up—awakening coordination, creativity, and connection. Inspired by Cascadia’s landscapes, this workshop blends musical ecology and community music-making into an all-levels rhythmic journey. (Bring a drum!)
with saratone
Sara Tone is a Portland-based musician, educator, and community song leader devoted to musical ecology and participatory expression. Blending percussion, voice, and multi-instrumental looping, she creates immersive experiences rooted in nature, rhythm, and connection. Through workshops, performances, and teaching, Sara invites people of all ages into joyful, embodied music-making inspired by the living systems of the Earth.
Finding yer weird
Come discover your Weird—the strange, beautiful current that lives within you. Through playful exploration and reflection, uncover your unique gifts, life purpose, and the quiet inner knowing that guides you. This session invites you to embrace your authentic expression, loosen the grip of normalcy, and step boldly into the truth that the world deeply needs your Weird.
with ward serrill
Ward Serrill is Weird. He's also a filmmaker, writer, and proudly self-proclaimed Weird. Director of The Heart of the Game and creator of over ninety films, his work spans documentary, storytelling, and poetry. Author of To Crack the World Open and host of WordSongs on KPTZ, Ward continues exploring imagination, language, and creative expression through film, poetry, and his upcoming fantasy novel.
mongolian youth journey
Step into the world of Mongolian music through storytelling, sound, and lived experience. Zje will shares their journey as young artists devoted to throat singing, morin khuur, and ancestral traditions - alongside their evolving creative process. Explore their instruments, cultural roots, and recent cross-pollinations with Western influences in this immersive workshop blending history, expression, deep listening, and the sweetness of this incredible family.
with zje mongol
Zje is a boundary-crossing musical project weaving Mongolian throat singing, morin khuur, and shamanic rhythms into immersive sonic journeys. Rooted in ancestral lineage and alive with contemporary improvisation, these teenager's work bridges ancient tradition and global collaboration. Through powerful, trance-inducing performances, Zje invites deep listening, movement, and connection to the timeless pulse of Earth and culture.
community choir
Join us in a joyful, participatory singing experience where all voices are welcome—no experience needed. Guided by Alexa Lux, this workshop blends simple harmonies, soulful songs, and embodied presence to create a powerful field of connection. Rooted in accessibility and collective expression, it invites participants to rediscover their voice, deepen belonging, and experience the magic of group song.
with alexa Lux
Alexa Lux is a Portland-based musician, song leader, and community choir facilitator devoted to the healing power of collective voice. Blending soulful songwriting with participatory singing, she creates inclusive spaces where people of all backgrounds can reconnect with their authentic expression. Her work invites belonging, vulnerability, and joy—awakening the simple, profound magic of singing together.
tending the wild edge
Tending the Wild Edge is a hands-on, spirit-led exploration of right relationship with the Earth. Through wild weeding, plant identification, guerilla gardening, and crafting food and medicine from wild plants, participants engage both practically and intuitively. With guided somatic practices, permission-asking, and offerings, this workshop invites deeper connection, reciprocity, and care for the living landscapes around us.
with sea thorpe
Chelsea (Sea) Thorpe is a land tender, grower, and ecological facilitator devoted to restoring right relationship with the living Earth. Blending hands-on gardening, wild tending, and intuitive plant connection, her work invites reciprocity, care, and embodied learning. Through grounded, spirit-led practice, she guides communities to listen, collaborate, and co-create with the wild intelligence of the land.
flow panel
The magic of Life lies in synergy, when out of nothing is birthed something - and something often of beauty. This creative process is at the very heart of the healthy human experience, and certain practices can actually evoke what we've come to call "flow states." Join a handful of incredible musical flow artists for an experiential panel on how and why they've dedicated their lives to these arts. Perhaps by the end we will have gleaned - even practiced - some of this potent magic together.
with sarah conner, nick canino, james rian okeefe, saratone and more
Who is always humbly accepting a mic at bioregional gatherings, and blowing the top off the place through their improvisational cyphering??? (These folks). They've spent years as disciples of flow, and have been offering it to our wider communities in service of creativity and culturally healing for just as long. We bow in honor and friendship to these friends and musicians, looking forward to this upcoming moment in July.
RITUAL qi gong
A dynamic + flowing ritual movement practice exploring the alchemical space where spirit (consciousness) + matter (the animal body) meet. Emerging from a deep study of the rich Taoist practices of ancient China, this “mythosomatic” experience artfully weaves together the healing power of embodied presence + conscious breath, mythic & elemental storytelling, somatic release, acupressure self-massage, and sound.
with anna mae srouji
Anna Mae of Embodied Alchemy Arts is a performance artist and mytho-somatic movement guide of Lebanese, Scottish, and Bavarian ancestry. Blending opera, theatre, and dance with ancient sound and movement traditions, she creates immersive journeys of story, song, and embodiment. Her ceremonial offerings invite deep listening, imagination, and reconnection with the body’s wisdom and the more-than-human world.
wild tea blends
Come join us for a sensory journey into bioregional herbs, forest ecology, and the art of tea-making. Through a plant walk, crafting blends together, and more formal learning, participants will explore wild and cultivated ingredients—including caffeinated varieties. Learn propagation, read tea leaves, and share in collective tastings! Lets step into a deeper relationship with plants, place, and the ritual of tea.
with shaelee evans
Shaelee Evans is an herbalist and founder of Goodness Tea, crafting small-batch, bioregional blends rooted in the plants of the Olympic Peninsula. Her work weaves together seasonal awareness, nourishment, and ritual—inviting people into deeper relationship with the land through tea. Through her offerings, Shaelee shares the simple, powerful magic of plants as daily companions and teachers.
What is revival?
Join members, advisors & students of the Revival organization, to explore what the heck it is that we're actually doing over here, and WHY we're doing it. Expect to traverse the depths of Living Systems, overlay them onto modern and historical social movements, weave in some conscious event production ethics, and solicit from the crowd what "coming back to life" means to YOU.
with Ben Browner & Crew
Ben is the lead producer of Revival, and constantly learning through the process. He's not perfect, but he's doing his best and sharing out what's most inspiring so that others can bring their own event visions to life. When he's not creating these gatherings or learning containers, he's (aspirationally lol) dancing, writing songs, hiking, connecting with family, building things, and loving life in Port Townsend WA.
syntropic Agroforestry
Syntropic Agroforestry invites a reimagining of agriculture as a regenerative, life-giving partnership with the land. Through interactive learning and hands-on practice, explore how mimicking forest systems can grow abundant food while restoring soil and biodiversity. Discover how humans can support ecological succession, build resilience, and step into a generative role within living systems—harvesting sunlight and cultivating thriving landscapes.
with joanna botvin
Joanna Botvin is an agroecologist, herbalist, and environmental educator devoted to restoring human relationship with the land. With a decade of teaching and hands-on work across the Americas, she specializes in regenerative design and syntropic agroforestry. Through playful, experiential workshops, Joanna empowers communities to cultivate biodiversity, steward ecosystems, and grow abundant, resilient landscapes rooted in ecological harmony.
relationship is the classroom
In “Connecting & Reconnecting,” we explore simple, hands-on ways to strengthen relationships during uncertain times. Through guided conversations and trust-building exercises, we’ll practice communicating even more clearly, and connecting more deeply. This seminar is all about showing up with presence, empathy, and openness to create stronger, more authentic bonds with partners, friends, and community.
with jay darling & Susan Powell
Susan Powell and Jay Darling bring over a decade of shared practice in connection, communication, and playful presence. Jay’s background in Compassionate Communication and facilitation blends with Susan’s roots in Indigenous ceremony and holistic healing. Together, they weave music, movement, humor, and heart into relational experiences that nurture connection, resilience, and community across families, friendships, and the wider human ecosystem.​
