“And what do I risk to tell you this, which is all I know?
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”
Mary Oliver
I’m stretching out my arms in all directions. Waving from the understory. Coming to meet you in the field. Gwen (she/they) is a trauma informed facilitator, a multi-faceted designer, innovator, and vision keeper tending spaces and experiences that center through change and adapt through emergent process. She has a special gift for creating gatherings and sharing practices that honor and uplift our humanity with reverence and irreverence, sharing her love of poetry and a place based awe that invites others into their bodies, and into profound moments of both personal and collective healing.
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Poetry as Meditation, Community Based Storytelling, Group Facilitation, Restorative, Yin, and Gentle Yoga, Fascia Flossing (by Bon Crotzer), Circle Way, Somatic Inquiry & Centering, Sounding, Contemplative Sits, Reiki, Shin-rin Yoku (nature immersion), Breathwork, Creative Play, Writing, Consulting & Guideship
Event Production and Design, Retreat Consulting
Digital Design including website weaving, & design for programs, landing pages, and templates like newsletters (all little spells of connection)
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Gwendolyn (she/they) is a queer writer, artist, and circle keeper raised in her mother’s Ojai garden and the record shops, design houses, and yoga studios of Cleveland.
She identifies as a biracial, 4th Generation Japanese American.
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I believe that authentic presence can embolden individuals and shift groups, gatherings, and organizations into their full potential. That whatever world we’re dreaming, we cannot build it alone.
Our spaces (practices, retreats, gatherings) are intended for liberatory practice - places of restoration and retreat, beauty and communion, and also a divestment from racialized capitalism. These spaces are experiential, we are in practice, in all its joy and all its grief. We believe in nature as teacher, a queer future, a free Palestine, and the small revolutions of dignity that can happen every day in our body, our breath, and our communities. That rest is a birthright and that space to dream is a necessity.
Acknowledging that equitable exchange comes in many forms I believe that authentic community is built by honoring our humanity, not just monetary resources, and that we are all inherently worthy of accessing spaces of wellness. You can read more about the sliding scale model here.
I center place making, and relational acts with both human and other than human beings. Calling the Great Lakes region home, I acknowledge that wherever we are in this country we are on indigenous land.
