Collective dream, connected wildness.
From Oxford Languages:
Gather
Verb
1. come together
2. assemble from scattered places or sources.
3. summon up (a mental or physical attribute such as one’s thoughts or strength) for a purpose.
4. draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it.
Why do we gather?
At Gather we come together in nature to create, reflect, grieve, play, celebrate, and remember who we are.
Gather's Guides & Collaborators
Gather the Wild Collective is a charitable organization of guides, artists, facilitators and collaborators who co-create mindfulness-based classes, workshops, and retreats that let us return to our embodied wisdom, embrace joy, and our deep belonging in nature.
Linds West Roberts
Linds West (pronouns they/them/theirs) created Gather the Wild Collective as a place to collaborate in offering customized classes, workshops, and retreats for groups and individuals that combine movement, play, stillness, and creativity. This work is an offering towards collective liberation and social change that brings joy together with grief. Linds is committed to intersectional social change in support of racial, gender, and environmental justice, knowing these are deeply connected with all forms of social oppression. Linds also offers one on one consultations and accompaniment to folks seeking companionship for transitions and shared holding of life's deep questions. They bring their fourteen years as an educator, librarian, and facilitator together with their mindfulness and creative practices.
They have explored the academic path as a librarian and professor, and are now returning to a call to embrace wilderness, to remember their own true nature, and to connect others with theirs. Learn more about them at lindsroberts.com/.
Christine Gautreaux
Christine (pronouns she/her) is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Christine’s superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice and using art to make a difference in the world. She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living. Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellness. Learn more about Christine's work.
Jacqueline Thompson
Jacqueline is a Board Certified Holistic Sexologist and 5-Element Tibetan Tantra Practitioner, an Earth-Based Ritual Curator and Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide.
Jacqueline's specialty is in crafting meaning journeys that help her community attune to nature’s rhythms, live with soul and purpose, and come home to their sensual bodies and creative potential.
Jacqueline is devoted to the art of ritual, to tending grief in these times of collective unravelling, and to making holy the forbidden and forgotten places of our humanness; so that we can become a little bit more whole, real, and rewoven into the web of life. Learn more about Jacqueline's work.
Lorena Gaibor
Lorena Gaibor was first introduced to InterPlay by Kaira Jewel Lingo. She was quickly enamored by the potential that the sneaky deep play offered for her healing journey and enrolled in the first BIPOC Life Practice Program. She is overjoyed to be collaborating with InterPlay Colorado. Lorena is also a recovering social worker and academic having taught MSW students for 7 years at the University of Denver. Lorena has been a longtime activist and advocate, dedicated to working with marginalized communities centered on topics of social, ecological, racial, and immigrant rights. Alongside Interplay, Lorena is completing a two year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher’s Certification Program run by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfeld. She also studies and practices Interrelational Focusing and other Somatic therapeutic practices to reconnect to her embodied joyful experience. Lorena loves learning from visionary teachers such as Bayo Akomolafe and participating in sensemaking processes with other alternative educators in a global alliance called Ecoversities.
Rev. Lydia Ferrante-Roseberry
Rev. Lydia Ferrante-Roseberry has been an Interplay leader for over two decades. As a recovering mind-centered serious person, Interplay invites her to engage her body wisdom, play in community, and bring more ease and joy into the world. She revels in bringing these simple and fun practices to others.
My Tong
My (pronouns she/her) is a multimedia artist based in California with experience as a mindfulness group facilitator and playful movement trainer. My creates whimsical ceramics as well as mid-range crystalline ceramic glazes and sculptures. My also brings her background in public health research, DEI and immigrant advocacy. My is also a certified Vietnamese interpreter and sound healer. My has contributed her writings and design chops to the social media communication teams at Mindful Peacebuilding, Deer Park Monastery, Sugarplum Sangha, and Marin Asian Advocacy Project.
My earned a Master of Public Health and has completed programs in film production, multimedia arts, permaculture, and medical interpreting. Learn more about My's work at https://www.instagram.com/fat_bunny_studio/
Sharie Bowman
Sharie Bowman, MA, LMHC is a Mental Health Counselor and also InterPlay's Regional Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest. In 2006, Sharie completed her training as an InterPlay leader and also received her degree in mental health counseling, so InterPlay and counseling have been woven together in her bodyspirit from the start. She finds InterPlay to be foundational in building and maintaining her personal resilience, as well supporting her work with clients. In her private practice she regularly weaves InterPlay’s life-enhancing forms and philosophies with counseling wisdom to help individuals and families thrive.
Now Sharie finds great joy in bringing her organizational and instructional skills to the InterPlay classroom, and she often leads the foundational InterPlay Life Practice Program and mentors new leaders. She relishes sharing the joy of InterPlay far and wide, and supporting each participant in integrating InterPlay into their own lives!
Tonks (aka Katie Tonkovich)
Tonks is a feral human, a transition guide, an artist, and a friend on the path. They love to assist fellow bipedal animals in deepening their connection with nature, and with their own inner nature. Tonks has been guiding humans in nature for eight years now. Her experience as a nature-based guide includes working many years as a wilderness therapy guide in Colorado and Utah, where she supported young adults and teens as they learn self-efficacy, emotional awareness, and wilderness skills. They also organize and lead Mindful Backpacking Retreats for adults, as well as mindfulness and meditation retreats for children and teen’s, both in partnership with Deer Park Monastery. Learn more about Tonks at katietonkovich.com/about
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Gather the Wild Collective, LLC affirms that all people, of every race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religious or non-religious background, and socioeconomic class should have access to natural landscapes, creative practices, experiences of joyful embodiment, and life-affirming and accepting spiritual community. We thrive with the many facets of human differences, lived experiences, and identities for the benefit of our program participants, collaborators, and our communities. To this end, Gather the Wild Collective is committed to diversity, equity and belonging in our programs and practices. We encourage collaboration and program applications from people who are historically marginalized based on race, ethnicity, ability, age, language, gender identity, sexual orientation and socioeconomic class.