At the heart of our weekend will be a powerful ceremonial practice: the crafting of two handmade cattail dolls.
One will represent the self we are releasing — the identities, roles, capacities, or ways of being that are falling away.
The other will represent the self that is emerging — the mysterious new shape of who we are becoming.
Through ritual, one will be offered back — released with gratitude — while the other will be taken home to tend, nourish, and deepen relationship with in the months that follow.
This is not a workshop about having answers. It is a gathering for women willing to sit honestly in the questions — to listen for longing, and to welcome transformation as sacred work.
If you feel yourself standing at this threshold, we would be honored to gather with you.
Cari Burdett
Cari is a mother of three wild, creative, musical children and brings warmth, groundedness, and a rich diversity of experience to her work. Deeply rooted in nature connection, trauma-informed practice, and community leadership, she has trained in pre- and perinatal trauma work with Myrna Martin and is a certified Level Three Way of Council leader through The Ojai Foundation, with over 15 years of council practice.
Cari lives on a small farm on the traditional lands of the Cowichan, Coast Salish peoples, where she tends land, food, flowers, and community through permaculture and organic practices. A lifelong musician with Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in performance, she has spent over 30 years teaching voice, choir, improvisation, and music, and helping steward Lila Music Centre, which has served the Cowichan community for over 17 years.
Stephanie MacKay
Stephanie MacKay is the founder of Myth Club, and Founder and Executive Director of Fianna Wilderness School. She specializes in ancestral knowledge, earth-based skills, ceremony and myth. She has a degree in literature, and her work is informed by over 15 years of practice and study through Animas Valley Institute, Haven Institute, Wilderness Awareness School, and 12 years of study with Martín Prechtel.
She is a fiercely compassionate facilitator, mentor and guide in search of perspectives and practices to deepen the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Stephanie is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of old European mythologies, within our own bodies, and within our ancestral memory.