Ashley Bonn is a co-producer of the Conscious Growth Convergence and founder of the nonprofit Conscious Growth. Based in Portland, Oregon, she is a visionary leader and community weaver who has spent the past decade creating transformative experiences that blend ecological education, cultural programming, and community building. Through her work, Ashley brings together artists, educators, land stewards, and changemakers to explore regenerative ways of living rooted in place. Her approach is grounded in a deep respect for land and ancestry, where she is guided by the belief that culture can serve as a powerful pathway for ecological restoration and collective resilience.

Setesh Free is a co-producer of the Conscious Growth Convergence and founder of Reciprocity Music. As a former events director and long-term resident of Lost Valley Education Center, he has spent more than a decade weaving events and experiences rooted in music, dance, land stewardship, and collective transformation. His work brings people together through spaces that invite both celebration and deeper remembrance of our relationship to place, community, and the living world. Setesh has become a passionate advocate for creating more values-aligned pathways within the wider music industry. Through his work with artists as an international booking agent, festival producer, and community space holder, he is committed to helping shape new models for conscious touring.

Sage Daly brings a strong foundation in artist relations and intentional space holding, shaped through years of working closely with artists in both developmental and management roles. Through her time with Reciprocity Music and as a booking agent with Pivotal Agency, she has supported a range of artists, gatherings, and creative projects that center healing, collective liberation, and a deeper connection to land and community. Grounded in a belief that music can serve as a catalyst for both personal and collective transformation, Sage brings a thoughtful, values-driven presence to every space she helps shape. She is especially devoted to uplifting women in music and cultivating environments where artists and communities feel empowered, supported, and truly seen.

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, cross-cultural belonging, and collective liberation.

Amron Bevels is a multifaceted spiritual guide and wellness practitioner who brings a unique blend of scientific background and spiritual wisdom to her work. With formal medical school training and extensive experience in nutrition and anti-aging research, she bridges the gap between conventional medicine and holistic healing practices. Amron supports us in centering our collective intention and holding the question: “What role do you play in the village?” Amron will co-guide our ceremonies and serve as an MC, weaving the threads of our gathering together with grace and power.

Moana Aluli Meyer (known by many as MoMagiccc) is an Indigenous elder, community leader, and wellness guide from O’ahu, Hawaii. With a dedication to serve community, Moana has led the path of (w)holistic healing, giving special attention to natural supplements, movement, and meditation. You can find Moana in Portland, Oregon, where she spreads her energy of Aloha to all she encounters by way of her spirit.

Brian Byers is a permaculture designer, educator, and activist with over a decade of experience in sustainable agriculture and forestry within the Willamette Valley. As a passionate advocate for building resilient communities, reconnecting individuals to the natural world, and fostering a sense of place, Brian brings a holistic, systems-based approach to all of his work. Brian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Gutenberg College and has studied permaculture with regional experts including Andrew Millison, Heiko Koester, Hazel Ward, and Jude Hobbs. He is a certified permaculture designer with advanced certifications in surveying, earthworks design, forestry, and teaching.

Kendall Runyan serves as the Business Administrator at Lost Valley, where she has worked in various administrative roles for over two years. In this position, she focuses on improving organizational management systems and administrative processes. Kendall is passionate about dynamic governance systems and appreciates Lost Valley's commitment to fostering harmonious relationships with both the natural environment and community members. She strongly believes in the organization's mission as an educational center and its potential to demonstrate alternatives to extractive societal practices. With a bachelor's degree in political science and certifications in permaculture design and sociocratic facilitation, Kendall brings diverse experience to her role. Her background includes extensive work in education, particularly with children, and administrative experience in a county elections office. She also completed an internship with C-SPAN, enhancing her understanding of media and public service.

Anna Stifter is a charismatic community connector. She pairs over ten years of experience coordinating volunteers with a playful sense of wonder that invites service as a way to cultivate belonging to something larger than oneself. Her background spans ecology, eco death care, and grassroots activism. Together, they give her a grounded understanding of our place in the interconnected systems that sustain a healthy, functioning world. She offers that understanding directly to coordinating volunteers and deepening into community webs. Anna exudes a charming, zesty style to her organizing work.

Will Golden is a musician, world traveler & community builder, with years of experience as a performing artist & event producer. With a passion for tending to the Earth & relationships, Will’s highest calling is music & creating spaces for people to gather to connect, learn, heal & grow.

Avery Johnson, known as Cloud, is a visual artist that has spent the past few years in service behind the scenes at GCG, believing wholeheartedly in its potent reverberations of healing. Drawing on years of roadie and tour management experience, Cloud creates landing spaces where artists feel safe, resourced, and held to share their music from a place of depth — an act of devotion to music’s role as a universal, therapeutic language, one thread in a larger movement toward raised consciousness. Cloud’s personal mission is rooted in reparations: to the land, to those who have long tended it, and to all holding prayer for coherency and liberation.

Dama is a community organizer and multidisciplinary visual artist whose work explores creativity, connection, transformation, and the relationship between the inner and outer worlds. Working across mixed media, acrylic, wood burning, gold leaf, and natural elements, her work draws inspiration from nature, culture, symbolism, and spirit. She sees art as medicine and ceremony—a way of transmitting what cannot always be spoken and creating beauty as a form of healing.

Mikayla Cagle is a photographer and communitarian, where she weaves together visual story telling that honors both the spirit of the gathering and the land that holds it. As a longtime resident of Lost Valley Education and Events Center where CGC is held, she brings an intimacy with the land that is unique to the way she captures this special gathering. Through her leadership and artistry, she brings a warm and playful approach to documenting both the people and land she holds dear. Beyond her creative work, Mikayla manages the Native Foods Nursery on site, is a devoted community space holder, conflict mediator and facilitator, where she tends to the social fabric of community and the land she resides on.

Adolfo Paredes is a filmmaker, storyteller, and creative behind Ama•Tu•Ser Advertising, weaving together conscious music, prayer, and community through visual storytelling. As CGC’s Video Marketing Coordinator, he helps capture and share the deeper story of the Convergence, documenting the people, relationships, music, and meaningful moments that bring the gathering to life.

Alexa Lux is an independent singer, songwriter, songleader, and creative based in Portland, Oregon, whose work centers community connection, healing, and music as a form of spiritual medicine. She is the founder and director of Cascadia Folk Choir, fronts the participatory soul-folk project Alexa & The Folk, and serves as Co-Director of Cascadia Culture. As CGC’s Brand Marketing Coordinator, Alexa helps shape and share the visual identity and story of the Convergence.

Originating from the lands of Northern Mexico, Angel makes his home in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona. When he's not stewarding land projects or connecting with the plant relatives, he applies a decade of event production and stagecraft experience to serve the music. Angel specializes in balancing stage logistics to create meaningful experiences for artists and event patrons alike.

With 25 years of audio engineering experience, Shawn has supported festivals, events and gatherings with premier sound experiences that support the artist in manifesting their best performance. With a high quality QSC L-Class sound system, Shawn's philosophy is prioritizing quality and richness of sound in weaving the audio tapestry while maintaining a balanced volume level that soothes the nervous system. The sound crew is honored to support the 2026 Conscious Growth Convergence with best in class service!

Joel & Hannah run Cozmic Events, a business that has been serving the Willamette Valley professional sound and custom lighting design since 1999. With a mission dedicated to supporting the community, while uplifting artists to be seen and heard. Their aim is to bring people together by providing full sound systems and stage lighting, to celebrate music, performance, dance, education, and connection collectively.

Ben Browner is the founder of Revival Gatherings, purpose-driven multi-day events and cultural experiences blending music, art, ritual, ancestral wisdom and community connection. For more than a decade, Ben has designed and facilitated experiences that help people build meaningful friendships, navigate life’s challenges, strengthen their creativity, and cultivate a greater sense of belonging. Drawing from living systems thinking, liberating structures, and participatory expression, he’s passionate about creating environments where people can rediscover the power of community.

Paul Deering is a movement artist, teacher, photographer, and Licensed Massage Therapist whose work explores dance as a practice of creativity, healing, and expression. He has studied and taught movement arts since 1988, with roots in Tai Chi and Chinese movement practices. Paul is a member of the Coalessence Dance core facilitation team and continues to teach movement for health, spiritual well-being, and improvisational dance while documenting music, performance, and contact improvisation through photography.

Peter is a sound technician and all-around audio nut who is passionate about using his gifts to raise the vibration of the planet and bring people together. He lives in the Port Townsend area, where he loves cultivating community through DJing and dance, as well as exploring the outdoors with his dog in every way he can. He recently completed a master’s degree in acoustics and is open to connecting with people and projects with aligned values to support a sustainable future for humanity and the planet.

Amelia Corbett Green has lived at Lost Valley for over six years and returns for her third year as the Registration Coordinator for the Conscious Growth Convergence. Raised by the forests, fields, and waters of the Willamette Valley, her life is shaped by a reverent relationship to the living ecology of this place and region. Amelia is a licensed massage therapist, movement lover, horse girl, bookworm, and nature devotee. She’s grateful to be part of a gathering that weaves together shared values on this land she calls home.

Vanessa Miller is a storyteller, educator, community organizer, and Outreach Coordinator at Lost Valley, where she supports communication, education, and community engagement. Her work centers cultural renewal, relationship to place, and the recovery of ancestral seeds, stories, songs, and dances, informed by years of international travel and study with Indigenous communities in Colombia. As CGC’s Sacred Fire Coordinator, Vanessa helps tend the Sacred Fire as a space for prayer, song, cultural connection, and community throughout the gathering.

Carly Thomasset is Co-Director of the 2027 Conscious Growth Revillaging Program. She also supports the development of the Convergence’s Herbal First Aid offerings and served on the board of Conscious Growth. As the founder of Bee the Change Landcare, Carly weaves together pollinator stewardship, permaculture, ecological education, herbalism, and community building. Her work is deeplyy inspired by the wisdom of honeybees and what they can teach us about resilient communities: giving fully from the heart, tending reciprocal relationships, and caring for the land and all its creatures as we co-create a more connected world.

Lindy Kehoe is a visionary artist, multidisciplinary creator, and Waldorf arts educator based in Southern Oregon. Weaving painting, sculpture, and pottery with earth-based materials, her work seeks to comfort the nervous system and awaken the inner child. For Lindy, creation is ceremony, shaped by relationship with the land, waters, unseen realms, and elementals of the places where she creates. Living and creating on ancestral Takelma land along the Rogue River, Lindy is deeply rooted in the river valley and committed to honoring the Living Ancestors of the land and continuing her allyship with First Nations families of Southern Oregon, including the family of Chief Lineage Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim. Guided by these relationships and a love of mythos, healing arts, and sacred traditions, Lindy has exhibited her artwork nationwide and been published internationally in We’Moon. She also collaborated with eco-author Starhawk as the illustrator of the Silver Nautilus Award-winning children’s book The Last Wild Witch. Through her work, Lindy seeks to create pathways for healing, inspiration, and sacred remembrance.

Katya Wellspring is a teacher, weaver, herbalist, and community steward living in the Columbia River Gorge. Her work weaves together ancestral skills, education, and land-based living with a deep commitment to relational culture and belonging. Katya has spent nearly two decades working with human development through education, guiding children and adults in experiential learning rooted in craft, nature, and story. She is the founder of BeHold Life Packs, where she teaches Adirondack pack basket weaving as a living thread connecting modern life to ancestral traditions. In addition to her work in teaching and weaving, she operates a mutli-faceted special events catering business in the Gorge. Within the CGC, Katya serves as Facilitator Manager, helping hold the relational field between facilitators, organizers, and participants. She is devoted to cultivating spaces where people can arrive as they are, reconnect with the land, and rediscover the village that lives within community.

Always an artist at heart, Alicia Love sees beauty in everything. A Creatrix of her own handmade leather feather earrings she also curates art, artists, spaces, and vendors for elevated experience events. She has been a coach for over 20 years starting with Wellness Coaching as an Herbalist and growing into Feminine Empowerment as a circle leader and Soul Coach as she learned to trust her intuition as her guide.

Sarah Rayne (she/her) is a queer witch, a healing artist, and the people’s priestess. She holds potent, trauma-informed sacred space for groups & individuals, weaving together her 10 years of experience with reiki healing, tarot, herbalism, sound healing, astrology, and intuitive, nature-based magic. She shares original music, vibrant ceremonies, & Body Temple Dance somatic practices to help folks remember that they are creative beings who can cultivate healing & catharsis through authentic self-expression. She is the founder of Firebird Healing Arts, and the co-founder of Glimmer Wellness Center in SE Portland, where she works and plays daily to build community and foster a culture of heart-centered healing & collective thriving.

Nature Dreamweaver is celebrating 20 years of touring building art installations and sacred spaces out of natural, found, recycled, and Thrifted materials. Weaving all of the elements into what he calls nests that include earth Mandalas and altars. Intended as earth temples in reverence to the Earth and her elements , nests have been used for Ceremonies, rituals meditations, weddings, and more alchemy for human connection to self, the Earth, each other, and the great mystery. Always rooted in love and dreaming a world into being where all wars end and peace prevails.

Nate McCosmo is a multi disciplinary artist based in Portland Oregon.Currently his main focus is in nature art with sticks and rocks, acrylic painting, and decorating spaces with tapestries. He often engages in all 3 art mediums in-between exploring his passion for making music, dancing, and connecting with community. Nate's love for art comes from years of dreaming and dabbling while being a fitness coach for the last 20 years, and began a committed art practice in 2023.

Duncan is a life long Cascadian and holds a deep love for this land and everything it holds. He helps steward five hundred acres on the Oregon Coast with the Westwind Stewardship Group, where he lives in his tiny house, alongside his dog Rya. He comes to this work through regenerative land management, sustainability administration, and community organizing, having grown up in the climate and sustainability movements. Duncan is passionate about living in service to the field of gratitude and cultivating reciprocity. For him, gratitude is the engine of the regenerative economy we’re co-creating in this bioregion.

Thomas Promise is a song wizard in training, ritual artist, and instigator of collective aliveness. He invites your whole expression—fierce and loud to tender and quiet—into circles where your voice belongs. He’s ready to learn from the incredible variety of expressions that men will carry into the Men’s Tent, and honored to collaborate with such soulful brothers this year at CGC.

Lake Taylor is a witch, priestess, temple tender, storyteller, seer, ritualist of rites of passage, past life regressionist, and plant medicine devotee. Inspired by her own journey of healing from trauma and spiritual/ancestral reclamation, she is passionate about cultivating sanctuary spaces for ancient remembrance & empowered transformation. She has led the Red Tent at CGC since its inception and is elated to be part of the affinity space expansion.

Elia Serras is an EcoSomatic facilitator and guide for individuals, groups and organizations. His work is to empower embodied belonging through practices rooted in Truth, Healing, and Wholeness. Contact with wilderness saved his life as a younger man and inspired him to live and learn in communities ranging from traditional villages to contemporary Ecovillages in 11 different countries. When he’s not consulting or coaching, Elia facilitates projects he believes in. He is a cofounder of Cascadia Men’s Alliance, Great Earth School and Grieving Man, as well as the core facilitator for the Manifest Gathering. Elia has worked with many men’s work organizations throughout the US and beyond since 2018. He lives in Port Townsend, and can often be found singing, dancing or breaking bread wherever the village fire is burning bright.

Kiki/Kiersten is a queer land tender, budding forest ecologist, community organizer, artist, and mischievous jester. They are deeply passionate about reclaiming connection to land as a necessary root for all of our movements of liberation to thrive. They create spaces where folks can explore transforming the conditionings of white supremacy, colonialism, and extraction in our bodies, relationships, and imaginations.

Joa is an initiator, embodied alchemist, and researcher exploring the original technology of the sensorial body as a pathway to freedom, self-knowledge, and energetic sovereignty. Her work weaves movement, somatic inquiry, ritual, intuitive intelligence, and the study of human systems to explore how we can reclaim our innate capacities for perception, discernment, creativity, and relationship. As a mother, she brings this inquiry into spaces for children and teens, tending environments where young people can remain connected to their innate intelligence, agency, creativity, and embodied ways of knowing, while honoring the mothers and relational ecosystems that make their flourishing possible.

Yara Maël Clermont is a mother, herbalist, permaculture designer, and co-lead of the Kids Tent at Conscious Growth Convergence. Her work with children draws on years of nature-based preschool teaching, children’s movement facilitation, and creating welcoming spaces for young people at gatherings. Yara believes children are already vital members of our community. At the Kids Tent, she’s helping create a space where they can play, explore, rest, connect with the living world, and belonging.

Nathan Greene has volunteered with Harmony Event Medicine since its first event in 2003 and has served as Board President for more than 15 years. He coordinates medical and crisis-support teams at festivals, overseeing staffing, scheduling, equipment, infrastructure, and onsite operations. Nathan is deeply committed to community service and creating compassionate systems of care within music and festival spaces.

Dana Aronson is a clinical herbalist and educator, whose work is rooted in helping people reconnect with their bodies and the natural world. Guided by a deep respect for plants, she blends clinical training with intuitive, relationship-based care to support healing that is both practical and deeply personal. In addition to her clinical practice, Dana is passionate about community care and education. Through workshops, plant walks, and mobile clinics, she shares accessible, hands-on herbal knowledge, inviting others to remember their innate connection to plants and to carry that relationship into everyday life.

Max Rose Zimberg is a systems strategist, multidisciplinary designer, ceremonialist, and community builder whose work centers regenerative culture and collective transformation. Through Sana Strategies, Max supports mission-driven organizations in aligning their values, strategies, and systems for meaningful impact, weaving together facilitation, ritual, creativity, and community building. As CGC’s Aucupouri Teahouse Coordinator, Max creates a warm and playful gathering space for connection, conversation, and revitalization through gong fu cha and custom-blended herbal tisanes.

Josiah Hampton is a carpenter, sauna enthusiast, and founder of Sauna Väki, specializing in mobile, wood-fired Finnish-style saunas. His work is rooted in traditional sauna culture and a passion for creating spaces that support well-being, connection, and community. As CGC’s Bathhouse Coordinator, Josiah brings the Sauna Väki experience to the gathering, creating a warm and restorative space for attendees to gather, unwind, and reconnect.

Shana Deane is an elder and resident of Lost Valley, a lover of dance, and a lifelong student of aliveness, beauty, and spirit. A fierce seeker of truth and a life and death doula, Shana brings presence, care, and deep attention to the communities she serves. As CGC’s Lost & Found Coordinator, she helps lovingly reunite people with the belongings that find their way behind.