The workshop will include a variety of connection and calibration games, followed by fun beginner L-base Acro Yoga skills, that lead into a basic flow. Learn to fly, base and spot, with style! After learning the basic skills, we will offer 30 minutes of free play, with guided support from the instructors.

No partner or experience needed!

Facilitator Bio:

Alicia Sheff is a certified Acro Yoga teacher through AcroLove, she teaches a weekly drop-in Acro class at Island Circus Space, and organizes the weekly Sunday Jams.

J-math has taught Acro at several large events, and festivals. She's passionate about fostering fun and community through Acro.

In this session we will meet the humans around us to find out two things:

What can we offer, and what do we need?

Speed Dating for Community was born of our River’s love for efficiencies, and love of community. We will use this hour to practice relating to our networks in a way that might help us to become more sustainable, more connected, and to have more meaningful interactions within our communities.

We will work with two questions.

1. What do you LOVE doing and what would you offer your community freely?


We focus on what you would love doing so that it doesn’t cost you anything to offer that service to others. 
This could look like many different things: do you like to teach music? can you walk a dog or watch someone’s child? Can you hang a shelf? Do you know how to fix computers? Can you move heavy things? Can you identify herbs? Are you a good listener?

2. And our second question - What would take your life to the next level? 

 We ask this because often folks have a hard time thinking that they really need anything. But what would be nice to have in your life, what would help you achieve greater ease? 
Someone to talk to? A new bike? A physiotherapist to consult? Guitar lessons? A studio to dance in? Anything!

Come experience meeting others on a whole different level, experience the joy of bing able to offer others what you love giving, and perhaps the beauty of the ease in which our community can support us.

Facilitator Bio:

River Ritcey hails from the traditional territory of the Ts'uubaa-asatx Nation, and the Cowichan Tribes near to Skutz Falls. She spends her days building community, producing events, gravel biking, and chasing bugs. She has studied Political Science, Theatre, Event Management, Project Management, Aboriginal Community Administration, the Art of Nonsense and the Science of Faffery.

Efficiencies turn her crank and she delights in dedicating her life in finding ways to bringing more holistic and more effective systems to community models.

What is an Art? What is Lamp? What makes a good Lamp? What makes a good Lamper? Most importantly… How can YOU Lamp-art-ake? Come to this thrilling presentation to find answers to all of these pressing questions, and more!

Authentic Relating is a space where one can reveal their truth, and be truly vulnerable. It's an opportunity to practice how to listen to another deeply and to be heard deeply, to see and be seen. It is revealing what comes up in the present moment with another, beyond the norms of social interaction. Doing so has the capability of bringing forth rich, revealing, nourishing, and engaging experiences with other humans.

To set the container I will go over the 5 practices of Authentic Relating: Welcome Everything, Assume Nothing, Reveal Your Experience, Own Your Experience, and Honour Self + Other.

Then expect to play a unique mix of relating games that involve sharing and listening in groups of 2-5 people and sometimes up to the whole group


Facilitator Bio:

Robbie has been facilitating Authentic Relating and Circling groups for 3+ years, primarily in the Victoria area. He has taken level 1 + 2 trainings with Authentic Relating Training International.

Get your energy moving with a delicious, full-body dynamic movement practice! Enjoy bassy flowing sequences with inspiration from Vinyasa Yoga, then turn it up with some sweaty dance-fitness. Then we ground it back down, touch into a bit of core strengthening, and top it off with an easeful and relaxing stretch. With a live DJ set flowing through a range of ambient to bassy and danceable beats, this session invites you to connect to community and yourself as you get a full body tune-up and tune-in. Bring a yoga mat if you can!

Facilitator Bios:
Lo (they/she) is a lover of movements and thrives in the juicy space where art meets activism. With 14 years of teaching experience, they are trained in a range of embodiment modalities including yoga, pilates, dance, and fitness. They are also a social justice educator/facilitator, life coach, and clinical counsellor in training. Based in the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Lo's teaching style strikes a unique balance of grounded depth and light-hearted play.

Since their humble beginnings at a community radio station in 2003, little.fiery.one has been exploring the craft of mixing music with an ear for unique, beautiful, ambitious and experimental sounds. Punctuated with a variety of genres and styles little.fiery.one's sets aim to help create warm, open and explorative dancefloors that invite dancers deep into their dance. They currently reside and dance upon the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-waututh Nation).

Part 2: Carrying the Lamp: Integration of your experience will be an experiential workshop that is designed to be a follow-up to the Preparation Workshop described above. This workshop will start with a brief talk on integration of altered state and peak experiences. We will then draw on the practices and processes taught in the previous workshop to provide a structure for participants to reconnect to their intentions and explore what each individual received from their festival experience and how they may choose to carry it forward. Particular attention will be given to helping metabolize and make meaning from experiences, as well as consideration to how experiences can be kept alive, furthered and where appropriate shared with others.

The group structure that will be modelled in these two workshops is a simple and effective structure for facilitating groups of this nature involving information sharing, skill building, and group sharing. By participating in these workshops attendees will experientially learn this group process that they can then use to engage in similar groups in their own communities.


Please note that these two workshops are intended for individuals to participate in both sessions and folkx are strongly encouraged to attend both sessions. In fact, attendance at the Preparation Workshop will be a requirement for attendance at the Integration Workshop in order to maintain the strength and integrity of the group container.


Facilitator Bio
Cody has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of British Columbia. He has over 15 years’ experience as a social worker and researcher in the field of addictions and mental health.
Cody has completed MAPS mdma-assisted therapy training, is a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy and Research certificate program and has completed training in ketamine-assisted therapy with the Ketamine Training Centre amongst others.
Cody currently works as the Lead of Psychedelic Programs at Numinus where he provides psychedelic-assisted therapy and is contributing to the development of a variety of clinical and research programs. He has also served as a therapist on a MAPS study of mdma-assisted therapy for PTSD. Additionally, Cody has a small private practice focused on preparation and integration support for people working with plant medicines and psychedelics.

Cody has published research on harm reduction for people who inject drugs, ayahuasca, and potential applications of psychedelic-assisted therapy for addictions and pandemic-related mental health problems.

Benny has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Winnipeg and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He has 14 years’ experience in the mental health and substance use field, predominantly working-on and leading outreach teams supporting vulnerable and unhoused individuals experiencing severe mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

In 2020 Benny completed an Addiction Nursing Fellowship with the BC Centre on Substance Use and led a research project that examined the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals towards psychedelics. While living in Abbotsford BC, he started up a community group called The Fraser Valley Psychedelic Society to help connect people around their shared interest and passion for psychedelic medicine.

Benny is currently employed as Senior Manager of Practitioner Relations with Numinus, where he supports the cultivation of a healthy and diverse practitioner community across North America, creating opportunities for psychedelic practitioners to connect, grow and thrive.

In his personal time Benny finds joy and inspiration by facilitating growth-oriented men’s groups, playing with his kids, mountain biking, practicing yoga, meditation and dance.

Learn about affirmative consent and why it's so important! We take a look at the five key components of consent as we tend to view it in kink/sex positive circles, and compare that with the legal definition of consent in Canada as per the criminal code. We discuss how the principles of consent can be applied outside of the bedroom to foster a wider culture of respectful interaction.

We spend some time getting more comfortable in asking for consent, and lastly we take a shallow dip into negotiated exceptions to our previously defined best practices: discussing agreements in ongoing relationship dynamics, ways to obtain consent without interrupting the thrill of flirtation, terms like "Consensual Non-Consent," and other ways mature adults sometimes agree to bend the rules.

Facilitator Bio:

Motevotion AKA Taylor Southin (Any/All Pronouns) is a self employed leatherworker / educator who has been involved in the greater Victoria kink and non-monogamous communities for eight years. They've served as a consent ambassador at events like Erotica Electronica, have been performing solo and partnered rope suspensions on various small stages across the lower bc coast, and have been mentoring aspiring rope enthusiasts since late 2018.

Ecstatic Dance focuses on freedom of movement and self-expression. A 1.5-2 hour dance journey in a safe and sacred space to freely express yourself through movement, arcing from a gentle opening, building to a wild peak and landing deeply on the other side.

Dance Temple is an inner/outer journey, an authentic moving meditation where presence and ecstasy are experienced. Ecstatic dance creates a direct mind/body/spirit connection, allowing our body to be our teacher. It's about dropping fully into our bodies and experiencing full presence, discovering our own true dance, using movement to release old patterns and stuck energy, moving beyond separation and experiencing true union.

Move, play, connect, sweat, renew, release, claim your freedom, open your heart and release your wild. Dance Temple is a non-verbal, non-judgemental, inclusive space, fostering a deeply authentic somatic experience.


Facilitator Bio:

Sarah Etherington runs the Dance Temple collective on Salt Spring Island and has been a part of ecstatic dance communities globally for 25 years. Sarah brings a keen somatic awareness to her sets, infusing her deep passion and joy for dance, unleashing the wild on the dance floor. Sarah's sets are full of sultry world beats, liquidy bass and wild percussion.

Lila Sofiyah, co-founder of Dance Temple Victoria, has been guiding dance and transformational journeys for the past 17 years. As a Dance Temple DJ and Ecstatic Dance Facilitator,
Lila loves to create soulful and uplifting sets to inspire body, heart and soul. Weaving tribal rhythms, world grooves, deep basslines and heart melodies she guides journeys to activate and connect us with our inner essence, playful spirit and create more vitality in the body!

Medium Case Scenarios will guide participants through some basic improv warmups that are designed to get brains thinking and ideas flowing freely. With any luck, they'll also have a laugh or two. No previous improv experience necessary

Facilitator Bios:

Carl Keys is loud, and occasionally does funny voices. He's tried this in many settings, and although he hasn't found one that works, he still keeps trying.

Max Rosenthal has known he was funny since he won class jester in grade 12. He’s since gone on to participate in 1 improv class and feels he’s qualified to share his skills for the betterment of you people.

Keely Covo got into improv with the hopes that having an outlet would help her stop interrupting serious converstations with witty quips. It has in fact only made her interjections more frequent, albeit funnier.

The Integration Circle provides a supportive, non-judgmental place for attendees to gather and share about how they are experiencing the event. Especially for those having a challenging time processing emotions, the circle provides an opportunity to be heard by a trained professional in a group of peers who have agreed to a set of guidelines established in the name of safety and support. The organizer will set down agreements around confidentiality, consent, and safe conduct at the beginning of the circle to ensure that it is a safe place to be witnessed in one's authenticity. Attendees may seek input from the organizer or from other attendees, but may also request no feedback and simply be heard and held in unconditional positive regard.

Facilitator Bio:

Adrian Oberg is a counselor and psychedelic medicine practitioner trained in Psychedelic Integration. He has been holding integration circles and providing harm reduction services in psychedelic communities since 2015.

Gatherings such as Lamplight provide attendees with a myriad of opportunities to engage in altered states of consciousness and peak experiences. The wisdom of psychedelic-assisted therapy is that such experiences can be made more productive and meaningful when time and attention is given to preparation and integration. The adorable facilitators of this pair of workshops come with backgrounds in mental health, harm reduction, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and group work and would love to help support the preparation and integration of your journey.

Lighting your Lamp: Preparation for your experience will be an experiential workshop involving guided practices and group-sharing focused on preparing yourself for a personally meaningful experience at this festival. This workshop will include a brief talk on preparation for altered state and peak experiences, teaching on breathing practices that can support grounding and body awareness, engaging in a body-oriented check-in process, group-sharing about what participants are wanting to get out of their festival experience, and instruction and support around intention setting.


The group structure that will be modelled in two workshops is a simple and effective structure for facilitating groups of this nature involving information sharing, skill building, and group sharing. By participating in these workshops attendees will experientially learn this group process that they can then use to engage in similar groups in their own communities.


ABOUT THE FACILITATORS:
Cody has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of British Columbia. He has over 15 years’ experience as a social worker and researcher in the field of addictions and mental health.
Cody has completed MAPS mdma-assisted therapy training, is a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy and Research certificate program and has completed training in ketamine-assisted therapy with the Ketamine Training Centre amongst others.
Cody currently works as the Lead of Psychedelic Programs at Numinus where he provides psychedelic-assisted therapy and is contributing to the development of a variety of clinical and research programs. He has also served as a therapist on a MAPS study of mdma-assisted therapy for PTSD. Additionally, Cody has a small private practice focused on preparation and integration support for people working with plant medicines and psychedelics.

Cody has published research on harm reduction for people who inject drugs, ayahuasca, and potential applications of psychedelic-assisted therapy for addictions and pandemic-related mental health problems.

Benny has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Winnipeg and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He has 14 years’ experience in the mental health and substance use field, predominantly working-on and leading outreach teams supporting vulnerable and unhoused individuals experiencing severe mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

In 2020 Benny completed an Addiction Nursing Fellowship with the BC Centre on Substance Use and led a research project that examined the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals towards psychedelics. While living in Abbotsford BC, he started up a community group called The Fraser Valley Psychedelic Society to help connect people around their shared interest and passion for psychedelic medicine.

Benny is currently employed as Senior Manager of Practitioner Relations with Numinus, where he supports the cultivation of a healthy and diverse practitioner community across North America, creating opportunities for psychedelic practitioners to connect, grow and thrive.

In his personal time Benny finds joy and inspiration by facilitating growth-oriented men’s groups, playing with his kids, mountain biking, practicing yoga, meditation and dance.

Learn the basics of connected partner dancing, to modern bass music. We will cover safety, consent, connection, tone, musicality and basic steps. No partner necessary, no experience needed, all welcome. Experienced dancers are also invited to come and share their knowledge.

Facilitator Bio
Dustin has been dancing swing, blues, fusion, contact improv, tango and zouk forms for over a decade. He loves to connect with other humans in a musical manner.

Are you seeking a soft place to land after dancing your heart out? Are you all out of metaphors and looking for a top-up? Or maybe you’re just craving an intrepid act of reckless beauty? Come get cozy with us and let us tell you a story or two. We have lullabies for lonely microphones, verses to vanquish vapidity and alliteration for altered attitudes. Witness the incredible power of stories shared as Neko Smart, Jeremy Loveday, Cedar Jones and Marie Metaphor guide your heart and head on a journey through spoken word.

Poet Bios:
Can be found with the other artists listed in the music page.

Welcome, fellow humans and non-humans!
It's time to unleash your inner creature and get primal.
In this interactive and explorative workshop, we'll be crawling, hopping, prancing and rolling like wild beastlings, while getting down with Mother Nature**.
Whether your moves are as smooth as Michael or you prance with the grace of a clumsy baby giraffe, this workshop is for you. Our experienced coach will guide you with his expert grunts and groans, so you can unlock your full primal potential!

**Workshop will take place on simulated human/machine made grass, so actual exposure to Mother Nature will be limited**

Facilitator Bio
Garrett is a Comox Valley based holistic fitness and lifestyle coach/festival junkie.
He's here. To pump. You Up.

We'll start with a little full body warm up, then bust some retro aerobic & dance moves to upbeat throwbacks for a while till were all gassed and glowing!
And remember your hydration units!

Over the top retro attire is warmly welcomed and not required!


Facilitator Bio:
Jenny is a South Island based Dabbler, curiously picking things up and putting them down, all the while mastering nothing. Quite possibly mastering dabbling?