Speakers
Speakers are an integral part of the Gathering — bringing lived wisdom, powerful stories, and new perspectives into the shared experience of the weekend.
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Each speaker offers their own path, insight, and medicine through conversations designed to inspire reflection, connection, and transformation.
Triggers are Portals to the Gold: Mending and Alchemizing
Lacee Gengenbacher
Mountain Witch
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What if the places that trigger us could become openings into deeper healing?
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Lacee Gengenbacher’s path began in Helena, Montana, where the Rocky Mountains meet the desert. Through experiences of complex trauma, addiction within her childhood, violence and abuse, her child’s battle with cancer, and generational and societal oppression, Lacee found a path back to her own truth—and discovered the transformative potential held within the Shadow.
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In this experiential offering, Lacee invites us to explore triggers not simply as something to overcome, but as portals: openings through which we can notice the parts of ourselves once abandoned in the name of survival and begin bringing them home.
Blending trauma-informed approaches including IFS, EFT, neurobiology, attachment work, and Somatic Experiencing with shamanic-influenced practices, elemental energies, connection to the Earth, and magick, Lacee will create a space for reflection, embodiment, movement, and alchemy.
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This is an invitation to meet the Shadow with curiosity, reclaim your own fire, and discover what becomes possible when all parts of you are welcomed back into wholeness.
The Witch Wound:
Breaking the Spell of Silence and Bringing Your Sacred Medicine Out of Exile
Angela Devani
Elemental Magick
What becomes possible when the fear of being seen, judged, misunderstood, or cast out is no longer running the show?
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Angela Devani of Elemental Magick invites us into an exploration of the Witch Wound—the personal and collective imprint that can appear as self-doubt, hiding, self-censorship, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, and the quiet abandonment of our own knowing in order to belong. Together, we’ll explore how this inherited fear can disconnect us from intuition, ritual, voice, inner knowing, and the healer within—and what it means to begin restoring trust in the gifts we may have learned to hide.
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This is an invitation to soften old survival strategies, release shame around sensitivity and spiritual gifts, and reclaim the parts of ourselves that have been waiting for permission to emerge.
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For the mystic, healer, visionary, and anyone who senses there is more of themselves waiting to come alive, this is a homecoming—a return to safety in being seen, to trust in your own knowing, and to the medicine you were never meant to keep hidden.
The Body is the Oracle:
Remembering the Intelligence Within
Tamara Leach
Conscious Connected Healing
What if the profound wisdom you’ve been seeking has been whispering to you through your body all along?
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For more than three decades, Tamara Leach has worked intimately with the body, breath, and the deeper layers of human experience. But in 2019, that relationship became profoundly personal when a tumor was discovered on her spinal cord. Through pain, subsequent injuries, and nervous system recalibration, Tamara was called into a new relationship with her own body—one rooted in listening rather than fixing.
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What emerged was a deeper understanding of the body not simply as something we inhabit, but as a living source of information and inner knowing. Sensation, fatigue, tension, expansion, and ease can all become part of an ongoing conversation with ourselves.
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Drawing from somatic healing, breathwork, and energy medicine, Tamara invites us to explore what changes when we stop approaching the body as a problem to solve and begin listening to it as an oracle.
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This offering is an invitation to deepen self-trust, reconnect with the intelligence of the nervous system, and discover the wisdom that has been living within you all along.