Pre-Festival Offering
Cultivating Thresholds in Sexuality, Spirituality, and Relationship
Overview
Are you standing at the threshold of transformation? Whether you’re questioning conventional religious teachings about sexuality, considering new forms of relationship, or seeking to integrate your spiritual and erotic selves, Eden Camp offers garden tools for your journey.
Join us for a day of deep exploration at the intersection of sexuality, spirituality, and conscious relationship. Through expert guidance, embodied practice, and small group connection, discover how to navigate transitions with grace, wisdom, and authentic power.
This pre-festival gathering creates brave space for those exploring beyond conventional boundaries – whether you’re giving yourself permission to want more, communicating desires with partners, troubleshooting challenges in alternative relationship structures, or integrating these explorations into your spiritual practice and community.
Co-led by Michael Morrell and Aline Defiglia LCSW, MPH, Eden Camp will feature facilitated conversation, body-movement experiences, and group containers to help you recover your exiled places and plant the seeds for your full sensual, somatic, and spiritual harvest.
Full schedule and facilitators list coming soon!
FACILITATORS
Michael Morrell
Michael Morrell (he/him) is an award-winning, best-selling author, collaborator on The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation with Fr. Richard Rohr, founder of Wisdom Camp, and a founding organizer of this very justice, arts, and spirituality Wild Goose Festival. He co-parents his two astonishing kiddos in Asheville, NC.
Michael curates contemplative and community experiences, taking joy in holding space for the extraordinary transformation that can take place at the intersection of anticipation, imagination, and radical acceptance. Readers and writers can check out Speakeasy, Michael’s network of off-the-beaten-path spirituality books — and those who love talking about them. You can read his ongoing exploration of Spirit, Culture, and Permaculture at MikeMorrell.org. Click here for more.
Aline Defiglia
Aline (she/her) is a licensed psychotherapist and coach who delights in building community and encouraging healing through experiential learning.
She has been a long-time attendee and co-creator at the Goose including facilitating interactive experiences at Wisdom Camp, curating Relating Arts Tent programming, and nurturing the evolution of The Grove.
More recently, she has been developing conscious sexuality programming at The Goose through Eden Camp and in her home town of Chattanooga. Aline has seen over and over again that conscious sexuality work is an incredibly powerful space for healing and transformation, and is also deeply satisfying as an act of life-giving civil disobedience.
Aline parents an exuberant 6 year old son, owns an innovative, group mental health practice, attends a beautiful, quirky little church experiment called Ekklesia and loves to go on adventures of all types in her beautiful city.
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Check In for pre-festival events will be available on Wednesday from 1 pm to 5 pm, and Thursday from 7am to 9 am.
If you’re tent camping, there’s no additional campsite charge for Wednesday night.
Some campsite locations are restricted due to large venue tent construction in several areas.
RV campers will need to purchase an additional night.