Steve Welch

RV Registrations Are Now Open

RV spot reservations for this year’s Wild Goose Festival are officially open—don’t miss your chance to camp with us! Whether you’re a festival regular or a first-timer, there’s nothing like being in the heart of the action. Wild Goose is a one-of-a-kind gathering filled with music, inspiration, and community, and your RV spot puts you right in the mix. Spots go fast, so grab yours today and get ready for an unforgettable experience!

This Wall Will Not Stand: A Protest in Motion
Forget everything you know about “art installations.” This one moves.

Literally.

Created by poet and activist Sarah (Lumen Solis), this experience invites you to carry pickets painted by communities in crisis and help break open the wall — a living protest pulsing with grief, courage, and radical solidarity.

Theodivergent Theology
Ever felt like traditional theology didn’t see you?
Michael Brennan’s liberating vision of God is queer, neurodivergent-affirming, and deeply nurturing. With poetry, story, and open-hearted depth, this Experience reimagines spirituality as a space where you finally belong.

Embracing Queer Family
Some conversations change everything.
Join authors Nia and Katie Chiaramonte for a raw, real, and radically loving roundtable on trans identity, faith, family, and finding your voice in the spaces that once silenced it. Bring your heart — and your hardest questions.

These three Experiences are not just moments.
They’re thresholds.
Come ready to cross.

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Wisdom Camp 2025: Radical Mysticism
Subversive Contemplation, Playful Visioning, Storytelling and Other Keys to Interior/Exterior Healing and Transformation.
Our day will be facilitated by Carl McColman and Debonee Morgan, two Atlanta-based contemplative troublemakers who bring a breadth of knowledge and perspective to our shared conversation.

LeadNow!
LeadNow! is a select group of seminarians, first-call ministers & faith leaders from around the country – a diverse cohort of forward-thinking friends & colleagues committed to encouraging & supporting each other as we lead our communities toward a more just and equitable future.
Facilitated by Jaqcui Buschor and Jones

Don’t Skip Recess

What is it? What happens when a former youth pastor becomes a spiritual director specializing in the realms of trauma and addiction?

Oddly enough, Don’t Skip Recess happens. The emotional burden that precious humans can carry these days tends to be heavy, gloomy, isolating, and stressful. Can you relate?

Don’t Skip Recess is devoted to delving into the lands of
Play | Presence | Innocence
This magic medicine is for anyone interested in returning to the wisdom of childlikeness.  Hosted by Matthew Ray Lyda

Faith-Rooted Organizing on New Terrain
Facilitated by Lisa Sharon Harper
Faith-Rooted Organizing draws from the roots of our traditions to help faith communities engage the larger movement for justice in our world. In this workshop, Lisa Sharon Harper will equip participants to analyze their community, strategize, build collaborative networks, and take action inspired by their faith!

Science Camp for Grown-Ups
Hands-On Experiments in Climate Science
Facilitated by JD Stillwater
Spend a day in our Science Tent laboratory, doing some serious playing with the science of climatology, which intersects with many other science disciplines.

Eden Camp: Garden Transitions
Cultivating Thresholds in Sexuality, Spirituality, and Relationship
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.
Facilitated by Michael Morrell and Aline Defiglia

It’s a Neurodiverse Universe
Facilitated by Sarah Frinks Morgan and Jillian Morgan
– Learn the basics about neurodiversity and how it fits into our world.
– Increase your understanding & develop empathy if someone in your life (i.e., family member, co-worker, or YOU) has been diagnosed with a brain difference such as ADHD or on the Autism Spectrum.

Co-led by a cognitive scientist and a disabilities advocate—who are both neuro-distinct. 

Sowing Seeds in the Sand: Transforming the Way You Find Yourself in Antiracism
Facilitated by Jennifer Holt Enriquez and William Bouvel
There will be sociological examinations of definitions of race, racism, systemic racism, internalized racial privilege, internalized racial inferiority, and communal confession, healing and opportunity for liberation.

Participants will experience
– a heartfelt connection with America’s racial history
– a communal expression of grief and complexity
– a faithful Good News answer for why we do antiracism work in the church
– why our communities should embrace it.

Peace in a Violent World: A Workshop on Mimetic Theory and Sacred Nonviolence
Facilitated by Shannon Mullen

In an era of increasing polarization and conflict, finding a path to peace has never been more relevant. This workshop invites participants to explore how Girard’s work illuminates our personal relationships and efforts for social justice, offering insights for peacemaking and community transformation.

This workshop will be participatory, weaving academic insights, dialogue, reflection, and engagement with practical application. All faith backgrounds and levels of familiarity with Girard’s work are welcome.

Whether you’re searching for your story, seeking soul-fueled resistance, or just needing to laugh through the madness, we’ve got you covered. 

Step into story as sacred practice with Ron Pate’s Interactive Stories-telling Workshop. Go beyond “once upon a time” to discover how stories-telling (yes, that hyphen is doing real work!) can awaken new ways of seeing, healing, and connecting. Together, we’ll co-create a tapestry of meaning that can guide us long after the tent flaps close.

Find fierce love in the fight for justice with Katie Kinnison’s They Can’t Have Our Souls, a holy fire of a workshop where mysticism and resistance meet. Inspired by voices like Rumi, Merton, and Audre Lorde, we’ll imagine what it means to show up rooted in love, wild with wonder, and alive to the power of “Oneing.”

And when it all feels too heavy, let Susan Sparks bring the sacred art of laughter in Humor in a Time of Crisis. This isn’t fluff — this is gut-deep joy that defies despair. Come giggle, snort, and ugly-laugh your way toward resilience

This year’s Goose is weaving something wild and wondrous. You in?

Each Monday between now and the festival, we’ll be sharing a sneak peek into the Experiences that make Wild Goose unlike anything else — not lectures, not panels, but soul-stirring, heart-opening, body-moving moments that you’re invited to step into.

We’re talking about the kind of Experiences that help you:

• Rediscover your story
• Resist with love
• Create without apology
• Laugh your way toward healing

And Connect— deeply, wildly and whole-heartedly— in a space where nothing is too heavy, too weird, or too holy to hold.

Some you’ll expect. Some will surprise you.

All of them are invitations — to come alive in community, to stretch into the sacred, and to meet the Divine in motion.

Stay tuned. Your first batch of Wild Goose Experiences drops Monday, April 7

And trust us — you’ll want to read to the bottom.