WISDOM CAMP
Pre-Festival Offering
Thursday July 13, 2023

For so many of us, sexuality has been a place of taboo and restriction — what we avoid, rather than what we embrace.

Many of us come from religious backgrounds that neglect bodies, vilify desire, and shun sexual and relational orientations outside of the cis-hetero nuclear family depositing shame on everyone who doesn’t fit within very specific sexual “norms.”  We are told these norms are a part of both sacred scripture and common decency, all the while abusive sexual coercions are often happening behind the scenes.

Too often, the result is shame, shut-down, trauma, and confusion – what for some, is called purity culture. Many justifiably turn away from this in our spiritual and embodied journeys. But many of us ask: So we’re deconstructing purity culture…now what? 

If we’re honest, many of us haven’t found the sexual-ethic insight and direction we seek from the culture at-large, either. The commercialized noise of lowest-common-denominator “sex sells” is hardly an improvement over purity culture.

We don’t know where to look for wise voices, and, perhaps most important of all, we haven’t learned to trust ourselves.

How can we discover, deepen, and celebrate who we are in ways that are resonant with our deepest spiritual values, including our call to justice, and abundant living?

The Wild Goose Festival is a space where people of diverse backgrounds bravely ask many of life’s most pressing questions, co-creating a symphony of responses. We offer a facilitated container leaning with curiosity, courage, and collaboration into specific questions with a cohort of people.

Wisdom Camp: Sexuality invites us to reflect on and activate our own sacred sexuality, moving out of the shadows and into celebration of our unique embodied archetype.