Confirmed presenters for 2006

(as of June 19, 2006)

Robert J. Stewart
Workshop: Using Fairy Crossroads for Fairy Communication. During the first part of the Congress Robert will lead us in creating a stone crossroads.
Robert has had led us on deep fairy journeys every year of the Congress. He will be performing in our Friday night concert.
Bio: R.J. Stewart is a composer, author, and teacher, with 40 books in publication, translated into many languages worldwide. He is widely experienced in theater, film, and television, and is a skilled performer and presenter. From 1988 to the present day R J Stewart has taught workshops and classes in the UK and USA. These include work with Celtic and classical mythological traditions, the Faery and Underworld traditions, music and consciousness. R J Stewart's series of books on the Underworld and Faery traditions have encouraged many people worldwide to work with these ancestral land-oriented spiritual paths.
www.dreampower.com

Lisa Thiel, Sacred Dream Productions.
Lisa’s new CD is fairie music. "Circle of the Seasons"~ an innovative musical portrayal of the Celtic Wheel of the Year. Those of you who have listened to Lisa Thiel's music will know that she is a wonderful singer for the Earth. We are thrilled Lisa is bringing her voice and her songs to the congress.
In Concert – Lisa Thiel and David MacVittie. Music inspired by the Faerie Realm: Songs invoking spirits and nature, the elementals & faeries, for healing and inspiration.
Bio: Lisa Thiel is a visionary artist and ceremonial singer whose healing songs – prayers & chants are being sung in circles around the world. David MacVittie is a Canadian born multi-instrumentalist who feels sound is a form of audible light.
www.sacreddream.com

Mary J. Getten
Workshop: We know from past Fairy Congresses that this valley is filled with beings from many realms, but what do we really know about them? In this experiential workshop, we will communicate with the devas, fairies, elementals, and other beings of this sacred valley and record our findings. The knowledge and information we gain will be compiled and posted for all Congress participants to enjoy.
Bio: Mary J. Getten is a telepathic animal communicator, flower essence practitioner, naturalist and author of “Communicating with Orcas: The Whales Perspective”.
www.MaryGetten.com

John Lawrence and Sharon Raven Hill will lead a workshop during the congress as well as a special "Medicine for the Earth" Seminar. June 26, Monday 9:00 – 5:00. $75. Meals provided. The seminar on shamanic practices will use the facilities at Skalitude created for the Congress. An opportunity for people to deepen their experience. John and Sharon have studied with Sharon Ingerman and teach similar shamamic material. Check out Sandra’s site www.medicinefortheearth.com

Eileen Kilgren Bergman, Seattle. Eileen is a very familiar character in Seattle’s Irish scene and has run the Galway Traders store for many years. Every few years she comes out with a new booklet about her fairy communications and experiences.
Workshop: Unseen Worlds – Beings of Light & Beings of Dark. An overview of Light Beings (Fairies, Devas, Faeries & Humans) and Dark Beings (Thought-forms, Demons & Lost Souls).

Raven, Raven ~ Guide to the Spirits
Workshop: How to Communicate with Spirit. Create a new door of communication between the Heavenly realms of Angels and Earthly Beings of the land. Learn tools from these sprits to better understand their wisdom and the Divine insight within you. An interactive workshop giving each participant a chance to practice these tools so that they can better use them in the daily lives.
Evening of Goddess Bellydance lessons with Raven, (will need some drummers). Everyone welcomed! Come create a new connection to the Divine Goddess & Mother Earth. Learn how sacred dance can ground and expand your awareness of self & all life.
Storytelling: Evening or daytime stage, native animal tales & Fairy Folklore/Dragon Stories.
Bio: Raven is a channel for Spirit; including Fairies, Angels and Divine Mother. She offers monthly classes to connect with the Spirit Realm, private healings, and channeled sessions with your spirit guides.
www.ravenmedium.com

Peter Berry
Workshop: “Bright Vision” – Faerie Beings in Irish Story & Poetry. Using imagery from Irish bardic sources accompanied by Celtic harp, we’ll explore and experience the living tradition of human and Faerie interactions and communications. Part performance of Irish Music, song & poetry, this workshop also has a component of empowered communion and communication with the Faerie Realm.
Bio: Peter Berry plays Irish harps and tells stories from the bardic tradition that evoke for our time a connection with the Faerie Realm that our ancestors commonly experienced.

Shemmaho Jephi Sioux, Daystar Enterprises.
Workshop: Sacred Play with the Elementals. Songs & dances to invoke fairies, devas and elementals of all types. I will have a CD & a booklet to go with it to sell, which will have the dances & songs I teach in the workshop.

Linda Quintana
Workshop: 1) Crafting fairy homes – set the space. 2) Tuning in to Plant fairy tones – let go of your human voice – invoke tones, sounds on a more wild uncultivated level, to resonate with plant devas – unveiling their presence for communication.
Bio: At a young age I began communicating with fairies and plant spirits – on different levels with sound and openness. All this exchange and experience has helped deepen my connection of healing people and plants. I have a retail store, Wonderland Herbs, Teas & Spices (26 years) in Bellingham, and Alpine Herb Farm in the foothills of Mt. Baker and the Nooksack River. Fairies live and visit at both places.

Méla MacVittie, Integrated Interiors.
Workshop: "Fairy Shui" or "Fairy Feng Shui" or Creating a Sacred Environment to Attract the Fey. Talking about cleaning clutter (fairies don't like clutter!) Creating outside rooms for dining, meditation and sleeping. Altars and shrines. The Feng Shui principles of earth, fire, wood, metal and water and how to balance these in your home and workplace. Balancing yin & yang in every room. Talking about the "Seat of Power in rooms. Making sure the Chi flows well drawing fairies in by color, flowing chi and creating a magical space.

Madi Nolan
Workshops: At the daytime workshop: I would like to share some amazing Tibetan secret empowerments which will change the energy fields of the body so that the people will find it much easier to see or feel the nature spirits, spirit helpers, and Earth energies. Also, I would like to show some of the exciting and effective ways the Tibetans use their own Feng Shui to solve negative energy problems. Everyone will love to do the Tibetan Red String Cure because they will feel its effects "immediately" . I will also show the group how to easily walk into another Dimension! The one I choose will give them direct access to their spirit guides and also for quickly manifesting.
The evening lecture and slide show will be demonstrating how to empower your camera or digital which will last the lifetime of the camera, so that they can capture the images of hidden Earth beings, ley lines, auras around the trees and stones, and human spirit guides. Also, this will allow them to capture the various dimensions which surround us. (time to be announced at the gathering.)
Bio: Madi Nolan: Doctor of Tibetan Medicine, ordained Lama, International Workshop Presenter in Europe, London, Australia, Canada, Asia and the US. Fifteen years of training in Tibetan Earth spirits and Feng Shui which is the equivalent of the Fairies. Taken many photos of the hidden energies and beings of the Earth.

Morgan Brent,
Workshop: Tribal talk is a variant of 'soning', which explores the fertile spaces between toning and singing. Tribal talk is the art of being very articulate in speaking words with no meaning, i.e. no 'apparent' meaning, for all the nuances of intonation, phrasing, timing, the give and take of speaking and listening, etc., all that makes for good conversation, are highly present, for they carry the stream of meaning. A well-executed tribal talk session helps cleanse our vibrational palate, gets us on the 'felt' wavelength of communication, creates space for other Beings in this and other dimensions to converse with and thru us, and is good, mystical fun!
Bio: Morgan Brent has a background in Taoist vitality practices and philosophies (e.g. opening a tai chi chuan school in SF), academia (PhD in anthropology), and 'Teacher Plant' traditions, most recently working with local curanderos (shamans) in the Peruvian Amazon. He currently applies himself to speaking, writing, singing, and living out the energies of ceremonial gatherings, in deepeniing his participation in a global culture of devotion to the life of spiritual awakening and Earth-conscious living.
www.tribesofcreation.com

Orion Foxwood.
Workshops: Current world events: An underworld perspective.
Teens at the Crossroads.
Bio: for the last 20 years, Orion has studied and practiced Faery Seership and other folk magic and healing practices. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and is the author of the book entitled “The Faery Teachings” (Muse Press).
www.foxwood-temple.net

MythMaker, Mt. Elphinstone, British Columbia.
MythMaker is an inter-disciplinary arts collective combining sacred theatre, dance, fire performance, puppetry, music, stilt walking, visual art and storytelling.
Our Vision: To embody ancient tribal mythologies, cultural archetypes and spiritual technologies that will allow us to regain a connection to our ancestry and nature. From this we can gain a clarity and sensitivity to think and live sustainably, inspiring this new myth through example. Weaving aspects of ancient Celtic fairy lore and Native American legends, mythmaker creates performances that are both theatre and ritual, artistic and spiritual in theme and content.
The Congress is happy to feature MythMaker this year as one of the cornerstones for this year’s performance art theme. Their main performance will be at the Friday evening show.
www.mythmaker.ca

Gail Smedley
Workshop: Calling forth the faery within: Creating magic through story. This is a storytelling workshop that balances storytelling technique with motivators for writing stories of transformation and magic. The workshop will involve participants in drama, storytelling, and improv games as well as guide them in short writing exercises that would help them call forth the magic within. Stories are a fabulous tool for healing and transformation if we can connect with the faery within!

Lady Cyn
Workshops: The Dance of Two Lights. A twilight workshop which teaches why this time of day is so powerful and how to access it for Visual connections and other forms of communication with the Faery Realms.
The Secret Language of the Trees. Come and learn to connect with the devas of the trees and listen to the wisdom they have to offer us. We will explore the language of the trees called the Oghams. Participants will have the opportunity to experience a guided meditation that will help them connect with the devic realms of the trees and to connect with its wisdom and healing messages. We will have a hands on lab making ogham fews.

David Lertzman
Workshop: Rediscovering the Fairy Faith Through Music, Magic & Song. This workshop is a magical journey into the fairy realm with voice, drum, guitar, flutes and various percussion instruments drawing on the Bardic tradition, we will explore our connection with the Ancestors and nature Spirits. Learn chants, spells and songs you can take with you to develop your own repetoire for ceremony and celebration, or develop your own! David will also be playing music with Lisa Thiel and David MacVittie.
Bio: David Lertzman Ph.D. is an environmental educator, cross-cultural facilitator and multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who has studied and practiced Fairy Magic for 20 years. He has performed, led activities and spoken at festivals, conferences, institutions, communities and private venues in Canada, the United States, South America and Britain. His songs are particularly well known in Rediscovery, a cross-cultural wilderness education program run from First Nations communities in Canada. His two decades of research, professional and personal involvement with Indigenous peoples have inspired the renewal of European nature traditions within North American ecosystems. David is a professor of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at the University of Calgary. He lives in a cabin on the Ghost River in the forests of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains.

Ephemera & Emily Wilde
Workshop: Labyrinth workshop for the teens on Friday afternoon. We will explore the meaning of labyrinths and create a labyrinth which can then be a part of the Whole Congress. Emily will lead a Bellydancing for Teens workshop.