nature being human

🌿 belonging beyond systems of humaning 🌿

Vancouver, BC: in unceded Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh lands
Facilitated by ocean vast, Brian Mount & the more-than-human kin field

October 17–19, 2025

a 3-day in-person gathering on being human as belonging

Systems sell belonging as performance or permission … nature remembers belonging as relationship.

this gathering invites us to practice belonging rooted in honesty, accountability, grief, and care.

🌀 Why This Gathering?

if your belonging has always felt borrowed…
if you’ve felt shaped more by exile than embrace…
if your essence has outgrown your identity—come.
this is not a workshop. this is a grove of sacred remembrance.

We live inside systems that confuse belonging with approval, transaction, conformity, or performance. These systems—colonial, capitalist, patriarchal—teach us to “human” in ways that extract, separate, and erase.

But belonging, in its deeper sense, is not given or withheld by systems.

Belonging is older, wilder, more entangled. It lives in relationships—with each other, with the more-than-human world, and with the mysteries of grief, love, and repair.

This gathering is an invitation to practice belonging that does not collapse into purity or performance, but roots itself in honesty, accountability, and care.

🌀 Themes:

  • Belonging beyond systems of entitlement, identity performance, or conformity.
    • How do we re-root our belonging in relationship, not transaction?
  • Grief as teacher: composting loss and rupture lay the foundations of living belonging.
    • How do grief and mourning make space for and teach deeper connection?
  • The Shape of Belonging: What does it mean to belong when nothing is stable?
  • Embodied Polarity: Can we live the dance between structure and spirit, boundary and flow?
  • Relational integrity: Accountability as practice, not product.
    • How do we recognize impact & take responsibility without centering guilt or blame?
  • Meta-Relational Integrity: How do we track harm & presence at the field level—not just the personal?
  • Collective listening: What do we hear when we tune to land, each other, and what lies between us?
  • Nature Being Human: How do we listen to ecosystems of self, other, and collective time?

🌀Who This Is For

You may be a space-holder, artist, healer, educator, facilitator, survivor, settler, witch, skeptic, queer kin, or all of the above.

You may feel like:

  • the story of family you inherited doesn’t hold your truth.
  • you’ve done all the healing “work” and still feel unclaimed.
  • you know belonging isn’t found in identity, but you don’t know where else to turn.
  • you long for a relational space that doesn’t demand clarity, agreement, or certainty.
  • belonging is not a right, but a practice – and you know you need practice!Feel done with performance-based belonging
  • Long for deep fieldwork that doesn’t require clear answers

You might feel called if you’ve:

  • been shaped by exile (internally or externally) from dominant stories of family, gender, culture, or nation.
  • tasted many modalities, but still seek relational truth.
  • felt displaced from community, land, role, body
  • longed to remember a kind of belonging that doesn’t require agreement, assimilation, fixing, alignment, or identity performance.
  • felt the ache of displacement—spiritually, ancestrally, or relationally—and are ready to sit with it without forcing meaning
  • grown tired of healing frameworks that diagnose instead of honor
  • sensed that grief is a threshold, not a problem

You might feel called if you’re:

  • ready to be undone in ways that feel more real and grow new roots
  • tired of being asked to fit into systemic frames for healing
  • ready to grieve your defenses, not just your losses.
  • seeking relational responsibility, not purity or certainty
  • aware that your presence has impact—and want to carry it with care–but don’t yet know how to hold it responsibly.
  • tired of being centered—and ready to be rewoven.

If the soil under your feet feels like it’s shifting,
if your names no longer hold you,
if your grief feels like weather—
this field is for you.

This is for those ready to sit at the compost altar of un-belonging—not to replant themselves in new systems, but to learn to root in truth.

No prior constellation experience needed.
Only a willingness to slow down, be witnessed, and stay with what emerges.

Who it’s not for:

  • Those seeking step-by-step self-help formulas or polished quick-fix toolkits
  • Anyone wanting to avoid discomfort, paradox, or systemic accountability
  • People looking to be reassured, rescued, or centered
  • Anyone unwilling to engage their own entanglement in systems of harm
  • Those unable to hold facilitators as humans—not just vessels of care.

Weekend Flow

Friday Evening – Rooting Down
 Arrival • Land acknowledgment and attunement • agreements for holding and tending the field • Opening ritual to honor longings and resistances

Saturday – The Living Field
 Somatic polarity practices • Relational repair and accountability labs • Grief tending and composting rituals • Renaturing constellation • Evening song or fire circle?

Sunday – Carrying It Forward
 Collective Integration • weaving what we’ve learned back into our lives and communities • applications for community/systemic life • Collective field Composting • Applying belonging beyond systems to relational and collective contexts • resourcing the return • Threshold ritual of closure and re-entry • Closing circle/ceremony/celebration • land offering

You will leave with more questions than answers,
… but with more capacity to stay with them.

🐚 Registration & Orientation

How to step into this grove:

Participation begins with a Worldview Self-Assessment & Intake Form, where you’ll be invited to reflect on:

  • Your relationship to paradox and uncertainty
  • How you tend to respond to rupture or feedback
  • Your longings for this work and any hesitations you carry

You’ll also receive orientation materials, including field agreements and preparation invitations, so that we enter this space with shared clarity.

Field Agreements Review: Relational accountability, energetic clarity, consent to process

Preparation Invitations: Short readings & listenings from ocean and Brian.

You don’t need to be ready. You only need to be real.

🐾 Your Facilitators

Ocean (they/them) and Brian (he/him) co-weave this gathering. Their work rests in polarity—between Spirit and Frame, between openness and boundary. Together, they tend to the spaces where rupture becomes compost, grief becomes teacher, and belonging becomes more than what systems allow.

ocean vast naturebeing (they/them) is a two-spirit naturebeing of mixed metis cree and celtic ancestry, raised in the flathead valley and living on unceded coast salish lands. they’ve been walking with constellation work since 2004, weaving it with relational neuroscience, movement, and earth-based ritual. their practice supports people in gently composting internalized systems and reclaiming belonging beyond imposed identities. they work with what’s tender, tangled, and ready to move—trusting the wisdom of the body, the land, and what lives beyond language. ocean vast is here to listen, to remember, and to walk with others through the beautiful undoing.

Brian Mount (he/him) is a somatic practitioner, ritual artist, and field listener with deep roots in grief work, mythopoetic inquiry, and movement-based healing. Trained in body-based trauma resolution, he carries a gentle fierceness that invites people into honest relationship with rupture, memory, and the body’s truth.

Brian is guided by the rhythms of nature, the silence between words, and the spaciousness required for real transformation. His work dances at the edge of structure and spirit—grounded, but not rigid. He is most at home in the unnameable spaces where grief meets grace, and where belonging grows like mycelium: quiet, entangled, alive.