an in-person gathering on being human as belonging
Vancouver, BC, Canada/Cascadia ~ with and within unceded Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh sacred lands,
tended by ocean vast, Brian Mount & our more-than-human kin.
… new dates coming soon …
Systems sell belonging as performance or permission …
nature remembers belonging as
🌱 relationship 🌱
this gathering invites us to practice belonging rooted in care.
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.
🍁 why this gathering?
Belonging is not given or withheld by systems. (We do that to each other and ourselves).
Belonging is older, wilder, more entangled than the human systems that support our modern existence. It lives in relationships with each other, with the more-than-human world, and with what is not yet seen.
We live inside systems that confuse belonging with approval, transaction, conformity, and acquired value. These colonial, capitalist, and patriarchal systems teach us to “human” in ways that extract, separate, and erase.
This gathering is an invitation to practice belonging that does not collapse into conformity or performance, but roots itself in honesty, accountability, and care.
🌀 themes we will explore:
- The Shapes of Belonging: Can we sense the difference between working to belong in systems that define and limit … and receiving /surrendering to belonging in whole systems of nature?
- Belonging beyond systems: What does re-rooting our belonging in relationship, not transaction, earned worth, or conformity look and feel like?
- Embodied Polarity: Can we live the dance between structure and spirit, boundary and flow?
- Nature Being Human: What do we hear when we tune to land, each other, and what lies between us?
- Collective listening: How do we listen to ecosystems of self, other, and collective time?
💚 the heart of the gathering
This theme emerges from unsystemic de-constellation work, an ongoing collaborative exploration between ocean naturebeing and Brian Mount, and more deeply, from their refusal to separate the experience of being human from the web of relations that hold, shape, and undo us.
this is not a workshop on how to belong …
not a training on what to do.
it is an invitation to remember what it means to be human
when no system is asking you to perform it.
This experience is designed for people who want to root into the experience of being human through the lens of embodied, relational belonging.
We use a form of field-based facilitation called renaturing constellation—a non-clinical, non-linear, unsystemic, trauma-informed and body-oriented practice that that listens to the field, not the system, letting us feel into inherited patterns and compost them.
There will be space for ritual, story, silence, song, rhythm, bodywork, and land-based, nature-based resonant … and dissonant … presence.
This is not a skills training or therapeutic model. It’s a space to reconnect to what being human means when systems and identities are not the focus.
We are not teaching belonging as something you earn. We are practicing how to co-regulate with what was never gone, only forgotten.
this is a field of remembering – an invitation to be human outside of systems, outside of roles, outside of performances of worth.
This is a ritual ecology: a living field for those who have felt disoriented, exiled, or dismembered by the false promises of familial, cultural, or professional belonging. Here, we return to a deeper kinship with the wisdom of the body and the land.
This is a clearing: a temporary grove where those who’ve lost their place (in families, movements, bodies, or the land itself) can come into right relation with their disorientation.
No prior constellation experience needed.
Only a willingness to slow down, be ‘with’nessed,
and stay with what emerges.
we don’t rush this, this is not first come, first served.
this is a field-formed gathering.
we are calling in those whose longing can meet the work with care.
🌱 who is this gathering for?
• you who has exhausted yourself trying to do human right in order to have a place in the world.
• you who do the work of fitting into boxes for healing and support and still not getting what you need.
• you who know that the systems aren’t working, but who can’t see any other options.
• you who know the pain and futility of leaving a part of yourself behind in order to fit in.
• you who span/defy roles, identities or categorization – queer, trans, poly, mixed heritage, black sheep, neuro-different, oddballs, and anyone for whom this is a feature, but the labels aren’t right ~ especially you.
You may notice that:
• the story of family you inherited doesn’t hold your truth.
• you long for a relational space that doesn’t demand agreement or clarity.
• belonging is not a right, but a practice, and you know you need practice!
• you long for deep fieldwork that doesn’t require clear answers
You might feel called if you’ve:
• felt 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
• been left with 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
this is a threshold space ~ it isn’t for everyone …
so if your longing hears this call, the field already recognizes you,
… and you already belong.
⚠️ who this is not for:
- Those seeking step-by-step self-help formulas or quick-fix toolkits
- Anyone wanting to avoid discomfort, paradox, or accountability
- People looking to be reassured, rescued, or centered
- Those unwilling to engage their entanglement in systems of harm
- Folks unable to hold facilitators as humans—not just vessels of care.
🌬️ weekend flow
Saturday – rooting into the living field
• Arriving: Meeting the land, meeting each other, orienting to our space, and sharing our collective presence. • Renaturing constellations: progressing from individual to collective. 10am until 5pm (break 1-2pm)
Sunday – carrying it forward or “honoring the dream”
• Collective Integration: weaving what we’ve learned back into ourselves, our lives and our communities with grounded action steps as we go forward. 11am until 3pm (break 1-1:30pm)
You will leave with more questions than answers,
… but with more capacity to stay with them.
💧resonant reciprocity
We offer three pathways of provision on a resonance-based scale to meet the diversity of lived realities and to honor different access points:
🌱 Seed price — $200 (supported) for those with limited access to financial resources, for those at financial edge, or experiencing systemic dislocation.
🌾 Nourishment price — $350 (sustaining) sustains land use, facilitation of this work and our livelihoods.
🌳 Abundance price — $500+ (regenerative) supports access for others + future gatherings
Choose a rate that reflects your current capacity, not your worth. Provision is relational—not transactional. (this is part of the relational field, not a prerequisite to enter it.) Payment plans and bursaries available, no one turned away for lack of funds. Let us know what’s possible for you; this is a mutual field, not a financial barrier.
🌍 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
- 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, and consent to process. Before we gather, we will orient around specific mutual relational agreements to be gently upheld during the gathering. We welcome you to contribute requests and prerequisites for participation to our shared document.
📘 Preparation Invites: Short readings & listenings.
You don’t need to be ready. You only need to be real.
🍃 what you might want to bring:
- Your breath and your body as it is
- An object or ancestral item representing belonging for you
- Comfortable clothes for sitting, moving, resting
- Willingness to stay with what cannot be resolved
- More than “readiness” you’ll need curiosity and humility
- Housing: [Options nearby / camping / Airbnb suggestions provided upon inquiry]
- Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada/Cascadia: specific details shared upon registration
- Meals: Light snacks provided. Meal times are informal with the option to bring food to share.
- Accessibility: [Details on mobility, rest areas, sensory access soon to come]
🌿 our relational tenders:
🌊 ocean vast naturebeing
(they/them) is a two-spirit critter of mixed metis cree and celtic ancestry, raised within Pend d’Oreille, Upper Ql̓ispé, and Kootenai / Ksanka / Ktunaxa peoples’ lands in the flathead valley, Montana, and living on unceded coast salish lands in portland, OR. they’ve been walking with constellation work since 2004, weaving the work with dream tending, their academic work in paleo-psychology (an integrative study of indigenous knowing ways and the evolution of human consciousness), earth-based ritual, archetypal storytelling, relational neuroscience/trauma awareness, social justice/cultural creation, and their own special flavors of humor, depth and humility.
ocean co-founded SCI: The Seattle Constellations Institute, in 2006, authored chapter 10: ‘Dream Constellations’ in Returning to Membership in Earth Community: Systemic Constellations with Nature in 2011, presented their work at the National Constellation Conferences in 2011, 2013 & 2015 and have offered a proposal for presenting their new work with Brian the conference in 2026. ocean facilitates renaturing constellation for individual clients in person in nature throughout Cascadia, and on zoom using crystals, in addition to in group settings.
ocean works with what’s tender, tangled, and ready to move … trusting the wisdom of the body, the land, and what lives beyond language.
🏔️ Brian Mount
(name as pronoun) 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.
let the parts of you that were never claimed by human systems
be welcomed fully by earth, breath, love & the gaze of kin