Wild Goose Festival

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Wherever we come together - at our nationwide festival, smaller local and regional gatherings, or online spaces - we learn and grow by co-creating art, music, story, theater, and spectacle, engaging in a wide variety of robust, courageous conversations with each other and with thought leaders and artists from other communities.

Schedule:

7:30am: Rise and Shine with Paula Rainey Benson

8:00am: Nature Immersion Experience

8:00am: Morning Prayer

8:00am: Walkers of the Labyrinth brings a Sacred Gem to The Goose.

8:30am: Waking the Goose with Obery Hendricks and Convergence Music Project

9:00am: Recovery at the Goose

9:00am: The Vent Tent: A booth where anybody can experience judgement-free listening from James Clarke, a Unitarian Universalist chaplain. It's safe to info-dump and trauma-dump on James; he doesn't mind.

9:00am: The Crooked Path of GriefAn interactive, experiential installation

9:00am: EXHIBIT: The Secret World of Bees! - Observation Hive at the Science Tent

9:00am: EXHIBIT: Forgotten connections: traditional uses of natural materials

9:00am: Studio Connections Launch

9:00am: Lamentation Wall

10:00am: Judy Peterson

10:00am: The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology-Eucontamination: Disgust Theology, Queerness, and the Church

10:00am: “The Work” prison documentary screening and origin story – Truth, Courage, Compassion

10:00am: Teen Art and Snacks

10:00am: Spiritual Keys - Stations of the Heart: A Meditative Journey of Reflection Through Art

10:00am: Climate, Song, Theology, and Hope: How to create faithful art that inspires hope in climate justice

10:00am: Connecting with our parts: A journey inside from an IFS perspective

10:00am: Spiritual Direction

10:00am: Shift Talk: Nurturing Connections Through Compassionate Communication\ - Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Relationships!

10:00am: Godly Play Friday Morning - Parables of Jesus

10:00am: On Purity Culture: Moving from Rage-Journaling to Public Scholarship

10:00am: Compassionate Communities: A Path out of Isolation, Fear, and Scarcity

10:00am: Transformation Through Mandalas: Connection to Self and The Divine

10:00am: Mycological Spirituality: Finding the Divine in the Science of Mushrooms

10:00am: What is Wild Church?

10:00am: Life After Doom

10:00am: Chebon Kernell - Land Back 2.0

10:00am: Beyond A WRINKLE IN TIME: Books that have changed lives - yours and mine

10:00am: On the Wings of a Dove: Reclaiming the Goddess Blessing of Jesus, of Us, of the Earth

10:00am: Lonnie Rott

10:00am: Decision Making

10:00am: Building The Church without the tools of Patriarchy-Hierarchy

10:00am: Discerning the Holy Spirit in Mysticism and Activism

10:00am: But Loves You

10:00am: Salvation South

11:00am: Roger Wolsey - Discovering Fire: Christianity, SBNR, and the Psychedelic Renaissance

11:00am: We Are Earth with Joshua Long

11:00am: No Fixed Abode: Deconstructing Church as a Family Experiment with Lessons from Piracy

11:00am: Ken Medema improvises a song from your connection story

11:00am: Unbound Love

11:00am: Sisters in Mourning: Daughters Reflecting on Care, Loss, and Meaning

11:00am: Guided open flow movement - dance to release into Holy Spirit.

11:00am: Mike Maeshiro

11:00am: Simple Hearth-Home for the Spiritual Wayfarer

11:00am: From the Pew to the Front Lines: Building Connections Among Faith-Based LGBTQIA+ Activists

11:00am: The Secret World of Bees! - Observation Hive - Live bees at the Science Tent(This is a hive where bees are enclosed and cannot exit or escape. It is

11:00am: Less Helping Them, More Healing You: Detaching from Difficult Relationships with Love and Mercy

11:00am: Let's talk about Christian nationalism: What it is, where you're seeing it in your community, and how we can fight it together

11:00am: Listen to the Kids!

11:00am: Becoming a Friend of The Earth; Connecting to Nature through Hiking

11:00am: Hawaiian Healing from Sexual Abuse

11:00am: I'm Not Singing That: How One Congregation Curated a Fresh Songbook for Worship Title-Short I'm Not Singing That: How One Congregation Curated a Fresh Songbook for Worship

11:00am: Mapping our places: who's in, who's out?A conversation on land and space, the politics of domination, and making repairs

11:00am: How to be published: tips for new and aspiring writers

11:00am: The Role of Human Connection in Deconstruction and the Exvangelical Experience: The Ties That Fray and The Ties That Bind

11:00am: Connect With the Soul of the Green Man: An Ancient Symbol Beckons Us to Spiritual Growth and Planetary Community

11:00am: Eco-Chaplaincy and Earth Accompaniment: An immersive exploration through spiral of gratitude, grief, and active hope.

11:00am: Pub Theology Live!

11:00am: An Experiential Introduction to Soul Focused Energy Healing

11:00am: Book Signing

11:00am: Jack Wallis - Raised By The Goose

11:00am: Shadow Work for RTS (Religious Trauma Syndrome)

11:30am: The Fractured Whole: A Queer Minister's Guide To Reconstructing Faith for LGBTQ+ and Allies

11:30am: Book Signing

12:00pm: Three Strikes You're In

12:00pm: Panel Discussion: Confronting Christian Nationalism

12:00pm: Take the Goose Home

12:00pm: Eucharist with Healing Prayer

12:00pm: Let Go and Move On

12:00pm: Evangelicalism and Social Imaginaries

12:00pm: My Anchor Holds

12:00pm: You Lied to Me About God: Unpacking the Shame-Filled Messages of Spiritual Abuse and Religious Trauma

12:00pm: Art Memorial for Post-Colonial Resistance (an art installation by Sebs the Poet and Chris Nelson Art)

12:00pm: Mobilizing Faith Communities for Mental Health Advocacy

12:00pm: Songwriting as a Spiritual Practice

12:00pm: Rebuilding and Deepening Connections in the Wake of Deconstruction with Contemplative Practice

12:00pm: Queer and Christian-- Where do we fit?

12:00pm: Only One Song: Science and Unity

12:00pm: Saving Our Democracy and The Church

12:00pm: Keeping the Good: How to Not Become That Which We Hate, or How to Survive and Even Thrive the Coming Times

12:00pm: The New Major Portraits of United States Christianities in the Last Five Years”

12:00pm: A Celtic Hero’s Journey: Connect Life-Affirming Wisdom from Ancient Myth with the Power of Your Own Imagination

12:00pm: Experiencing 12-Step Spirituality

12:00pm: An Honest Guide to Getting through Grief without the Condolences, Sympathy, and Other BS

12:00pm: Book Signing

12:00pm: The Moonshine Jesus Show

12:15pm: Rising Hope

12:30pm: Book Signing

1:00pm: Internal Family Systems (IFS) as Spiritual Practice for Healing

1:00pm: The Work Followup Discussion

1:00pm: Exiles and Other Wanderers

1:00pm: Rewilding the Sacraments: Sacred Rituals for Connecting with Creation

1:00pm: The Work Followup Discussion

1:00pm: The Work Followup Discussion

1:00pm: The Way of Council - A Communal Contemplative Practice

1:00pm: Holy Shenanigans Connections

1:00pm: Can church be fully online?

1:00pm: The Power of Art to Transform

1:00pm: Keri Ladouceur Interview with Stan Mitchell

1:00pm: Faith and Democracy - how do we do it?

1:00pm: Experiments with childlikeness: approaching an emancipated innocence, centering the childlike, and choosing joy

1:00pm: Connecting Failure to the Future

1:00pm: Mysticism’s Shadow: Reckoning with Psychedelics’ Fascist Spiritual Potential

1:00pm: Stepping Out of Mainline Privilege: Re-Forming the Church with Queer and Ex-evangelical Wisdom

1:00pm: Lindsey Sampson

1:00pm: From Purity Culture to Polyamory: Finding a Sexual Ethic That Works For You

1:00pm: Open Studio

1:00pm: Book Signing

1:30pm: Book Signing

2:00pm: Songs In The Key Of Resistance for Gaza

2:00pm: Pulpit Pandemonium

2:00pm: Comtemporary Issues of Native People

2:00pm: Sarah McCammon, Sheri Pallas, Paula Williams and Brian McLaren

2:00pm: Climate crisis + Justice + Faith communities = Solutions and Tools Swap

2:00pm: Social Justice Investing – How to Do Well by Doing Good

2:00pm: Food and Faith Podcast

2:00pm: Liturgical Art: A visual way to Connect

2:00pm: What Do Sex, Quantum Physics, Religion, Government, Family, and Community Have in Common?: It’s The Interactions That Really Matter.

2:00pm: Brit Barron

2:00pm: Godly Play Friday Afternoon - Creation

2:00pm: Chris DuPont and Kylee Phillips

2:00pm: Laughter Yoga

2:00pm: Reiki Mini Sessions

2:00pm: Navigating the Legacy of Art in a Shifting World: Exploring the Intersection of Art, Theology, and Evolving Experiences

2:00pm: We Shall Overcome: Secrets of the Civil Rights Movement

2:00pm: Practicing Lament: Spiritual Practices for Tending Grief

2:00pm: Connecting by Numbers: Deepening Relationships through the Enneagram

2:00pm: Divine Feminine Rising and Christ Consciousness: a Spirit-led interactive workshop to awaken and reclaim a broader understanding of the Divine

2:00pm: Book Signing

2:30pm: Guided Meditations: Connect Body, Spirit, Community, and Earth

2:30pm: Ragamuffin Movie Screening, with a Q and A with Director David Leo Schultz

2:30pm: Book Signing

3:00pm: Why Can’t I Get Myself To….? Using Cognitive Science to Increase Motivation to Follow Through and Actually Get Things Done

3:00pm: How to Handle the Bible when Endorsing Marriage Equality: Come Glean Key Nuggets from Biblical Scholar and Award-Winning Educator Dr Bird!

3:00pm: The New Heretics (Book Talk)

3:00pm: GAY with GOD! Podcast

3:00pm: SEEKING THE SACRED

3:00pm: Progressive Christian Life on Campus: ZOE!

3:00pm: Constantly Connect with Others about Saving the Us and Earth

3:00pm: Story Circle - Exercises to help you tease out your true personal stories.

3:00pm: How to do Beer and Hymns in Your Town

3:00pm: Making a Racial Justice Pilgrimage with Your Faith Community

3:00pm: It's Complicated: Re-Imagining Our Relationship With the Bible

3:00pm: Open Studio

3:00pm: Children's afternoon lawn games in the backyard

3:00pm: The Christian Left - 15 Years Of Stories

3:00pm: Take Back Christianity (a ProgressiveChristianity.org project)

3:00pm: Carol Howard - Spiritual Wounds

3:00pm: Book Signing

3:00pm: Greg Walton

3:30pm: Book Signing

4:00pm: Reclaiming Church: Strategies for renewing tomorrow’s church today

4:00pm: Campfire Therapy

4:00pm: How to discern a meaningful career that does good (Christians for Impact)

4:00pm: Right-Wing Evangelicals Can Change--I Did

4:00pm: Base Christian Communities - Beyond deconstructing: learning from the vibrant resiliency of marginalized Christian Communities

4:00pm: Religious Orders Convo

4:00pm: What Grew My Church, What Shrank It, and Does it Matter?

4:00pm: Jailbroken Miracles: Signs and Wonders Beyond Charismania and Deconstruction

4:00pm: Politurgy: How We Think, Talk, and Preach Politics in an Election Year

4:00pm: Healing Wounds Through Shared Stories

4:00pm: Do Art: Make a Rainbow!

4:00pm: Won't You Be My Neighbor? Creating Domestic Temples for More Connected Neighborhoods

4:00pm: Finding Yourself in the Climate Story (Pt 1)

4:00pm: Unraveling Misunderstandings: The Impact of Theological Mistranslations

4:00pm: Psychedelics and Spiritual Care

4:00pm: Book Signing

4:30pm: Book Signing

5:00pm: Warmly welcoming LGBTQI folks: practical plans and candid conversations.

5:00pm: Ashley O’Shay’s In Due Season, made possible by ACS-CAN and Black Voters Matter, presented by Together for Hope

5:00pm: Finding Yourself in the Climate Story (Pt 2)

5:00pm: Accidental Tomatoes

5:00pm: EcoPreaching and The Climate Crisis

5:00pm: How to Be a Christian Atheist [Taoist Jewish Mystic]

5:00pm: Jesus the Jewish Storyteller: Of Pearls and Prodigals

5:00pm: Experience Community through Contra Dancing, which is like square dance. A caller will show you the dance moves. Spin your partner!

5:00pm: Queer-led Worship: Taize Around the Cross

5:00pm: Wild Church

5:00pm: Release Ecstatic Dance

5:00pm: Beer and Hymns Happy Hour

5:00pm: Pub Karaoke

5:00pm: Pub Karaoke

5:00pm: Sara Cunningham

5:00pm: LeadNow! Happy Hour

5:00pm: Book Signing

5:00pm: Silly Songs with Chris

5:30pm: Drum Circle: Drumming together at the Goose

5:30pm: Book Signing

6:00pm: Goose In The Round hosted by Terry and Kirsti, with ...

6:00pm: Taize Together, an evening vesper service

6:00pm: Sponsor Reception

7:00pm: Claybrook

7:00pm: Recovery at the Goose

7:00pm: Large group storybook reading for bedtime

7:20pm: i.V King

7:30pm: Album Release and Performance by Tuf Francis

7:50pm: JKwest

8:00pm: Cuddle Connection Plus + The Art of Wholehearted Consent

8:10pm: Spencer LaJoye

9:00pm: Beer and Hymns

10:00pm: Goose After Dark Storytelling Open Mic

10:00pm: Honky Tonk Music - Dance

10:30pm: Silent Disco 10 pm to ???

10:30pm: Compline (Night Prayers)

11:00pm: AcoustaGoose

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