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

8:00am: Plant walk

8:00am: Nature Immersion Experience

8:00am: Morning Prayer

8:30am: Waking the Goose with Keri Ladouceur 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: Lamentation Wall

9:00am: Open Studio

10:00am: Healing the attachment wounds of a punitive “Father God” and making space for secure connection

10:00am: Christian McIvor

10:00am: Connecting Failure to the Future

10:00am: Teen Art and Snacks

10:00am: Angela Spearman

10:00am: Bearing False Witness: How Christian Preaching and Teaching Malign Jewish Practice and Belief

10:00am: Church and Debt Liberation

10:00am: Ancient Ways to Make Your Relationship with God Whole Again

10:00am: Building Psychologically Resilient Faith Communities

10:00am: Moving from Fear to Love through the Power of Forgiveness: An Evidence-based approach that Can Change Your Life

10:00am: Ashley O’Shay’s In Due Season, made possible by ACS-CAN and Black Voters Matter, presented by Together for Hope

10:00am: Godly Play Saturday Morning - The Great Family

10:00am: Show Name

10:00am: Sufi Zikr

10:00am: Be Still and Know that I Am: Cultivating Connection to Spirit with Dynamical Neurofeedback®

10:00am: Clergy Conversations and Connections. Let's talk about the unique joys and challenges that we experience in congregational and chaplaincy life.

10:00am: Psychedelics and the Healing of Christianity

10:00am: How to Get Started as a Writer: Practical Tips for Getting Unstuck

10:00am: Looking Inward, Living Outward: The Spiritual Practice of Social Transformation.

10:00am: The Ted Lasso Relationship Guide

10:00am: Common Good Podcast - What do we do with all this Anxiety?

11:00am: Ebony L. Perkins

11:00am: Josh Scott

11:00am: Enter Arkadia: Psychedelics, Dreams, and Reclaiming Arcane Christian Cosmology

11:00am: Cultivating a Beauty-First Life

11:00am: Words, Wonder, and The Divine in You - it's all about Connections!

11:00am: Uncertainty and Courage: Living with OCD as a Spiritual Practice

11:00am: Drag Me To Church

11:00am: My Story Isn't Over ; Overcoming Suicide While Connecting With Authentic Community

11:00am: (re)-constructing Christian Sexual Ethics

11:00am: Ukulele Jam Session

11:00am: Flipped Church: Church Without a Sermon?!

11:00am: What is happening at the Border? Welcoming the Stranger in Crisis

11:00am: Fostering Care: How to Support Foster and Adoptive Families in our Congregations

11:00am: Am I Gonna Die? Facing Serious Illness as a Faith Challenge

11:00am: A Funeral For ALL Things: Connecting those grieving nontraditional losses - church, relationships, faith, job, health, etc -through a ritual of loss

11:00am: Procrastinators Unite and Change the World...tomorrow

11:00am: Jim Wallis

11:00am: get GLUEY at the GOOSE! with hot glue and the gun

11:00am: Craving Connection: A Discussion about Finding Belonging and the Future of Faith Communities

11:00am: Divine Dance Party: Connecting to Our Living Temples and Our Community

11:00am: ENGAGING YOUTH TO HELP “THE LEAST OF THESE” AND CONNECT WITH EVERYONE

11:00am: None are Free til All are Free: The Connection Between Freedom Struggles in the US and Palestine

11:00am: Christo-Druid Shamanic Journey: Encounters with Heavenly Dragons

11:00am: Bodies of Land: connecting place, neighbor, and self in artful reflection

11:00am: Queer Modern Hymns for the Activist Heart w. Beth Patterson

11:00am: Book Signing

11:15am“The Work” prison documentary screening and origin story – Truth, Courage, Compassion

11:30am: BUILDING COMMUNITY DURING AND AFTER DECONSTRUCTION

11:30am: Book Signing

12:00pm: Rob Schenck - Conversation with Stan Mitchell

12:00pm: On not throwing the Bible out with the bathwater

12:00pm: Nature’s Scripture: Let’s Study It Together

12:00pm: Connecting in a healthy way: No trauma, drama, or things you wouldn't share with yo' Momma!

12:00pm: Experience the benefits of Contemplative Writing—what it is, how it works—by writing with us in a supportive group.

12:00pm: Doing Your Authentic Life: Radical Surrender, Standing Naked before the Universe

12:00pm: Neal Stephens

12:00pm: Conversation with Ruby Sales

12:00pm: Open Studio

12:00pm: Brit Barron

12:00pm: The Wild, New, Big and Broader Bible

12:00pm: Calls like the Wild Geese: Worship in the Wilderness

12:00pm: Identity as the body of a whole being? What does that mean? Are you feeling like a skittle in a bowl of MandM's? Come explore your-our space together.

12:00pm: Transgender Memorial Service with Eucharist

12:00pm: Followup: Procrastinators Unite and Change the World...tomorrow

12:00pm: Followup discussion: Flipped Church: Church Without a Sermon?!

12:00pm: A Word of Power: Liturgical Language

12:00pm: The Contemplative Life With a Moral Compass

12:00pm: Produce a Storytelling Show where you live.

12:00pm: Jonah Overton - Besties: Reclaiming Obscured Romance and Sex in Scripture.

12:00pm: Deconstructing Purity Culture and Religious Sexual Trauma

12:00pm: Book Signing

12:00pm: Good Faith Media

12:30pm: Book Signing

1:00pm: Healing Our Souls and the World of Racism with an Ethic of Just Love

1:00pm: Doug Pagitt

1:00pm: Board Games and Liturgy: The Thin Space of Play

1:00pm: Shadow Work and Spirituality

1:00pm: A Conversation about the Religious Dimensions of Doubt and Disbelief

1:00pm: Campfire Therapy

1:00pm: DEI Criminal: Reports on Faith and Diversity from Florida’s War on Woke

1:00pm: Followup: The Contemplative Life With a Moral Compass

1:00pm: What Do Sex, Quantum Physics, Religion, Government, Family, and Community Have in Common?: It’s The Interactions That Really Matter.

1:00pm: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

1:00pm: Kinship and Porkchops: How Embracing Community and Sacred Friendship Cures Burnout

1:00pm: How My Psychedelic Journey Led to Trauma Healing, Less Shame, and More Love

1:00pm: Cultivate a Community of Practice through Following a Rule of Life

1:00pm: Bee-coming: Lessons we can learn from bees about community, inclusion and survival

1:00pm: The World In Lights

1:00pm: Take Your Rest: The Raceless Gospel For Souls Weary of White Supremacy

1:00pm: AI, Quantum Computers, and Mind Uploading: Connecting the Emerging Church with Science and Technology

1:00pm: Let’s Discuss and Co-Create the Art of Living Queer-Trans Joy Inside our Bodies

1:00pm: Practicing Oneness: A Guided Meditation and SharingIs it possible to practice the foundational truth that we are connected and One? Yes!

1:00pm: Energy Healing And Somatic Balance (Embodied Spirit)

1:00pm: Tai Chi

1:00pm: Connecting with Yourself Through the Labyrinth

1:00pm: Social Justice Investors Walk Among Us

1:00pm: Common Creativity - Removing the barriers to creation to cultivate connection to ourselves.

1:00pm: Reading the Bible after Deconstruction:Interpreting the Bible as ancient literature rather than the inerrant “word of God”

1:00pm: Book Signing

1:30pm: Ragamuffin Movie Screening, with a Q and A with Director David Leo Schultz

1:30pm: Book Signing

2:00pm: Songs in the Key of Resistance and the Freedom Church of the Poor

2:00pm: Welcoming Exiles and Other Wanderers: A guide for faith leaders

2:00pm: Godly Play Saturday Afternoon - The Exile and Return

2:00pm: Mitchell Gold Interview with Stan Mitchell

2:00pm: Collective Homiletical Improv

2:00pm: Embodied Spirituality: Dance Practices for Personal and Community Connection

2:00pm: Stacking Stones

2:00pm: Conscious Contact: Prayers and Poetry Inspired by Mystery

2:00pm: Michael Morrell

2:00pm: A Jew and A Gentile Walk Into A Bar ... Mitzvah, The Podcast

2:00pm: The Council of All Beings: Connecting with our Earth-Kin

2:00pm: Open Studio

2:00pm: Daniel Dietrich

2:00pm: Saving The Soul of Democracy

2:00pm: Are You Experienced? Spirituality and Psilocybin as Partners in Grace

2:00pm: Book Signing

2:30pm: Exploring Your Identity: Dimensions of Diversity

2:30pm: Book Signing

3:00pm: On the Tip of Our Tongues: A Pedagogy for the Self- Emancipated

3:00pm: Reiki Mini Sessions

3:00pm: The Epidemic of Family Estrangement

3:00pm: Stirring Holy Mischief!

3:00pm: URSONG: Create and Sing your own chant.

3:00pm: Creating Reentry Connections

3:00pm: How to Tell a Story

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

3:00pm: HELLBENT- How fear and punishment twisted my spirituality, and how I discovered a spirituality of love and connection

3:00pm: Charles Pettee and FolkPsalm

3:00pm: Savor a Sense of Wonder -Take a break from the noise and the crowds to become an explorer.

3:00pm: A Wing and a Prayer: A Wild Goose Connection of Praying from your Enneagram Type

3:00pm: Building Blueprints for Wellness

3:00pm: Ennea-what? An intro to the Enneagram

3:00pm: Defending Democracy

3:00pm: The Green Lectionary

3:00pm: From Weary to Wholehearted

3:00pm: Introduction to Social Presencing Theatre: From Individual Stuck to Group Stuck

3:00pm: Book Signing

3:30pm: Book Signing

4:00pm: Slow Down…Touch Earth: a Contemplative Clay Experience.

4:00pm: Wild Goose Uprising Service : Participatory Worship Service

4:00pm: Confronting White Christian Nationalism: Hope, History, and Grassroots Organizing

4:00pm: The Future of the Church in America – What’s Next?

4:00pm: Planting Love Letters

4:00pm: Storytelling Open Mic

4:00pm: Pub Theology Live!

4:00pm: Rising Hope

4:00pm: Healing hands: Intro Into Energetic Touch

4:00pm: Sustainable Alternatives to Plastic Including Edible Water Bottles

4:00pm: A Connection Between Drag, Liminal Space, and Biblical Justice.

4:00pm: Everyday Armageddons: Stories and Reflections on Death, Dying, God, and Waste

4:00pm: Shadow Work: Integrating Our Hidden Life

4:00pm: Ending Mass Incarceration: Why Progressive People of Faith Should Care and What They Can Do

4:00pm: Storytelling and QandA with Sara Cunningham

4:00pm: Open Studio

4:00pm: Book Signing

4:30pm: Book Signing

5:00pm: Rainbow Warriors VBS for Grown Ups

5:00pm: Adam Harris

5:00pm: Hyphenated Life: Connecting spirituality and culture

5:00pm: Silencing the Snake: Repairing Broken Theology with Fierce Love

5:00pm: Designer Relationships: Foundations of Conscious Relating

5:00pm: Pub Trivia

5:00pm: Followup Conversation: AI, Quantum Computers, and Mind Uploading: Connecting the Emerging Church with Science and Technology

5:00pm: Pub Trivia

5:00pm: Reiki Meditation Journey

5:00pm: Beer and Hymns Happy Hour

5:00pm: Stories at Dusk: an experience for teens

5:00pm: Wild Church

5:00pm: Book Signing

5:30pm: Studio Connections Wrap-up

5:30pm: Book Signing

6:00pm: Wings Reception

6:00pm: Drum Circle: Drumming together at the Goose

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

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

7:00pm: Large group storybook reading for bedtime

7:00pm: Multi (Kagan Parker)

7:00pm: Book Launch Party-Reception

7:00pm: Recovery at the Goose

7:20pm: Skyblew

7:50pm: Drew Brown

8:10pm: Flamy Grant

9:00pm: Beer and Hymns

9:00pm: Goose After Dark Storytelling Open Mic

10:00pm: Honky Tonk Music - Dance

10:30pm: Compline (Night Prayers)

11:00pm: AcoustaGoose

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