The Gathering
A homecoming for women. A practice ground for community.
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The Temple of Belonging is a five-day gathering for women in the Pacific Northwest.
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We come together because we believe women need one another. Not just for inspiration or support, but for friendship, shared wisdom, honest conversation, creativity, and the kind of relationships that help us navigate ordinary life.
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For a few days each fall, we slow down enough for those relationships to take root.
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What We're Practicing
Temple isn't built around the idea that belonging can be given to us.
We believe it grows through participation.
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It grows when we share meals, learn from one another, care for children together, sing around the fire, navigate differences with honesty, offer what we have, and receive what others have to give.
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Our hope isn't to create a perfect gathering. It's to create the conditions where trust, responsibility, and genuine relationship have a chance to grow.
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Who Comes
Women arrive for many different reasons.
Some are looking for rest. Some are in the middle of major life transitions. Some come to learn practical skills. Others are simply looking for people they can continue knowing long after the gathering ends.
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Mothers, daughters, elders, young women, women without children, longtime friends, and women arriving completely on their own all find their place here.
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Temple is open to anyone who identifies as a woman. We welcome women of many backgrounds, beliefs, identities, and life experiences. We know that no single gathering can meet every need, but we're committed to building a culture where people are treated with dignity, curiosity, and care.
Why We Gather
Modern life asks a lot of women. Many of us spend our days moving between work, caregiving, family, community, and countless responsibilities while having fewer places where relationships can grow slowly over time.
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We think gathering is one way of responding to that reality.
Not by escaping the world, but by strengthening the relationships we'll return home with.
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The gathering lasts five days. The hope is that what grows here continues throughout the rest of the year.
Community Care
Temple is built on the understanding that belonging isn't something organizers create for everyone else. It's something we practice together.
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Every woman helps shape the culture of the gathering through the way she participates, listens, contributes, and cares for those around her.
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We've also developed a shared Community Care framework to help guide how we navigate relationship, conflict, accountability, and repair as a village.
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We invite you to read it before joining us.
We are Multifaceted Magic:
A Gathering
This is an event that blends a festival, conference and a real-life village all together to create a space that is inspiring, deeply connective and feels like an answer to our collective prayers for belonging.
A Retreat
Here we cover all the bases so women can enjoy beautiful facilities, scenic camping and high-quality food, be fully resourced to enjoy this time, and leave feeling fully rested and nourshed.
A Collective
This is a space that thrives as a hub of connectivity, of collaboration, and as a continuation of weaving concentric circles of relationship with each other as locals, as families, as business owners and as friends.
Our gathering and community are centered around 4 main ethics:
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BELONGING IS A CO-CREATIVE SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
We have come to find that belonging, true belonging, is something that we must first embody within ourselves that which we wish to see in the world. We believe that belonging to your own body and personhood is foundational to the process of co-creating belonging within village and community. There is a shared responsibility and reward to the felt sense of belonging, and here we are practicing and skill-building in order to create more belonging for ourselves and the world.
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SPACE TO BE SAFE BEING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF
Your authentic self and true nature is the greatest gift that can ever be given, and here we do our best to co-create a space where you can really shine, rest, laugh, cry and be all that you have always been, knowing that you're welcome and loved. When women can stand in the radiance of their true selves, the world shines a little brighter, and we could use that medicine now more than ever.
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WOMEN AS THE HEART(H) OF CULTURE
Women have always been the center of home, community and the creation of life. When we return to the center again, we remember the old ways and how they feed the new, so that the healing of the feminine is not some big "to-do", but rather a sweet song to sing with those who are by your side and on the path. Women are the hearth of culture, and it's time we lean into tending this fire in a brave and beautiful way.
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LOCALITY AS THE FOUNDATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
In a world that has become so globalized, re-localizing is a radical and sustainable act. We value tending to the roots of womanhood, community and economy here where we live, in the greater PNW. When we remember how much vitality, inspiration and healthcare we already have within our communities, we can share our resources, kinship and wisdom with greater ease and generosity.
What to expect:
4 nights camping
under the cedars
Women Centered Wisdom & Workshops
Ancestral Crafts
& Skill Building
Delicious, Nourishing & Organic Meals
Daily Movement & Meditation
Diverse Healing & Spa Services
Local Women's
Maker's Market
Intentional Ceremony & Ritual
Find Your Own Rhythm
There isn't one right way to experience Temple.
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Some women fill their days with workshops, movement classes, and conversations. Others spend an afternoon by the creek, receive bodywork, make something with their hands, or simply find a quiet place to rest. Most do a little of everything.
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You're invited to participate in the ways that feel nourishing, challenging, restorative, or joyful for you.
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We've intentionally created a gathering with many different ways to engage. Throughout the week you'll find movement practices, hands-on learning, ceremonies, music, healing arts, discussion groups, creative spaces, and plenty of unscheduled time to simply be.
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We also recognize that every woman arrives with a different body, nervous system, life experience, and set of responsibilities. While no gathering can meet every need, we've worked to create a wide range of ways to participate, including:
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Movement, discussion-based, creative, and restorative workshops
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Affinity spaces for BIPOC women, mothers, queer women, and other shared life experiences
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Quiet spaces for rest and lower stimulation
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Kids Camp, Girls Camp, and a dedicated Mama's Den
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Scholarships to help make the gathering more financially accessible
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One of the gifts of village life is that no two people experience it the same way.
There is room to participate fully, to step back when you need to, to meet new people, or to spend an afternoon in solitude.
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However you find your way through the week, we hope you leave feeling a little more connected to yourself, to the women around you, and to the place you call home.
What this gathering offers:
An Emergent, Diverse, Inclusive, and Accessible space to be seen, held, and cared for!
Access to 40 acres of forested land, with creeks and trails to explore and commune with.
5 days, 4 nights days of intentional and inclusive programming, workshops, ceremonies, ritual, and emergent conversation
All meals that are consciously sources, nutrient dense, and made with love
Childcare and mama's den space for support for all our little ones and their mothers
A spa and lounge for those who wish to focus on slowing down and receiving physical and energetic care
A marketplace to showcase and sell the many beautiful goods made by our community
Morning movement, qi gong, and yoga
Space to "choose your own adventure" and explore the depth of land and wisdom workshops that you want
A tea and tarot lounge to unwind and drop in
A silent temple space to enjoy quiet and solitary time
Nature trails and wooded nooks to explore and connect with nature
Nightly fire and star gazing
A sacred rememberance of our ancestral ways of living and loving and learning together.
A brave and humble space to share all the nuances of sisterhood, community, healing and tending to the present moment
