Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that is ready to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you!
A four day and three night wilderness retreat for men only. In a strong, supportive circle of brothers, we'll dive deeply into three critical aspects of male fire and healthy masculinity: Anger, Grief, and Power.
Have you participated in our Council Facilitators Training program? Would you like the opportunity to practice your Council skills? The Council Facilitators Practice Group is for you. Follow this link to RSVP!
You and yours are invited to a joyful potluck and sharing circle. Hear epic stories of transformation and renewal while celebrating the medicine brought back from the Young Men’s Initiation. These young men have just completed their rite from youth into adulthood! Join with community to hold space as participants weave the threads of their experience in the desert into the cloth of their daily lives.
Go from “leading council” to “practicing the art” of council. Council Facilitation Training I or equivalent are prerequisite. Click on the photo for more info.
Humans have always sought the wise counsel of Mother Earth. In the arms of Nature, we can be seen and held in ways that help us reach to our deep Self. The women’s fast is an opportunity to take the next leap in your life with the support of guides, a circle of women, and Spirit.
A four day and three night wilderness retreat for men only. In a strong, supportive circle of brothers, we'll dive deeply into three critical aspects of male fire and healthy masculinity: Anger, Grief, and Power.
You and yours are invited to a joyful potluck and sharing circle. Hear epic stories of transformation and renewal while celebrating the medicine brought back from the Women’s Vision Fast. Join with community to hold space as participants weave the threads of their experience in the desert into the cloth of their daily lives.
The entire year of the Four Seasons of Leadership is an initiatory experience. The skills learned will be useful on their own, for many types of leadership, and specifically as a wilderness rite of passage guide. The Four Seasons of Leadership also serves as the first year of the two year Guide Training.
The Vision Fast is a modern day wilderness rite of passage. It engages one's entire being, requiring each participant to strongly claim their whole self. It is a ten-day journey of Nature, Spirit, and Community including three days and nights of fasting and solitude in wild nature plus follow-up support.
This facilitated, two-day event creates a strong container to help purge pent up emotions and support the ability for joy and gratitude to emerge.
Men of Cascadia Quest — Gathering to listen and share from the heart profoundly enhances our well-being. Join us at our outdoor fire circle for a free council event. Please RSVP HERE on our new form. We hope you'll join us around the fire!
This facilitated, two-day event creates a strong container to help purge pent up emotions and support the ability for joy and gratitude to emerge.
Ready for deep connection? Join us at our outdoor fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here on our new form. We are so looking forward to connecting with you!
This weekend experiential council training teaches the basic understandings and skills to lead councils and includes opportunities to practice. Speak from the heart and listen from the heart. Create a space of authenticity, confidentiality, and deep listening, from which the group wisdom can emerge.
Men of Cascadia Quest — Gathering to listen and share from the heart profoundly enhances our well-being. Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event. Please RSVP here. We hope you'll join us around the fire!
Ready for deep connection? Join us at our outdoor fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you!
Have you participated in our Council Facilitators Training program? Would you like the opportunity to practice your Council skills? The Council Facilitators Practice Group is for you. Follow this link to RSVP!
Men of Cascadia Quest — Gathering to listen and share from the heart profoundly enhances our well-being. Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event. Please RSVP HERE. We hope you'll join us around the fire!
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that needs to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you!
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that needs to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you!
Grieving ceremonies unite us in shared sorrows over collective and personal losses. It is a place to express our distress, anger, tears, fears, and frustration. This facilitated, two-day event creates a strong container to help purge pent up emotions and support the ability for joy and gratitude to emerge.
Join the Eugene community to express the many faces of loss, feel greater clarity and aliveness, and take action for a healthier world.
See the event web page for more info.
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that is ready to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you! See below for more info about council.
Do you lead councils or talking circles and want to deepen the quality of circles you hold as well as your personal practice? The Advanced Training will focus on expanding your knowledge of forms, and how to use those forms in conjunction with the energy of the group to create a greater likelihood for "council magic" to occur. Participants will have multiple opportunities to lead and receive feedback. We'll pay particular attention to energetics and nuance, moving from "doing council" to practicing the "art of council". Council Facilitation Training I or equivalent is prerequisite for this course.
Part of what makes Cascadia Quest different from other rites of passage organizations is how much we support our participants in their "incorporation": that time following a vision fast or rite of passage when participants are working to weave the threads of their experience in the desert into the cloth of their daily lives.
You are invited to hear the ceremonial stories from the land as told by the adults who experienced them.
Come hear the epic stories of transformation and renewal that came from the land through the people who fasted alone for three days in the Steens Mountain Wilderness. This is a wonderful opportunity to get an embodied experience of our vision quest programs, learn what Cascadia Quest is all about, and to deepen existing relationships in the community.
Free and open to all. Invite your friends and family. Happening in Eugene, at the Unitarian Universalist Church on the corner of Chambers and 13th Ave.
See you there!
Tending Male Fire is a four day and three night wilderness retreat and ceremony for men only. We'll dive deeply into three critical aspects of male fire and healthy masculinity: Anger, Grief, and Power. In a strong, supportive circle of brothers, you'll experience the healthy release of anger; anger, which so often covers the softer emotions beneath. You’ll learn the tools of grief-tending and feel the relief of its release. Feeling freer with these weights off your shoulders, you’ll receive guidance and support to better know your power and its healthy manifestation in the world.
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that is ready to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you! See below for more info about council.
There are many approaches to recovery from dependency. Being outside with purpose is a powerful tool to add to any version of this self-help process. In the modern age, we have lost what it means to be connected to the Earth, ourselves, and our communities which has led to widespread behavioral and substance addiction. What if we were to invite the higher power of nature into our lives?
Growing with the Seasons: Supporting Personal and Collective Growth and Healing through Engagement with Nature, Ritual, Expressive Arts, and Community
This is a free, community event hosted by the nonprofit Cascadia Quest’s Council of Elders to support the Eugene community in preparing for natural disasters and other life-threatening emergencies.
Make a plan today to safeguard your home and family when an emergency occurs. The more prepared we can be, the more resiliency our neighborhoods and city will have when resources are strained.
How will you meet with your family if a disaster occurs when everyone is at work or school? What can you keep in your home to bolster your ability to survive during or after a disaster? What do you need in a "go-bag" in case you have to suddenly evacuate?
This workshop is taught by Randy Prince, the Executive Coordinator of Action Plan Eugene, which organizes block-level emergency preparedness groups in a cooperative effort to link Neighborhood Associations and the City of Eugene's Emergency Management Program.
This is a free event, but space is limited!
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that is ready to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you! See below for more info about council.
The word “witch” has gotten a bad rap over the centuries. Now it is time to change that outdated story! This outdoor day camp for girls ages 11-13 will help deepen the roots of their innate girl power through nature awareness games and expressive eco-arts activities. Through storytelling, song, dance, and a Council of All Beings, girls will learn sisterhood and what it is to be connected with nature.
This day camp is for girls ages 11-13 and happens daily at Clearwater Park in Springfield, OR from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Follow this link for more information and to register.
Learn about the foundational communication tool for all Cascadia Quest activities: council. It is hugely useful in many group situations such as intimate relationships, family, work, community, and activist groups.. This weekend experiential council training teaches the basic understandings and skills to lead councils and includes opportunities to practice.
Speak from the heart and listen from the heart. Create a space of authenticity, confidentiality, and deep listening, from which the group wisdom can emerge.
We are sorry, but due to the extreme heat and smokey air, we will not be able to meet tonight. Please RSVP for our next council on September 11. See the event on this calendar to sign up.
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that is ready to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you! See below for more info about council.
Part of what makes Cascadia Quest different from other rites of passage organizations is how much we support our participants in their "incorporation": that time following a vision fast or rite of passage when participants are working to weave the threads of their experience in the desert into the cloth of their daily lives.
Come hear the epic stories of transformation and renewal while celebrating the medicine brought back from the Young Women’s Rite of Passage. These young women have just completed their rite from youth into adulthood, assisted by a team of mentors! This is a wonderful opportunity to get an embodied experience of what Cascadia Quest is all about and to deepen the relationships in this community.
Bring a dish to share (potluck 12pm - 1pm), your own eating implements, a chair or a blanket, and an appetite for nourishing, sacred ceremony. There will be plenty of people available to answer your questions if you are a first-timer. Bring your friends and family!
We will meet outdoors in a field given sun, or under a shelter given rain.
Hope to see you there!
Ready for deep connection? What is alive in you that is ready to be given voice?
Join us at our outdoor covered fire circle for a free council event for teens and adults. Please RSVP here. We are so looking forward to connecting with you! See below for more info about council.
Would you like to polish your plant identification skills and feast on wild edibles? Join author and teacher, Thomas J. Elpel, along with special guests John Kallas, Tom Brown II, and our very own Rob Miller for an intensive two weeks of botanizing, wild food foraging, camping, and adventure!
This intensive will take you on a food and wilderness tour of Oregon in order to develop proficiency in plant identification using the patterns method of plant identification outlined in Tom's book Botany in a Day. Learn how to instantly recognize thousands of plants according to the proper families and which plants are edible as well as how to harvest and prepare them.
Learning locations will be wild, beautiful, and diverse. This is truly a one of a kind camping adventure with extraordinary teachers that will deepen your relationship with the land, wild foraging skills, and ecological knowledge
For more details and to register, go to Thomas Elpel’s website Green University.
