TitleDandelion Sanctuary: Wishes, Wise Mind & Radical Self-Care OverviewStep into the Dandelion Sanctuary, a cozy oasis where festival wanderers can pause, breathe, and reconnect with themselves. Inspired by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the resilience of dandelions, this interactive sanctuary offers simple tools for emotional grounding, self-care, and playful connection. Visitors can relax in a shaded lounge, learn quick mindfulness and emotional regulation practices, write wishes on dandelion scrolls, and exchange compliments with fellow travelers. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, joyful, curious, or just need a soft place to land, the sanctuary offers a gentle reset before you continue your adventure. Come rest, make a wish, and remember your Wise Mind. What you'll experience🌼 The Wish Garden Write a wish, intention, or release on a scroll and place it in a communal dandelion vessel. 🌼 The Compliment Apothecary Receive or give handwritten compliments to brighten someone’s day. 🌼 Wise Mind Lounge Relax in a cozy shaded space while learning quick grounding tools from DBT. 🌼 Mindfulness Moments Short guided practices to help calm the nervous system and reconnect with the present moment. 🌼 Self-Care Scrolls Take-home cards with simple emotional regulation tools you can use anytime. What you'll learn• Simple mindfulness techniques for grounding and nervous system regulation • The DBT concept of Wise Mind (balancing emotion and reason) • Quick tools for navigating big feelings in everyday life • The power of small acts of kindness and connection What you'll make• A dandelion wish scroll to place in the communal wish vessel • A self-care reminder card to take with you into the fes
Nathan Gallenson is a co-founder of DBT with Friends, a Utah-based nonprofit making evidence-based mental health skills more accessible, practical, and community-centered. He helps create peer-led spaces where people can learn tools from DBT, IFS, ACT, and other modalities withou... Read More →
What if your coping skills felt less like homework and more like spellwork?
In this one-hour DBT with Witches workshop, we’ll teach you how to create a personal sigil: a magical symbol designed from your own intention. We’ll connect sigil-making to DBT-inspired mental health practices, showing how ritual can help reinforce the skills we want to remember when we’re overwhelmed, activated, tender, or trying to come back to ourselves.
You’ll choose an intention, turn it into a symbol, and learn a simple ritual for using it as a mental health anchor. No prior experience with DBT, witchcraft, or art needed. Just bring your weird little heart and something you’re ready to tend.
Melanie is the co-founder of DBT with Friends and DBT with Witches, community-centered projects focused on making emotional wellness skills more accessible, creative, and human. Drawing from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, ritual, and experiential learning, her work... Read More →
Anna Scoville is a co-founder of DBT with Witches, where she brings warmth, creativity, and a deeply caring presence to community-based mental health spaces. Her work is shaped by a love of animals, humans, art, and the mystical — all of which show up in the way she helps create spaces that feel grounded, imaginative, and emotionally... Read More →
OverviewBeing human is weird, and way easier with friends.
In this one-hour interactive workshop, DBT with Friends will explore how shared experience can help us move through fear, disconnection, and emotional stuckness. We’ll introduce a practical DBT skill for taking gentle, values-based action when your nervous system is activated.
Expect a cozy mix of reflection, connection, and brave little experiments in being human together.
Come for the skills. Stay for the friends.
What you’ll learnDBT for real life: An evidence-based skill for moving through fear and emotional overwhelm. Connection through shared experience: Why healing feels different when we practice together. Brave little steps: How willingness can help us do the thing, even when it’s scary.
What you’ll practiceA practical DBT-inspired exercise you can use when life gets loud. A playful connection activity. A small milestone reminder for the brave thing you were willing to try.
Nathan Gallenson is a co-founder of DBT with Friends, a Utah-based nonprofit making evidence-based mental health skills more accessible, practical, and community-centered. He helps create peer-led spaces where people can learn tools from DBT, IFS, ACT, and other modalities withou... Read More →
Overview Some relationships don’t need a perfect apology — they need a way back. In this conversational workshop, a father and adult child share the real story of rebuilding connection after three years of estrangement, alienation, hurt, and misunderstanding. Not as experts with a magic formula, but as two people who learned to listen differently, speak more honestly, stay curious, and stop treating repair like a courtroom where someone had to win. This workshop is for anyone carrying a tender relationship and wondering whether something safer, softer, and more honest is still possible.
What you’ll take awayA softer way into hard conversations: Practical language for repair with less blame, pressure, or defensiveness. Curiosity as a bridge: How better questions can reopen connection when trust feels fragile. Hope for the messy middle: A reminder that repair doesn’t require perfection — just honesty, care, accountability, and a willingness to keep trying.
Nathan Gallenson is a co-founder of DBT with Friends, a Utah-based nonprofit making evidence-based mental health skills more accessible, practical, and community-centered. He helps create peer-led spaces where people can learn tools from DBT, IFS, ACT, and other modalities withou... Read More →
Amelie Gallenson is a co-founder of DBT with Witches and helps organize, plan, and shape community offerings through DBT with Friends. Their work brings together emotional honesty, creativity, ritual, and practical mental health skills in a way that feels grounded, accessible, and deeply human... Read More →
