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Thursday, June 18
 

7:02am MDT

The Dandelion Sanctuary
Thursday June 18, 2026 7:02am - 7:03am MDT
Dandelion Sanctuary: Wishes, Wise Mind & Radical Self-Care

Step 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 festival
Speakers
avatar for Nathan Gallenson

Nathan Gallenson

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 →
Thursday June 18, 2026 7:02am - 7:03am MDT
The Dandelion Sanctuary

2:00pm MDT

How to Human by DBT with Friends
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Nathan Gallenson

Nathan Gallenson

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 →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT
The Dandelion Sanctuary
 
Friday, June 19
 

3:00pm MDT

DBT with Witches: Emotional Alchemy for Everyday Life
Friday June 19, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Melanie Bentley

Melanie Bentley

Co-Founder, DBT with Friends
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 →
avatar for Anna Scoville

Anna Scoville

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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
The Dandelion Sanctuary
 
Saturday, June 20
 

12:00pm MDT

Repairing Is Caring A workshop for anyone practicing the messy art of repair
Saturday June 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Nathan Gallenson

Nathan Gallenson

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 →
avatar for Amelie Gallenson

Amelie Gallenson

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 →
Saturday June 20, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
The Dandelion Sanctuary

8:00pm MDT

Exotic Yoga: Sexy Yoga for women to embrace their erotic energy and ignite their sexy fire 🔥
Saturday June 20, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm MDT
Overview: A yoga practice like never before! Exotic Yoga combines the art of exotic dance with the beauty of yoga- a world where sensuality, strength, and spirituality meet. 


Designed to help you: 
- Connect with your sensuality and erotic energy 
- Regulate your nervous system and meet yourself somatically 
- Cultivate self love 
- Build strength and flexibility 
- Move energy through your sacral and root chakras 
- Shake your booty 
- And most importantly: Have fun!


What to bring: 
- Yoga mat 
- Fur rug (if you have one. A limited amount will be available to borrow or new ones to purchase)
- Water
- An open heart and sassy spirit 


What to wear:  In exotic movement we want our thighs to wobble and our booties to shake! So, wear loose comfortable clothing that you can move freely in and makes you feel good. Yoga leggings aren’t recommended. 
Speakers
avatar for Asher Hewett

Asher Hewett

Hey there! I’m Asher Hewett, known as Exotic Yogini I am a somatic sexuality and embodiment coach who helps women reclaim their bodies, release sexual shame, and step into their erotic power. With over 20 years of dance and yoga  experience and a decade in erotic performance, I... Read More →
Saturday June 20, 2026 8:00pm - 9:00pm MDT
The Dandelion Sanctuary
 
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