Mystery Playground Half Day
Saturday, September 26
2pm-6pm
Step into an embodied relational space of deep exploration and discovery. Together, we build a strong field of presence and curiosity to support greater intimacy and connection with ourselves and others.

We practice relational skills step by step, starting with grounding and self-regulation. Gradually, we cohere an inclusive common ground of compassion, belonging, and growth. In this shared field of heightened presence, we meet in vulnerability and wonder as sacred mirrors for each other. Experience profound connection and access more of the spontaneous aliveness beneath habitual patterns that guides you to greater choice and freedom.
What to Expect
In this half day workshop, carefully designed exercises and structures provide containment and a clear context for our exploration. Warmup exercises help deepen the field and build group coherence. Then two different kinds of practice circles take center stage.

In a Focus Circle, we gather a small group with a facilitator to center attention on one person, exploring and reflecting their world in real-time. A Flow Circle, in contrast, is more of an open space of possibility for the whole group to explore their individual and collective emergence. Within the bounds of each context, we enjoy a freedom to be self-directed, run experiments, courageously approach our edge, and assert boundaries.

This container supports a more direct participation with the dynamic unfolding of our experience beneath habit and conditioning. By turns, this can be both liberating and confronting, as is typical for most growth experiences. We make deeper contact with our life force, innate wholeness, and playfulness, yet also perhaps with our fear, grief, anger, projections, and self-imposed limitations.

This kind of work isn't for everyone, and can at times be uncomfortable or intense for some people. We emphasize self-regulation, mutual attunement, taking care of yourself, and setting boundaries when necessary. As in any developmental space where people are taking risks and being more real with each other, you should be prepared for the possibility of experiencing discomfort and nervous system activation.

At the same time, many people also experience delicious flow states, radiant heart connection, profound synchronicity, and feeling incredibly seen by others. This work shows time and again that human connection rooted in deep presence and attunement is life-affirming medicine. This depth of attuned presence is rare in our culture, and it helps reconnect us with our vitality and boundless creative potential. We believe these under-explored frontiers of human experience are essential to remembering our shared sense of sacredness and interdependence in these times of disconnection and fracture.
Location
Wild Hearts Wellness
4230 NE Fremont St.
Portland, OR 97213

Date & Time
September 26, 2026
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fees and Registration
Tickets are available on a sliding scale:
$35 - Financially Abundant: For those who are able to help subsidize our reduced price tickets.
$30 - Financially Stable: Standard ticket price.
$25 - Financially Strained: Reduced price ticket for those who stress to meet basic needs.

No refunds, but tickets are transferrable.
Facilitators
DAVID CHOTT, Lead Facilitator
David is a practical mystic and student of mystery. He has been facilitating presence-centered group work for 9 years, with a keen interest in emergent collective intelligence. He works to build culture that values our intuitive felt sense and the indispensable wisdom it provides for navigating our individual and collective challenges. David became a certified circling facilitator with Circling Europe in 2017. He completed his coaching certification with them in 2021. He trained extensively in Surrendered Leadership in the Avalon field, and has explored many varieties of men's work for 15 years. He recently concluded two years of Tibetan Buddhist study with John Churchill of Planetary Dharma, learning attachment-informed meditation. He also studied with Lynda Caesara in her remarkable two year Energy Class.
ERIN BARNES, Assistant Facilitator
Erin is enchanted by what becomes possible when we meet each other in presence. She brings a blend of sincerity, playfulness, and somatic awareness from her years in the healing arts, as well as experience with authentic relating and circling in several lineages. She is honored to support the unfolding of Mystery Playground with care and curiosity.
JILL HUTCHINSON, Assistant Facilitator
Jill is a perennial student of the here and now. She loves to explore what emerges in connection when we are committed to honoring ourselves and each other, and allow embodied curiosity and intuition to lead the way. She finds deep nourishment through the expressive arts and can usually be found at ecstatic dance, contact improv, action theater, authentic relating events or her kitchen table making visual art.
TRAVIS DAILEY, Assistant Facilitator
Travis helps individuals and communities navigate complexity and uncertainty from the innate resourcefulness, spontaneous creativity, and self-arising wisdom available in every moment. In emergent, co-created 'we spaces' like Mystery Playground, he's been deeply moved and transformed by the alchemy that happens when, from presence, we deepen contact with and reveal our direct experience in connection. He's currently training in presence-based relational practices with Transformational Connection and Aletheia Unfoldment. And is a student of John Churchill in the Planetary Dharma sangha, and Sarah Maclean Bicknell.
 Join us September 26 
Let's co-create magic together!

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