Elders & Traditional Teachers
This Land
All Beings
Traditional Teachings
The First People
Our Forerunners and Pathfinders
We have many many people to thank for the creation of The Way of Vibrantly! In particular we would like to honor and thank with deepest gratitude the work and mentoring of Dr. Eric Carroll Desselle. He created the seed that started everything and none of us would be here today in this way without him. So, grateful to you dear White Eagle friend.
We also owe a lot to the co-creation and development of the proto-types for The Way of Vibrantly culture and ideas to the amazing group Authentic’s Anonymous, guided by Eric and attended by many wonderful authenticity explorers, including 2 of our founders, for over 7 years.
And then finally, we honor and express the deepest gratitude to the Soulshine Community House for piloting and deepening the creation of our concepts and culture. Thank you Soulshine and Soulshiners for teaching us what it was like to live in real community, for helping us realize what more was possible. It was beyond our wildest dreams and still holds a beacon for how we see the world.
Thank you also for entrusting us with the stewardship and development of the bundle of wisdom we co-created and developed together at Soulshine. Special thanks to Soulshiners everywhere and especially the final extended cohort of Soulshine including: Robyn Bjornson, Megan Caros, Nathan Lander, Griff Green, Brooke Hatch, Mac Dobbins, Katie Vincent, Yasmine O’Shaughnessy, Jasper Crow, Daniel Lauzon, Brian Fabert, John Thomas, Tanner Kline, Sarah Lena Dobson, Kaela McVicker, Jennifer McPherson, Robbie Seager, Arielle Biback, Mitchell Dasteel & Esmé Whritenour, River Soulshine, Jordan Ildaeinn Archaelia Lawrence, Kelsey Daemion Wyman, and Miku Lenentine!
Deepest gratitude and blessings to you always. May the lessons we all learned shine within our hearts forever, to share and bring forth these wisdoms to the world!
Special thank you to Beacon House and Star Community for providing a space for our still-coalescing group and vision, and also a huge thank you to Jasper Emery for their early work with AVR&D Team iteration and to all early informal members (which included lots of Soulshiners, thank you Brooke and Drue!) who helped with visioning and the energetics of becoming who we are today.
We have been influenced also by many traditional teachings and teachers we have had the honor of working with individually which have influenced us greatly. We have been so grateful to have been held by the wisdom of those who have come before us and many Elders who are still here. So much gratitude for you. Thank you so much, we cherish you!
Please see individual acknowledgements on our Meet the Team page to see who each of our founders and team-members have worked with.