Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.
Charlie Gates
Charlie Gates loves to listen.
A queer sound maker, Deep Listener, and somatic facilitator, Charlie holds embodied offerings that combine somatic movement, mythopoetics, queer + acoustic ecology, Deep Listening® practices, imagination work, and soundscape creation. Charlie has been leading immersive sound experiences since 2012, and has been leading trainings in the art of sound meditation creation since 2015. As an artist they work inside the mediums of movement arts, performance poetry, photography, and sound art.
Charlie is in their second year of a Clinical Somatic Educator / Somatic Movement Therapist program with homebody healing, and is completing their certification with the Center for Deep Listening. They hold a diploma in Performance Arts.
They are an uninvited guest residing on the stolen, ancestral territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, colonially known today as Victoria, BC.