Vita Lumina Collective

It's beginning to feel like Spring, which is a great opportunity to refresh and renew ourselves, recognizing the newness of every moment. We will work through feelings of being stuck, and even helplessness or hopelessness in difficult times.

This event is based on Tristan's personal mastery approach, where we learn to make friends with our mind to cultivate personal growth and inner peace. We explore the intersections of Buddhism, Stoicism, modern Psychology, and other approaches towards this goal.

Our practices generally include some of the following:

• Meditation
• Mindfulness
• Metta (Loving-kindness)
• Breathwork
• Sound bath
• Journaling

No experience with these practices is necessary. Beginners are welcome! Even those of us who have been practicing for years are still learning, and we have so much to learn from each other. As they say in Zen, we must maintain a "beginners mind."

Our discussions are open to a variety of spiritual and scientific approaches to wellbeing, contentment, and enlightenment. We want to hear your ideas, but there's no pressure to speak in the group. If you prefer to just sit and listen, that's great!

Whether you are seeking to find inner peace, or simply a space to connect with like-minded individuals, we invite you to join us on this journey.

This year has started out rough, but we are taking a fresh start for Spring. It’s time to replant the seeds of our intentions for 2025 and beyond.

Spring Healing Fest is an uplifting, immersive day of connection, discussion, and practice, immersing attendees in a variety of coaching, healing, and spiritual modalities, and giving you the tools you need to re-center, move forward, and thrive. Come celebrate our individual and collective power with like-minded people.

Join us for:

• Guided meditation sessions
• Talks
• Group discussions
• Sound baths
• One-on-one sessions
• Complimentary food and drinks
• Mindfulness practices
• Conscious connection + networking

You will have opportunities to connect one-on-one with practitioners, participate in multiple group sessions, meet people (IRL!) on your wavelength, and make space for quiet reflection. Ready to re-ignite 2025 and beyond?

Agenda
Feel free to come and go as you wish, or immerse yourself and stay for the full fest!

12:00 — Arrive and mingle, enjoy drinks and food
12:25 — Opening remarks
12:30 — Mel Sharpe: Conventional Wisdom is No Longer Serving Us: Learn how relaxation can help transform our lives
1:00 — Dustin Clendenen: The Power of Self-Compassion
1:30 — Kelly Whitaker: Do you Talk to Your Best Friend That Way? - Healing Self-Talk
2:00 — Bryant Galindo: Unlock the Heart Space to Resolve Difficult Situations and Conversations
2:30 — Jackie Lam: Reimagining Our Relationship with Money and Healing Ancestral Money Trauma
3:00 — Eric Gee: Unlock the Secrets to Understanding Everyone in Your Life - Including Yourself
3:30 — Tristan Blaine: Open Up to New Possibilities to Empower Yourself and Take Control of Your Life
4:00 — Closing remarks, mingle and enjoy food and drinks
5:00 — Event concludes

Description of Talks
Mel Sharpe: Conventional Wisdom is No Longer Serving Us: Learn how relaxation can help transform our lives.

• Discover how tapping into your inner wisdom and peace, uncovered through profound relaxation, is an impactful form of resistance against the mainstream work culture.

Dustin Clendenen: The Power of Self-Compassion.

• Discover how unresolved emotions are holding you back, and feeling them can set you free. Includes live group demonstration.

Kelly Whitaker: Do you Talk to Your Best Friend That Way? - Healing Self-Talk

• Focusing on the emotional benefits of gentle, positive self talk. Will include short breakout sessions to offer deep love & gratitude.

Bryant Galindo: Unlock the Heart Space to Resolve Difficult Situations and Conversations

• Disagreements have a way of shutting us down. Discover how to stay open, navigate difficult conversations, and resolve conflicts with clarity and heart.

Jackie Lam: Reimagining Our Relationship with Money and Healing Ancestral Money Trauma

• Learn how to focus on alignment with our values and cultivate love energy of money.

Eric Gee: Unlock the Secrets to Understanding Everyone in Your Life - Including Yourself

• Practical insights into how understanding your personality type can help you make better life choices (relationships, career, etc.)

Tristan Blaine: Open Up to New Possibilities to Empower Yourself and Take Control of Your Life

• A talk and guided meditation to get into a space where the possibilities are as open as the sky. Access and sustain financial and emotional well-being, including creative and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Pricing & Donations
We aim to make this event accessible and available to all! That is why we are offering the full day for a low fee.

• Admission: $10 donation online or $15 at the door
• Donations may be made to specific presenters if you wish to support their work

Meet Our Healers, Coaches, and Presenters

• Tristan Blaine
  Tristan helps people achieve personal and professional success and well-being through developing compassionate self-discipline. His diverse background includes his work as a business lawyer, author, and meditation guide, and he is currently a therapist in training.
• Dustin Clendenen
  Dustin is a storyteller and intuitive coach dedicated to raising individual and collective consciousness. His work as a meditation facilitator, Aura Mediator™, Compassion Key™ coach, and astrologer is a devotional practice to help clients embody their highest selves.
• Eric Gee
  Eric has administered personality-based life coaching for more than twenty years. He built a successful education company that used his personality typing method to better the lives of more than twenty thousand students, parents, and teachers. His book, The Power of Personality, is the culmination of decades of research and application. As creator of the Youtopia Project website and the Youtopia 16 assessment, he has disseminated his method to over half a million users since the website’s creation in 2016. His coaching program has been used in companies (Hulu, Disney), universities, and over forty school districts.
• Kelly Whitaker
  Kelly (she/her) is a communication specialist, speaker, and life coach. Her work is devoted to empowering communication skills of individuals and leaders, and to release challenges in pursuit of ease and harmony.
• Jackie Lam
  Jackie is a financial coach, educator and money healer who combines spirituality, somatics, and practical advice and applications to help people feel more aligned and empowered with their relationship to money.
• Bryant Galindo
  Bryant is a certified mediator, executive coach, and author of The New Middle: Connecting Heart and Mind to Collaboratively Disagree. As the founder of CollabsHQ, he has spent over a decade working in alternative dispute resolution and coaching, helping individuals and teams navigate conflict with confidence and clarity. Blending psychology, conflict resolution frameworks, and spirituality, his approach fosters deep, sustainable change.
• Mel Sharpe
  A mischief-maker at heart, Mel Sharpe, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, has taken a stand against the conventional by going from the “acceptable” yet misunderstood profession of architecture to the just-as-misunderstood and mysterious profession of hypnotherapy. Mel uses hypnosis and coaching to help people leverage the power of their own minds to overcome their fears, stresses and obstacles in life.

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