2026 Advisors
Miguel Rivera
Miguel Rivera is a musician, translator, and longtime ritualist whose life's work bridges the language of sound with the preservation of ancestral wisdom. A professional percussionist and award-winning supervising sound editor for film and television, Miguel is perhaps best known in the mythopoetic community as a longtime organizer and teacher at the Minnesota Men's Conference. Since 1993, he has served as a central figure there, collaborating with elders like Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Martin Prechtel to weave ritual, drumming, and poetry into the container of men.
Pat McCabe
Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe, is of the Diné Nation (Navajo), adopted into the Lakota spiritual way of life. She is a mother and grandmother, an international speaker/teacher, a global ceremonialist, radical bridger, and a listener for radical proposals from Spirit. Her current work is around trauma healing as renaissance for human presence on the planet, restoration of the Sacred Masculine, reimagining money to protect the sacred, and participating in Earth’s movements through “Land Back” or Land Reunion - in which entrenched narratives and beliefs are being disrupted through return of land to indigenous sovereign relationship.
Walton Stanley
Walton Stanley is a writer and storyteller focused on the transformative power of myth and its ability to shift modern paradigms. A longtime organizer of the Minnesota Men’s Conference, he is currently co-authoring an anthology of the myths and tales shared throughout the conference’s 40-year history.
Stephen Faulkner
Dr. Stephen Faulkner is a former physician, pilot, and veteran of the mythopoetic movement who has spent decades navigating the "mythic maps" of Iron John. A longtime student of Robert Bly and the works of William Blake, he focuses on the transformative power of nature, ritual, and men’s circles to foster the spiritual maturity of men.