Stewardship & Advisors
Ian MacKenzie | Co-Steward
Ian MacKenzie is a filmmaker and steward of men’s soul work. Since encountering the mythopoetic men’s lineage, he has picked up the torch from the previous generation. Together with an ecology of mentors, elders, and collaborators, he is committed to expanding the terrain - weaving ritual, ancient story, and somatic reclamation into a sanctuary where men reclaim their primal aliveness and sovereign purpose.
Contact: contact@cascadiamensconference.com
Website: The Mythic Masculine
Trevor Mervyn | Co-Steward
Trevor is a father, ritualist, storyteller, and wilderness fast guide whose midlife descent at 39 opened him to a deeper life shaped by ritual, myth, grief, and reverence. Since 2021 he has been hosting culture-tending gatherings in the qathet, BC region—from Medicine Story nights and Grief Rituals to Ancestor Feasts and welcoming visiting storytellers. Trained through the School of Lost Borders, Orphan Wisdom School, and multiple mentors in ritual leadership, storytelling, dreamwork, and council, Trevor is guided by a devotion to the mysteries and the more-than-human world. Trevor’s lineage threads back through Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany.
Contact: trevor@cascadiamensconference.com
Website: Sacred Gestures
Simon Yugler | Collaborator
Simon Yugler is an internationally experienced psychedelic therapist, educator, and author of the book, Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair. With a master’s in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, he has taught for some of the leading psychedelic facilitator training programs in the United States including CIIS, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Naropa University, and Inner Trek. With a background in anthropology and experiential education, Simon’s early travels brought him into contact with Indigenous traditions throughout the world. With two decades of experience with psychedelic medicines, Simon is passionate about helping his clients and students navigate the liminal wilds of the soul.
Website: simonyugler.com
Hudson Gardner | Admin Assistant
Hudson Gardner is a writer, designer, and photographer whose work centers on relating to wildness. From working farms and ranches across the continent to wildcrafting medicine, Hudson has walked an accidental path through apprenticeship with landscapes.
Currently studying East Asian medicine in Victoria, BC, his contribution to CMC is rooted in the belief that vital culture is a remedy for the “drying out" of the modern world. He brings a focus on grounding, substance, and the medicinal connection between men and the earth.
Website: walkaround.run
2026 Advisors
The conference is guided by a council of advisors whose work and lineage inform the mythic architecture of this gathering. They serve as the mirrors and bedrock for our stewards as we undertake this labor.
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.
Miguel Rivera
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.
David hatfield
David Hatfield is a Process worker, leadership consultant, educator, musician and avid bike rider who feels best where the land meets the sea. He has had the privilege of exploring male identity and contemporary rites of passage with over 20,000 boys and men for 30 years across Canada and internationally. He was the first Canadian Coordinator of International Men’s Day and was awarded the 2018 L.T. Henry award for men’s work by the United States International Men’s Day team