Five Gates Grief Vigil

From a meant-to-be-forever career in banking to then working with several local non profits, Becquel found her soul’s calling by volunteering as a community grief tender for several years with Flourish. Following extensive training by Francis Weller, author of Wild Edge of Sorrow and soul activist, she began the deep soul work of apprenticing to sorrow and has been working to share this gift with her community ever since.

Following a childhood that involved calling more than eight states home, Becquel moved to Missoula, Montana, studied Business Administration at the University of Montana before moving to Hailey, Idaho in 2003 finding with no surprise at all that she had ended up right where she was meant to be all along.

She may be found most days moving at the speed of love, avoiding small talk, sitting at the river, talking to the trees, and spending time with her loved ones.

Stephanie is a 5th generation Idahoan, a psychotherapist with 22 years of experience, and the owner/clinician of Broadtree Integrative Counseling in Hailey. The most recent iteration of her practice has focused on using contemplative practices in therapy and is based on a core belief that we are all capable of healing ourselves and our community. Stephanie is a wife, mother, cross-country skier, gardener, and bread baker. A favorite quote: “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.” - Carl Jung.

Ryan Redman is a perennial wanderer, teacher, creator, and lover of the living world. Raised in Idaho’s Wood River Valley, he found peace, freedom, and belonging among mountain trails and aspen groves. Inspired by his father, Ryan began exploring consciousness as a teenager. While studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he traveled through Asia seeking mystery, inner fulfillment, and remote surf breaks. He later spent three years in India studying Sanskrit, meditation, and contemplative traditions.

Those experiences awakened a passion for the relationship between inner transformation and personal, social, and planetary well being. While earning a master’s degree in Contemplative Education, Ryan cofounded the Flourish Foundation in 2011. As Executive Director, he builds community, envisions a life enhancing culture, and guides curriculum, teaching, and philanthropy.

These days, Ryan may be found enjoying cacao in a meadow with his wife, drumming beneath the moon, or adventuring with his sons.

Paige always felt a yearning to live closer to the earth and deeper into meaning. That carried her from Los Angeles through her studies at UC Santa Barbara to two years in India, awakening her spirituality and pointing her toward a truer calling.

She returned home, became a birth doula and mindful birth educator, walking couples through the sacred threshold of childbearing. That devotion led her into the classroom, where she shares the Mindful Awareness Program with hundreds of children. In addition to teaching, Paige tends daily operations, coordinates educational programming, and nurtures a culture of truth telling, vulnerability, and delicious snacks.

Her days are inspired by motherhood, a deepening love affair with the earth, and the quiet wisdom of the more than human world. Paige can be found hiking in the mountains, sipping cacao in a meadow with her husband, sitting in circles of transformation, and loving her two boys, always, in all ways.

I moved to Hailey from Montana in 1986 and have been active in the community as a businessman and educator pioneering the practice of natural drought tolerant landscaping through Native Landscapes until retiring in 2023. Committed to community service, I am a founding member and former board director of several non-profits, including 25 years on the board of Western Watersheds Project and 4 years on the Leadership Council of Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center. I have been married for 45 years, have two children and 3 grandchildren and have been a practicing Buddhist for over 50 years.