By Charlie Mae
Creating a More
Beautiful World
An annual offering honouring the faces behind the initiatives and the threads of collaboration shaping a shared vision
I’ve had the great privilege of collaborating with beings whose
initiatives are deeply rooted in service to Truth and Love:
re-envisioning how we approach the natural experience of dying;
shining light on our true nature and the liberation of all beings;
exploring the deeper roots of health beyond what we’ve been taught;
reminding others of the power of joy and embodied presence;
and holding an uncompromising integrity in our message.
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Many of those featured here are already connected with one another, and all are part of a wider web of mutual support.
My hope is that this letter cultivates a felt sense of togetherness
on the path, opens a deeper meeting with the beautiful beings behind our collaborative offerings, and inspires a heart-led future devoted to the remembering of our shared humanity.
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From my heart to yours,
Charlie
This letter serves as a snapshot in time of the people, projects, and gatherings currently enlivening my heart and shaping a shared vision of a more interconnected, embodied, heart-led, beautiful world.
People & Projects
MAKING WAVES IN THE WORLD
2025
LIVING COLLABORATIONS
I have been so blessed to create, design, and collaborate with souls that I feel honoured to call my friends, my kin, my familial community. When I create alongside those who I share relational depth, an opportunity for incredible growth unfolds: a deepening of love and familiarity, an expansion of compassion and perspective, and a kind of learning that emerges most fully in rooted relationship.
Relating in this way feeds my heart and provides a profound depth to this work.
I feel incredibly grateful to walk with these beloved ones and this wider community.
To lift one another toward greater wholeness.
To trust in the intelligence of love moving through us all. My life, shared in this way, is my deepest prayer answered.
JoyFreeMove
Roberta Meilleur
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AjaOso
Aja Egglestone
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Further Liberation
Michael Jawn
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Gathering Place Trading
Lovena & Ryan Harvey
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Endwell
Tracy Chalmers
comox Valley
Roberta Meilleur
JoyFreeMove
teaching the medicine of joyful embodiment
Roberta and I have continually been looking for ways to create together since discovering our easeful harmony while co-creating New Ways Cafe in 2023/2024 alongside Jane Warren Campbell and Kimi Nakamura. So, when she asked me to help bring her latest vision to life — merging her life’s work as a dancer and movement instructor with joyful embodiment for all to experience — it was an instant YES!
Together, along with Kimi and Jane adding their unique gifts to the initiative and reuniting the dream team, we’ve filmed and edited several hours of Roberta’s experiential wisdom for all to enjoy on the JoyFreeMove Substack vlog. I also completed a full redesign of her personal website, RobertaMeilleur.com, which weaves together her multi-faceted talents as a Body Talk practitioner, inspiring presenter, and creator of RustWorks Window Art.
visit roberta's
website
visit joyfreemove
on substack
JoyFreeMove is a passion project offering bite-sized movement videos and practical tools for body appreciation, de-aging, empowerment, dance awareness, and joyful embodiment. While the initiative initially launched with the intention of placing some content behind paywalls to offset recording and editing costs, administrative work, and creation time, we have since shifted the structure to offer this material freely for all to enjoy (as it is not the nature of joy to limit or exclude!).
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We gratefully welcome support through monthly or annual subscriptions, or one-time donations, but our highest hope is simply that the world be more infused with the uplifting, healing, unifying, and empowering frequency of JOY!​
P.S. Check out The Power Walk video with the gang and our dear friend Luma. We’ll be looking for more joyful movers for upcoming videos, so let us know if you’re interested!
watch video:
the power walk
AjaOso
integrating the Higher Self & human self
When Aja put out the call in search of someone to build her website, I hesitantly said yes, unsure whether I was capable of creating something that could meet the magnitude of her ever-expanding vision. What followed was far more than a collaboration. Aja has walked beside me — collapsing the illusory divide between personal and professional — gently guiding me toward deeper self-love and awareness. This is one of her many gifts: she truly sees you, loves you, and walks with you on the journey of awakening.
visit substack
Aja recently launched a Substack blog that bridges psychology, energy, and soul, sharing teachings around Vibrational Psychology, Spiritual Integration, Plant Medicine Support, and New Earth Evolution to aid the world in harmonizing mind, body, and spirit — and live with clarity, coherence, and grounded truth.
A powerful resource during these times!
She also has a beautifulll newsletter where readers receive quarterly Love Letters to Humanity – a transmission offering truth, encouragement, and insight to support your personal and our collective evolution. I know I’m biased, but I highly recommend it!
visit ajaoso,com
a gift for the community
Receive 15% off Guidance Counselling sessions
Use the code UNITY when scheduling a session.
Further Liberation
fostering the remembrance of our true nature
From our earliest conversations, I sensed that Michael and I were being guided to align our aspirations in service to humanity. At the time, I had never encountered someone so anchored in unconditional Love and unwavering devotion to Truth before. His enthusiasm and focused intention inspired a deep confidence in me that his vision and his work was worth investing in. So, I offered my skills freely, unaware at the time that this collaboration would eventually reveal him as one of my greatest teachers on the path.
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I am one of many who have sought Michael’s guidance and wisdom. His support is truly unconditional, offering himself to all – regardless of financial exchange – through what he has coined The Mutual Support Philosophy (MSP), a paradigm-shifting model of reciprocity which fosters our innate desire to care for each other as a universal family.
a gift for the community
Michael is gifting three
60-minute guidance sessions
focused on reshaping one's relationship with money, wealth, abundance, service, safety, and security.
In these sessions, he educates and attunes participants to the principles of MSP, helping them identify practical ways to integrate this philosophy into their current lives and cultivate a deeper sense of true abundance and faith-based security.
Michael also has a Substack blog that talks about all things Truth, Love, God & Oneness!
Reach out to Michael to receive a session!
furtherliberation,com
a gift for the community
Receive 15% off all products
Use the promo code
WEAVINGLOVE
Shop their herbs & spices, teas, and sea salts at
gatheringplacetrading.com
Gathering Place Trading
maintaining uncompromising quality & integrity
When I moved to Vancouver Island in 2018, one of my first jobs was working for Gathering Place Trading (GPT) as their Sales & Marketing Coordinator. At the time, GPT was operating out of the basement of Lovena and Ryan’s home in Campbell River, with only six staff members — a small, familial team who worked closely and shared such genuine care for one another. I spent two formative years with them, years in which my personal growth was deeply influenced by the relational and values-based culture they embodied. During that same period, the business itself was also expanding and has since grown into a larger facility with an expanded team and a whole lot more organically grown and sustainably sourced products.
What I learned then — and continue to witness through my ongoing work as their freelance graphic designer — is how integrity and care can (and should) be woven into every aspect of life, including business. The interconnectedness of all beings and the Earth is held close to heart-mind, with sincerity and ingenuity guiding each decision. Suppliers, staff, and customers alike are treated with the same care that they offer their family. Their sourcing practices often bring them — along with their three children — directly to the farms and cooperatives that grow and produce their quality products, cultivating lasting relationships that ensure love is infused into every seed planted and every package shared. I truly cannot say enough good things about these two and the strength of character they embody!
Endwell
re-envisioning how we approach life & death
When I first met Tracy in 2022 while attending the End-of-Life Doula Program that she facilitates, I knew I’d met a kindred spirit. Her heart – tender, open, and deeply caring – is beautifully matched by a grounded knowing of Truth, presence, and the endless possibilities available to us when we embrace our true nature, in both life and death.
A fellow forest-dweller, Tracy’s work is rooted in the rhythms and teachings of the natural world. She helps us remember that dying, like living, is part of the great cycles of nature — something to be witnessed, supported, and held with care.
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Our collaboration began that same year when I volunteered my tech services for The Grief Well, a community initiative co-founded by Tracy and Willow Meili that holds space for the sharing and witnessing of grief. Since then, we’ve worked together to create a new home for her offerings (Endwell.ca), bringing her holistic, nature-informed approach to companioning the end-of-life journey into one place.
Tracy shares her heartfelt wisdom in her new book, The Nature of the Journey. Blending practical wisdom with personal story, this book offers something rare: a roadmap not only for caregiving but for staying present, heart-open, and soul-attuned in the face of death.
All of Tracy’s offerings are provided in the spirit of generosity, grounded in the understanding that becoming reacquainted with the natural experience of living and dying is a story we must all rewrite together. She offers just-right-for-you tuition for her personal work, making it more accessible to those who feel called. If there is something you would like to participate in but it is not financially available to you, you are warmly invited to reach out to Tracy.
a gift for the community
$20 digital copy of
Grief Stories Kinship Journal
The intention of this journal is to tenderly guide readers to question the stories they hold about grief and to facilitate a deeper kinship with grief through poetry, quotes, kinship practices, grief rituals, and writing prompts. Hard copies are also available here.
for those interested in becoming an end-of-life doula
EOL Doula Training Course
EOL Doula Mentorship Course
Free Monthly Mentorship Gatherings
Comox valley
Elli Inglis
comox valley
Carolyn Brett
2026
emerging COLLABORATIONS
Walking Thresholds
Health • Freedom • Clarity
Over the past few years, Elli and I have been on a collaborative journey as she integrates her background as an occupational therapist with a deep commitment to re-envisioning how we navigate life’s unexpected changes such as loss, illness, and burnout. Our work together has been about more than building a website; it has been a process of self-rediscovery for us both, a great honouring of the complexity and beauty of the human experience.
Carolyn’s work begins where the limits of conventional medicine often leave off, exploring the emotional, energetic, and belief patterns that shape our experience of dis-ease. She supports people in releasing fear, shifting limiting beliefs, and restoring inner coherence. Her intention is to help people reconnect with their life force — creating from clarity, living as their unmasked selves, and offering their gifts from a place of true resonance.
Wildness Healing
Over the past six years, it has been a joy to witness Lou grow into her work as a Thai Massage Therapist and Reflexologist, and now as a practitioner offering Somatic Inquiry and Breathwork. She brings a huge heart, grounded presence, and genuine care to everything she offers.
a gift for the community
By-donation 1:1 Somatic Inquiry & Breathwork sessions, or Breathwork Circles with groups of 3 or more
campbell river
Lou Piché
from open hearts & hands
EARTH-BASED OFFERINGS
Radiant Roots
My brother, Troy, and his partner, Courtney, moved to town last year — yay! — and have been busy creating beautiful outdoor spaces throughout the community. If you’re looking for support with gardening, landscaping, excavation, fencing, or general yard care, these two big-hearted humans bring care, integrity, and attention to everything they do.
new website coming in 2026
radiantrootsgardening@gmail.com
gardening & landscaping services
comox valley
Troy & Courtney
Norse Enterprises
Alan and Stephanie run a small, family-owned excavation and small haul business, and they bring their open hearts into everything they do. They’re the kind of people who show up — for their work, for their neighbours, and for the community — with kindness, reliability, and care. They’re not just people you hire; they’re the kind of people you feel grateful to have in your community.
excavation & small haul services
comox valley
Alan & Stephanie
Avoyé Design
Working with Darien introduced me to a way of thinking about building design unlike anything I had known. As we began co-creating a new website for his evolving vision of authentic design, it became clear that we share a deep commitment to living and creating with care and intention. His approach begins with remembering what it means to be human — shaped by nature, rhythm, and connection — and seeks to dissolve the boundaries between built space and the natural world, creating environments that support both our biological and spiritual lives.
new website coming in 2026
info@avoyedesign.com
professional building design
comox valley
Darien Avoyé
Unity Sanctuary
Fostering the natural unfolding of community
Siddharth
Michael
Charlie
When I suggested that the three of us find a place together, I had no real sense of what would unfold. Finn and I had been living in a small cabin in Royston, content to spend our days quietly dwelling in the forest. Michael, too, was settled in his quiet corner of the valley, where the original satsangs began. And Siddharth — well, he was butterflying, following the breeze and landing wherever stillness called him.
What has unfolded since that day — when we boldly, somewhat hesitantly, and perhaps miraculously took a leap of faith to live together — has felt deeply guided.
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In the presence of unconditional love that these two embody, a whole new world has been revealed to me — a truly more beautiful world. A world where we use every opportunity to deepen our understanding, expand our compassion, and recognize ourselves as conscious creators of our experience — of this reality.
Where we move from a deeper gnosis of Truth, opening to an intelligence beyond our limited perceptions. Where we embody the full expression of Love that we are — unveiled, unmasked, and beyond the illusion of separation.
​Words, try as they may, cannot fully express the gratitude I feel for being able to co-create with these two and share this journey within a community that feels like family. These relationships are the most valued parts of my life. To live and grow within this field of presence, truth, and unity is a gift beyond measure — one that I feel quietly rippling outward into the unified field of humanity and beyond.
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​In the year ahead, we’ll continue gathering for our monthly potlucks, along with a range of personal and collaborative offerings — Michael’s satsang, Siddharth’s embodiment and yoga journeys, my community deathcare workshops, and spaces to explore how we live, relate, and grow together in community. All are welcome.
Special thanks to Precious LaPlante and her skillful eye for following us around with her camera for a day of photography fun!
the heart
WITHIN THE WORK
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Charlie
