Get ready to step into a candy-coated world full of sweet wonder and sugary dreams! This New Year, we invite our vibrant community to come together to celebrate the sweetness of connection, creativity, and transformation. Join us for Adventures in Candyland at Winter Intention 2026, happening December 30, 2026 - January 2, 2027 at the beautiful Loon Lake retreat centre in Maple Ridge, BC.
Like a candy shop filled with unexpected delights, our gathering is a place where different flavours, colours, and creations come together to make something extraordinary. At Intention every sweet soul is an essential ingredient! Our family-friendly event is entirely participant and volunteer-run, meaning everyone buys a ticket and co-creates this transformative experience together.
Dance your way down the sugar-coated path with electrifying DJ sets, joyful movement, and beats that are the icing on the cake. Feed your curiosity with a delightful assortment of community-led workshops, where inspiration, wisdom, and personal growth are always on the menu. Discover imaginative art, and handmade treasures from local artisans, each adding their own flavour to the magic.
Come as you are, bring your sweetest self, and let’s create a little magic together — one connection, one beat, and one sugar-dusted moment at a time.
With love,
The Intention Gathering Team
Keep an eye on our Facebook event page (coming soon) for more details.
Tickets
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Each ticket includes 3 nights of indoor lodging, 3 excellent customized and catered meals per day, and all workshops and other entertainment. All tickets have a base price, with an option to contribute a little extra with our pay-what-you-can tickets. Additional contributions help support both youth/family subsidized tickets and adult subsidized tickets, making the gathering accessible to more community members.
- Sustainer Ticket: $575. Every dollar beyond $575 supports subsidized access for others.
- Abundance Ticket: $675. By purchasing this ticket, you are helping to subsidize the cost for another participant who needs it. Your generosity carries the spirit of abundance, flowing through and uplifting the collective.
- Subsidized Ticket: $350. This reduced-price ticket is made possible by contributions from community members who are able to pay more. It is heavily subsidized and intended for those who absolutely need extra financial help in order to attend. A limited number of these tickets are available, and if they run out, there will be a waitlist.
- Youth tickets: $125 for ages 5-10, $250 for teens (11-17). Kids under 5 are free.
If you are able, please consider making an extra donation, or buying an Abundance ticket to help to cover more of our costs. We rely on the generosity of people in our community to subsidise the reduced-cost tickets for those who wouldn’t be able to attend if they had to pay full price. Most of them are core contributors who help to make the magic happen — if they can’t make it, we all lose out. So a little generosity, if you CAN afford it, goes a long way!
If you encounter any problems when purchasing or registering, please send a detailed email to registration[at]intentiongathering[dot]org
We invite you to be part of the whole experience, to sink into the sweetness of the space and music, share meals with new friends, and co-create the magic that unfolds when we spend three intentional days together.
A very limited number of one-night tickets are available closer to the event for CelebratioNight (December 31st). These tickets will cost $160, and are intended for those who are unable to attend the full gathering.
Teens (age 11-17), Youth (age 5-10) or Child (4 and under) are welcome at CelebratioNight, but we haven't created those ticket types yet, and won't do so until there is a demand. Please message registration[at]intentiongathering[dot]org if you need one of these tickets.
Please note that for both full event tickets and CelebratioNight tickets:
Tickets are non-refundable, but are transferable to another person until a set date (TBD).
Co-create! Volunteering, music, workshops and artisan market
Co-creation is a core value of Intention, similar to Burning Man and other like-minded communities that we are connected to. This means we all come together to make this non-profit event happen. We ask that participants contribute by signing up for four hours (or more!) of volunteer shifts.
Contributions may include welcoming people at the gate, helping with decor, being a calm presence at peer support, or helping to make sure we leave the venue as beautiful as it was when we arrived. You can choose which parts of the event you feel called to support.
If you’re an artisan or just want to support artisans in our community, you could lead our Artisan Market. Let us know if you’re interested at info[at]intentiongathering[dot]org! We’ll only have an Artisan Market if someone steps up to lead it.
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DJ application coming soon!
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Workshop application coming soon!
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Artisan Market application coming soon!
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CONSENT
We practice consent culture — that means checking in, asking first, and respecting boundaries. Always ask before touching, joining, or photographing someone. It’s how we keep our community safe, inclusive, and connected. Please ask before engaging, listen to “no,” and celebrate “yes” when it’s freely given.
Gratitude
We acknowledge we’ll be gathering on the ancestral, unceded territory of the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie) First Nation.
We have tremendous gratitude for this land and everything that it provides, and invite awareness and consideration of how and why the people of the nation of Canada have access to all of its beauty and abundance. We always strive to leave no trace and to protect the land where we gather.
Find more information about the event at:
https://intentiongathering.org/home
If you like the sound of this event but can't attend this time around, please "like" our page at https://www.facebook.com/intentiongatheringvancouver to stay in touch!