Revival 2026: TESSERA

Each year Revival offer a contemplative theme. A reflection we can all live inside for a few days. Something spacious enough to hold your laughter and your quiet. Something you can explore through art, workshops, camps, conversations, dance, and those late-night moments where you realize you’re not alone in what you’ve been carrying. Think of it as a trailhead: a starting point for meaning. Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t, and let it meet you wherever you are.

Revival: TESSERA
A tessera is a single tile, small and ordinary on its own, and unmistakable when it turns the right way and clicks into place. A victory of alignment.

This year Revival invites you to celebrate your willingness to rotate or pivot.
To try the same piece at a new angle.
To take what you already have, your skills, your stories, your weird little brilliance, and test it in a different direction until it finally feels like your masterpiece of self. One tile at a time.

Often, we treat repetition like a problem to solve. Some patterns are cages, and some are craft, the kind that turns small choices into something stunning.

A tessellation doesn’t ask one piece of you to carry the whole vision. It’s built when the many parts of you work together, each true to its shape, each finding where it belongs.

Not all progress registers from the outside because some of the most meaningful growth is quiet: a truth you stopped negotiating, a practice you return to, and a version of you that kept choosing forward even when it felt chaotic, even when it felt incremental.

For some of us, Tessera is collecting the pieces with trembling hands, learning what’s ours, reclaiming what we’re allowed to want.
For others, Tessera is the mosaic, the moment you finally see the life you’ve been building in the shape of your days.

So this year, we’re inviting a different kind of inventory. Not of what you lack, but of what you’ve already earned.

What have you been gathering without giving yourself credit for?
What boundary became your breakthrough?
What did you protect long enough for it to grow?

You’ve found your stride, the pattern is taking shape, and even if no one else can sense what you’re creating, you can.

Bring your pieces, the ones that shine and the ones you’re still learning to hold, and let them turn until they fit.

Revival is a community-built gathering, and your participation is part of what makes it real. We’ll be back at North Fork Park in Eden, Utah, June 18–21, 2026. Tickets and applications are open now, whether you want to attend, volunteer, host a camp, facilitate, create, or collaborate. Bring what you’ve got. The rest will fall into place.