After seeing the Live Aid concert (1986) Phil realized the power of music to raise consciousness and further progressive movements. In 1987 Phil started his event organizing 'career' as an activist by putting on benefit events and consciousness raising events for dozens of environmental, social justice organizations to build healthier community.

Driven with a vision to integrate consiousness raising 'edutainment' events to further create healthier more sustainable communities, he got involved in the UN Summit process. Phil participated in 3 UN Global Summits including Habitat II (Istanbul '96), Earth Summit +5 (NYC '97), and Earth Summit + 10 (Johannesburg, South Afirca 2002) At the 2002 UN Summit, he flew in Chris Berry for his band Panjea to perform at various high profile summit events.

In addition to overseeing all production & team building, Phil is most involved in all booking & choreography for most of the events while doing his best to maintain the integrity of the implementation Mystic Garden vision. His main focus is to gather the most inspiring visionary music, workshop leaders & ceremonial presenters to create the most fun, inspiring, transformational experience for everyone. He is grateful and feels very blessed to have been able to build an incredibly experienced, upbeat and talented core team to ensure a high quality production.

Because Mystic Garden Party events happen in more than one location, we assemble high caliber and experienced production teams that are comprised of mostly local people in each event location.

This last Summer MGP event in Ashland was our best team ever comprised of experienced managers who work for many West Coast festivals. These quality managers for production, parking, security, admissions, etc. gave everyone a smooth, healthy & safe event. Some of our administrative team that continue on often in a project by project basis include the following all-stars:

Mish was one of the main producer/organizers for The Garlic and Music Festival in Arlington, WA for 14 years. She wore many hats and gained lots of skills in areas of promotion, admissions, bookkeeping, vendor management, media relations and over all event management.

Mish is helping us with her graphics and website design skills on our website, posters, ads and program guides. She is also a musician and often performs live with Freedom and has recorded her flute on several of his and other musical artists CD's.