Trevor is a father, a ritualist, a storyteller, and a wilderness fast guide. He spent twenty years building containers of cultural belonging through music before his mid-life descent at the age of 39 took him down and broke him open. With the help of a variety of teachers and guides, both living and dead, Trevor began the slow work of being gathered and re-membered into a deeper life of ritual, myth, grief, and reverence.

Since 2021, Trevor has been organizing culture-tending events in the qathet region of British Columbia: Medicine Story nights, Grief Rituals, Ancestor Feasts, and evenings with visiting storytellers. Each summer, he guides a ten-day wilderness fast and ritual of passage. He is also the co-founder and co-steward of the Cascadia Men's Conference.

Trevor’s work is deeply informed by his studies at Stephen Jenkinson’s Orphan Wisdom School. He is also trained as a Vision Fast guide through the School of Lost Borders and apprenticed in Ritual Leadership and Storycarrying with ritualist Randy Jones. He has attended immersions with storyteller Martin Shaw and the Animas Valley Institute, and trained in dreamwork with Robert Moss. In 2022, he completed an 18-month guided adult-initiation sequence that culminated in a four-day Vision Fast.

He shares his ongoing reflections at The Sacred Gestures Substack by Trevor Mervyn.

"My passionate curiosity around the intersection between ritual, myth, initiation, grief, and nature has laid claim to me. I believe in the sacredness of mystery, and the deep wisdom of the more-than-human-world. I believe in the night."

Trevor’s recent ancestors come from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, by way of Canada.