ANIMAS QUEST APPRENTICESHIPS

These one-at-a-time apprenticeships are for those who seek training in Animas soulcentric approach to guiding the Animas Quest. Your Quest Apprenticeship can, at any later time, become part of your Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (see above) should you decide to enroll in the latter.

Apprentices join a regularly scheduled Animas Quest group and learn the structure, components, and dynamics of the Quest from direct experience. Apprentices assist in basecamp activities when the questers are in camp and also when the questers are out alone fasting. The latter time is also the primary opportunity for individualized training for apprentices. In addition to outer skill development, apprentices are assisted in exploring and cultivating their own soulcentric development.

All Quest apprentices should have previously completed at least one quest of their own with either AVI or other experienced guides. If the candidate has not attended an AVI program, we ask that they first answer a few questions prior to requesting a full application from us. More than half of our apprentices are in training to guide quests of their own or have already had some experience guiding. Some come to determine whether or not guiding is really for them. Others seek to develop skills and sensitivities that will facilitate their work with other related wilderness, ceremonial, or educational programs.

Areas of training include: wilderness skills, conceptual foundations of the Animas quest as a modern rite of passage and/or rite of initiation, the stages and dynamics of human development and soul initiation, symbolic and ritual foundations of the quest, soulcentric dreamwork, deep imagery work, personal mythologies, symbolic interactions with nature, preparation of the contemporary quester, ceremonial and ritual skills, basic counseling skills, reincorporation, and understanding transpersonal states of consciousness.

Please ask for our Animas Quest Apprenticeship brochure.