Soulcraft Intensive – May 2013
May 23, 2013 – May 27, 2013
New York
$1170.00

**** THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CONFIRMED!! ***** The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Light on the Hill Retreat Center)
Guides: Lauren Chambliss, M.A., Len Fleischer , Ed.D.

PROGRAM FULL. Email us for other options or to get on a waiting list.
Animas Quest – June 2013
June 1, 2013 – June 12, 2013
Utah
$1540.00

***** THIS PROGRAM IS FULL.  PLEASE CONTACT OUR OFFICE TO GET ON WAITLIST**** (soulcraft@animas.org or 1-800-451-6327) AN ANIMAS QUEST This contemporary Western embodiment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for men and women seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the quest…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Nate Bacon, M.A., Mary Marsden

Wild Mind (WA) – June 2013
Exploring the Wild Mind: A Soulcraft Immersion – 3 day
June 6, 2013 – June 9, 2013
Washington
$695.00

****THIS PROGRAM IS HELD AT ALDERMARSH RETREAT CENTER – ALL MEALS PROVIDED**** Based on Bill Plotkin’s new book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this new 3-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. Our wild minds possess astonishing resources,…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Aldermarsh)
Guides: Sheila Belanger, M.A.

SAIP Residential – June 2013
June 13, 2013 – June 17, 2013
Colorado
$540.00

SAIP Residential (for SAIP trainees only) at Chris Park in Durango, Colorado. Once a year, during a five-day gathering, SAIP participants have the opportunity for advanced training and personal soulwork with the SAIP mentors. This gathering is for participants in the Soulcraft Apprenticeship & Initiation Program only.  Call or email the Animas to register. The…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., Sabina Wyss, CPCC, MCC

PROGRAM FULL. Email us for other options or to get on a waiting list.
Mirroring Training – June 2013
June 18, 2013 – June 22, 2013
Colorado
$870.00

****THIS PROGRAM IS FULL.  CONTACT THE ANIMAS OFFICE FOR WAITLIST INFORMATION****  This program is designed for and primarily intended for trainees in Animas’ SAIP program (Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Process), but other guides and human development facilitators are warmly invited to apply. During this training, we practice detecting the greater story that pulses beneath the…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Jeffrey Allen, M.A., Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Embracing Elderhood – June 2013
June 19, 2013 – June 26, 2013
Vermont
$1545.00

There’s a big difference between getting old and being a true elder, between withdrawing from active contribution to the community and embracing the call to share one’s wisdom and gifts. Aging can be a time of fading passion and purpose or an opportunity for new growth and beginnings. In a society where elderhood does not hold its historical place…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Sky Meadow)
Guides: Charles Lawrence, Ann Roberts, M.L.A.

Wild Mind (CO) – June 2013
Exploring the Wild Mind: A Soulcraft Immersion – 3 day
June 28, 2013 – July 1, 2013
Colorado
$450.00

Based on Bill Plotkin’s new book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this new 3-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Doug Van Houten, Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

Animas Quest – July 2013
July 7, 2013 – July 18, 2013
Colorado
$1845.00

***** THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CONFIRMED****  AN ANIMAS QUEST This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for men and women seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the quest is a ceremonial descent to the underworld, in which you die to…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Kelly Place)
Guides: Gene Dilworth, M.A., Anne Hayden

Soulcraft Intensive – July 2013
July 10, 2013 – July 14, 2013
New Mexico
$1245.00

****THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CONFIRMED!**** The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Vallecitos Mountain Ranch)
Guides: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Deep Imagery Intensive – July 2013
July 17, 2013 – July 21, 2013
Colorado
$990.00

    ***THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND IS A “GO”!” As human beings, we have four distinct ways of knowing — four ways we’re able to receive information about our world and ourselves. We have the capacity to learn through thinking, feeling, sensing, and imagining. These four functions, however, are rarely developed in a…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Starhouse)
Guides: Sheila Belanger, M.A., Mary Marsden

Soulcraft Intensive (Austria) – July 2013
Soulcraft Intensive (5-day) in Austria – ALMOST SOLD OUT!
July 24, 2013 – July 28, 2013

$900.00

PROGRAM TUITION = 390 EUROS; MEALS AND LODGING = 250-310 EUROS (depending on room category) PLEASE CONTACT SABINA WYSS  (sabinawyss@yahoo.com) OR Klaus Muik (sci@mannsein.at) FOR REGISTRATION Download Austria SCI Brochure here This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Retreat Center)
Guides: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., Sabina Wyss, CPCC, MCC

PROGRAM FULL. Email us for other options or to get on a waiting list.
Animas Quest – Aug 2013
July 31, 2013 – August 11, 2013
Colorado
$1560.00

****THIS PROGRAM IS FULL.  PLEASE CONTACT THE ANIMAS OFFICE FOR WAITLIST INFORMATION*****   AN ANIMAS QUEST The Animas Quest is a contemporary Western embodiment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for men and women seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Mary Marsden, Jim Marsden

Wild Mind (U.K.) – Aug 2013
Exploring the Wild Mind: A Soulcraft Immersion – 5 day
August 5, 2013 – August 9, 2013

$1485.00

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM, CONTACT DANIEL AT Daniel.Schwab@schumachercollege.org.uk OR GO TO  SCHUMACHER COLLEGE   Based on Bill Plotkin’s new book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this new intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. Our…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Retreat Center)
Guides: Geneen Marie Haugen, Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Coming Home to an Animate World (Scotland) – Aug 2013
A Way of Ceremony and Conversation
formerly called Conversations with the Sacred Other
August 16, 2013 – August 20, 2013

$955.00

THIS PROGRAM IS FULL!  HOWEVER, PLEASE CONTACT info@wendyrobertsonfyfe.co.uk TO GET ON WAITLIST! FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION, GO TO OR GO TO www.wendyrobertsonfyfe.co.uk  PROGRAM COST:  £615.00 Coming Home to an Animate World is one of our most exhilarating and imagination-expanding intensives, and it’s foundational to all the work we do at Animas. Think of this intensive as a green…

Guides: Geneen Marie Haugen, Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Animas Quest – Sept 2013
September 3, 2013 – September 14, 2013
Colorado
$1890.00

AN ANIMAS QUEST This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for men and women seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the quest is a ceremonial descent to the underworld, in which you die to your familiar way of belonging to…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Kelly Place)
Guides: Doug Van Houten, Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

PROGRAM FULL. Email us for other options or to get on a waiting list.
Psyche the Size of Earth – Sept 2013
Awakening Planetary Imagination
September 11, 2013 – September 15, 2013
Utah
$760.00

****THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CONFIRMED**** A Psyche the Size of Earth: Awakening Planetary Imagination The old stories that still sing in canyons, prairies, forests and waterways suggest that earlier people lived in an atmosphere where animals talked, rocks talked, trees and rivers and wind and mountains — all spoke, not only to (and about) humans,…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Nate Bacon, M.A., Geneen Marie Haugen

Wild Mind (NY) – Sept 2013
Exploring the Wild Mind: A Soulcraft Immersion – 5 day
September 15, 2013 – September 20, 2013

$435.00

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM, CONTACT THE OMEGA INSTITUTE, RHINEBECK NEW YORK Cost of program = $435 plus housing.  Please contact 800 944-1001 to register or for more information Based on Bill Plotkin’s new book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this new intensive is an experiential exploration of our…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Retreat Center)
Guides: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Council Training – Sept 2013
September 23, 2013 – September 27, 2013
Colorado
$870.00

The Council Facilitator Training is designed to immerse trainees in the way of council. Becoming a holder of Council entails a number of skills, including deep listening to self, others, and the group field; managing potentially problematic group dynamics and interweaving group themes; setting the stage with ceremony; creating the tone of the council; and…

Accommodations: Camping
Guides: Peter Scanlan, Ph.D., Jade Sherer

Underworld Journey – Oct 2013
An Advanced Animas Quest (13 Day)
October 1, 2013 – October 14, 2013
Colorado
$2390.00

The Underworld Journey is designed for those courageous and vulnerable individuals whose previous experience in nature-based soul work compels them deeper into the mystery — even if the mystery journey risks shredding the fine robes of comfort, success and security. The Underworld Journey awaits those who already hear mystery whispering in their day and night…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Kelly Place)
Guides: Geneen Marie Haugen, Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Soulcraft Intensive (CA) – Oct 2013
October 2, 2013 – October 6, 2013
California
$1045.00

The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Retreat Center)
Guides: Sheila Belanger, M.A., Gene Dilworth, M.A.

Deep Imagery Training – Oct 2013
October 9, 2013 – October 13, 2013
Washington
$1290.00

This training program is open to you if you have a solid foundation of experience in soul work and in accessing your own deep imagery. Ideally, you will already have participated in a “Deep Imagery Intensive”  through Animas. A brief application is required. This training is designed for people who work — or plan to…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Aldermarsh)
Guides: Sheila Belanger, M.A., Mary Marsden

Soulcraft Intensive (WV) – Oct 2013
October 16, 2013 – October 20, 2013
West Virginia
$845.00

The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Retreat Center)
Guides: Gene Dilworth, M.A., Doug Van Houten

Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion with Bill Plotkin and Sheila Belanger 2013/14
Cultivating Soul-Infused Artistry and Leadership in a Time of Global Change
October 29, 2013 – August 31, 2014
Colorado
$3750.00

The Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion is an advanced program for people already immersed in their soul-discovery process and who are either in a leadership position or are longing to support radical change in our world through the cultivation and offering of their most vital, visionary essence. This program is focused on neither healing nor therapy, but…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Kelly Place)
Guides: Sheila Belanger, M.A., Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Soulcentric Dreamwork – Oct 2013
October 30, 2013 – November 3, 2013
Tennessee
$1220.00

We invite you to join us on our popular 5-day experiential seminar, Soulcentric Dreamwork, which will be held this spring in the enchanted  mountain crossroads of Gray Bear, Tennessee. There is no better way to deepen the conversation with soul than by attending your dreams while immersed in nature. Soulcentric Dreamwork is a central component…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Gray Bear Lodge)
Guides: Jeffrey Allen, M.A., Jade Sherer

Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion: Peter Scanlan and Mary Marsden 2013/14
Cultivating Soul-Infused Artistry and Leadership in a Time of Global Change
November 5, 2013 – September 27, 2014
Colorado
$3750.00

The Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion is an advanced program for people already immersed in their soul-discovery process and who are either in a leadership position or are longing to support radical change in our world through the cultivation and offering of their most vital, visionary essence. This program is focused on neither healing nor therapy, but…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Kelly Place)
Guides: Mary Marsden, Peter Scanlan, Ph.D.

Writing the Wild Soul – Nov 2013
November 6, 2013 – November 10, 2013
Washington
$1190.00

Wild musk and whispers of soul press into our waking and dreaming, leave tracks outside the door of our everyday concerns, tap at our closed windows, beckon us into the moonlight, or twilight, or star splattered night, where nothing precisely resembles the crisply-defined world of day. A faint trail shimmers in the dimness, and maybe…

Accommodations: Retreat Center (Aldermarsh)
Guides: Geneen Marie Haugen, Pete Fonken