Great Places To Start

The Animas offerings listed on this page, while some of our most profound experiential immersions, are also the most popular “entry points” for those with no prior experience with Soulcraft™ practices or the work of Animas Valley Institute.

Great Places To Start offerings include:

  • Soulcraft Intensive
  • Wild Mind Intensive
  • The Way of Council & the Art of Mirroring
  • Nature and the Human Soul
  • Animas Quest

Online Introduction to The Soulcentric Developmental Wheel – December, 2023

December 8 - 10, 2023
Online

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and John Lynch, Art.D.

Join our nature-based guides in an online experiential exploration of the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel, a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.

Soulcraft Intensive – January 2024, Australia

January 17 - 21, 2024
Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground, Northern NSW

With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Soulcraft Intensive – February, 2024

February 26 - March 1, 2024
Joshua Tree National Park, California

With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Wild Mind Intensive – March, 2024

March 2 - 6, 2024
Joshua Tree National Park, California

With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Pete Fonken

Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.

Nature and the Human Soul: An Experiential Exploration of the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel – March 2024

March 25 - 29, 2024
Taft Gardens, Ojai, California

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Gene Dilworth, M.A.

Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.

Queer Wild Mind Intensive – May 2024, Canada

May 3 - 7, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia

With Sara McFarland and Jules Howatt

Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.

Soulcraft Intensive, June 2024

June 5 - 9, 2024
Spirit Hollow, Vermont

With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.