Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.

Many organisations talk about resilience and systems change, but hardly anyone asks whether we are growing the kind of human beings capable of stewarding the future well. The future will not be shaped by better plans, but by who we are whilst making them. Transformation at the systems level requires transformation at the human level.  If we change the system without changing ourselves, the old patterns and habits will gradually rebuild it. Likewise if we only change ourselves, there is nothing in our environment that supports that change and the old habits are needed to navigate the outer realities. Bill…

The application deadline for this training is March 2nd. Please submit your application and our guides will be in touch with you after that date.  THIS TRAINING PROGRAM is designed primarily for the apprentices in our SAIP program. There are usually a few additional spots available open to experienced dreamwork facilitators with a background in soul work and lots of previous experience working with their own dreams. Ideally, you will already have participated in an Animas Dreamwork Intensive.  For those primarily seeking guidance in working on your own dreams, please join us for our Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive (Dancing with DreamMaker),…

This SAIP Residential is for SAIP trainees only. Once a year, during a six-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. For more information about our SAIPien Program, CLICK HERE.                     TEMPLE OF THE HOLY EARTH We will be camped in northcentral Washington on private land at an altitude of 1700 feet beside a wild river in a deep canyon in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. With…

The Application Deadline for this program is June 14, 2026. Please submit your application by that date, and our guides will be in touch with everyone afterward. Thank you! Coming Home to an Animate World: A Way of Ceremony and Conversation 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 doorway, an opening to a wilder consciousness shaped by forest and owls, clouds, cliff and dreams — a passage from a lifeless universe to a cosmos breathing with mystery and invitation, singing…

All SAIPiens, please, if at all possible, video-record one or more sessions with one or more mentees. If you have a recording you feel would be valuable for all of us to look at (e.g., you have some questions about the dynamics of relationship or psyche or Earth-psyche at play in the session, or you feel that  it illustrates a useful guide move or that there are one or more spots where you wish you had made a different guide move but maybe not sure what it might have been, etc.), then please send me the video and, if possible, include…