Kent Dobson
Kent Dobson is a defender of the ancient and hidden ways of relating to the ordinary mysteries of being alive. He’s committed to helping others listen to the poetry of their own way of being and the potentialities latent in the contours of the heart. He’s fascinated by the ways myth and symbol arise spontaneously from the psyche in wildly personal ways and in recognizable patterns that cross time and culture. He’s a student of the evolving conversation around the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine. He was lucky enough to grow up in the woods of Virginia, among the hills and streams, as the son of Irish immigrants. He studied English in college and went to graduate school in Jerusalem, where he still leads pilgrimages. He’s a former minister and musician, an author and podcaster, dream tender and companion-guide for individuals, and a trouble-maker for his own group wilderness intensives. Based in Michigan for many years, he’s now settling into his new home in rural Georgia with his wife and kids, among pines and ferns and extended family.
Events with Kent Dobson
Wild Mind Intensive - March, 2026March 23 - 27, 2026
Based on Bill Plotkin’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 5-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, a comprehensive inventory of what can be right about a person, a “shadow” version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), mainstream psychology’s list of what can go wrong with people. Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we…
Dancing with DreamMaker: Into the NightBody with Art and Soul - June, 2026June 14 - 18, 2026
Enter into a divine dance where our dreaming nightbody steps into confluence with the deep source of our creativity. This dance is a powerful portal to soul work, through which we bridge from dayworld consciousness to the hidden rivers of the unconscious in ways that are unique to you as accessed through your imagination, emotions, body, and relationships. Through the interplay of these modalities, you become a mysterious dream-walker shaping soul’s longing into expressions of art and motion. During this immersion, we’ll wander slowly in the often disturbing, often splendorous nightworld with its symbols, images, and metaphors meant only for the dreamer. We’ll courageously commit to an extended stay in soul’s mysterious domain, permitting the dream to do its formidable work on our ego, to root us more fully in soul just as…