Upcoming Offerings
The Animas Quest: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – July 2024, Latvia
July 31 - August 10, 2024
Stacija, Latvia
With Doug Van Houten
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
An Animas Quest in the Rocky Mountain High Country – August 2024
August 8 - 19, 2024
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Jules Howatt
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Coming Home to an Animate World: A Way of Ceremony and Conversation – August, 2024
August 18 - 22, 2024
Gros Ventre Campground, Wyoming
With Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D. and Bill Plotkin
This five-day experiential immersion is an invitation to discover who we become when we approach the world as if everything is alive, intelligent, and filled with imagination and purpose.
An Animas Quest in the Utah Canyoncountry – September, 2024
September 10 - 21, 2024
Manti La Sal National Forest, Utah
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Kent Dobson
THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Into the Dark Womb – An Animas Quest for Women – September, 2024
September 13 - 24, 2024
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
With Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
An Animas Queer Ceremonial Fast – September, 2024 – NEW LOWERED PRICE
September 25 - October 5, 2024
Wild Geese Collective, Wabanaki Territory, Swanville, Maine
With Jules Howatt and Sara McFarland
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Wild Mind Intensive – October 2024
September 30 - October 4, 2024
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
The Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion: Cultivating Soul-Infused Artistry and Leadership in a Time of Global Change – 2024/2025
October 6, 2024 - September 6, 2025
Various Locations
With Mary Marsden, Laura Gunion and Kent Dobson
Our 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.
Soulcraft Intensive – October 2024
October 6 - 10, 2024
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
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 – October 2024, South Africa
October 9 - 13, 2024
Biedoux Valley Wegbreek, Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
An Animas Quest in the Cederberg Mountains – October 2024, South Africa
October 13 - 24, 2024
Biedoux Valley Wegbreek, Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Sweet Darkness – October, 2024
October 14 - 19, 2024
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Palika Rewilding
Sweet Darkness is one of our most challenging programs, a truly intense intensive, a 6-day experiential immersion into nature-based Shadow work.
An Animas Quest in the Sonoran Desert – November, 2024
October 27 - November 7, 2024
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Soulcraft Intensive for Earth Activists, Online – November, 2024
November 4 - December 16, 2024
Online
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and John Lynch, Art.D.
This is our popular 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.
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – November 2024, Australia
November 6 - 10, 2024
Venus Bay, South Eastern Victoria Coast, Australia
With Laura Gunion and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.
Soulcraft Intensive – November 2024
November 9 - 13, 2024
Dharma Treasure Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
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 – November 2024, Australia
November 11 - 15, 2024
Venus Bay, South Eastern Victoria Coast, Australia
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Sweet Darkness – November 2024, New Zealand
November 13 - 17, 2024
Centre for The Great Turning, The Motueka Valley
With Bill Plotkin and Laura Gunion
Sweet Darkness is one of our most challenging programs, a truly intense intensive, a 6-day experiential immersion into nature-based Shadow work.
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – November, 2024
November 13 - 17, 2024
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding
In Soulcentric Dreamwork you’ll learn what it’s like to enter dreams as mysteries, to boldly and vulnerably interact with its denizens and dreamscapes.
Deep Imagination, Soulcraft, and the Reanimation of the World – November 2024, New Zealand
November 20 - 24, 2024
Centre for The Great Turning, The Motueka Valley
With Bill Plotkin, Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Gunion
We’ll deepen what we discover in the imaginal world by grounding it in the body through somatic exercises and movement, and expressing it creatively through various art forms in order to fully take in and honor the gifts we receive.
Winter Desert Quest – February, 2025
February 26 - March 9, 2025
Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.