Upcoming Offerings
Animas Quest: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – June 2025, Latvia
June 25 - July 5, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Soulcraft Intensive – June, 2025
June 25 - 29, 2025
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Kent Dobson
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 in the Redwoods on the River – June, 2025
June 30 - July 4, 2025
River's Bend Retreat Center, Philo, CA
With Palika Wilding and Doug Van Houten
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Fishing For Shadow Intensive – July 2025, Latvia
July 7 - 11, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland
We will explore Shadow — the hidden, deep, and dangerous realm of our psyches. The psyche has sinister or negative aspects as well as positive or golden qualities. It also has golden characters who wear some very sinister masks. It is dark and slippery terrain.
An Animas Quest at Beauty Mesa – July, 2025
July 7 - 18, 2025
Manti La Sal National Forest, Utah
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Animas Quest: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – July 2025, Latvia
July 13 - 23, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – July 2025, Romania
July 23 - 27, 2025
Căbănuța, Caps, Cluj, Romania
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
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.
Wild Mind Intensive – July 2025, Latvia
July 25 - 29, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Wild Mind Dreamwork Training – July 2025, Romania
July 28 - August 1, 2025
Căbănuța, Caps, Cluj, Romania
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
This training program is open to those with a background in soul work and plenty of previous experience doing their own dreamwork, along with experienced dreamwork facilitators.
Foundations of Wild Mind, Online – August, 2025
August 1 - 22, 2025
Online
With Doug Van Houten and Dan Dolquist, M.Div, Th.M, D.Min, Wild Mind Guide
Weaving the Map of the Psyche into our inner world, our daily life, and our relationship with the other than human community.
Coming Home to an Animate World: A Way of Ceremony and Conversation – August, 2025
August 11 - 15, 2025
Gros Ventre Campground, Wyoming
With Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D. and Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
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 at Beauty Mesa – August 2025
August 13 - 24, 2025
Manti La Sal National Forest, Utah
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Kent Dobson
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.
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – August 2025
August 20 - 24, 2025
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia
With Mary Marsden and Palika Wilding
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.
Art & Soul: Unveiling and Igniting the Hidden Imagery of Nature and Psyche – September 2025, Colombia
September 4 - 8, 2025
Boyacá, Colombia
With Doug Van Houten
The reinvention of self and world happens primarily through the powers of our imaginations. The special focus of Art and Soul is the awakening of these powers and the expression of our raw images.
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – September 2025, Colombia
September 10 - 14, 2025
Guatavita, Colombia
With Doug Van Houten
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.
Wild Mind Intensive, September 2025
September 19 - 23, 2025
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Sara McFarland
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 – October 2025
September 30 - October 4, 2025
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.
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – October 2025
October 6 - 10, 2025
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.
Sweet Darkness – October, 2025
October 7 - 12, 2025
Temple of the Holy Earth, North Cascade Mountains, Washington
With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. 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.
A Portal To The Imaginal – October 2025, South Africa
October 10 - 14, 2025
Biedoux Valley Wegbreek, Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
For those longing to take a step toward the journey of soul initiation, this experiential intensive is both a great place to start and an intentional step toward bringing the enchanting imaginal realms back into one’s daily life.
An Animas Quest in the Cederberg Mountains – October 2025, South Africa
October 14 - 25, 2025
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.
An Animas Quest in the Sonoran Desert – November, 2025
October 27 - November 7, 2025
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, 2025
November 3 - December 15, 2025
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.
Wild Mind Intensive – November 2025, Australia
November 5 - 9, 2025
Raven's Nest Retreat Centre, South Eastern Victoria Coast
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.
Prayers In The Dark – November, 2025
November 9 - 13, 2025
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
The human species has entered a collective dark night. What visions might emerge from our prayers in the dark?
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – November 2025, Australia
November 10 - 14, 2025
Raven's Nest Retreat Centre, South Eastern Victoria Coast
With 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.
Wild Mind Mirror Training – November 2025, Australia
November 15 - 19, 2025
Raven's Nest Retreat Centre, South Eastern Victoria Coast
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
During this training, we practice detecting the greater story that pulses beneath the events of a person’s life.
Online Introduction to Soulcraft – November, 2025
November 21 - 23, 2025
Online
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Sara McFarland
Join our nature-based guides in an online experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.