Upcoming Offerings

Prayers In The Dark, Online – March, 2024

March 21 - April 25, 2024
Online

With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

The human species has entered a collective dark night. What visions might emerge from our prayers in the dark?

Sonoran Desert Fast – March, 2024

March 25 - April 5, 2024
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona

With Doug Van Houten and Laura Gunion

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.

Deep Imagination: Into the Heart of the World – April, 2024

April 8 - 12, 2024
Ekone Ranch, Washington

With Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding

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.

Mirroring Training – April, 2024

April 15 - 19, 2024
Temple of the Holy Earth, Twisp, Washington

With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Sage Magdalene

THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. During this training, we practice detecting the greater story that pulses beneath the events of a person’s life.

Nature and the Human Soul: A Special Online Program for Parents & Educators – April, 2024

April 19 - May 31, 2024
Online

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

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

The SAIP Residential – April, 2024

April 21 - 26, 2024
Temple of the Holy Earth, Twisp, Washington

With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Nate Bacon, M.A.

Once a year, during a five-day gathering, SAIP participants have the opportunity for advanced training and personal soulwork with the SAIP mentors.

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.

Fishing For Shadow Online – May, 2024

May 20 - June 19, 2024
Online

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

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.

Courting the Muse-Beloved – May, 2024

May 30 - June 3, 2024
Rock Creek Ranch, Crescent City, California

With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

Romance opens us to the mystery and depth of our longing. Our muse is the wellspring of our creativity, inspiration and deep imagination, ushering us toward what is most worth doing.

Animas Zion Fast – June, 2024

June 3 - 14, 2024
Lee Valley at Zion National Park, Utah

With Mary Marsden 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.

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.

Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche: The Advanced Soulcraft Intensive – June, 2024

June 6 - 10, 2024
Temple of the Holy Earth, North Cascade Mountains, Washington

With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Laura Gunion

An advanced version of the Soulcraft Intensive for people prepared for a radical immersion in the enigmatic dark waters of soul.

The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – June, 2024

June 11 - 15, 2024
Spirit Hollow, Vermont

With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt

In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.

The Spiral Journey: An Advanced Animas Fast in the Latvian Forest – June, 2024, Latvia

June 25 - July 5, 2024
Stacija, Latvia

With Sage Magdalene 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.

Myth and the Underworld: Spider Silk in Moonlight – July, 2024, Latvia

July 7 - 11, 2024
Stacija, Latvia

With Sage Magdalene

Each human being is meant to have a unique, mystical relationship with the world. This relationship is the key to the one’s soul purpose.

Soulcraft Intensive – July, 2024

July 10 - 14, 2024
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.

Animas Fast: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – July 2024, Latvia

July 13 - 23, 2024
Stacija, Latvia

With Sage Magdalene

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 Deep Imagination Training – July 2024, Canada

July 15 - 20, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Mary Marsden

During the Deep Imagination Training, we will apprentice ourselves to the mystery and wild otherness of images that arise from the unconscious.

Soulcraft Intensive – July 2024, Canada

July 22 - 26, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia

With Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding

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.

Into The Bone: Body & Soul – July, 2024, Latvia

July 25 - 29, 2024
Stacija, Latvia

With Doug Van Houten

Into the Bone is will focus on the body as a way of knowing and therefore as a way of becoming vulnerable to soul.

Animas Fast: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – August 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.

Rocky Mountain High Country Fast – 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, 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.

Utah Canyoncountry Fast – September, 2024

September 10 - 21, 2024
Manti La Sal National Forest, Utah

With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and 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.

Into the Dark Womb – Women’s Fast – September, 2024

September 13 - 24, 2024
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

With Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding

This contemporary enactment of the pancultural Animas Fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.

Queer Ceremonial Fast – September, 2024

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.

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.

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.

Sonoran Desert Fast – 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 – 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.

Sweet Darkness – November 2024, New Zealand

November 13 - 17, 2024
Centre for The Great Turning, The Motueka Valley

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.

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 Imaginal, 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, Ph.D. and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

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.