Wild Mind Training Program Residential – November 2026, Australia
November 14 - 18, 2026
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Palika Wilding
The Wild Mind Training Residential is the core of the WMTP steeped in the Nature Based Map of the Human Psyche.
In this 5-day training, participants hone their skills in listening, tracking, deepening, mirroring, and creating invitations to help others cultivate their wholeness and heal their wounded and fragmented subpersonalities. We also practice the skills of council, dreamwork, and Shadow work, and further develop our understanding and use of the Nature Based Map of the Human Psyche. Included is an introduction to the use of the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel.
Designed for human development guides, the WMTP is a professional training in the use of the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche to support others to cultivate their innate wholeness and to acquire the skills of Self-healing.
The objectives of the Wild Mind Training Residential are to:
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provide training in the NBMHP model and in the skills of facilitating nature-based wholing and Self-healing
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support trainees in their personal cultivation of wholeness and Self-healing
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support the career development of professionals called to guide others toward wholeness.
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Note – the WMTP is not a training in underworld guiding. Learning to facilitate the descent to soul is the mission of Animas’ Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program — SAIP. An application and acceptance into the Wild Mind Training Program is required for this Residential.
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Continuing Education Credits are available for an additional fee. Please inquire.
A residential, face to face, fully catered training held at Baanya Biami – Camp of Great Spirit Staughton Vale Victoria – 80 minutes south west of Melbourne.
Guides
Brian Stafford is a guide to the wilderness of nature, wildness, and soul. Called out of academic medicine to serve as a guide to the depths and to serve as an agent of cultural awakening and transformation, he guides with humor, playfulness, fierceness, compassion, discernment, and a deep remembering of the fullness of what each human life can, should, and was meant to be. A native of Colorado and the former holder of an endowed chair and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, he is currently a guide, Board Member, and Training Director of the Wild Mind Training Program at Animas. He…
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Palika Wilding has been courting and centering the mysteries of the Underworld, moon and the miraculous Blue Green Pearl for as long as she can remember. As Threshold Midwife she listens and tends the edges and holy cracks where the Earth body and psyche, and human body and psyche collide. With fierce love, she invites seekers towards psycho spiritual and ecological thresholds to recover pearls and shadowed gems within, that lead us to embody an enchanted, reciprocal response-ability with the Animate Earth & Mystery. Committed to the somatic, imaginal, creative entanglement and porosity between humans and the web of life;…
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