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Special Focus Offerings

Our Special Focus offerings employ a variety of innovative and distinctive soulcraft practices for evoking the encounter with soul. These offerings are of special interest to a great variety of people, including those called to the awakening of planetary imagination, the craft of writing as a path to soul, the practices of council and mirroring, and the exploration of other initiatory realms.

Special Focus offerings include:

  • Art and Soul
  • Courting the Muse-Beloved
  • Following the Moonpath: Women Dreamed by Earth
  • Prayers in the Dark: Tending our Visionary Fires
  • Romancing the World
  • Spider Silk in Moonlight
  • Writing the Wild Soul

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.