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
Fishing For Shadow Online – April, 2023
April 17 - May 5, 2023
Online
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Gunion
THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. 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.
Prayers In The Dark – April 2023, Australia
April 18 - 22, 2023
Hundred Tents Camp, Tweed Valley and Northern Rivers
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?
Journey into the Depths of the Soul – April 2023, Colombia
April 22 - 26, 2023
Reserva Natural El Chulajuán - San Francisco, Cundinamarca, Colombia
With Nate Bacon, M.A.
This 5 day intensive is a journey into the wild depths of the Soul offered by Efecto Mariposa, Colombia, in alliance with Animas Valley Institute.
Into The Bone: Body & Soul – June, 2023
June 8 - 12, 2023
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Doug Van Houten and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
OUR BRAND NEW PROGRAM! Into the Bone is will focus on the body as a way of knowing and therefore as a way of becoming vulnerable to soul.
Soulcraft Intensive for Earth Activists – June, 2023
June 13 - 17, 2023
Bell Meadow Farm, Sedalia, CO
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Erica Rhinehart
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.
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – June 2023, Latvia
June 26 - 30, 2023
Stacija, Latvia
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.
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – June 2023, Canada
June 28 - July 2, 2023
Wave Hill Farm, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
With Doug Van Houten and Bruce Howlatt
In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.
Awakening Noospheric Imagination: Experiential Cosmology, Earth Community, and the Human Soul – June, 2023
June 29 - July 3, 2023
Temple of the Holy Earth, Twisp, Washington
With Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D. and Special Guest Guide, Brian Thomas Swimme, Ph.D.
A SPECIAL ANIMAS OFFERING: As our civilization careens into an unknown future shaped largely by human beings, we will need a new compass, new possibilities or worldviews, to help find our way.
Prayers In The Dark – July 2023, Latvia
July 2 - 6, 2023
Stacija, Latvia
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
The human species has entered a collective dark night. What visions might emerge from our prayers in the dark?
Art & Soul, August 2023
August 14 - 18, 2023
Ben Lomond Quaker Center, California
With Doug Van Houten and Palika Rewilding
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.
Coming Home to an Animate World: A Way of Ceremony and Conversation – August 2023
August 23 - 27, 2023
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.
Courting the Muse-Beloved – September, 2023
September 5 - 9, 2023
Rock Creek Ranch, Northern 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.
Queer Soulcraft Intensive, September 2023
September 20 - 24, 2023
Wild Geese Collective, Wabanaki Territory, Swanville, Maine
With Doug Van Houten
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.
Prayers in the Dark, October 2023
October 8 - 12, 2023
Harrod's Creek Sactuary, Kentucky
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?
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – November, 2023
November 10 - 14, 2023
Dharma Treasure Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona
With Mary Marsden and Nate Bacon, M.A.
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.