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
Nature and the Human Soul: A Special Online Program for Parents & Educators – May, 2025
May 22 - June 27, 2025
Online
With John Lynch, Art.D. and Palika Wilding
Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.
A Portal To The Imaginal – May 2025, Bulgaria
May 22 - 26, 2025
Gudevitsa Village, Bulgaria
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Sara McFarland
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.
Wild Mind Deep Imagery Training – May 2025, Bulgaria
May 27 - 31, 2025
Gudevitsa Village, Bulgaria
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
During the Deep Imagination Training, we will apprentice ourselves to the mystery and wild otherness of images that arise from the unconscious.
Art & Soul: Unveiling and Igniting the Hidden Imagery of Nature and Psyche – Online, June 2025
June 7 - July 26, 2025
Online
With Doug Van Houten and Palika Wilding
This Program is FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. 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.
Into The Bone: Body & Soul – June, 2025
June 22 - 26, 2025
River's Bend Retreat Center, Philo, CA
With Doug Van Houten and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
Into the Bone is will focus on the body as a way of knowing and therefore as a way of becoming vulnerable to soul.
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.
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 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.
A Wild Passage – August, 2025
August 10 - 16, 2025
Hat Ranch, Northern Arizona
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and John Lynch, Art.D.
Our Brand New Program! This is both foundational and adventurous. Remember, life is a wild adventure, and this program is a great starter to rewild one’s life.
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.
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.
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 8 - 12, 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.
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.