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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

Soulcraft Intensive for Earth Activists, Online – November, 2025

November 3 - December 15, 2025
Online

With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and John Lynch, Art.D.

This is our popular 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: Tending Our Visionary Fires, Online – December, 2025

December 2, 2025 - January 13, 2026
Online

With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Doug Van Houten

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 – February, 2026

February 17 - 21, 2026
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona

With Laura Gunion

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

Deep Imagination: Into Earth’s Dreaming – February, 2026

February 24 - 28, 2026
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona

With Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D. and Palika Wilding

Recovering our innate awareness of an intelligent Earth (populated with both seen and unseen presences) and reclaiming our relationship with our deep imagination not only re-enlivens us as individuals but also erodes the outworn Western worldview of a meaningless, disenchanted universe, a worldview upon which life-assailing business-as-usual depends.

Wild Portal to the Imaginal – April 2026, South Africa

April 6 - 10, 2026
Plettenburrg Bay, 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.

A Wild Awakening – April 2026, South Africa

April 11 - 16, 2026
Cederberg Mountains, South Africa

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

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.