Upcoming Offerings
An Animas Quest in the Sonoran Desert – November, 2024
October 27 - November 7, 2024
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. 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.
Soulcraft Intensive for Earth Activists, Online – November, 2024
November 4 - December 16, 2024
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.
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – November 2024, Australia
November 6 - 10, 2024
Venus Bay, South Eastern Victoria Coast, Australia
With Laura Gunion and 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.
Wild Mind Intensive – November 2024, Australia
November 11 - 15, 2024
Venus Bay, South Eastern Victoria Coast, Australia
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Sweet Darkness – November 2024, New Zealand
November 13 - 17, 2024
Centre for The Great Turning, The Motueka Valley
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.
Deep Imagination, 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., Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Gunion
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.
Online Introduction to Soulcraft – November, 2024
November 22 - 24, 2024
Online
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Sara McFarland
Join our nature-based guides in an online experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Nature & the Human Soul: An Experiential Training in the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel Online – January, 2025
January 9 - February 21, 2025
Online
With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.
Soulcraft Intensive – February, 2025, Australia
February 4 - 8, 2025
Chakola Wildlife Refuge, Kangaroo Valley, Southern NSW
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
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.
Deep Imagination: Into Earth’s Dreaming – February, 2025
February 9 - 13, 2025
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D., Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding
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.
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive – February, 2025, Australia
February 10 - 14, 2025
Chakola Wildlife Refuge, Kangaroo Valley, Southern NSW
With Doug Van Houten and 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 Australian Quest – February 2025, Australia
February 17 - 28, 2025
Chakola Wildlife Refuge, Kangaroo Valley, Southern NSW
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
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.
Winter Desert Quest – February, 2025
February 26 - March 9, 2025
Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
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 – March, 2025
March 7 - 12, 2025
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.
An Animas Quest in the Sonoran Desert – March, 2025
March 14 - 25, 2025
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Palika Rewilding
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.
Soulcraft Intensive – March, 2025
March 30 - April 3, 2025
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Gene Dilworth, M.A.
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 – April, 2025
April 10 - 14, 2025
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and 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 – April, 2025
April 14 - 18, 2025
Taft Gardens, Ojai, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH 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.
Shadow Training – May, 2025
May 7 - 11, 2025
RoFo Ranch, Southwestern Colorado
With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Sage Magdalene
During this training, we'll develop our skills, as nature-based soul guides, in being with and working with The Shadow: strategies for spotting, unmasking, and assimilating the dark shapes of Shadow.
The SAIP Residential – May, 2025
May 13 - 18, 2025
RoFo Ranch, Southwestern Colorado
With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Nate Bacon, M.A.
Once a year, during a six-day gathering, SAIP participants have the opportunity for advanced training and personal soulwork with the SAIP mentors.
Soulcraft Intensive, May 2025
May 24 - 28, 2025
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Doug Van Houten and Kent Dobson
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.
Art & Soul: Unveiling and Igniting the Hidden Imagery of Nature and Psyche, June 2025
June 3 - 7, 2025
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
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.
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.
Soulcraft Intensive – June, 2025
June 25 - 29, 2025
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Kent Dobson
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.
Courting the Muse-Beloved – June, 2025
June 30 - July 4, 2025
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
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.