Upcoming Offerings
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.
Courting The Muse Beloved Online – March, 2025
March 6 - April 17, 2025
Online
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.
Sweet Darkness – March, 2025
March 7 - 12, 2025
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Palika Wilding
This program is FULL. Sweet Darkness is one of our most challenging programs, a truly intense intensive, a 6-day experiential immersion into nature-based Shadow work.
Online Introduction to Soulcraft – March, 2025
March 28 - 30, 2025
Online
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Kent Dobson
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.
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.
Into the Dark Womb – An Animas Quest for Women – April, 2025
April 9 - 20, 2025
Ekone Ranch, Washington
With Laura Gunion and Palika Wilding
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.
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 Kent Dobson
In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.
A Wild Passage – April 2025, South Africa
April 23 - 30, 2025
Plettenburg Bay, 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.
Wild Mind Intensive – April, 2025
April 30 - May 4, 2025
Dharma Treasure Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona
With Sara McFarland and Kent Dobson
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Soulcraft Intensive – May 2025, South Africa
May 1 - 5, 2025
Bodhi Khaya Nature Retreat, Western Cape, South Africa
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
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.
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.
An Animas Quest in the Utah Canyoncountry – May, 2025
May 20 - 31, 2025
Manti La Sal National Forest, Utah
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Animas Quest: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – June 2025, Latvia
June 25 - July 5, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
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.
Wild Mind Intensive – June, 2025
June 30 - July 4, 2025
River's Bend Retreat Center, Philo, CA
With Palika Wilding and Doug Van Houten
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 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.
An Animas Quest at Beauty Mesa – July, 2025
July 7 - 18, 2025
Manti La Sal National Forest, Utah
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
Animas Quest: A Depth Journey for Opening to Earth’s Wild Wisdom – July 2025, Latvia
July 13 - 23, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene
This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision quest is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
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 Intensive – July 2025, Latvia
July 25 - 29, 2025
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
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.
Foundations of Wild Mind, Online – August, 2025
August 1 - 22, 2025
Online
With Doug Van Houten and Dan Dolquist, M.Div, Th.M, D.Min, Wild Mind Guide
Weaving the Map of the Psyche into our inner world, our daily life, and our relationship with the other than human community.
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.
An Animas Quest in the Rocky Mountain High Country – August 2025
August 13 - 24, 2025
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Kent Dobson
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.
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.
Wild Mind Intensive, September 2025
September 19 - 23, 2025
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Sara McFarland
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Soulcraft Intensive – October 2025
September 30 - October 4, 2025
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
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.
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.
An Animas Quest in the Sonoran Desert – November, 2025
October 27 - November 7, 2025
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
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.