Great Places To Start
The Animas offerings listed on this page, while some of our most profound experiential immersions, are also the most popular “entry points” for those with no prior experience with Soulcraft™ practices or the work of Animas Valley Institute.
Great Places To Start offerings include:
- Soulcraft Intensive
- Wild Mind Intensive
- The Way of Council & the Art of Mirroring
- Nature and the Human Soul
Wild Mind Intensive – February 2026, Australia
February 3 - 7, 2026
Chakola, Kangaroo Valley, Southern NSW.
With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt
Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we discover how to integrate them into our everyday lives.
Online Introduction to Soulcraft – March, 2026
March 6 - 8, 2026
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.
Wild Mind Intensive – March, 2026
March 23 - 27, 2026
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. 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 – March, 2026
March 29 - April 2, 2026
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Christie Diamond, 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.
Nature and the Human Soul: A Special Online Program for Parents & Educators – May, 2026
May 7 - June 12, 2026
Online
With John Lynch, Art.D.
Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.
Soulcraft Intensive – May 2026, France
May 14 - 18, 2026
Mikinac Woods, Bren, France
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.
Queer Foundations of Soulcraft Online – May, 2026
May 26 - June 13, 2026
Online
With Sara McFarland and Jules Howatt
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, within a Queer container.
Wild Mind Intensive – June, 2026
June 20 - 24, 2026
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Sara McFarland and Dan Dolquist, M.Div, Th.M, D.Min, Wild Mind Guide
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Red Heart Wild Mind Intensive – July 2026, Australia
July 21 - 25, 2026
Ross River Resort, Northern Australia.
With Jules Howatt
Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we discover how to integrate them into our everyday lives.
Red Heart Soulcraft Intensive – July 2026, Australia
July 27 - 31, 2026
Ross River Resort, Northern Australia.
With Jules Howatt
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.
Foundations of Wild Mind, Online – August, 2026
August 1 - 22, 2026
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.