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
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 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.
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.
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
Sweet Darkness is one of our most challenging programs, a truly intense intensive, a 6-day experiential immersion into nature-based Shadow work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 – 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.