The Soulcraft Intensive

April 12-16, 2023

A residential, face to face, fully catered intensive held at Hundred Tents camp in the beautiful Tweed Valley and Northern Rivers region of NSW.

Full Program Fee - $1,650

An early bird discount/concession price of $1,495 is available until February 21- if paid in full upfront.

Otherwise, a deposit of $495 will hold your place - with the balance of $1,155 to be charged 4 weeks before the program.

The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born to bring to the world, a world so much in need of the socially transforming contributions of initiated, actively engaged adults.

To encounter the soul is to discover the mystical image you were born with, which reveals the path to your greatest personal fulfillment as well as the essence of your true service to society (the cross-cultural wisdom traditions say these are one and the same).

Soulcraft practices spring from nature-based cultures, modern depth psychology, the poetic tradition, and wilderness rites of passage—to comprise a truly contemporary Western path to soul discovery and soul initiation. For a full discussion, see Bill Plotkin’s book Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche.

The Soulcraft Intensive is highly experiential and—well—intense.

We alternate between practices utilised in group, practices explored in solitude in nature, and sharing and deepening those experiences.

What you discover through one practice is carried into and amplified by what you learn in the next. By the end of the intensive, you will understand yourself and your place in the world from a more soul-oriented perspective, be clearer about the gifts you were born to bring to the world, and have new skills to enrich your life and to defend the health of the more-than-human world.

Soulcraft practices include:

· Soulcentric Dreamwork

· Deep Imagery Work with Animal Guides

· Talking Across the Species Boundaries

· The Way of Council

· Soul Tasks in Nature

· Self-Designed Ceremony

· Shadow Work

· Soul Poetry

· Sacred Wound Work

· Synchronicities: Working with Nature’s Signs and Omens

· Befriending the Dark

· Ecstatic Trance Drumming and Dancing and many others!

Venue:

Hundred Tents camp is located in the beautiful Tweed Valley and Northern Rivers region, close to the NSW / Queensland border in the small town of Kunghur NSW. It offers 3,500 acres of bush to explore including swimming holes, a waterfall, walking tracks and boasts magnificent views of Mt Warning and surrounds.

Guides:

Doug Van Houten: Doug draws on the wisdom of the natural world, depth-psychology, eco-psychology, dreams, somatic knowing, poetry, and many pan-cultural, soul furthering practices that includes: The Way of Council, vision fasting, shadow work, symbolic artwork, trance dancing and conversations with the more than human world. Doug’s true calling in life is to support others as they uncover their own unique gifts and in so doing, transform their lives in service to what Thomas Berry called ”The Great Work” of our times. Doug is also an ardent beekeeper, a visual artist, a wily wanderer, a dream tracker, an emergent ceremonialist, a heart-centered activist, and a yogi and a dancer interested in new forms of somatic practice.

Rebecca Wildbear: Rebecca is a river and soul guide, compassionately helping people tune in to the mysteries that live within the wild Earth community, Dreamtime, and their own wild Nature. She gently ushers people to the underground river of their greater story, so they may surrender to their soul’s deepest longing and embrace their sacred gifts, live a life of creative service, and rediscover their deep belonging to the Earth community. A therapist and wilderness guide since 1997, Rebecca utilizes her training and experience with yoga, meditation, Hakomi, and somatic psychotherapy to support individuals in discovering and manifesting their soul gifts. She also leads Animas programs and is on the faculty of Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Rebecca is the creator of Wild Yoga™, a sacred way of breathing and moving, aligned with Earth and Soul.

Food and Accommodation:

The program is fully catered, providing delicious vegetarian food. We will pass on any dietary restrictions advised by you at registration. If you have not already let us know of any dietary restrictions that apply to you, please forward to us as soon as possible.

Lodgings and bedding requirements:

There are 2 small cabins with limited bunk bed accommodation. Otherwise the accommodation is camping, and there are numerous camp sites available. Please advise us if you have a particular need to sleep in a cabin bunk bed. Campers will have access to toilets and showers etc.