Soulcraft™ is for people seeking greater connection, depth, and clarity regarding life purpose and meaning.
THE SOULCRAFT INTENSIVE is an experiential plunge into the wild depths of the Psyche. Soulcraft™ is a synergistic set of nature-based skills and practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter – the revelation of our unique mythopoetic identity. An identity expressed through symbol and metaphor, image and dream, archetype and myth; an identity embodied in a mysterious story that whispers to us in moments of expanded awareness and exquisite aliveness.
Your soul is your true self: those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift 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 (wisdom traditions say these are one and the same). Soulcraft™ practices spring from modern depth psychology, the poetic tradition, and wilderness rites of passage to comprise a genuinely contemporary Western path to soul discovery and soul initiation.
This Introduction to Soulcraft is highly experiential even though offered online. We will weave practices offered in the online group space as well as explored in solitude in nature near where you reside. We share and deepen these experiences in our online small group clans and breakout groups. The result will be an online transformational and “in the wild” personal experience. By the end of this introduction, you will likely understand yourself and your place in the world from a more soul-oriented perspective, be further along on your journey to discover the gifts you were born to bring to the world, and have new skills to enrich your life and to more fully inhabit your greater place of belonging in the larger Earth community.
Soulcraft practices include:
- Soulcentric Dreamwork
- Deep Imagery Work
- Talking Across the Species Boundaries
- The Way of Council
- Soul Tasks in Nature
- The Nature-based Map of the Human Psyche
- Self-Designed Ceremony
- Shadow Work
- Soul Poetry
- Sacred Wound Work
- Synchronicities: Working with Nature’s Signs and Omens
- Befriending the Dark
- Body Movement
This weekend is structured so that our group sessions occur via Zoom. When not in a group session, the guides will invite you to wander on the land near your home or participate in journaling or other practices. Those wishing to participate fully should expect to reserve most if not all of the weekend for the other practices offered by the guides.
Recommended Reading: By Bill Plotkin: Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries.