WildMind Intensive

14 - 18 September2026

 Cederberg Mountains 

Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we discover how to access them, cultivate their powers, and eventually integrate them into our everyday lives. 

In this intensive, we’ll access these depths and potentials — which we call the four facets of the Self, or the four dimensions of our innate human wholeness — and also the four sets of fragmented or wounded subpersonalities that form during childhood.

Rather than attempt to eliminate our subpersonalities (which is not possible) or to beat them into submission, we’ll cultivate the four facets of the Self and uncover the gifts of our subpersonalities. Our goal is to fully embody our multifaceted wild minds, commit ourselves to the largest, soul-infused story we’re capable of living, and serve the greater Earth community.

Early-bird: Bookings by 20 July

Supporter: R14,000

Sustainer: R9,850

Supported: R7,500

(includes camping, bring own tent)

Participants from non-SADC countries please add R5,000 to each price

Full Price: 

Supporter: R15,500

Sustainer: R11,150

Supported: R9,000

For details about how to pick your pricing tier please click here.

Scholarships available for those from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. Please enquire.

18 - 23 September 2026

Cederberg Mountains

While this program is designed and primarily intended for trainees in Animas’ Wild Mind Training Program, other human development facilitators and guides are warmly invited to apply. 

In the Wild Mind Mirroring Training, we practice detecting the greater story that pulses beneath the events of a person’s life. By immersing ourselves in the practice of deep listening and mirroring, we uncover the archetypal themes that might frame a person’s experience within the arc of their destiny.

When our story is compassionately reflected through the skilled mirroring of another, we feel fully heard and able to experience ourselves in a larger and more meaningful context; we’re enabled to catch up to ourselves and perhaps leap into the next phase of our journey of individuation. An alchemical exchange occurs between the teller and the listener, an exchange that is magical and priceless.

In this mirroring training, we’ll work with themes such as self-healing, psychospiritual death and rebirth, courting the beloved, romancing the world, fear personas, sub-personalities, anima and animus, the four facets of the Self, the eco-soulcentric stages of development, other-than-human allies, underworld encounters, mythic threads, and archetypal symbols and themes. 

We’ll study several principles and their application, including how mirroring is different from projection, transference, and interpretation; how analysing is different from loving; how to recognise the gestalt of people’s life stories; pattern recognition; framing; and amplifying the storyteller’s feelings.

We’ll witness how the art of mirroring catalyses each person into the depth of their unique way of belonging to the world. Trainees will practice deep listening to self, others, and the group field and, by the end of the program, will more fully understand their gifts and potentials as a mirrorer and how to manifest those gifts in service to others.

Note: If you are not a Wild Mind Training Program member, during online registration we will ask you several additional questions as part of the program assessment process.  

Early-bird: Bookings by 20 July

Supporter: R19,000

Sustainer: R13,000

Supported: R10,000

(includes camping, bring own tent)

Participants from non-SADC countries please add R5,000 to each price

Full Price: 

Supporter: R20,500

Sustainer: R14,500

Supported: R10,000

For details about how to pick your pricing tier please click here.

Scholarships available for those from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. Please enquire.

24 - 29 September 2026

Plettenburg Bay

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 utilized in group, practices explored in solitude in nature, and sharing and deepening those experiences in small groups (5 to 9 people each). There is a Soulcraft guide for each small group, providing you with a fully individualized experience. 

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
• many others!

Early-bird: Bookings by 20 July

Supporter: R14,500

Sustainer: R10,250

Supported: R7,750

(includes camping, bring own tent)

Participants from non-SADC countries please add R5,000 to each price

Full Price: 

Supporter: R16,000

Sustainer: R11,750

Supported: R9,250

For details about how to pick your pricing tier please click here.

Scholarships available for those from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. Please enquire.

Includes a locally sourced, delicious and nutritious evening meal. Breakfasts and lunches are self-catered.