Retreats
Regenerative Activism RetreatFeaturing
Animas Valley Institute’s Wild Mind Training and the Inner Resilience Network Nov 7th-14th Joshua Tree National Park, CA A special opportunity, inviting change makers and activists to an amazing wilderness immersion retreat at a greatly reduced tuition |
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The Inner Resilience Network (IRN) and the Animas Valley Institute (AVI) are thrilled to invite you on an experiential adventure to regenerate your heart and soul in nature. This retreat will also be an opportunity for you to experience self-care and support with your fellow change-makers and activists who are leading to freedom from fossil fuel dependency and practices that favor profit over planet.
Through a grant program, we are able to offer a greatly reduced cost for this program. Because we want to support YOU in your work, we are making this retreat available at less than half the cost of a regular program. We feel its vital for change making activists such as yourself to have places to regenerate from the challenges of burnout, overwhelm, depression and more. It is our intention to hold a deep and transformative space that will help you feel renewed and inspired to carry your work to a new level.
Animas Valley Institute will bring their 5 day “Wild Mind” journey, a soul stirring process reconnecting to a more nature-based way of understanding and living and inviting new understandings for your life. Before and after this deep time, the Inner Resilience Network will hold an emergent space for self-care, rejuvenation and integration of inner work into our service.
The Inner Resilience Network and The Animas program will support us in cultivating the personal resilience needed for a more nourishing and life sustaining culture that is more immune from the stresses of burnout and conflict - and towards authentic purpose, essential self-care and collaborative leadership that our world is longing for.
Together we will learn how to discover and integrate the untapped resources, depths and potential of our innate human wholeness. We will also learn how to integrate our childhood experiences and transform them into the realization of our true selves.
We’ll explore the landscape of the psyche through a variety of practices, including creative expression, self-designed ceremony, solo exercises while wandering on the land, group work, movement, voice dialogue, journaling, and deep imagery work.
Invitational Places
You are invited to this event if you are actively doing change making work and you have an interest in the inner dimension of change/activism, knowing how much that sustains your outer work and effectiveness. Due to COVID, we have reduced the size of this retreat by half.--these spaces will fill up very quickly, so please do register now!
Animas Valley Institute has generously offered to subsidize the costs of their Guides’ fees through a grant for Transition US.
We at the IRN are doing this as affordably as possible so that those who can most benefit from this program can be there. Participants will therefore only need to cover the costs of their accommodation, food and basic administration expenses. This is a nonprofit event through Transition US and the IRN and we will gratefully accept donations for this program. We encourage people to invite their organization or community to support them through donations towards remaining expenses required for attendance.
Costs
Reduced Registration/Tuition fee: $200-$500 Sliding Scale (a discount of $600-900)
Camping space: $100 for the week
Total cost: $300-$600 sliding scale
Feel free to inquire about work trades and additional scholarships on top of this already greatly discounted program.
Location
We are excited to be holding this retreat at a very special desert wilderness of Joshua Tree National Momument in Southern CA. The time of year we will be there is ideal for the desert.
Transportation: We will be encouraging carpools, and will be offering pick-ups from transport (by arrangement)
Flights, Trains and Buses all go to Palm Springs, CA. We will have specific pick-up times for those coming into Palm Springs.
COVID PRECAUTIONS AND UPDATES: We will be adhering to the current State mandate for Covid-19 precautions regarding gatherings. We will be monitoring the situation closely and keeping you informed on the protocols we will require. If the situation worsens, there is a chance we will need to move this event online, or reschedule, or both. Your deposit covers the online version automatically, with no added balance. You will be given the opportunity to be refunded if you prefer.
Registration (Scroll down for the form)
Requires a short application, and a $150 deposit (we will send you the link to pay after receiving your application). Registration application and balance of fees are due by Oct 3rd 2020. Payment plans are available by request.
Please Support our Scholarship Fund
We encourage you to invite your community to support you or others that deserve some regenerating time. They can donate to you directly, or use our scholarship fund if they prefer a tax-deduction. All donations will be for hard working activists who can't afford to attend. Activists of color will have priority, but all are encouraged to apply.
If your friends donate to the fund for your sake, make sure they mention your name. If you are coming and can offer extra support for others, or if you believe in what we are doing and want to support even if you can’t come, thank you!!
All donations are tax-deductible. If you donate through this link, you will be emailed a receipt with our EIN for your records.
Scholarship Donation Link
If you want to send a check, you will receive a receipt through the mail.
Mail to: ISI/Eo-Mega 101 Brookwood Ave, Suite 204, Santa Rosa CA 95404
Through a grant program, we are able to offer a greatly reduced cost for this program. Because we want to support YOU in your work, we are making this retreat available at less than half the cost of a regular program. We feel its vital for change making activists such as yourself to have places to regenerate from the challenges of burnout, overwhelm, depression and more. It is our intention to hold a deep and transformative space that will help you feel renewed and inspired to carry your work to a new level.
Animas Valley Institute will bring their 5 day “Wild Mind” journey, a soul stirring process reconnecting to a more nature-based way of understanding and living and inviting new understandings for your life. Before and after this deep time, the Inner Resilience Network will hold an emergent space for self-care, rejuvenation and integration of inner work into our service.
The Inner Resilience Network and The Animas program will support us in cultivating the personal resilience needed for a more nourishing and life sustaining culture that is more immune from the stresses of burnout and conflict - and towards authentic purpose, essential self-care and collaborative leadership that our world is longing for.
Together we will learn how to discover and integrate the untapped resources, depths and potential of our innate human wholeness. We will also learn how to integrate our childhood experiences and transform them into the realization of our true selves.
We’ll explore the landscape of the psyche through a variety of practices, including creative expression, self-designed ceremony, solo exercises while wandering on the land, group work, movement, voice dialogue, journaling, and deep imagery work.
Invitational Places
You are invited to this event if you are actively doing change making work and you have an interest in the inner dimension of change/activism, knowing how much that sustains your outer work and effectiveness. Due to COVID, we have reduced the size of this retreat by half.--these spaces will fill up very quickly, so please do register now!
Animas Valley Institute has generously offered to subsidize the costs of their Guides’ fees through a grant for Transition US.
We at the IRN are doing this as affordably as possible so that those who can most benefit from this program can be there. Participants will therefore only need to cover the costs of their accommodation, food and basic administration expenses. This is a nonprofit event through Transition US and the IRN and we will gratefully accept donations for this program. We encourage people to invite their organization or community to support them through donations towards remaining expenses required for attendance.
Costs
Reduced Registration/Tuition fee: $200-$500 Sliding Scale (a discount of $600-900)
Camping space: $100 for the week
Total cost: $300-$600 sliding scale
Feel free to inquire about work trades and additional scholarships on top of this already greatly discounted program.
Location
We are excited to be holding this retreat at a very special desert wilderness of Joshua Tree National Momument in Southern CA. The time of year we will be there is ideal for the desert.
Transportation: We will be encouraging carpools, and will be offering pick-ups from transport (by arrangement)
Flights, Trains and Buses all go to Palm Springs, CA. We will have specific pick-up times for those coming into Palm Springs.
COVID PRECAUTIONS AND UPDATES: We will be adhering to the current State mandate for Covid-19 precautions regarding gatherings. We will be monitoring the situation closely and keeping you informed on the protocols we will require. If the situation worsens, there is a chance we will need to move this event online, or reschedule, or both. Your deposit covers the online version automatically, with no added balance. You will be given the opportunity to be refunded if you prefer.
Registration (Scroll down for the form)
Requires a short application, and a $150 deposit (we will send you the link to pay after receiving your application). Registration application and balance of fees are due by Oct 3rd 2020. Payment plans are available by request.
Please Support our Scholarship Fund
We encourage you to invite your community to support you or others that deserve some regenerating time. They can donate to you directly, or use our scholarship fund if they prefer a tax-deduction. All donations will be for hard working activists who can't afford to attend. Activists of color will have priority, but all are encouraged to apply.
If your friends donate to the fund for your sake, make sure they mention your name. If you are coming and can offer extra support for others, or if you believe in what we are doing and want to support even if you can’t come, thank you!!
All donations are tax-deductible. If you donate through this link, you will be emailed a receipt with our EIN for your records.
Scholarship Donation Link
If you want to send a check, you will receive a receipt through the mail.
Mail to: ISI/Eo-Mega 101 Brookwood Ave, Suite 204, Santa Rosa CA 95404
Past Retreats
Rewild Your Life
with Soulcraft
Nature-based tools and practices for personal resiliency and visionary action
with Animas Valley Institute Guide Gene Dilworth
June 25-27, 2021
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. This weekend program offers an introduction to the foundations of Soulcraft, a set of nature-based tools and practices to support adults to discover and embody their unique, innate niche in the earth community. We’ll explore and engage in practices to cultivate four dimensions of human wholeness essential to becoming fully alive, generative participants in the wild reciprocity of the living world.
This program is offered in a hybrid online-outdoor format to make it convenient and accessible for all. We’ll meet online in four Zoom meetings over three days, combined with time between to engage in nature-based practices outdoors near where you live.
Special discounted sliding scale fee $69 to $129 for the the 3 days. Space limited
Fri June 25, 1.5 hrs: 5:00-6:30 pm PT / 6:00-7:30 MT / 8:00-9:30 ET
Sat June 26, 2.5 hrs: 8:30-11:00 am PT / 9:30-12:00 MT / 11:30-2:00 ET
4.5 hours break for nature-based practice
Sat June 26, 1.5 hrs: 3:30-5:00 pm PT / 4:30-6:00 MT / 6:30-8:00 ET
Sun June 27, 2.5 hrs: 10:30-1:00 PT / 11:30-2:00 MT / 1:30-4:00ET
Gene Dilworth is dedicated to the project of rewilding the human spirit as an essential dimension of being fully human in these times. By nurturing meaningful relationships with the more-than-human world and facilitating deep inquiry into the mysterious depths of one’s true nature, he supports individuals to discover, re-member and live from the center of their soul-rooted sense of belonging to the world. Gene has been guiding groups and individuals in transformative nature-based experiences since 1986. He has taught ecopsychology and environmental studies at the university level, and has served as an academic administrator and other leadership roles in a variety of educational and environmental organizations. Gene lives near Lyons, Colorado, where he is founder of the Wild Heart Center for Nature & Psyche.
with Soulcraft
Nature-based tools and practices for personal resiliency and visionary action
with Animas Valley Institute Guide Gene Dilworth
June 25-27, 2021
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. This weekend program offers an introduction to the foundations of Soulcraft, a set of nature-based tools and practices to support adults to discover and embody their unique, innate niche in the earth community. We’ll explore and engage in practices to cultivate four dimensions of human wholeness essential to becoming fully alive, generative participants in the wild reciprocity of the living world.
This program is offered in a hybrid online-outdoor format to make it convenient and accessible for all. We’ll meet online in four Zoom meetings over three days, combined with time between to engage in nature-based practices outdoors near where you live.
Special discounted sliding scale fee $69 to $129 for the the 3 days. Space limited
Fri June 25, 1.5 hrs: 5:00-6:30 pm PT / 6:00-7:30 MT / 8:00-9:30 ET
Sat June 26, 2.5 hrs: 8:30-11:00 am PT / 9:30-12:00 MT / 11:30-2:00 ET
4.5 hours break for nature-based practice
Sat June 26, 1.5 hrs: 3:30-5:00 pm PT / 4:30-6:00 MT / 6:30-8:00 ET
Sun June 27, 2.5 hrs: 10:30-1:00 PT / 11:30-2:00 MT / 1:30-4:00ET
Gene Dilworth is dedicated to the project of rewilding the human spirit as an essential dimension of being fully human in these times. By nurturing meaningful relationships with the more-than-human world and facilitating deep inquiry into the mysterious depths of one’s true nature, he supports individuals to discover, re-member and live from the center of their soul-rooted sense of belonging to the world. Gene has been guiding groups and individuals in transformative nature-based experiences since 1986. He has taught ecopsychology and environmental studies at the university level, and has served as an academic administrator and other leadership roles in a variety of educational and environmental organizations. Gene lives near Lyons, Colorado, where he is founder of the Wild Heart Center for Nature & Psyche.