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Retreats

Special Retreat Partnership Program

Animas Valley Institute's
Wild Mind 
for activists and change-makers

with Brian Stafford MD
Nov 6-10 2022 -
Taft Gardens Nature Preserve in Ojai CA

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A very special opportunity!
All activists are invited on an experiential adventure to cultivate the innate resources needed to be effective change-makers through nature-based holistic practices. This special opportunity to experience this work is being offered at a discount for activists in order to support their contribution to the “Great Turning”. These grant subsidized scholarships are the result of a collaboration between The Inner Resilience Network, Transition US and Animas Valley Institute.
Joining us for this retreat, we are partnering with James Prieto, Trainer Certified from the Center for Nonviolent Communication.


This intensive is designed to give you the ability to cultivate inner-resources for self-healing to support your efforts in co-creating the world we all want to live in.  

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Animas Valley Institute will bring their 5-day “Wild Mind” journey, a soul stirring process reconnecting to a nature-based way of understanding and living and inviting new understandings for your life. This program will be led by one of AVI's top guides, Brian Stafford and supported by James Prieto who is completing his Wild Mind guiding practicum.

The Wild Mind intensive will support you in cultivating the personal resilience needed for a 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.

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. 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.
For more info, here is a description on  another Wild Mind intensives with regular fees

This program is being held in the astounding and magical beauty of the Taft Garden Nature Preserve in Ojai CA

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. 

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as our space is very limited. Please fill out the short contact form below and we will be sending you the link to register.  

Cost: $440 for the 5 days (regular tuition is $1400 - $1600)

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Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Brian is a guide to the wilderness of nature and soul. He was called out of academic medicine to serve as a guide to the depths and to serve as an agent of cultural awakening and transformation. He guides with humor, playfulness, compassion, discernment, and a deep remembering of the fullness of what each […]
Learn more about Brian Stafford, MD, MPH



This retreat will be assisted by:
James Prieto is a nature enthusiast, author and Certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Trainer. He began his journey into nature based spirituality in the late 1990’s. After publishing his book “The Joy of Compassionate Connecting - The Way of Christ Through Nonviolent Communication” in 2010, he participated in a Franciscan-inspired men’s rites of passage in 2011. He started his soul journey with Bill Plotkin's Nature and the Human Soul in 2012; he’s currently an Animas Valley apprentice in the Wild Mind Training Program (WMTP). He’s passionate about the intersection of Animas Valley inspired work with Nonviolent Communication as a way to contribute to “The Great Turning” ► a thriving compassionate world.

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To apply, please email IRN@eraofcare.net to share your interest and a little of your activist work

We will reply within 24 hours

Regenerative Activism Retreat

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Grief and Grace:
A World in Transition

Nov 13-17th 2022
Joshua Tree National Park, CA
 


The Joshua Tree species is now becoming endangered by climate change... we come to honor the desert and all its amazing life knowing that it is now changing.

Join us for this very special opportunity for a wilderness immersion to honor that which is dying in our world and transform our feelings and actions into more grace for our change-making work and challenges.

This is a 3-day camping retreat centered around somatic and nature practices to regenerate our heart and soul and explore how we can move into the future with more grace and effective action.
We will have a special guest grief tending facilitator TBA.
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COSTS
Registration: $300-$500 Sliding Scale. Feel free to inquire about work trades and scholarships.
Food and park entry fee: $30 (not included in registration fee).
Fee covers the program, camping fees and vegetarian dinners. Please bring your breakfasts, lunch and snacks!


ACCOMODATION
We will be camping outside for three nights - please bring your camping gear and everything you need to be comfortable doing deep work in the wilderness for the time of the retreat. Some extra camping equipment is available to reserve by request and by donation.
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The weather will be dry, and temperatures throughout the day and night are anticipated to vary between 60 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit.


LOCATION
We will be holding this retreat at the spectacular desert wilderness of Joshua Tree National Monument in Southern CA.  The time of year we will be there is ideal for the desert. Our specific meeting point will be shared closer to program date.
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TRANSPORTATION
Trains, Buses, and flights all go to Palm Springs, CA. Public transportation and carpools are encouraged. We will be offering specific pick-up times from transportation hubs for those coming into Palm Springs (by arrangement closer to event).

CONTACT FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO REGISTER:
Please email IRN@eraofcare.net to register, see contact form below.
We will be accepting registrations no later than Oct 23rd, We have very limited space, so it may sell out before then.


COVID PRECAUTIONS AND UPDATES 
We will be adhering to the current State mandate for Covid-19 precautions regarding gatherings. This event is all outdoors. All participants are encouraged to be particularly vigilant about potential exposure in the weeks leading up to the event.

Registration Form Below
FACILITATORS
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jul bystrova is co-founder of the Inner Resilience Network and Director of the Era of Care project, which works with communities in crises. She has a 25 year history of community activism and a thriving private practice in trauma-informed mind-body healing work. She has served as an Interfaith Minister, an academic in Interdisciplinary research and a boots-on-the-ground activist. She is deeply passionate about cultural healing, interpersonal, psycho-spiritual topics and justice issues. She also serves on the Transition US Collaborative Design Council and the Transition Network's Inner Transition Circle. In 2018, She received the TUS Social Justice award for her support in raising awareness and diversity in the Transition community.  She can be reached at julbystrova@gmail.com

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​astrid montuclard (they/them) is a queer and gender-queer nonviolent climate justice activist training as a somatic therapist with the California Institute of Integral Studies. Rich with experiences as public health and mindfulness researcher with UC Davis and Zhejiang University (China), past core member & organizer with the East Point Peace Academy, and land-tender at the Possibility Alliance and Vine and Fig, astrid brings critical thinking to nature-based practices in support of individual and collective hero(ine)'s journeys amidst the climate-crisis-as-initiation. Trilingual, astrid translates works in eco-spirituality between French and English.


    Register for Grief and Grace

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Would you like to sponsor someone else to go to our retreats or trainings?

Donate to the IRN Scholarship Fund

We encourage you to invite your community to support you or others that deserve some regenerating time.  Your community can donate to you directly or use our scholarship fund if they prefer a tax-deduction. If your friends donate to the fund for your sake, make sure they mention your name.

All donations will be for hard working activists who would not be able to afford the program otherwise. 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!!

Activists of color will have priority access to scholarship funds, but all are encouraged to apply. Please request a scholarship in your registration email to organizers.

All donations are tax-deductible.

To receive a receipt with our EIN for your records, please use the following link:
 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
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