Nature & The Human Soul Intensive Online - January, 2026

Anchored in pan-cultural four-directions wisdom, contemporary depth and archetypal psychologies, and forty years of nature-based soul guiding, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation. It’s a blueprint showing how richly we can grow and mature when soul and nature are embraced as our wisest and most trustworthy guides. It includes an integrated set of developmental guidelines that can help every human mature into an adulthood of visionary leadership — precisely what we need in this century if we are to create a just, compassionate, and sustainable world.

A life-span model of development from infancy through authentic elderhood, the SDW presents eight distinct stages of life and shows how these stages are almost always independent of chronological age, biological development, cognitive ability, or social role. Rather, the movement from one stage to the next comes about through progress with psychological and spiritual tasks that are specific to each stage. The SDW presents an achievable vision of a contemporary way of life that holds soul-discovery and life- enhancing contribution to the more-than-human community as its most central features and goals.

(If you are a previous Animas participant familiar with the 4-directions-based map of the Self [the four facets of wholeness] and the subpersonalities — as introduced in Wild Mind and used on many of our programs — please note that the SDW is something quite different and complementary.)

During this intensive, we employ talks (with handouts), conversation and storytelling, small groups for deeper sharing, and asynchronous experiential exercises such as journaling, land wanders where you reside, deep imagination journeys, and more as we explore the SDW and its applications to education, parenting, rites of passage, psychotherapy, personal growth, the journey of soul initiation, spirituality, and cultural renaissance. You’ll discover how to use the SDW to clarify your own next steps of nature-based and soul-infused development and learn a set of principles and practices by which you can align yourself with the lifelong journey of growing whole.

This online offering will meet a total of 24 hours. One hour of mentoring with our Animas Guides is also included for each participant.

Eight 3-hour sessions will take place via Zoom during the following dates and times: