A six-week journey of transformation through rites of passage, and kinship with people, nature and place. With a solo experience at its core, held through the power of community, Becoming is the journey of initiation into who and what you truly are.
🌀 Are you ready to embody your true nature and your full aliveness?
🌀 Are you hungry for the call of something deeper, wilder, something real?
🌀 Do you want to be guided by nature as you travel through life’s transitions?
We invite you to the medicine of time spent alone with the land – to the healing, the deep knowing and the soul reawakening that this offers.
We invite you to step over a threshold bringing you closer to your own essence.
We invite you to reclaim your full and vibrant selves in connection to all of life.
We invite you to claim your own place in the lifelong journey of Becoming.
This is the practice of meeting Self through Nature. This is the journey of Becoming.
We can always choose to remember and inhabit our wholeness and our power.
Becoming is a radical practice of reclamation and resistance – in a world full of business, burnout and disconnect, of peak extraction and pathology – we focus on slowing down to reclaim the wholeness that is ours.
“What is the truth at the centre of the image you were born with?”
The Becoming programme
This is for you if you:
– Are experiencing a moment of transition or change in your life that you want to mark
– Need more clarity and directionality on your life path & want to let yourself be guided by your unique soul expression and contribution
– Feel called to deepen your connection to nature and learn how to work with nature as a mirror and guide
– Want to reclaim the ancient tradition of nature based rite of passage and ceremonial work
– Feel that humanity is currently challenged and needs to grow up and take collective responsibility for our shared home
– Are yearning for deeper connection, full presence, more aliveness and life purpose
– Want to go on a journey together with a community of shared values
– Need support in navigating the tumultuous times we are collectively living through.
The ground of wisdom:
-Taking inspiration from the ancient traditions of Rites of Passage and Solo Nature time, we offer a deeply human yet wildly devotional programme.
– We hold interpersonal practices as key to the process, and use somatic experiential support throughout.
– We explore Deep Ecology, Eco-psychology, and Sacred Ecology as guiding principles.
– We orient around the four shields model of human nature (School of Lost Borders) and eco-soul centric development (by Bill Plotkin).
– We share in the power of Council – where we hone tools of collective process – deep listening, speaking truth from the heart, and harvesting collective intelligence.
– We anchor in ritual – that which shifts the psyche by utilising movement, symbol and somatic intelligence.
– We use modern perspectives through ancient wisdom – the stuff that resonates in your bones and your soul!
– We acknowledge and honour the indigenous wisdom in which all of this work is rooted – a widely pancultural tradition of humans communing with land, the elements and the ancestors.
– Our own lineages are rooted in Celtic and Germanic traditions, and we gratefully receive and pay forward the teachings we have had the privilege to access.
What you Receive:
-5 live online Community gatherings on Zoom.
– 2 guides trained and skilled in the areas of Vision Quest, Rites of Passage, Eco-therapy, Somatic experiencing, Grief tending & Community building.
– Preparation, support & guidance towards your one day Nature Solo Experience in a living place close to your home
– Access to a rich online platform of stored resources and practices to use day to day, and after the process has completed.
– Input and references on the theoretical frameworks of deep ecology, ecopsychology, the tradition of rites of passage and the four shields model of human nature (School of Lost Borders), eco-soul centric development (Bill Plotkin)
– A self organised buddy meet up to digest the experience together
– An optional Signal group with all participants and facilitators to stay connected and support each other throughout the process
– Optional one-to-one support session to really go deep with one of your guides.
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“Thanks to the well thought-out journey led by the two guides my heart was wide open when I entered into my solo time and what can I say: Now I have a deep felt sense for my true wild nature and my connection to the more-than-human world has grown sooo much more intimate, it brings me to tears of love, gratitude and so much relief.”
– Stephanie
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The Journey :
🌀 First Community Circle
Wednesday 15th April 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT
Getting to know the group and landing in the topics of Deep and Spiritual Ecology. Introduction to practices for self-knowledge and deep nature connection.
🌀 Second Community Circle
Wednesday 22nd April 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT
Introduction to Rites of Passage in modern times and playful exploration of the model of Wholeness – the Four Directions of Human Nature.
🌀 Self Organised Buddy Meet Up~ Digestion
Wednesday 29th April
We suggest a light structure for your buddy meet up for you to process and digest together.
🌀Third Community Circle
Wednesday 6th May 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT
Deepening of community, sharing and refining of personal intentions, ritual preparation to step over the threshold for our Solo experience.
🌀 Earth Solo experience
Friday 8th to Sunday 10th May
Spending one day (or more) alone on the land in a place of your own choosing over a weekend.
🌀 Welcome back Ritual
Sunday 10th May 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm GMT
Sharing of our experience and insights in Story Council. Mirroring of your soul experience by trained guides, with input on how to integrate the experience over the time that follows.
🌀 Self Organised Buddy Meet Up~ Digestion
Wednesday 14th April
We suggest a light structure for your buddy meet up for you to process and digest together.
🌀 Integration and Visioning
Wednesday 20th May 6.30pm – 8.30 pm GMT
Community Check-in about our process of integration.Visioning for future movement, using the Four Shields Model to support us going forward.
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“To dwell on the land alone in reverence is a beautiful remembering of our profound humanness.”
– Sophie Vandenkerchove
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Further information
– The group size will be limited to 12 people so please book early to avoid disappointment
– There is an estimated time commitment of 4h/ week (2,5h call + practice/reading) plus your Solo tome
– The process starts before our first meeting with a threshold walk in which you set your intention and send it to us in written form
– You will receive a Welcome Kit once you’ve registered with access to our online space with some gifts and resources to tune in
– We recommend registering no later than March 27th to leave enough time for intention setting and preparation!
This work is crucial for these times. Personal, social and ecological regeneration are intimately intertwined, and we offer this medicine in deepest service to that which the world now needs.
Will you join us ?
“This was a precious, meaningful and transformative journey. I feel like I will be processing it for a long time to come. From the safety and warmth of the space created to the diverse, creative and supportive practices shared, it has been a truly nourishing experience. I now have more clarity about where I can find solace, and what I might contribute to the world so that others may find that sense of safety, love and connection.”
~Natalie
Your Guides
Carolin Goethel
Carolin is a nature-based guide, facilitator, and community weaver, living between Berlin, Germany, and the East Coast of the United States.
Rooted in her academic studies (MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy), her work in leadership education and systems change, Carolin blends her passions for deep ecology, outdoor exploration, and cultural transformation into a holistic, embodied practice. She has cultivated a versatile toolbox to accompany profound life transitions and inspire deep culture change.
Carolin’s own transformative vision quest led her to study eco-soul centric practices with the Animas Valley Institute and train as a rite-of-passage guide with the School of Lost Borders. For the past five years, she has guided nature solo experiences and seasonal rituals with the Wild Minds Collective and the Church of Interbeing, fostering a sense of interconnectedness between humans and the natural world while attuning to the Earth’s rhythms.
Through her political work for climate and deliberative democracy projects, Carolin weaves together the threads of inner and outer change, inviting us to step into our agency and co-create a more regenerative, just, and flourishing future.
www.carolingoethel.com
Jenny O’Hare
Jenny is an Irish deep ecologist and facilitator. Her work focuses on the relationship between humanity and the rest of the living world, and is deeply inspired by her own sense of belonging to living systems.
With a background in Natural Sciences and Ecology, and inspired by the ways that life informs life, she draws on Eco-psychology, Spiritual Ecology and extensive training in Eco-therapy, WTR, Solo nature experiences, ritual and beyond.
A core member of community group Siolta, a founding member of Wild Minds Collective, and a contributor to Education for Sustainability, she works with a broad range of people, offering diverse work, such as Climate Literacy workshops, Nature based immersions, Grief retreats, Interbeing explorations and 1:1 mentorship.
Her faith is always in how we continue to be present to what both enlivens and troubles us.
Listening to the living world is her most powerful guide!
https://linktr.ee/JennyOHare
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Enquiries to wildmindscollective@gmail.com
Learn more about this work:
Check out Jenny’s and Carolin’s conversation about the importance of rites of passage, their own experiences with solo time in nature and the power of reclaiming these practices for our modern Western societies.
Price & Registration:
Early Bird till March 11th: – £215
Low income – £220
Standard – £280
Supporter – £340
Partner Ticket Standard: £440
If money is an issue for you right now, you can email us at wildmindscollective@gmail.com saying a few words about why you’d like to apply for a bursary place. We hope to offer at least 1 bursary place, and will assess all bursary applicants before making a decision.
Register here:
https://dandelion.events/e/w8rs6/