BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Wilderness Guides Council - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Wilderness Guides Council
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Wilderness Guides Council
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20270328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20271031T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260520T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T011936
CREATED:20260226T021716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T021716Z
UID:10000312-1776277800-1779309000@wildernessguidescouncil.org
SUMMARY:Becoming: A Rite of Passage For Our Times
DESCRIPTION: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. \n🌀 Are you ready to embody your true nature and your full aliveness?\n🌀 Are you hungry for the call of something deeper\, wilder\, something real?\n🌀 Do you want to be guided by nature as you travel through life’s transitions? \nWe 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.\nWe invite you to step over a threshold bringing you closer to your own essence.\nWe invite you to reclaim your full and vibrant selves in connection to all of life.\nWe invite you to claim your own place in the lifelong journey of Becoming. \nThis is the practice of meeting Self through Nature. This is the journey of Becoming. \nWe can always choose to remember and inhabit our wholeness and our power. \nBecoming 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. \n“What is the truth at the centre of the image you were born with?” \nThe Becoming programme \nThis is for you if you: \n– Are experiencing a moment of transition or change in your life that you want to mark\n– Need more clarity and directionality on your life path & want to let yourself be guided by your unique soul expression and contribution\n– Feel called to deepen your connection to nature and learn how to work with nature as a mirror and guide\n– Want to reclaim the ancient tradition of nature based rite of passage and ceremonial work\n– Feel that humanity is currently challenged and needs to grow up and take collective responsibility for our shared home\n– Are yearning for deeper connection\, full presence\, more aliveness and life purpose\n– Want to go on a journey together with a community of shared values\n– Need support in navigating the tumultuous times we are collectively living through. \nThe ground of wisdom: \n-Taking inspiration from the ancient traditions of Rites of Passage and Solo Nature time\, we offer a deeply human yet wildly devotional programme.\n– We hold interpersonal practices as key to the process\, and use somatic experiential support throughout.\n– We explore Deep Ecology\, Eco-psychology\, and Sacred Ecology as guiding principles.\n– We orient around the four shields model of human nature (School of Lost Borders) and eco-soul centric development (by Bill Plotkin).\n– 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.\n– We anchor in ritual – that which shifts the psyche by utilising movement\, symbol and somatic intelligence.\n– We use modern perspectives through ancient wisdom – the stuff that resonates in your bones and your soul!\n– 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.\n– 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. \nWhat you Receive: \n-5 live online Community gatherings on Zoom.\n– 2 guides trained and skilled in the areas of Vision Quest\, Rites of Passage\, Eco-therapy\, Somatic experiencing\, Grief tending & Community building.\n– Preparation\, support & guidance towards your one day Nature Solo Experience in a living place close to your home\n– Access to a rich online platform of stored resources and practices to use day to day\, and after the process has completed.\n– 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)\n– A self organised buddy meet up to digest the experience together\n– An optional Signal group with all participants and facilitators to stay connected and support each other throughout the process\n– Optional one-to-one support session to really go deep with one of your guides. \n*** \n“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.” \n– Stephanie \n*** \nThe Journey : \n🌀 First Community Circle\nWednesday 15th April 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT\nGetting to know the group and landing in the topics of Deep and Spiritual Ecology. Introduction to practices for self-knowledge and deep nature connection. \n🌀 Second Community Circle\nWednesday 22nd April 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT\nIntroduction to Rites of Passage in modern times and playful exploration of the model of Wholeness – the Four Directions of Human Nature. \n🌀 Self Organised Buddy Meet Up~ Digestion\nWednesday 29th April\nWe suggest a light structure for your buddy meet up for you to process and digest together. \n🌀Third Community Circle\nWednesday 6th May 6.30pm – 8.30pm GMT\nDeepening of community\, sharing and refining of personal intentions\, ritual preparation to step over the threshold for our Solo experience. \n🌀 Earth Solo experience\nFriday 8th to Sunday 10th May\nSpending one day (or more) alone on the land in a place of your own choosing over a weekend. \n🌀 Welcome back Ritual\nSunday 10th May 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm GMT\nSharing 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. \n🌀 Self Organised Buddy Meet Up~ Digestion\nWednesday 14th April\nWe suggest a light structure for your buddy meet up for you to process and digest together. \n🌀 Integration and Visioning\nWednesday 20th May 6.30pm – 8.30 pm GMT\nCommunity Check-in about our process of integration.Visioning for future movement\, using the Four Shields Model to support us going forward. \n*** \n“To dwell on the land alone in reverence is a beautiful remembering of our profound humanness.”\n– Sophie Vandenkerchove \n*** \nFurther information \n– The group size will be limited to 12 people so please book early to avoid disappointment\n– There is an estimated time commitment of 4h/ week (2\,5h call + practice/reading) plus your Solo tome\n– 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\n– You will receive a Welcome Kit once you’ve registered with access to our online space with some gifts and resources to tune in\n– We recommend registering no later than March 27th to leave enough time for intention setting and preparation! \nThis 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. \nWill you join us ? \n“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.” \n~Natalie \nYour Guides \nCarolin Goethel \nCarolin is a nature-based guide\, facilitator\, and community weaver\, living between Berlin\, Germany\, and the East Coast of the United States.\nRooted 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.\nCarolin’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.\nThrough 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.\nwww.carolingoethel.com \nJenny O’Hare \nJenny 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.\nWith 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.\nA 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.\nHer faith is always in how we continue to be present to what both enlivens and troubles us.\nListening to the living world is her most powerful guide!\nhttps://linktr.ee/JennyOHare \n****\nEnquiries to wildmindscollective@gmail.com \nLearn more about this work: \nCheck 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. \n\nPrice & Registration: \nEarly Bird till March 11th: – £215\nLow income – £220\nStandard – £280\nSupporter – £340\nPartner Ticket Standard: £440 \nIf 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. \nRegister here:\nhttps://dandelion.events/e/w8rs6/
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/becoming-a-rite-of-passage-for-our-times/
LOCATION:Online & in a wild place near your home
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Becoming.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR