Wild Mind Deep Imagery Training
Wild Mind Deep Imagery Training
May 27-31, 2025
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
No application is required for participants in the Wild Mind Training Program, who have taken Deep Imagination Intensive or A Portal to the Imaginal. They are free to register by contacting Ognian Gadoularov – ogi@learningforchange.net.
We welcome others who are interested in the program to apply.
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Please read the detailed INFOPACK (find the download link below) for information related to Policies and Procedures, Health, Cancellation etc.
This training program is open to you if you have a solid foundation of experience in soul work and in accessing your own deep imagery. Ideally, you will already have participated in a Deep Imagination Intensive. An application is required.
This training is designed for people who work — or plan to work — as facilitators of deep imagery. If, in contrast, you are primarily seeking guidance in developing your personal relationship with deep imagery, please enroll in our A Portal to the Imaginal.
During the Deep Imagery Training, we will apprentice ourselves to the mystery and wild otherness of images that arise from the unconscious. Depth psychologists say that the substance of soul is image, and that deep imagery (imagery that comes to us unbidden from the unconscious, from our core human nature) is one of the most direct and potent means for accessing soul. On imagery journeys, we meet inner guides who possess the wisdom and capacities to assist us on the descent to soul.
Employing a variety of modalities — including interactive dialogue with our imagery, expressive arts and movement, and wandering on the land with our imaginal guides and in our imagery — we will attune to our sensorial-feeling-intuitive-embodied selves and the imaginal world.
This is a highly experiential training. We’ll utilize lecture, discussion, demonstration, and lots of supervised practice guiding individual and small-group deep imagery journeys (including opportunities to debrief and receive feedback on your work). You will guide and be guided in deep imagery processes, recognizing that experiences with your own deep imaginations and imaginal inner guides prepare you to more artfully guide others to access theirs. You’ll meet and/or deepen relationships with your imaginal inner guides who represent your primary resources for your unique way of facilitating deep imagery work, as well as underworld work, more generally.
We’ll explore several themes and principles, including:
- Guidelines for facilitating individual and group deep-imagery work
- Cultivating your soulcentric guiding attitude, including respect for the autonomous otherness of imaginal guides and entities
- Deep imagery as distinct from “guided imagery”
- Discovering your unique style of guiding
- Deep imagery as a tool for designing self-generated ceremonies and individual soul tasks
- Employing the windows of imagination and feeling
- Deep imagery as a method of soulcentric dreamwork, sacred wound work, and supporting the three phases of the underworld journey (descent, liminality, return)
- Expressive arts: embodiment and movement practices to evoke and deepen your relationship with the deeply imaginal.
Dates
May 27-31, 2025 – Start Time 1pm End Time 1pm
Who can participate
This training is designed for people who work — or plan to work — as facilitators of deep imagery – therapists, psychologists, educators, facilitators and other forms of human development guides. The program is open for one who are over 18 years old.
Number of participants
Minimum number for confirming the program – 10 ppl
Maximum number of participants – 16 ppl
Price an payment
A maximum price – 900 euro
The price will vary depending on the number of participants. Upon registration you will be invited to pay a deposit of 300 euro to secure your place. At the moment of confirmation of the program the final price will be calculated and you will be able to pay the rest by bank transfer or in cash upon arrival in Gudevitsa.
The price for the program includes:
- Accommodation and food (3 meals per day);
- Program fee;
- Organized transfer by bus from Sofia to the venue and back to Sofia.
There will be limited financial aid available for this program for those who are unable to pay the full fee. Please contact ogi@learningforchange.net to express interest for a scholarship and learn more about how to apply.
Guide
Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Brian Stafford is a guide to the wilderness of nature, wildness, and soul. 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, fierceness, compassion, discernment, and a deep remembering of the fullness of what each human life can, should, and was meant to be. A native of Colorado and the former holder of an endowed chair and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, he is currently a guide, Board Member, and Training Director of the Wild Mind Training Program at Animas. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as an expert in psychedelic preparation and integration. He is an avid outdoorsman, teacher, writer, mentor, partner, and parent. He delights in helping individuals rewild and ensoul their lives by assisting in the dissolution of their current life so that they may discover and live from their deeper life, their soul-life. Brian currently makes his home in Ojai, California.
Location
Gudevitsa village, Bulgaria, “School in Nature” educational center
Pictures from the venue – HERE
Food and Accommodation
The program is fully catered, providing healthy vegetarian food. We will pass on any dietary restrictions advised by you at registration.
Accommodation is indoors in a shared rooms with up to 12 beds and outdoors in big festival tents with up to 4 beds. There is also an option to camp in individual tents. In the center we have a limited amount of individual tents and big number of mats and sleeping bags. We will gladly offer you this equipment for free.
Detailed Infopack – Infopack Wild Mind Deep Imagination Training
Contacts
For any questions and more information please contact:
Ognian Gadoularov – +359 896756267; ogi@learningforchange.net
Application
If you are interested to participate in this program fill in the Application form – HERE