About this Retreat
Dr. Stéphanie Marchal is a registered psychologist working in Victoria. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations. She is a wilderness personal guide, and studied with Animas Valley Institute and Francis Weller among others. She works with people toward recovering their wholeness, uncovering their gifts, and applying these in their lives and for the good of their community. She has experienced wilderness as a powerful ally in these tasks.
She is personally interested in supporting deep and courageous transformations driven by the participants. One of Stephanie's focus is to support the weaving of authentic experiences and visions with the person's embodied life. She's a firm supporter of people's authentic voices and helps them be heard. She uses dream images, guided journeys and somatic practices to help clarify the thread to deep experience, and support integration and manifestation.
Visit Stéphanie's page: SacredWeaving dot org
Becky Traptow is a Therapeutic Bodyworker who uses parts therapy, various forms of bodywork,
and nature based practices to help people turn toward, befriend and heal their inner worlds. You
might also call her a modern day medicine woman, a guide at the crossroads and a lover of our
fruitful unraveling. She brings with her 12 years of experience in nature-based wholing and
healing practices with Animas Valley Institute, training as a Wild Mind Guide as well as training
with Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Rosen Method Bodywork, Craniosacral Therapy
and Healing From the Core. She is mother to 6 grown kids and 3 grandkids and lives with her 3
youngest in the majestic coastal forests of Vancouver Island, Canada. Becky believes that you
can only take people as far as you have gone yourself so she is always continuing her own
healing and wholing work and believes bodywork, parts therapy and nature-based spirituality to
be key in her own unfolding. She looks forward to supporting you in your journey of healing and
wholing, and discovering and loving who you truly are.
As a ceremonialist, nature-based guide (MA in Ecopsychology) and holistic health practitioner, I've made my passion for celebrating life with heart my life's work. My approach is informed by ongoing study in the holistic health sciences over 25 years, grounded in the belief that human health is deeply embedded in an ecological context—the health of people and planet go hand-in-hand. This foundation took root through a decade working in organic gardening, permaculture, biodynamic agriculture, European herbalism, and Goethean plant science, and over the past 10 years, I've placed ritual and ceremony at the heart of my approach as a way of tending and guiding our life force. I am currently nearing completion of my Diploma in Acupuncture, deepening this integrative path.
With two decades of experience in ecopsychology and ecospirituality, I draw on ritual, ceremony, and earth-based practices to help people come into deeper relationship with their bodies, their soulful selves, and the wild world. Trained as a celebrant, I place story-tracking and the creation of empowering narrative at the centre of this work, seeking each day to fall in love with the world at our fingertips and to embrace Rumi's invitation to "let the beauty we love be what we do." I bring together these many streams to create a safe and sacred space to honor your unfolding journey. Some of the teachers and lineages I apprentice with include Bill Plotkin (Animas Valley Institute), Francis Weller, and Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects.
Brooke's page: www.fireandhoney.ca
Sarah Frizelle is a counselor in private practice in Victoria BC who offers wholistic counselling to individuals, couples and families. She has worked with individuals in roles of educator, psychotherapist and wilderness guide for over 25 years, sometimes combining all three roles in nature-based therapy or eco-psychology with individuals and groups.
Sarah works to support positive personal, family and cultural level changes. She embraces transformative learning and is dedicated to unleash the creative gifts and potential of people to heal and transform, in support of creativity, collaboration and innovation.
Details of this retreat
Wild Wisdom Gatherings
Step into the heart of nature in the ancient forests of South Vancouver Island, Victoria area, for an afternoon of connection, reflection, and exploration. Guided by trained Wild Mind Practitioners, our monthly gatherings offer an opportunity to listen deeply, share our voices, and attune ourselves to the wisdom of the earth and the spirit of the seasons.
Each gathering is a chance to ground ourselves in community, tune into our internal landscapes, and then wander freely among cedar and arbutus trees, broom and fern, shape-shifting creek and meadow. These sacred spaces and land-based practices invite us to engage with the nature-based map of the psyche, grounded in Bill Plotkin’s Wild Mind teachings, helping us reconnect with the wild, whole parts of ourselves.
Details:
When: one weekend afternoon every month, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: private forested location close to Victoria - location to be given upon registration
What to Bring: A journal and pen, water bottle, layers for wandering, a whistle, a watch and a low chair if desired for sitting in circle.
What to Expect:
Nature-Based Map of the Psyche: Explore your inner landscape through the lens of the elements, the directions and the seasons.
Contemplative Practices on the Land: Wander, reflect, and connect with both the land and your inner self.
Council Sharing Practice: Speak, be heard, and witness others in a supportive circle.
Soulcraft Practices: Engage in activities such as Deep Imagery Journeys, Dream Work, Myth Work, Conversations with the more-than-human world, and Ritual & Ceremony.
Registration:
This gathering is open to all who want to experience the Wild Mind model of the psyche.
Come join us in the wild and reconnect to the wisdom of the earth.
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