It depends!

The outcomes you experience are directly correlated to the sincerity of your engagement and consistency of the effort you put in.

That being said, nothing is guaranteed. I can't promise you will find your dream job or end up with the love of your life.

However, I can promise that you will have powerful tools at your disposal to identify and embody your authentic life purpose.

You will deepen your capacity to communicate with yourself, with others, and with the more-than-human world. 

You will be more aware of your intimate interconnection with the living world, able to decode the messages, both subtle and gross, that life is offering you as personalized guidance on your path.

You will have access to paradigm-shifting ideas and activities that can transform your life for years to come, forever changing the way you interact with the world within and around you.

You will have concrete skills for:

• conflict resolution,
• self-regulation and self-stabilization even in extreme circumstances,
• enhanced subtle self-awareness
• pattern recognition to track the unconscious motivations directing your life experience,
• the ability to remember more dreams with greater clarity and use them to illuminate defining themes and urgent evolutionary issues that arise over time,
• intimate awareness of the universal archetypes animating and empowering your individual self,
• embodying the understanding that you are a vital contributor to a cosmic ecosystem, that you belong to the world, not just your family, society or little self,

You will know what it means to evolve from an egocentric identity to an ecocentric orientation to life.

All of these are guaranteed to lead to significant shifts in your daily life. How exactly that happens, what exactly that looks like is up to you.

It depends!

At a minimum, you need to reserve 70-90 minutes once every two weeks for our live, 1:1 sessions.

In addition, most weeks there are at least two 90-minute group sessions available, according to which season we're in (Time Craft, Dream Craft, etc). Participation in these sessions are recommended, but not required.

Then there is the time needed to complete the various experimental invitations I will offer you.

Some of these are daily practices. For example:

• meditation,
• journaling,
• dream crafting,
• time management

Some are weekly or monthly activities. For example:

• wandering in wild places,
• self-designed ceremonies,
• ongoing projects (practicing communication skills, artistic endeavors, other types of skill building)

Some of these are one-time actions. For example:

• significant conversations,
• rites of passage,
• solo adventures in the wilderness

I hope that helps you get a sense of what's involved. Again, the more time & energy you can devote to the process, the more you are going to get out of it.

However, I fully understand the craziness of modern life, and I assure you that any and everything you can do will have valuable impact.

If events beyond your control interfere with your ability to continue participating in the Wild Mind process, we will come up with a custom solution appropriate to your unique circumstances.

This could look like pressing pause for a time, promising to check in at given intervals to see if it's time to begin again.

Though the program is designed to be one year (13 lunar months), you actually have two full years to use all 27 sessions, and maintain access to all the educational materials for that same period.

If it becomes necessary to stop completely, we will navigate that process in mutual good-faith and have a concluding session.

Note that Ecotone Academy operates with a firm no refunds policy, meaning any payments already submitted shall not be returned except in cases of extreme dereliction or violation by yours truly of our terms of agreement set out in the contract we sign upon initiation of our work together.

No prior experience is required. All concepts are introduced in a grounded, accessible way, with an emphasis on application rather than memorization.

The primary prerequisite is your life-long experience of being you, bringing with you everything you know about yourself and who you are here to be as a native born Earthling.

That being said, we will incorporate any and all of your past experience with evolutionary work, whether that include plant medicine, nature retreats, meditation, yoga, therapy or something entirely else.

Bare minimum requirement: bring your whole self!

No.

Wild Mind Guidance is not psychotherapy, mental health treatment, or clinical counseling, and it is not a substitute for licensed medical or psychological care.

In fact, Wild Mind work is often "anti-therapeutic" in the sense that much of modern therapy functions to reinforce existing identity structures, girding them against a shift (or collapse) that may in fact be much needed in order to resolve and evolve your circumstances.

Wild Mind work is educational, experiential, and initiatory in nature. We focus on cultivating your ecocentric self, somatic awareness, symbolic literacy, Dream Craft and other nature-based practices, and life design aligned with your deeper purpose.

Many people find this work deeply therapeutic in its effects—but that is different from therapy as a regulated service.

If you are currently working with a therapist, psychiatrist, or other care provider, this work can often complement that support beautifully.

I am happy to collaborate at the level of values and intention, while staying firmly within my scope of practice.

Super valid question.

In response, I want to emphasize that this is a major commitment — both for you and for me — to your personal evolution.

This is a fully customized process in which I offer my lifetime of experience & expertise in service of your unique circumstances.

There are never more than six individuals engaged in this process at any one time. I enforce this limit because of the significant time & energy required to devote sufficient attention to each person's journey.

The requested investment reflects this mutual commitment, ensuring that we both have significant skin in the game. 

Your financial contribution is not based upon the number of hours we spend together. It is calculated so that I can feel free to spend however much time is necessary to provide all the support and guidance needed.

Does that make sense?