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Mystery & Destiny: Working With the Nature of Soul
Saturday, 10AM - 5PM
The language of the soul is symbols. The soul speaks to our everyday consciousness (our ego) primarily through imagery manifesting through dreams, memories, creativity, and encounters with culture and nature.
This symbolic imagery helps the unconscious mind express itself in a way that the ego can understand and integrate. These images are central to who we are and are imbued with profound meaning, memory, emotion and vision. Such images point toward the mysteries and destiny inherent in a human life.
Together, we will work with deep imagery, movement, and embodied dialogues with the land and wild others as entry points of meaning and significance on your own journey of self-discovery and wholeness.
Includes 7 CEUs for Utah Mental Health Professionals
Doug Van Houten
Artist and nature-based soulcentric human development guide Doug Van Houten sows the seeds of individual and collective change by helping people reconnect with nature and awaken their visionary capacity. Doug has been a guide with Animas Valley Institute for 14 years and also offers programs and mentoring on the land he lives on in Goshen, Kentucky.
The dream that has been a perennial guide for Doug’s practice is one where humans thrive in a mutually enhancing relationship with Earth, know our cosmic origins, and see ourselves as integral and unique participants in the ongoingness of the universe.
Doug draws upon the wisdom of deep imagery and dreams, somatic and embodied knowing, poetry and art-making, and many pan-cultural, nature-responsive practices. Doug’s calling manifests in a devotion to others’ wholeness and maturation as they descend into the mystic wellspring of their imaginations, drink deeply from soul’s source, drench in their own unique grief and gifts, and return to outpour their particular powers in service to what Thomas Berry called ”The Great Work” of our time.