Deep Earth Dreaming
three day Camping gathering outside of Asheville.
Spring 2025
Your imagination is a gateway to healing
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”
—Mary Oliver
Dreamwork retreat
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see,” said the poet Theodore Rothke. And indeed, here we are in ever-darkening times. What’s asked of us now, it seems, is a willingness to move toward the unknown. One way of approaching the unknown, of finding the deeper resources of the human soul, of connecting to the deep heart hidden in the center of each life, is the practice of working with our dreams.
For millennia, dreams have been hailed as sources of wisdom, healing, prophecy, and conversation with the world itself. Neither colonialism nor modernity have been able to eradicate the mystery and wisdom that we instinctively sense from the dream world, and as the stories guiding post-modernism crumble, we are here, together, remembering where to find guidance for these times and our place in them.
Deep Earth Dreaming is an invitation to come listen to the unknown together, to uncover and work with those parts of yourself revealed in dreams, and perhaps to encounter the place where your dream and the world’s dream meet. We’ll spend time working with our dreams through many complementary practices including group council, mixed-medium creative practice, solitude in nature, somatic exploration and one-on-one guided dream work.
During our time together outside you will
Track and embody symbolic threads of meaning, healing, and belonging through dream work
Feel a sense of belonging with the group from sharing what you’re tracking in your life
Grow your relationship with your “active imagination” to continually deepen the conversation with your deepest longings, meaning, and healing
Learn tools to keep being with your dreams individually and with others
Connect your own story to the intelligence of life and find nourishment in your relationship to earth
Feel supported in moving toward your unique path of service through conversation with your dreams
Further cultivate ecological awareness and increased sensitivity to your place in what Mary Oliver calls “the family of things”
Nature retreat in Asheville Area
Spring 2024 Dates TBD
We will be camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina outside of Asheville, NC. The site is remote and shared when enrolled.
This offering is limited to 16 people. There are bathrooms, showers, and a river on site.
Preparations:
Registrants will receive a preparation package including practices for beginning to remember and record your dreams so that you will have dreams to work with when you arrive.
This course is a camping offering. Please bring your own gear for this event or reach out to us if you need to borrow a tent, pad or sleeping bag. Dinners are communal meals. Everyone is responsible for their own breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. We bring group stoves, kitchen equipment, water, and all other needs.
What is included
Blending group council work with individual exploration of dreams, mixed medium creative practices, solitude in nature, somatic dream exploration, and small-group dream work, Deep Earth Dreaming is an opportunity to learn how to work with your own dreams as guides to purpose, healing, grounding while exploring how time spent in nature can mirror and deepen the insights that dreams offer.
Beginning with a group dream council, we will deepen into knowing each other through the images of the psyche. Throughout the days, drawing upon a wide range of practices, each participant will deepen into conversation with one specific dream, and we will gather again in the evening for another council to explore what’s been happening.
By the end of the intensive you will have an introductory understanding of dreams from multiple cultural/psychological perspectives, an experience of how dream work can foster wholeness, healing, and creativity, tools and practices for working with your own dreams, and a deeper connection to the natural world.
lineage:
Drawing upon many teachers and dream work schools, we primarily source our learning in soul-centric dreamwork approaches as taught by The Animas Valley Institute and Erica Rhineheart of Moonpath Mystery School. Additionally, our dream work draws upon the work of Toko-Pa Turner, Robert Bosnak, James Hillman and Marion Woodman.
PRICING
We acknowledge systemic differences in people’s access to resources, therefore the cost of this program is in the spirit of the gift, meaning we ask you to honor what you receive from us in an exchange that you are able and willing to give at the end of the program. This means “pay what you can”. People are usually donating $300-600 for this program and we are happy to discuss other ways of exchanging with you.
Register
To register please fill out the application below. We will be in touch soon. If you’d like more information, we would be glad to connect with you - please email us.
FAQs
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Yes, this is a small offering of only 16 people and staying for the full duration of the program is necessary for us to deepen in and feel held by one another.
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Yes, we will include time for you to check in with either of us 1:1 where we can answer your questions, mirror whats arising for you, tend to a dream, offer invitations and co-create ceremonies that may be useful for you.
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No, if you have it great. If not, we have tents, sleeping pads and sleeping bags for you to use. Just let us know.
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Yes, people of all genders are welcome.
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This offering includes two nights and three days of camping in Celo North Carolina. Each day you will receive personalized and group invitations to deepen into the questions and responses of this offering. You will be guided into ceremony, ritual, dreams, wandering on the land solo, journal practices, meditations, group talking circles and ecological awareness activities to deepen into your dreams.
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No, if you are in an active crisis or emergency we encourage you to seek personalized therapeutic support.
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No, we believe consciousness is altered through our various practices and want you to experience the transformation without additional substances. Please email us if you have any questions.
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Any cancellations more than 60 days before the start of the program will be provided a full refund, minus processing fees. Any cancellations between 30 and 60 days before the start of a program will be provided a refund of half the program cost, minus processing fees. Any cancellations less than 30 days from the start of a program will not be refunded, unless another applicant fills that spot.
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Yes, we are offering 2 half-priced spots for BIPOC. If you are interested and this applies to you, please email us. We also have a scholarship for one person. Please email us if you would like to apply for the scholarship.
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Thank you! You’re incredible. You can paypal wild@remembering-earth.com with the note naming who you are paying for. Please have the person you are paying for fill out the application.
your guides
Kristopher Drummond
Kristopher has been working with the guidance of his dreams for the past decade, intuitively following their twisting mysteries until he landed at The Sacred Space Foundation, where he began to learn the art of dreamwork. Following his time there, he trained for three years with the Animas Valley Institute in the craft of Soulcentric Dreamwork and he’s been convening online and in-person dream circles for the past four years as well as utilizing them in his one-on-one client work.
To learn more about Kristopher and his work, you can visit his mentor profile or explore his published work or poetry. You can also find him on Instagram, @permissionbringer
Madison LEdgerwood
Madison is a soul-centric guide dedicated to earth rooted relationships, wholeness and ancestral connections that enable individuals to see the mysteries of who they are. She believes these guide people toward their most fulfilling, authentic contributions to life-enhancing and just communities.
Her work is greatly informed by elder community activists, community organizing in social and environmental justice movements for over a decade, and being raised by two sets of grandparents who loved land, liberation and life. Madison’s trainings and personal work with Erica Rhinehart at Moonpath, mentors at Animas Valley Institute, and her mentors for her masters in Sustainable Communities shape her frameworks, processes, and practices in eco-depth psychology.
To register please fill out the application below. We will be in touch soon. If you’d like more information, we would be glad to connect with you - please email us.