Greetings from Totnes! A lovely little town in Devon (UK) where I made some “shiny Pokemon card” friends last summer in Sweden. Heading to Medicine Festival next week, where I’ll be speaking on AI and sharing preview copies of my forthcoming book (available for pre-order).
I’m writing today to let you know that there are just a handful of spots remaining for our third annual retreat in Mt. Shasta!
Join us for a five night wilderness journey from Sept 8th through 13th, engaging in essential re-humaning work for those holding leadership today.
We hosted our inaugural Wise Innovation Camp in 2024 with Julia Plevin Oliansky, and came back last year for a second round in collaboration with wisdom guide and facilitator Samantha Sweetwater — who recently published the must-read True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World.
It’s time to return to beloved Headwaters Outdoor School once again. This time, Samantha is bringing vision forward for what she’s calling Devotion: A Leadership Initiation at the Turning of Worlds.
This is the kind of transformational experience I had imagined developing when I came down the mountain from my first vision quest three summers ago. A journey that includes:
1. AN EMBODIED TECH FAST
Six days without phones, email, or connectivity. Not as deprivation but as liberation.
2. RECONNECTION WITH THE EARTH AS TEACHER
The land is your primary teacher. You’ll learn wilderness skills as relational practices and discover that leading for Life requires learning from Life.
3. A SOLO VISION QUEST
Twenty hours alone on the land, fasting and asking what Life wants from you. This ancient practice strips away the noise and reveals where your soul’s calling meets the calling of the world.
4. CEREMONIAL ALCHEMY
Sweat lodge, Council of All Beings, fire circles, and storytelling weave you into kinship and communion with the Song of Life.
5. A COMMUNITY OF FELLOW SEEKERS
A circle of leaders walking together in devotion. The bonds formed in ceremony and wilderness become your Council of Kin for the work ahead.
6. INTEGRATION OF BODY, SOUL, AND LEADERSHIP
Full-spectrum transformation through movement, dream work, wilderness immersion, and metacrisis council. Your body, dreams, and the more-than-human world holds wisdom the mind cannot access alone.
7. CLARITY ABOUT YOUR SOUL’S WORK
Soul Craft reveals what only nature can reflect: your unique place in the web, your particular medicine, the work you are made to do.
And woven through all of it: a week of living what wise innovation actually looks like. In the design of the program itself, in the ceremonies, in the conversations, and in the land.
Together with fellow travelers across sectors, we’ll be living these questions:
What is Life asking of me?
How can I live, love, and lead for Life - and make a living - as we navigate the greatest transitional threshold our species has yet crossed?
How can I bring my unique gifts to bear in a way that is joyful, beautiful, honest and truly impactful?
What can I learn from nature to refine, align and mature my mind, my actions, and my commitment?
Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Shasta is a second home for me, a place that has taught me more than anywhere else in my adult life.
Whether you join us in September or feel called to visit another time, I’d love to point you in good directions :)
Hope to see you out there,
Andrew & Samantha
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