Wild Mind Mirror Training – November 9-13, 2026
Artwork by Doug Van Houten
A residential, face to face, fully catered training held at Baanya Biami - Camp of Great Spirit Staughton Vale Victoria - 1.2 hours south west of Melbourne.
While this program is designed and primarily intended for trainees in Animas’ Wild Mind Training Program, other human development facilitators and guides are warmly invited to apply.
Maximum of 25 participants.
Program Fees - Soulcraft ANZ Inc is a not for profit, volunteer association. Programs fees incur 10% GST at checkout (for Australian residents):
Early Bird: $1,695 - paid in full at registration.
Full Price: $1,895 - with a $500 minimum deposit to hold your place - (paid in full by October 9, 2026).
Concession: $1,595 - a current concession card is required.
We encourage you to pay the full price if you have the means to do so. This will enable us to cover costs and offer concessional places to those in need. If you are challenged financially, please contact us to discuss.
In the Wild Mind Mirroring Training, we practice detecting the greater story that pulses beneath the events of a person’s life. By immersing ourselves in the practice of deep listening and mirroring, we uncover the archetypal themes that might frame a person’s experience within the arc of their destiny.
When our story is compassionately reflected through the skilled mirroring of another, we feel fully heard and able to experience ourselves in a larger and more meaningful context; we’re enabled to catch up to ourselves and perhaps leap into the next phase of our journey of individuation. An alchemical exchange occurs between the teller and the listener, an exchange that is magical and priceless.
In this mirroring training, we’ll work with themes such as self-healing, psychospiritual death and rebirth, courting the beloved, romancing the world, fear personas, subper-sonalities, anima and animus, the four facets of the Self, the eco-soulcentric stages of development, other-than-human allies, underworld encounters, mythic threads, and archetypal symbols and themes.
We’ll study several principles and their application, including how mirroring is different from projection, transference, and interpretation; how analysing is different from loving; how to recognise the gestalt of people’s life stories; pattern recognition; framing; and amplifying the storyteller’s feelings.
We’ll witness how the art of mirroring catalyses each person into the depth of their unique way of belonging to the world. Trainees will practice deep listening to self, others, and the group field and, by the end of the program, will more fully understand their gifts and potentials as a mirrorer and how to manifest those gifts in service to others.
Note: If you are not a Wild Mind Training Program member, during online registration we will ask you several additional questions as part of the program assessment process.
Venue:
Baanya Biami ‘Camp of Great Spirit’ - 220 Marshalls Lane, Staughton Vale, Victoria. Baanya Biami is located 50 mins south of Ballarat, 1hr 20 mins west of Melbourne or 40 minutes north of Geelong. It is nestled on 150 acres of bushland, surrounded by over 21,000 acres of the Brisbane Ranges National Park where you will find over one fifth of Victoria’s native plant species, over 170 native bird species and an abundance of native wildlife. There are short and long public walking trails meandering through the National Park taking in the rivers, gorges, and cliff top views.
Your Guide:
Brian Stafford MD MPH: Brian is a guide to the wilderness of nature, wildness, and soul. Called out of academic medicine to serve as a guide to the depths and to serve as an agent of cultural awakening and transformation, he guides with humour, playfulness, fierceness, compassion, discernment, and a deep remembering of the fullness of what each human life can, should, and was meant to be.
A native of Colorado and the former holder of an endowed chair and professor of psychiatry and paediatrics, he is currently a guide, Board Member, and Training Director of the Wild Mind Training Program at Animas. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as an expert in psychedelic preparation and integration. He is an avid outdoorsman, teacher, writer, mentor, partner, and parent. He delights in helping individuals rewild and ensoul their lives by assisting in the dissolution of their current life so that they may discover and live from their deeper life, their soul-life. Brian currently makes his home in Ojai, California.
Food and Accommodation:
The program is fully catered, providing amazing vegetarian food by chef Ashley Mariani. We will pass on any dietary restrictions advised by you at registration. If you have not already let us know of any dietary restrictions that apply to you, please forward to us as soon as possible.
Lodgings and bedding requirements:
Most of the accomodation is in bunk rooms (2 people per room) with shared bathroom facilities. Several camping places are also available.
