Wounded Healers Council & Mini Retreat
A revised Offering Saturday 10/24/26 3pm-8pm
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Maybe you feel like this old oak…laid bare by a lightening strike. Maybe you feel like his sturdy neighbor who dodged it…but is vibrating with the strike that felled his kin.
The storms of this time are not small. Collective storms darken the horizon for nations, species, the planet, are all woven with the threads of our very human frailties and tangles.
And there we are with our singular life, or the illusion of it, and the attendant personal storms. In the midst of it all, we can feel utterly alone. Our heroics can be admirable, valiant, and insufficient. Our defeats are at times, a poetic release. An inevitable passage way to a horizon we never imagined.
As healers, our own wounding is integral to our own healing work.
The wounded healers is the journey of a lifetime. The path can be inspiring, disorienting, deeply meaningful and deeply solitary.
I have no solution.
just an offering…. a possibility…
A sheltering
In the circle of stories, we gather our collective energies and feast on the images that arise with an intelligence that cannot be found solely through an intellectual understanding. Our story nourishes the collective.
A breaking open
As our lives unfold, we are broken open into new thresholds of becoming. Stories bear the seeds of our ordeals, our victories. They lay claim to us. And stories witnessed well, they are another animal entirely. For in the circle of stories, a collective story is revealed and we find, we are not alone.
A deepening
Council is a listening practice for the stories of our lives. It is an old way of tending community that is rooted in inclusion, belonging, and deep reverence for the animate world, the generations to come, and the ancestors. It is a radical practice of deep listening, deep sharing, spontaneity and expression. This first offering of the Wounded Healer Council is for you if you are a therapist or in the healing practices and feel called to this encounter.
Wounded Healer Council
The What
The wounded healer is an archetype, an original pattern, that psyche recognizes. We may be apprehended by this archetype, or visited by it, but we are not “it”.
This offering is rooted in the stories and the wisdom they carry, about the wounded healer archetype and how in offering our gifts, we are compelled to face our wounding. We will play with the mythos of the wounded healer we will sit with our own lived stories. Time to slow down and land in our bodies, be with the beauty of the wild world, and with community, will also be part of the medicine of this encounter.
The intention is the invitation. But the fulfillment, well, that remains to be seen in our answer and our willingness to be called in.
The animate world is our companion on this journey. This generous stillness will hold space for creative process, solitude and ceremonial marking of our way of being wounded healers. We will release to the earth what no longer serves us. We will lay down what is outgrown, worn out, or no longer serves. We will shelter the seedlings that emerge from the ground of our composting. We will be a sudden and ephemeral community, in a unique and unrepeatable encounter with one another.
We will explore
The Way of Council
The Wounded Healer Mythos
Imaginal Ways of Knowing
Feeling called in? Scroll down for details.
Wounded Healer Council Schedule
Mini Retreat at Caspers Wilderness Park
Saturday October 24, 2026 3pm-8pm
Camping is Optional through
Sunday October 25, 2026 10 am
Retreat Location
Under the oaks of Caspers Regional Park on a reserved site.
All participants will gather for ceremony time Saturday October 24. Camping overnight is optional.
Activities will include solo time for a walk, free time, craft-making, potluck meal and our final council around the campfire. This special program will close out our journey together beneath a sky full of stars and the sounds of frog and coyote.
Registration
Limited to six participants. Four Spots Left!
More details in the registration form will help you determine if this is right for you. Feel free to reach out to me with questions.
Suggested Donation: $100
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Deposit of 50% is requested for registration with remaining portion due before ceremony begins 10/24.
Feel free to reach out to me with questions.
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