CO Two Week Training
Jul 1st, 2021 - Jul 14th, 2021 | Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado | Emerald North, Scot Deily
The two week training offers the participant an immersion into the vision fast ceremony, including the beginning skills necessary to lead it and an understanding of how the principles of the vision fast can be applied to a profession, community, or client. Trainees are encouraged to learn the form, the process, and then give it their own unique expression within life and work. Throughout the two weeks, the trainee will be challenged to wear two hats: one is the hat of the person training in the ways of the vision fast guide and the other is the hat of the person learning experientially what it is like to actually go out on the land as a participant.
Preparing ahead of time: Every trainee must ask: What am I going out to sever from, mark, celebrate, and/or confirm? What is my intent? Who will benefit from my training (Who are my people)?
Program Overview: The first five days are given over to preparation (severance). Morning and afternoon meetings are the norm. Instruction includes: the mirroring dynamics of story councils; screening and preparation of candidates in four areas: physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual; the four shields of human-nature; the sacred and the profane; the dynamics of fasting; self-generated ceremony; the power of taboo; the mirror of nature; and the shaping and confirmation of intent.
On the sixth day, Trainees go out into the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, find a place to fast and set up stone piles with their buddies. On the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth days, the trainee lives alone and fasts. (Threshold).
On the morning of the eleventh day, the fasters return to basecamp (Incorporation). The return day is one of gentleness and relaxation. On the twelfth and thirteenth days, each story is told in council. The guides witness, mirror meaning, and empower the intent and story. On the fourteenth day, we look at the process that has just unfolded from a training perspective and prepare ourselves to reenter our lives.
Prerequisite: At least one vision fast
Program Questions Contact: Emerald North at [email protected]
Submit enrollment form
Please fill out and submit the enrollment form and then pay the program deposit below. Before you pay the deposit, please read deposit section below, all deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. After your enrollment form is complete, please submit all health and liability forms.
Pay program deposit
Deposits: This deposit signifies your commitment to the program and is deducted from the tuition balance. All deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable. They cover the work of the specific course you signed up for, including all communication involved as well as the fee that guides pay to the school administration for the course accounting.
Additional Deposit: Some programs require a second deposit to help us affirm commitments. Last minute cancellations make it hard to fill openings and incur a loss of income to the School and the guides.
Tuition Balance: Balance of tuition can be paid before or upon arrival. Simply deduct any deposits made from the amount you’ve chosen on the sliding scale.
Submit Waitlist form
This program is full; however, you may add your name to the Waitlist by clicking the Waitlist button below.
Additional course details & Materials
You will be responsible for bringing your own food and equipment, though we can provide some gear if needed. We ask everyone to come prepared to live self-sufficiently. You will need to bring shelter and clothing suitable for a full range of inclement weather.
All participants must submit the required health questionnaire and liability form.
If you have questions about the enrollment process contact us at [email protected] or call 760-938-3333.
We request all participants purchase and read the vision fast handbook, The Trail to the Sacred Mountain and highly recommend The Roaring of the Sacred River both available from Lost Borders Press.
Dragonback Springs is land of the Tabeguache Ute people and other Indigenous tribes who traveled through this area of the Colorado Rockies. The Ute lived and hunted in this abundant land of elk, buffalo, deer, and bear before white settlers came and forced them onto reservations in southwest Colorado and Utah.
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