Many organisations talk about resilience and systems change, but hardly anyone asks whether we are growing the kind of human beings capable of stewarding the future well.
The future will not be shaped by better plans, but by who we are whilst making them. Transformation at the systems level requires transformation at the human level. If we change the system without changing ourselves, the old patterns and habits will gradually rebuild it. Likewise if we only change ourselves, there is nothing in our environment that supports that change and the old habits are needed to navigate the outer realities.
Bill Plotkin’s work offers a framework for understanding the realms of human development that support regenerative leadership and cultural evolution.
In the culture of Modernity, “growing up” often means becoming functional, productive, and socially acceptable. Bill suggests that this version of adulthood is a form of adaptation to a world that is unraveling.
Bill Plotkin is a depth psychologist and founder of Animas Valley Institute and author of Wild Mind, Soulcraft, Nature and the Human Soul, and The Journey of Soul Initiation. His nature-based maps of human development have become a touchstone for many people trying to live with integrity inside a collapsing worldview.
In this conversation with Bill Plotkin, we explore maps and tools that support the development of mature adults and genuine elders who are capable of long-term stewardship, ecological thinking, intergenerational responsibility, and the kind of grounded authority that does not depend on performance or validation.
If you are interested in leadership that moves beyond reactivity, beyond performance culture, and toward genuine maturity, we would be delighted for you to join us.
All registrants will receive the recording which will remain available for two weeks after the event.
Practical info
Date
March 19, 2026
Time
UK / Western Europe (GMT): 6 PM – 8 PM (check your local timezone)
Pacific Time (PT): 11 AM - 1 PM (check your local timezone)
Tickets
General Admission (true price of the event): £10
Reduced (for those with a low income or on benefits): £5
All registrants will receive a recording which will remain available for two weeks after the event.
Go Deeper
Wild Mind - Course in Partnership with Animas Valley
Based on Bill Plotkin’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 5-week programme is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, an overview of what can be right about a person, rather than any mainstream psychology’s list of what can go wrong with people.
About the Speaker
Bill Plotkin, PhD, is an eco-depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of regenerative culture. As founder of southwest Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he has, since 1980, guided thousands of people on the journey of soul initiation. He’s also been a research psychologist (studying nonordinary states of consciousness), rock musician, and white-water river guide. In 1979, on a solo winter ascent of an Adirondack peak, Bill experienced a “call to spiritual adventure,” leading him to abandon academia in search of his true calling. He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (an experiential guidebook), Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (a nature-based stage model of human development), Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche (a nature-based map of the psyche), and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries (a guidebook for the descent to soul). His doctorate in psychology is from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Visit him online at www.animas.org.