An Earth-Rooted Training in Soul-Centric Leadership
We begin our two-year journey January 2026!
GUIDES: Tracey Forest (KeyTurner) and Kimberly Wattendorf (Northstar)
CONTEXT & CALL
We are living in a time of profound unraveling—ecological collapse, political polarization, systemic injustice, spiritual disconnection. The dominator culture has led us to the edge of a precipice, severing our ties to Earth, Soul, ancestry, and the Sacred. Many feel the grief, the disorientation, the urgency—but don’t know the path forward.
Yet beneath the noise and numbness, a deeper current is moving. A new/ancient way is stirring—a way rooted deeply in Soul, ceremony, and kinship with the Living Earth — a way that honors mystery, welcomes the unseen, and calls forth the unique gifts each of us carries for the healing of our world.
We know that this shift cannot be made alone.
It takes a village of visionaries, guides, artists, and edge-walkers.
It takes those willing to do the inner work of wholing, self-healing and descent, and the outer work of weaving community, tending grief, and leading with humility and heart.
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KEY AND COMPASS
is a training ground for this emergence.
We are calling in those ready to midwife a new culture—one born of Earth’s dreaming and our Soul’s devotion.
Those ready to lead — not from dominance but — from deep listening.
Those who carry seeds of the future and are longing for the skills, tools, mirrors, and community to help them grow into their most soul-rooted leadership.
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If you feel the ache of the world and hear the call of something more whole, more real, more beautiful,
you belong here.
WHO IT’S FOR
KEY AND COMPASS is for all genders and ages who have heard the whispers of their true soul calling and are committed to offering their gifts in service of Earth’s Great Turning.
This two-year training for those who:
🗝 Are on a soul-discovery path and ready to bring their visionary essence fully alive
🗝 Long to support radical change through healing, teaching, creating, or guiding
🗝 Are dreaming into or tending nature-based, soul-centered offerings, circles or community
🗝 Feel called to unplug from the dominator culture and reconnect with the living world
🗝 Carry the fire of the future and need tools, allies, and inspiration to bring it forth
Come if you’re a bridge-builder, edge-walker, cultural midwife, or peace-weaver—ready to walk through the doorway and lead from the deep heart of the world.
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Key and Compass is a never-before-seen program that grows out of our life’s work in deep listening to Earth, cultivating decades of tools and skills, and guiding hundreds of humans of all ages and stages. Much of our work is rooted in intensive guide training with Bill Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute, the Work that Reconnects, the Ways of Council, as well as our many years’ passion for and experience with creating spaces, programs, immersions and vision fasts where transformation into our deepest service can occur.
Join us for our maiden voyage into Mystery’s terrain!
Following the cardinal directions and map of the human psyche, we meet in person seven times (four day sessions) over 2026 for Year One. Between sessions, there will be Zoom councils and e-sharing as well as invitations to engage with to keep the conversation alive.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
By the end of Key and Compass, trainees will be able to:
🗝 Hold Transformational Space
Create ceremonial containers of safety, deep listening, and soul-rooted sharing where every voice is truly heard
Design and guide a wide range of soul-honoring ceremonies and rituals
Guide various forms of Council and community dialogue
Offer powerful mirroring to help others deepen their self-discovery and soul initiation
Weave nature immersion, ceremony, and council into potent experiences of transformation
🧭 Guide Soul-Centric Practices
Lead deep imagery journeys that open portals to the mythopoetic realm
Work with dreams in a soul-centric way—for both personal and collective insight
Guide somatic practices including, basic yoga, authentic movement and soul-infused wanders on the land
Navigate the terrain of the soul journey and offer guidance to others on the path of transformation
Track soul threads—your own and others’—and help midwife their unfolding
🌎 Practice Earth-Rooted Healing & Leadership
Practice shamanic and earth-based healing modalities in respectful, culturally aware ways
Guide processes from The Work That Reconnects, supporting ecological grief and empowerment
Model reciprocal relationship with the living Earth and more-than-human kin and help others reanimate that connection
Articulate your unique soul vision and claim your ecological niche of service in these times
Continue your own soul work and inner healing while guiding others on their journey
GET THE DETAILS: www.spirithollow.org/key-and-compass
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