ReWild: An Experiential Path to Depth, Purpose and Renewal

ReWild: An Experiential Path to Depth, Purpose and Renewal

The old maps for how to live, lead, and belong are no longer serving us. We have been offered models of success, productivity, and status, yet many reach adulthood without the depth, steadiness, and sense of purpose that true maturity asks of us.

As depth psychologist Bill Plotkin boldly states; “We are living in a time where there are few true adults.’At the same time, the wider system of modernity, built on separation, endless growth, certainty, and the exploitation of people and Earth is showing its failings.

ReWild is a three-day immersive journey for people who feel called to live from a deeper place — not only through effort or strategy, but through relationship with land, soul and the communities of all life. It is a guided exploration into the stages of human development and the path toward greater wholeness. Together we will explore and build through experience the four facets of human wholeness. 

Through embodied movement, music, time in nature, council practice, sacred art, reflection, and honest conversation, we will explore what it means to grow into wholehearted adulthood in a time of ecological and cultural change.

This work is grounded in nature-based human development, rites of passage traditions, and the wider movement known as The Great Turning.

This is a chance to step out of the noise, listen for deeper guidance, and return to your life with greater clarity, resilience, vitality, and purpose.

This immersion takes place in the beautiful and inspiring location of Mangaroa Farm in Upper Hutt Wellington. Learn more https://mangaroa.org/. Nestled alongside the Mangaroa River in Te Awa Kairangi Hutt Valley water catchment, Mangaroa Farms is a resilient community food hub and education centre. A living laboratory for transitioning dairy & pine into regenerative agriculture & native forests.

The ticket prices includes organic wholesome food, delux accommodation, all the teaching and supplies. We ask that particpants arrive between 12pm and 1.30pm, ready to begin at 2.30pm.

There are scholarships for young adults aged 20-40. Email jaimeopeningminds@gmail.com for approval.

Who This Is For

• People seeking more meaning, creativity, vitality, and direction

• People carrying responsibility in leadership, family, business, or community who are interested in the transformative effects of rites of passage and human development.

• People navigating transition, midlife, grief, loss, or change

• Younger adults seeking maps and inspiration 

• Older adults wanting to harvest wisdom and contribute what matters most

• People longing for honest connection and a deeper sense of belonging

• People who want to laugh, grow, feel more alive, and be renewed

• People who value art, myth, poetry, music, and imagination as pathways to transformation

Your Guides

Jaime Howell (MEd Transformative Education) is founder of the Centre for the Great Turning and has spent many years working with nature-based rites of passage, grief work, and community processes that help people reconnect with belonging and purpose. His work is influenced by Bill Plotkin, Francis Weller, Robert Bly, Martin Shaw, Joanna Macy, Open Floor practice, contemplative traditions, and mythopoetic approaches to human development. Jaime values instinct, intuition and imagination. He loves being in wild nature, plays a mean blues guitar and is an grassroots poet.

Elder

Bill McEwan is supporting this event in the role of elder. Bill is an 81 year old in love with and loved by Earth. His academic study includes Agricultural Science and Theology leading to a 30 year career as a hospital chaplain and counsellor. He loves to listen closely and follow intuition based on experience. Bill Plotkin’s nature based approach to human development is profoundly helpful to him and he wants to share that with others trying to find meaning in troubled times. Bill has crossed the threshold of true adulthood into elder-hood.