Wild Genius
The GATEKEEPERS—A Day of Ritual and Community
OVERTURE
Journeys | Gatekeepers | Overture
January to June 2024 AUSTRALIA LIVE
WA
• Geraldton • Cervantes • Yanchep • Perth • Rockingham • Bunbury • Margaret River
PLUS
• Adelaide • Melbourne • Canberra • Sydney • Brisbane
In this section:
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Quick facts . . . admission and tuition
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Course Flexibility
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Meet people in depth, heart, and soul
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Ritual literacy for healers and leaders
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Thank You for Your Work
"Known and Unknown, and
in between,
the Doors of Perception"
Aldous Huxley
Quick facts . . . admission and tuition
Healers, practitioners, ritualists, and therapists will find supportive colleagues and some refreshing perspectives. This program is open admission, and anyone with a sincere interest in the material is welcome. However, it is recommended to attend a Navigators Storynight prior to attending a full day.
Full tuition: $235 Aud
Concession: $185 Aud
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Begin at 9am
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Snacks provided
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Bring your own lunch
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Community pot luck supper
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Clean up and complete by about 9pm
"If you want one year of prosperity grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."
Chinese Proverb
Themes
The process will be lively, both deeply looking at your own medicine, and building a container of like minded peers that can continue informally after the official course completes. One genius of the ritual process is to allow for concurrent themes to be present together in the room and create a synergy of support among people.
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Wayfinding
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Songs of Grief and Praise
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Hard Times and Furious Dancing
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Fate, Destiny, Purpose and Identity
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Welcoming, Boundaries, and Community
Bringing some grit and truth to the conversation will be worthwhile—you will get out what you put in. You will likely meet new friends to collaborate and celebrate with.
This site provides extensive background material to explain the philosophy and approach of ritual literacy if you wish to extend your studies.
Meet people in depth, heart, and soul
For those interested in ongoing study and coaching,
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With the Elements
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With the navigation process of mythic imagination
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With other supportive amazing learners
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With the world of ritual work
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With teachers and traditions
Please contact us.
“Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses.”
Martín Prechtel
Ritual Literacy for Healers and Leaders
Healers and leaders both work with forces and influences that are sometimes intangible and not visible on the surface.
True Ritual is not a mindless repetition of a formula, but is crafted to weave the intangible and invisible with the real world of community and people alive today. Ritual literacy challenges the modern fiction of "improving" oneself alone."
Wherever we are, people arrive with complexity and need the medicines of welcoming, recognition, appreciation, compassion, and flexibility to be able to give their own gift and genius.
"All problems are psychological, but all solutions are spiritual"
Thomas Hora
Thank You for Your Work . . .
The highways and byways you have travelled to arrive at the position of a healer or a practitioner is worthy of some respect. Likely you've already mixed some "medicines" of different modalities into your own medicine bag of methods and philosophies. A lot of work.
Yet you are not alone if you are also looking around for more styles and skills—being a life-long learner is a natural way to keep your practice lively and alive.
Practitioners function as "Gatekeepers" to the doorways that enhance our natural abilities to regain wholeness. Ritual literacy is a language to look at holistic work from the perspective of naturally human needs—everyone who walks through your door comes with a need for welcome, a longing to express their life purpose, the personal history of grief they've endured, the legacies of the times we live in, and a desire to balance their powers of reaction and response to create a life they want to live.
SYLLABUS
Journeys | Gatekeepers | Syllabus
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Earth: Boundaries, Welcoming & Intimacy
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Mineral: Separation, Life Purpose & Initiation
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Water: Grief, Praise & Affirmation
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Fire: Ancestors, Intuition & Mythic Alliance
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Nature: Reaction, Response & Creating
“Tourists don't know where they've been,
Travellers don't know where they're going.”
Paul Theroux
“I believe we learn by practice.”
Martha Graham
Earth: Boundaries, Welcoming & Intimacy
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Welcoming and Homecoming
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A Practical Review of Boundaries
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The guile of Intimacy
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Abundance of the Earth
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Earth Medicine in your practice
For a preview of the material in Earth Element, see:
EARTH
Boundaries
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Welcoming
Mineral: Separation, Life Purpose & Initiation
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Structure of Creating
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Life Purpose, Wounds and Wild Genius
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The Guile of Initiation
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On the Track of a Medicine Name
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Mineral Medicine in your practice
For a preview of the material in Mineral Element:
MINERAL
Separation
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Life Purpose
Water: Grief, Praise & Affirmation
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Poetics of Grief and Praise
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A Room Full of Grief and Praise
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The Guile of Reconnection
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The Leadership of Poverty and Blessing
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Water Medicine in your practice
For a preview of the material in Water Element:
WATER
Grief Listening
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Praise Talk
Fire: Ancestors, Intuition & Mythic Alliance
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Power of the Ancestors
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Legacies of Permission and Taboos
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The Guile of Intuition
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Youth, Eldership, and Sustainabilit
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Fire Medicine in your practice
For a preview of the material in Fire Element:
FIRE
Ancestor Healing
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Intuitive Guidance
Nature: Reaction, Response & Creating
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The Structure of Ritual
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A Primer on Kinetic Connection and Ringmaster
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The Guile of Eco-logic
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Initiated Knowledge
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Nature Medicine in your practice
For a preview of the material in Nature Element:
NATURE
Reaction
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Response
DETAILS
Journeys | Gatekeepers | Agreements
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Dates and Times of Zoom Calls
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Participation Commitment
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Technical Logistics
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
Chris Jammi
DATES & TIMES OF ZOOM CALLS
Western Australia
Dates & Times Western Australia [Perth] 2025
6:30 to 8:00pm
Monday | January 20 | Beginnings
Monday | February 17 | Earth
Monday | March 17 | Mineral
Monday | April 14 | Water
Monday | May 19 | Fire
Monday | June 16 | Nature
Participation Commitment
The total time (recommended) is about 90 hours
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Evening stories 2.5 hours x 6 = 15
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Saturday events 7 hours x 6 = 42
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Zoom classes 1.5 hours x 6 = 9
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One on one calls 45 minutes x 6 = 4.5
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Suggested homework 1 hour/ week x 20 = 20
Also included at no extra cost are 6 bonus story evenings and copy of my book.
During the classes and team calls, a supportive and encouraging attitude is expected toward other participants.
Go here for a full description of ETHICS
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way
W.H. Murray
Technical Logistics
Some technical considerations:
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proficiency in English speaking and writing
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a computer and internet for the Zoom call
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a cell phone with Signal App for our group messaging
Bring your best Zoom game:
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5 minutes early for calls
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frame your camera for head and shoulders
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enough light to make your image visible
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mute and unmute as appropriate
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stay present and attentive
“Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
REGISTRATION
Journeys | Gatekeepers | Registration
Registration Details
If you would like to chat before registering, feel free to reach out.
To register, and pay tuition, go to our Ticket Tailor secure gateway:
“Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
