March 1, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai
Time: 6:30PM - 9:30PM (first Saturday of every month)
This is a free event. Donations are welcome. Bring snacks if you wish.

The Ojai Foundation invites you to venture up the hill, gather under the stars and around the campfire to share your poem and stories.

April 2-6, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, CA
Facilitators: Fred Sly and Christine King
Cost: $250 until Feb. 18, $275 after Feb. 18

Join your sisters in a ladies-only retreat dedicated to awakening, cultivating, nurturing and celebrating the Divine Feminine Goddess within each of us.

For more information see the retreat web page at Journeys for the Soul

April 5, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai
Time: 6:30PM - 9:30PM (first Saturday of every month)
This is a free event. Donations are welcome. Bring snacks if you wish.

The Ojai Foundation invites you to venture up the hill, gather under the stars and around the campfire to share your poem and stories.

April 20-26, 2008
Location: Owens Valley, CA
Facilitators: Marlow Hotchkiss and Leslie Roberts
Cost: $800-$1200
Deposit: $200
Contact: staff@schooloflostborders.com for more information.

Council is an ancient form and modern practice whose roots are within the natural world, spanning diverse cultures and religions.

April 26, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai
Time: 9:00AM - 12Noon, followed by sack lunch social and land tour of TOF
Details: Only 2 people per school please. Bring a sack lunch. Wear closed toed shoes.

What is a ropes course? A ropes course is a series of activities, initiatives and obstacles designed to provide group and personal challenges in a safe and supportive environment. A ropes course can help a group with improved teamwork, clearer communication, enhanced leadership, greater self-confidence and improved problem solving. It is also super fun!!

You spend so much of your time giving to others - we invite you to give a day to yourself to enjoy nature and learn about some exciting experiential educational programs including Council, Rites of Passage work, and the ropes course (come prepared to participate fully with other educators in teambuilding activities, personal challenges and connecting with nature). We look forward to seeing you soon!

May 16-18, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, CA
Cost: $1000 for six-part series, scholarships available upon application.

Re-enchant your personal and professional lives, with time honored, cross-cultural ways of attending to the inner calling of the soul. Revisit the seminal experiences that have guided you through your life's journey so far. Relearn the language of the heart.

June 6-8, 2008
Location: Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai, CA
Facilitators:
Cost: $435 includes meals and accommodations
12 CEU credits (optional) - additional $50 processing fee

The ancient practice of sitting in a circle, speaking and listening from the heart, can enrich any relationship – at home, in school, in the workplace, in community. “It takes a village....” This lively weekend will enable you to integrate council into your personal and professional life, whether educator, therapist, artist, butcher, baker, candlestick maker. Join us in retreat in Ojai and explore thinking like a circle, moving from heart-centered awareness, and expanding our inner and outer horizons. Council is a gateway to deeper communication, intercultural understanding and the nonviolent resolution of conflict – a place where destiny and the present moment meet. There will be storytelling, games, song and dance, all in the spirit of council. Register

June 13-15, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, CA
Facilitators: Erik Davis, Dale Pendell, David Presti and Laura Pendell
Cost: $435, includes lodging and catered meals
12 CEU credits (optional) - additional $50 processing fee

Traditional spiritual disciplines usually involve a daily practice. Shamanic and visionary traditions often involve "extraordinary" practice. Both approaches use ritual to shape and contain deep changes in consciousness. In this weekend workshop, we will explore both traditional rites of practice and celebration, as well as contemporary improvisations. What does ritual have to do with theater, or belief, or the structure of the mind? How do we receive rituals from tradition, and how do we create and perform our own?

Formal and informal group discussions will be supplemented by optional hands-on workshops in ritual artisanship such as mask-making. On Saturday evening we will assemble as a council of spirits and create our own spontaneous ritual to "Call Back the Condors" using words, songs, chants, dance, gesture-a gift from the heart to the great birds who eat death and are the endangered native inhabitants of the sanctuary lands just above Ojai. Register

June 13-18, 2008
Locations and times: Starts Friday June 13 at 3PM at Quail Springs
finishes Wednesday June 18 at The Ojai Foundation
Facilitators: Alexis Slutzky and Will Scott
Age Range: 18-24
Cost: $650-$850, sliding scale

This 6-day journey offers an opportunity to engage deeply with yourself and the world around you and to discover who you are and where you are going. WHO AM I? WHAT ARE MY TRUE GIFTS? WHAT DO I REALLY WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE? Women and men will be in separate groups for the majority of the journey, including the 36-hour solo fast, which forms the core of the experience. During the last 2 days, we will come together to share stories and a sweat purification ceremony. No previous wilderness experience is necessary, only a sincere desire for awareness of and intimacy with the world within and around us. Register

June 28-29, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, CA
Facilitators:
Cost: TBD

Register

July 7-11, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai
Times: 11AM Monday - 2PM Friday (overnight program) Age Ranges: 13-15
Cost: $650-$850, sliding scale

Are you ready to face your fears? Then come join the team and harness up. This five-day overnight experience will have you walking across cables high in the oaks of our ropes course and trusting your teammates with your physical well-being. The central question, What is your truth?, will be explored through council circles, drum circles and solo time in the wilderness in this modern rite of passage. All the while, participants will explore what it means to live as a green citizen. Who knows what is possible if you rise to the challenge? Register

July 14-18, 2008
Location: The Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai
Times: 9AM Monday - 4PM Friday (Overnight)
OR 9AM - 4PM Daily (Day Camp Only) Age Ranges: 9-12
Cost: $550 Day Camp OR $675 Overnight

Tired of the same-old summer routine? Take a walk on the wild side: hide and seek in the bush, learn about edible plants and how to grow them organically, and become a resident land expert at The Ojai Foundation. Plant trees, learn about permaculture, and come to know your place in the world through observing and working with the land. Other activities include nature-awareness exploration, team building games, primitive arts and skills, council circles, storytelling, water play, adn time to explore the natural world in a safe environment guided by highly trained staff. 6:1 student to Instructor ratio. Healthy yummy meals and snacks included. Register

Location: Ojai Foundation
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai, CA
Cost: $250, plus 40 hours of service on the Land.
Facilitators: Rachel Dawson with Paul Perrotta

Includes Personal Vision Quest and Sweat Lodge Ceremony

Be of service to our 40 acres of beautiful semi-wilderness land and live close to nature as you experience the ceremonial practices and philosophies on which The Ojai Foundation bases its work.

Also includes: Hands-on Projects such as Garden and Trail Maintenance, Land Walk and Orientation to The Ojai Foundation, The Way of Council, Medicine Wheel Teachings, Mindfulness Practices, Daily Meditation, Co-Created Community Meals, Arts Evening, and Rustic Shared Accommodations Register