Key Information

Important Dates and Times for this Alchemy of Pilgrimage

  • Course dates

    Starts January 20th 2027

  • Weekly live calls days and time

    Wednesdays 5.00pm - 6.30pm Pacific

  • Language

    In English

What you will be able to do

What this course guides you to experience and discover

  • Read your life as a pilgrim reads a landscape, noticing the call, the threshold, the encounter, and the return

  • Work with dreams, journaling, ceremony, and contemplative walking as living practices

  • Recognize the seven weathers of transformation and move through them with trust rather than resistance

  • Tend your opus alongside companions who witness and support the work that is yours to make

Price

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Instructor

Founder

Amos Clifford

Amos Clifford is the founder of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs and author of the bestselling Your Guide to Forest Bathing (Conari Press, 2018). After over 20 years studying Buddhist philosophy, he founded Sky Creek Dharma Center in 2004, emphasizing meditation in wild places. By 2008, he'd moved beyond Buddhist identity toward the nameless experiences he'd had in nature since childhood, deepening his inquiry into human and more-than-human relationships. Between 2010-2012, intensive wilderness practice with the School of Lost Borders led to his vision for ANFT, founded in 2012 and inspired by Japanese Shinrin-yoku. He developed the school's "Standard Sequence" over the following two years. Amos holds degrees from the University of San Francisco and teaches and leads retreats internationally.
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What to Expect

What your journey will actually be like

  • 10 Weeks Online

    Beginning January 20, 2027. Weekly live gatherings on Wednesdays, 5pm – 6:30pm Pacific Time, with your guides and fellow pilgrims.

  • Practices Between Sessions

    Dreamwork, journaling, ceremony, and contemplative walking, taken up in your home, your wild places, and your working life, then brought back to the circlaf

  • The Atelier Beyond

    The ten weeks are a beginning. Afterward, you're invited into the Atelier, an ongoing community where the opus continues, together.spiralspis

What participants are saying

Reconnecting

T. in Massachussetts, USA.

I reconnect with journaling, ritual, dreamwork, and gentler ways of relating. The weekly experience of being witnessed opens new doors.

I am enough

S. in Canada

I remember that I am enough. Sharing this journey reconnects me with my wholeness and the love that connects all beings.

Small steps

J. in Arizona, USA

Small steps create significant changes. I feel less depleted, enjoy community more, set clearer boundaries, and pause before reacting.

Returning to love

D. in Colorado, USA

I return to grounding, love, and my center. I feel listened to, accepted as I am, and connected with the living world.

Trusting

G. in Chile

I trust the process, release the need to do it perfectly, and become more present to my body, heart, and true self.

Greater awareness

C. in Brazil

I gain practical tools for going deeper into myself, understanding my experiences, and making difficult decisions with greater awareness.

Opening my world

R. in Canada

This experience opens my world. I gain clarity, quietude, deeper connection, and practical tools that continue supporting me.

More fully myself

K. in Slovenia

I become freer, wilder, and more fully myself. My relationships with people and the more-than-human world grow deeper and more alive.

Open Heart

A. in Arizona, USA

I am surprised in beautiful and unexpected ways. The journey opens my heart, renews my confidence, and reconnects me with hidden parts of myself.

FAQ

  • What do I receive at the end? Is this a certification?

    No, and we say so plainly: this is a transformational path, not a credential, and it is not sold as one. You won't finish with a title or a qualification to practice. What you leave with is harder to frame and easier to live: a set of practices you can carry for life, a new way of reading your own journey, and a company of fellow pilgrims. You'll also receive the Alchimage book series and an invitation to continue in the Atelier.

  • What does it cost in total, including anything not in the price?

    Tuition is $895 USD. This includes the ten-week guided journey, weekly live gatherings, the practices between sessions, the Alchimage book series, and the invitation into the Atelier. There is no travel, as everything happens online and in your own places.

  • How much time will this really ask of me each week?

    Each week there is one live gathering of 90 minutes, on Tuesdays from 11 am to 12:30 pm Pacific Time. Between sessions you choose your own practices, such as journaling, dreamwork, or a slow walk. Approximately 5 hours a week. Some weeks the work will ask more of you than the calendar shows. That is part of it, and you are never asked to hurry.

  • Do I need experience, or a background in therapy or nature work?

    No. You don't need a project, a plan, or even a clear question. You need only a willingness to attend to what is stirring in you. Many people arrive with a restlessness they can't yet name, and that is enough.

  • Is this therapy? What if difficult things come up?

    It is not therapy, and it is not a substitute for mental health care. Transformation, as alchemy describes it, includes dark passages as well as clarifications, and the practices can stir up strong feelings, memories, or dreams. The circle offers deep, kind witnessing, without fixing or advising. If you are going through a hard time, we encourage you to keep any professional support you have, and to talk with us before enrolling.