


Tools for the Journey
5 day Introduction to the Essentials of Psychosynthesis
5-9 October 2025
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Deepen your friendship with self and world .
A practical, joyful exploration of the Map, Method, and Mystery of Your Inner Terrain
There is an inner terrain—rich, complex, and alive—that calls to each of us in quiet moments. Psychosynthesis offers a rare guide to this territory: a soul-centered, body-aware psychology that bridges depth, direction, and possibility. More than therapy, it is an invitation to engage Will, less as a force in your life, more as the flow of your life—offering you the practical tools to attune to your own rhythms of growth, choice, and inner alignment.
In this five-day course, you’ll access a natural process that honours both your longing for meaning and your capacity for self-direction. Experiential practices—guided imagery, reflective inquiry, soulful conversation—and solid, applicable psychological maps and models will help you to recognise moments of challenge as feedback and opportunity.
Many of us feel overwhelmed, anxious or powerless just now. Its not surprising since, from an ecopsychological as well as biological perspective, our felt sense and experience are distinct yet not separate from the dynamic systems of which we are part. And these are in flux, which can challenge our deeply held notions of identity and purpose. Cultivating the capacity to navigate change and complexity with clarity, resilience, and grace, you will begin to reclaim your place and power within long evolutionary patterns.
Whether you're facing a life transition, exploring your purpose, deepening a personal or professional practice or simply called inward, this introduction offers a map to the territory, a method for walking it, a journey towards wholeness, and a reverent space for the mystery that moves through it all.

✦ What to Expect
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Learn and apply the core principles and models of Psychosynthesis
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Explore the dynamics of your personality with guided imagery, meditation, and inner dialogue
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Deepen your relationship with your inner observer and authentic will
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Engage in small group process, embodied inquiry, and reflection
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Experience a soulful, non-pathologizing framework for personal and spiritual growth
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Rest, reconnect, and realign with what matters most
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Insights, and a map—personal and powerful—for navigating the deeper terrain of your life.
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✦ Who Is This For?
This non-residential course is for those of us navigating life transitions, those who recognise the value of inner work and simply want to remain present and build connection, as well as for coaches, therapists, facilitators, educators, seekers, and artists seeking to deepen their practice.
Although primarily a personal development course, it is a basis for further training, whether therapy or coaching.
No prior experience with Psychosynthesis is needed. What’s required is a willingness to listen inward, to meet yourself with honesty and curiosity, and to open to the deeper intelligence of your life.

Facilitator

Mark Skelding, M.Ed; Dip. Psychotherapy
Mark is a facilitator, psychotherapist, and long-time teacher of Psychosynthesis. With over 25 years’ experience in guiding individuals and groups through depth work, he brings a presence that is both spacious and clear, intuitive and grounded. This course draws on decades of work in transpersonal psychology, somatic inquiry, ecopsychology and will-centered transformation.
A faculty member of the NZ Institute of Psychosynthesis from 2005 – 2017, Mark is now chair of the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis based in N America and has an international online practice. A Salt Spring resident since 2020, he is part of the Madrona Integrative Clinic in Ganges.
✦ Registration
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Dates: Sunday 5th – Thursday 9th October
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Time: 9.00am - 4.15pm each day
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Cost: $550.00.
Group size is limited. Early registration is recommended:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tools-for-the-journey-tickets-1574625761039
For further information contact Mark - solidair@zoho.com
✦ Where?
Stonewell Farm on Salt Spring Island, BC - 1852 Fulford-Ganges Rd.
Cosy, mossy, and much-loved, the Yurt - or Temenos - offers the perfect setting for this deep inner work. It provides an informal, comfortable nest, contained and yet solidly-grounded in this hillside Eden overlooking the Burgoyne Valley, traditional lands - unceded - of the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) People.
Stonewell Farm is a well-known venue and farm on Salt Spring Island. Over the 15 years that Grace and Tim have been the caretakers of this piece of paradise they have held the vision of healing in community. They are very excited to have us on the land.
And we are honoured to be there.
