But in his books he has also been a cartographer, mapping the space where soul and nature meet and creating frameworks to help us navigate the encounters and metamorphoses that occur there.
Plotkin’s own role, as he sees it, is as a ‘cocoon-weaver’ – someone who creates the space and conditions for people to undergo deep soul transformation.
It goes beyond the self-concern of much ecopsychology by situating personal development within the wider realm of nature – the ‘soul is a fundamentally ecological concept, and its true health can only be recovered when we find our place of service to the living world’. Working out of the Animas Valley in Colorado, Plotkin’s work is deeply rooted in its own relationship with place. For 40 years, Bill Plotkin has been guiding people through ‘nature-based initiatory passages’, leading people through a contemporary version of the vision quest, helping people to encounter deep relationship with nature, and training new generations of guides to the strange territory that exists at the interface of human and wilderness.
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