Immersive retreat for creators to cultivate their relationship with our greatest teacher

Headwaters Outdoor School | HYPE | Wise Innovation Project

🗓️ Sept 6 - 11

🗺️ Mt. Shasta

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✨ TL;DR

Inspired by Julia Plevin Oliansky and Andrew Dunn’s experiences unwinding from the imbalances of Silicon Valley culture, this retreat is for those interested in slowing down, deepening their connection to Earth, and exploring how they can leverage their skills in service.

People from all walks of life — engineers, innovators, educators, business leaders, artists, coaches — will learn valuable new perspectives and practices.

Over the course of five days immersed in an abundance of wildlife, creeks, meadows, forests and spectacular views, you’ll experience:

• Nourishment | Silence and stillness, digital detox, healthy organic meals, sweat lodges and cold plunges, time for reflection, stars and animals and fires and tree climbing
• Learning | Hear stories and lectures from wisdom keepers about aligning with natural cycles, sensitivity, fire tending, regenerative design, leadership in these dynamic times, the relationship between ecology, health, ethics, business and technology
• Relationships | Make connections and engage in stimulating conversations with a diverse group of kindred spirits on a journey towards greater wholeness
• Integration | Reconnect with your visions and apply new insights, skills, and practices to your life, organization, and projects

🪄 Context & Intention

ℹ️ Logistics

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• Overnight solo vision quest
• Three delicious organic meals per day
• Sleeping under wooden teepees or under the stars
• 15 spots
• Sliding scale $1,000 to $3,000
• Guidebook
• Zoom integration calls
• Additional inquiries and practices for you to explore on your own time
• Optional integration days at nearby retreat center (Hestia)

✅ Enrollment

We offer a sliding scale payment model in accordance with various levels of financial ability as follows:

• Executive Rate: $900 for those of greater financial means (including access to corporate budget) who understand the amount of work that goes into creating a course like this and want to support the long-term vision
• Professional Rate: $600 for professionals and those able to contribute a little more to the vision
• Student Rate: $300 for students and practitioners with little expendable income

Scholarships Available for the technologically unemployed. Tell us your story! Sponsors are welcome to get in touch.

Want to learn more? Register for Info Session on Wed April 3rd 12 - 1pm PST, or schedule a quick chat.

🧑‍💻 Meet Your Retreat Facilitators

Joshua Michael Schrei (Teacher) is the founder and host of The Emerald podcast, which draws from a deep well of poetry, lore, and mythos to challenge conventional narratives on politics and public discourse, meditation and mindfulness, art, science, literature, and more. A writer, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — in particular, the Indian subcontinent — Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that prioritizes imaginative vision. Josh has taught intensive courses in cosmology, mythology, and somatic disciplines for nearly 20 years.

Michael Gregory Garfield (Host) is the host of Future Fossils Podcast, a transdisciplinary discussion series exploring the edges of the known and knowable. Trained in paleontology before touring the world as an artist and musician, Michael joined The Santa Fe Institute in 2018 to host their flagship systems science podcast Complexity. He left academia for the second time in 2023 to work for a non-profit AI startup and write two books about the past and future of human-technology co-evolution. In his spare time he has released over 100 hours of original music for film, yoga, deep listening, and journeywork.

Elena Lake Polozova (TA) is a former machine learning engineer at Meta, turned private-practice bodyworker and student of the mythosomatic. She also has 6 years of experience in math, computer science, and physics academia, as well as deep inquiries into nature connection, emotional spaceholding, and dance. She’ll bring her interdisciplinary backgrounds across embodiment and technology to help answer your questions at office hours.

Andrew Murray Dunn (Producer) is a student at the intersection of human development and innovation, currently focused on co-activating Wise Innovation Project. He works as a trans-disciplinary visionary and pollinator, helping people bring ideas to life in ways that are more awesome for all involved. Before serving as Innovation Lead at Center for Humane Technology, Andrew spent over 10 years in early stage startup operations experience, most notably with the pioneering Public Benefit Corporation Siempo while they developed an award-winning open source humane smartphone interface.

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This retreat is brought to you by Wise Innovation Project, an emerging non-profit initiative with a mission to re-imagine innovation education.