Resources

Ongoing training and education resources from which new and established guides may draw include a growing literature of articles, books, and internet sources about wilderness vision questing and earth centered healing practices.

Permit Information

Jim Mahoney has been kind enough to compile a set of documents related to permitting. These documents are available for download below. Some require the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you may obtain for free here.

Minimum Requirement Decision Guide (pdf)

BLM Final Rules (pdf)

National Wilderness Policies (pdf) 8MB - huge. May take some time on a dialup connection.

Tucson Field Office Environmental Assessment (Word doc)

Websites

Wilderness Watch - also has email list with updates on critical issues.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Wilderness-based Rites of Passage and Outdoor Education

http://www.obhrc.org - research on wilderness therapy programs for youth (complied by a former graduate student of our very own John Hendee)

Programs and Courses

Masters Concentration in Ecopsychology
www.naropa.edu/eponline

The Center for Ecopsychology non credit trainings for professionals
www.naropa.edu/ecopsyhology/ecoprof

Insurance

Following is a company that provides guides with insurance for a price. It may be helpful to note that in order for a guide organization to obtain permits for use of government land (NPS, NFS, BLM) it may be necessary to carry trip liability insurance that is approved by the land managers. Each park, forest, etc has different rules and should be contacted well in advance.

WOGA  (World -Wide Outfitters and Guides Association)
P.O.  Box 520400
Salt Lake City, Utah 84152-0400

Phone:1-800-321-1493
FAX:1-800-666-9011

woga@smallcompanyinsurance.com

http://www.smallcompanyinsurance.com/woga/woga.htm

 
LIST OF READING RESOURCES

Listings in dark green are authored by WGC members
Abbey, Edward - all works
Abraham, David - The Spell of the Sensuous
Andrews, Ted - Animal Speaks
Berry, Thomas - The Great Work
Bly, Robert - all
Braden, Greg - The Isaiah Effect
Brooke Medicine Eagle - all
Brower, David - Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run
Brown, Tom Jr. - all
Cameron, Anne - Daughters of Copper Woman (novel)
Chinen, Allan B. - Beyond the Hero
Coelho, Paulo - The Alchemist, all
Duvall, Jeffrey - Stories of Men, Meaning, and Prayer
Eaton, Evelyn - I Send a Voice, all others
Foster and Little - all | Lost Borders Press - too many to name
Box 55, Big Pine, CA 93513 or meredith@lostborderspress.com
Glassman, Bernie - Bearing Witness
Hegland, Jane - Into the Forest (novel)
Hillman, James - Peaks and Vales
Jensen, Derrick - A Language Older Than Words
Johnson, Robert - Balancing Heaven and Earth
Johnson, Trebbe - The World is a Waiting Lover
Liedloff, Jean - The Continuum Concept
Linnea, Anne - Deep Water Passage, A Spiritual Journey at Mid-life
Lopez, Barry - all
Macy, Joanna - all
Meade, Michael - Men and the Water of Life
Metzner, Ralph - Well of Remembrance, Green Psychology
Murdock, Maureen - The Heroine's Journey
Neihardt, John GvBlack Elk Speaks
Plotkin, Bill - SOULCRAFT: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
Power, Susan - The Grass Dancer (novel)
Prechtel, Martin - Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, Long Life, Honey in the Heart, The Secrets of the Talking Jaguar
Rezendez, Paul - The Wild Within
Quinn, Daniel - Ishmael, My Ishmael
Rilke, Rainer Marie - all
Sardello, Robert - Love and the Soul
Silko, Leslie - Ceremony
Some, Malidoma - all
Starhawk - The Earth Path, The Fifth Sacred Thing (novel),
Storm, Hymeosts - Seven Arrows, all
Swimme, Brian - The Universe Is a Green Dragon
VanderPost, Laurens - Story Like the Wind
Wallis, Velma - Two Old Women
Warren, Patricia Nell - One Is the Sun
Watts, Alan - all
Weed, Susan - Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way
Williams, Terry Tempest - Desert Quartet, Red, Refuge, all others

Edited Anthology Books
Adams, Cass - The Soul Unearthed (includes pieces by WGC members)
Anderson, Lorraine - Sisters of the Earth
Hogan, Linda, Metzger, Deena, and Peterson, Brenda - Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
Mahdi, Louise, and Foster and Little - Betwixt and Between
Mahdi, Louise, Christopher, Geyer, and Meade, Michael - Crossroads
Rining Rocks Press - Profiles On Healing (series of books written/interviews by native healers)
Roberts, Elizabeth and Amidon, Elias - Life Prayers, Earth Prayers, Prayers For 1000 Years
Sabini, Meredith - The Earth Has a Soul, Writings of C.G. Jung
Seed, John, Macy, Joanna, Fleming, Pat, Nass, Arne - Thinking Like a Mountain,Towards a Council of All Beings

Magazines
Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness (formerly IONS Noetic Sciences Review)
Parabola