Colloquium
Keynote Speaker February, 2001: Bill Plotkin
Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., the founding director of Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, has been guiding vision quests since 1980. A former research scientist and university professor, he has been a wilderness guide since 1974 and a licensed psychologist in private practice since 1980. He has also created a unique training program in soulcraft and wilderness skills that has been operating since 1988. Bill is the author of the forthcoming book, Soulcraft: Carrying What is Hidden as a Gift to Others, as well as several articles on contemporary wilderness rites, ceremony, and psychotherapy. He thinks of himself as a psychologist gone wild.
