The Wild Soul mentorship
The Wild Soul mentorship
A Nine-Month Mentorship in Spirit & the More-Than-Human World
What might you discover if you gave yourself more time to listen?
To the wisdom of the land, the presence of animals, the whispers of dreams and intuition, and the mysterious ways Spirit makes itself known. Sometimes, all it takes is slowing down enough to notice what’s been there all along.
Wild Soul is a nine-month private mentorship for people who feel drawn toward a deeper relationship with Spirit and the more-than-human world.
It isn’t about learning someone else’s practice or following a prescribed path. It’s about tending a relationship that is yours.
Together, we make space for curiosity, exploration, and the kind of discovery that unfolds when you begin listening more deeply to the living world and your own experience of it.
Has nature ever felt like more than a backdrop?
Maybe animals have been teachers, companions, or messengers for you. Maybe there was a dream that stayed with you, an unexpected encounter, or a place in nature where something shifted inside you, and you couldn’t quite explain why.
Maybe you sense there’s a deeper conversation happening beneath the ordinary one, and you’re ready to meet it.
Wild Soul is a place to explore that relationship intentionally. Not just as an idea, but as a lived practice.
You don’t have to arrive with a clear plan or know exactly what you’re looking for. Curiosity is a lovely place to begin.
What might we explore together?
Spirit ~
Dreams, intuition, synchronicity, ritual, inner knowing, ancestors, guides, and whatever experiences of Spirit are meaningful to you.
There’s no belief system to adopt and no right way to experience Spirit. We begin with your questions, your experiences, and what you’re curious to explore.
The more-than-human world ~
Animals, plants, landscapes, and the living places around you.
You might explore interspecies communication, sacred nature connection, your relationships with particular animals, or simply what it means to belong to a world that is alive and speaking.
There’s no checklist to complete and no destination you’re expected to reach. Your journey is your own, and we’ll follow where your curiosity and experience lead.
And what about the rest of your life?
It comes along.
When we deepen our relationship with Spirit and the living world, we don’t leave everything else at the door.
Grief. Relationships. Creative work. Questions of purpose. Life transitions. Changes in identity. New beginnings. Not knowing what comes next.
All of it belongs in the conversation.
I’m not here to tell you what your experiences mean or hand you answers. I’m here to listen alongside you, ask questions, offer perspectives, and wonder with you about what your own experience might be revealing.
The work isn’t about finding the “right” answer. It’s about growing your capacity to listen, discern, and respond to what is calling you.
How this mentorship works:
We meet privately by phone twice a month for nine months, for 18 individual sessions in total.
Some sessions are devoted to conversation and reflection. Others might include a Vision Journey, a guided exploration, a nature-based practice, or time with something meaningful that has surfaced between sessions.
Rather than moving through a set curriculum, we follow what’s alive for you. Your questions may change. Unexpected things may emerge. Your relationship with the work will evolve as you do.
Between sessions, I may offer a practice, a question, an invitation, or a resource to carry with you. These are opportunities to keep exploring in your own time, not homework you have to get right.
I think of Wild Soul as sacred companionship, not a course you have to keep up with.
Your nine-month journey includes
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18 private sessions tailored to your individual journey
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Personalized practices and explorations shaped around your questions and interests
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Vision Journeys and deep listening to explore what may be emerging
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Nature-based and more-than-human exploration that deepens your relationship with the living world
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Email and audio note companionship between sessions
- An evolving, individual experience that changes as you do
Why nine months?
Because some relationships can’t be rushed.
A deeper relationship with Spirit, animals, place, and your own inner knowing grows through attention, experience, reflection, and time.
Nine months gives us room to work with the natural rhythm of emergence. You try something, live with it, notice what happens, bring your experience back to our conversations, and follow where it leads.
There’s room to be surprised. Room to change your mind. Room for an experience to mean something different after you’ve had time to sit with it.
That’s why Wild Soul is a journey rather than a short-term package. We’re not trying to rush toward a predetermined result. We’re tending a relationship and seeing what becomes possible through it.
The relationship is the work.
Is Wild Soul for you?
You might feel at home in Wild Soul if you:
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Feel a strong pull toward nature, animals, Spirit, or the more-than-human world
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Want to deepen your own spiritual or nature-based practice
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Are curious about interspecies communication or other ways of relating to the living world
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Have dreams, intuitions, or synchronicities you’d like to explore more fully
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Are moving through a transition either personally, professionally, or both and want a deeper way to listen for what’s emerging
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Want a companion in exploration rather than someone telling you what your path should be
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Can make some space for reflection and exploration between sessions
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Are ready to invest in a sustained journey rather than another short program
You don’t need a particular belief system, previous experience, or a perfectly formed idea of what you want to explore.
Curiosity, openness, and a willingness to listen are enough.
What Wild Soul isn’t
Wild Soul isn’t a class, a certification, or practitioner training. You’re not here to learn a system and reproduce it. You’re here to explore your own relationship with Spirit, Earth, animals, and the more-than-human world.
My role is to accompany you: to ask questions, offer practices and perspectives, notice what may be unfolding, and hold a grounded space for deeper listening.
You remain the authority on your own experience.
Do you hold space for others?
Some people come to Wild Soul because they already work with the more-than-human world. They might be guides, educators, mentors, artists, or practitioners of sacred nature connection. Maybe you tend your own clients or community, and you’ve noticed that the work you offer can only go as deep as the relationship you’re living yourself.
How we accompany others is shaped by our own continued becoming. The more we’re listening, the more we have to offer.
Here, you’re the one being accompanied. You get a place to tend your own practice, follow your own questions, and be a mentee for a while, with no one else to hold. What you discover often finds its way back into your work and your community, though that’s never the point.
Why I created The Wild Soul Mentorship ~
For nearly 30 years, I’ve been exploring what it means to live in real relationship with the more-than-human world.
That inquiry has woven together nature connection, environmental education, interspecies communication, spirituality, and the doctoral work I’m completing on how we might welcome more-than-human voices back into Western culture.
I’m fascinated by what becomes possible when we stop treating the living world as a backdrop to human life and begin relating to it as a community of beings with whom we share this Earth.
I believe in decentering the human without devaluing the human. And I believe there are forms of knowing that open up when we slow down enough to listen.
Those relationships can change us. Not by handing us all the answers, but by helping us remember that we’re part of something much larger than ourselves.
Wild Soul grew from that belief, and from my desire to share this kind of exploration with others who feel the call.
Your Wild Soul journey ~ How to begin
Nine months of private mentorship
Your investment includes 18 private sessions, personalized practices and explorations, Vision Journeys and deep listening, nature-based and more-than-human exploration, email companionship, and a curated welcome package.
Investment: 10 monthly payments of $390 ($3,900 total)
Wild Soul is an intimate, high-touch mentorship. I keep the number of people I work with in this way small so there’s room for the individual attention and genuine relationship this work deserves.
Let’s start with a conversation
Choosing a nine-month mentorship is a meaningful decision. You don’t have to know right away whether Wild Soul is right for you, and you certainly don’t need to have your whole journey figured out before we talk.
Please submit the interest form on this page, then let’s talk about what’s calling you, what you’re curious about, and what you’d love to explore. We’ll see whether this kind of mentorship feels like a good fit for you and for the work I offer.
There’s no pressure to enroll. Just a chance to connect and explore the possibility together.
A limited number of spaces are available at any one time. This work is deeply personal, and I keep my client load intentionally small so each person receives the full depth of attention their path deserves.
About Deb
For nearly 30 years, I have walked in sacred conversation with the more-than-human world. My work is rooted in listening to the wild Earth, to the world of spirit, and to the quiet truths rising in those I accompany. I hold advanced degrees in environmental education and am completing a PhD in nature connection. I have been working with animal communication and spirit connection since childhood, long before I had language for it.
Through dialogue, Vision Journeys, and deep nature connection, I hold space for you to hear your soul’s voice and the voices of your kin beyond the human. This work is my life’s path. I bring all of it to our time together.
Your Next Step ~
If your heart stirs as you read these words, perhaps the Earth is calling you closer.
I invite you to submit the interest form at the bottom of this page. This is not an obligation, but rather the beginning of a process to see whether this mentorship is what your wild soul desires right now. Then, we will schedule a free conversation to connect. After that, you can take the time you need to discern whether this mentorship feels like a good fit. There is never any pressure.
Questions:
Q: Am I a good fit for this mentorship?
A: This mentorship is for those who feel a genuine longing to live in deeper relationship with the wild natural world and the world of spirit and who are ready to bring real time and attention to that path. It’s not a passive experience. Between our sessions, you’ll be invited into practices, reflections, and explorations that ask something of you. Plan to give at least two to three hours each week to the work outside of our time together.
Beyond that, the fit matters more than the experience level. You don’t need an established spiritual practice or prior experience with spirit communication or animal communication to begin. What you do need is genuine curiosity, a willingness to be surprised, and an openness to the wild world as a source of real wisdom…not metaphor.
If you’re in the middle of a life transition, you’re welcome here exactly as you are. If you’re a seasoned practitioner seeking deeper companionship on a path you’ve been walking for years, you’re welcome here, too. This work meets you where you are and moves forward from there.
If you’re unsure whether this is right for you, that’s what our opening conversation is for. There’s no pressure and no pitch, just a chance to listen together for whether this feels like the right fit for both of us.
Q: I have a lot of experience connecting with my Spirit Guides and the natural world. Will I still get something out of this mentorship?
A: Yes, and in my experience, seasoned practitioners often find this work particularly meaningful. When you already have an established relationship with your spirit helpers and the natural world, we don’t spend time building from the ground up. Instead, we go straight to the edges of what you know, the places where your practice feels uncertain, where you want more fluency, or where something deeper is trying to emerge.
Many of my longest-term clients came to this work with years of experience behind them. What they found wasn’t a new set of techniques, but a quality of companionship and depth of listening that’s hard to find elsewhere. Having someone walk alongside you who genuinely inhabits this world, not as a teacher handing down a tradition, but as a fellow traveler with nearly 30 years of their own lived experience, can shift something that solo practice, however rich, cannot always reach.
If anything, the more experience you bring, the more we have to work with.
Q: I am new to all this work and am unsure of my spiritual path. Will I still get something out of this mentorship?
A: Yes, absolutely. Uncertainty is not an obstacle here. It’s often exactly the right place to begin. Some of the most profound journeys I’ve witnessed have started with someone who simply knew they were being called toward something, without yet having words for what it was.
This mentorship has no curriculum to keep up with and no prior knowledge required. We start where you are with your genuine questions, your nascent sense of longing, your own particular way of moving through the world, and we follow that thread together. The wild natural world and the world of spirit are remarkably patient teachers, and they meet beginners with the same depth and generosity they offer to anyone who shows up with an open heart.
What matters most is not what you already know but whether something in you recognizes this path as yours. If reading about this work stirs something. even something you can’t quite name, that stirring is worth paying attention to. Our opening conversation is a good place to start exploring what it might mean.
Q: How does the session scheduling work?
A: Once you enroll in the program, you will be given a scheduling link and unique code to schedule your sessions via my online scheduler. You are welcome to schedule all sessions at once or do them a couple at a time. I do recommend scheduling at least a month in advance, as my calendar usually books out a couple of weeks in advance. All sessions need to be completed during the duration of your program .
Q: How much time does this program take each week?
A: Our sessions meet twice a month, each lasting approximately 60-75 minutes. Beyond that, I suggest planning for two to three hours each week for the practices, explorations, and reflections that arise between sessions ~ things like spending time in nature, journaling, or sitting with whatever the work is opening in you.
That said, much of this work doesn’t ask you to carve out separate time so much as to bring a different quality of attention to the time you’re already living. A walk you were going to take anyway becomes a practice. A moment of stillness in your garden becomes a conversation. The work has a way of weaving itself into daily life rather than sitting apart from it.
What I’d encourage you to resist is the impulse to rush. This is slow, deep work, the kind that asks for presence more than productivity. Two to three hours of genuine, unhurried attention each week will serve you far better than five hours of anxious effort. If there are weeks when life is full and you can only offer a little, that’s okay too. The path doesn’t disappear. We simply pick up the thread at our next session and keep going.
If you’re wondering whether you have enough time in your life for this right now, that’s a good question to bring to our opening conversation. Together, we can get a realistic sense of whether this is the right season for you to begin.
Q: Why is this mentorship 9 months?
A: Meaningful relationships take time. Nine months gives us room for exploration, practice, reflection, and integration, with enough continuity to notice how your understanding and experience evolve. Through my years of working with people this way, 9 months has consistently emerged as a sweet spot for this phase of the journey.
Q: Is there an application for this program?
A: Once you decide you are interested, please fill out the interest form at the bottom of this webpage.
Then, we will have a casual phone chat so I can get to know you and your vision for this program, you can get to know me better, and I can answer any other questions you might have. It is especially important this program feels like a fabulous fit for both of us.
This program is open on an ongoing basis as space is available. There are a limited number of spaces available at any one time due to the deeply personal nature of this work. I limit participants so I can ensure each person gets the individual time they need.
Q: What is the investment?
A: The Wild Soul Mentorship tuition is $3900, paid either in full or in 10 monthly payments of $390. We offer two partial scholarships each year, so please reach out if finances are a barrier to your participation.
All sessions are held by phone. Occasional in-person sessions may be available for those in the Colorado Front Range area and will be discussed individually.
Q: What happens after nine months?
A: Some people complete their journey with a sense of closure; others feel called to continue exploring. If that question comes up, we’ll talk about what makes sense for you.
Q: What kind of practices will I do between phone sessions?
A: This depends on what you are focusing on at any given time on your path, but activities can include connecting with your own Spirit Helpers, doing nature-based activities outdoors, journaling, creating personal ceremonies, and generally working to incorporate this work into your daily life in a myriad of ways.
Q: Does this intensive lead to any sort of certification?
A: This mentoring program is a very personal journey and not professional training, although many clients do find that it supports their professional work as well. If you want professional certification, please check out my nature connection professional training series.
If this mentorship interests you, please fill out this form, and we can set up an initial phone call to discuss your interests and see if we might be a good fit to work together.
I very much look forward to connecting!
~Deb Matlock