The Residency
Quarterly four-day immersions offering an embodied training in the Source Work technique.
Join us in Ojai, California, this February for our inaugural Source Work Residency: an entry point to the year-long writers’ program and an open-invite training for artists across mediums.
Deepen your understanding of the practice, learn to enter the imaginal independently, and develop the skills to hold space for others and guide them through the process.
This is how the practice becomes a movement. Our residents leave equipped to carry Source Work into writers’ rooms, film productions, graduate classrooms, and beyond, changing how stories are developed and how the next generation of storytellers is taught.
Hosted at Ojai Retreat & Inn, on a hilltop with panoramic views of the Ojai Valley.
Who It’s For
- Writers & Storytellers
- Are you a writer ready to root your process in imaginal techniques and a deep understanding of the mythic architecture of story? Sourcery School is our year-long, in-depth program, and its quarterly residencies are the cornerstone. This is work rooted in the human imagination, and it comes most alive in person: in the body, among others going deep. After this inaugural gathering, residencies are reserved for Sourcery School students. If you enroll, your residency fee is credited toward your tuition.
- Artists Across Mediums
- For this inaugural residency only, we’re opening the doors to artists of every kind: painters, musicians, dancers, designers, makers. The imaginal is where every art form begins: the place a melody, a movement, or a color first arrives through us. Through breath, gentle movement, and focused attention, you’ll learn to drop beneath the thinking mind into that source, and to find your way back whenever the work loses its life. No Sourcery School enrollment required.
What You’ll Practice
Deep Source: a guided descent into deep imagination.
Through breath, gentle movement, and focused attention, shift out of ego consciousness and into the imaginal field.
The material takes on a life of its own. Characters begin to speak. Flow returns.
Then, and only then, bring in structure, form, and the demands of the marketplace.
The Details
- Dates
- Thursday to Sunday, February 25 to 28, 2027
- Arrival
- Wednesday evening, February 24
- Location
- Ojai, California
- Residency fee
- $2,100
- Early bird
- $1,800 through December 31
- Sourcery School credit
- Fee credited toward tuition if you enroll
- Lodging
- All residency programming takes place at Ojai Retreat & Inn, where a number of discounted room blocks are available. You’re also welcome to stay anywhere in Ojai. Lodging is not included in the residency fee.
How to Join
- 01
- Apply with a $500 deposit, fully refundable for two weeks.
- 02
- If you’re new to the work, we’ll schedule an intro call in that window to make sure it’s the right fit for us both.
- 03
- Your seat is confirmed. [BALANCE DUE DATE]
Sample Residency Schedule
- 8:30 amBreakfast
- 9:30 amOpening Dream Circle
- 10:30 amLecture & Workshop
- 12:30 pmLunch
- 2:00 pmDeep Source
- 3:30 pmCreative Expression
- 5:00 pmTraining & Embodied Practice
- 7:30 pmDream Theatre
Free introductory workshop · Live on Zoom
Source Session
A brief lecture on the Source Work method, followed by a guided descent into the imaginal realm, where every great story begins. Leave with the beginnings of a practice that anchors your creative work in the human imagination, at a time when so much is being made without it.
We’ll close with an open Q&A, including questions about Sourcery School and the residency. This evening is the best way to experience the method before enrolling or joining us in Ojai this February.
- Wednesday, November 18
- 5 to 6:30 pm PT