The Annual Feminist Shamanic Foundations Intensive is held each summer at the Center in Surry. During the Intensive the Center position on the Medicine Wheel Mandala is explored and its teachings shared in many ways. It is also a time of intense focus upon creating and performing feminist shamanic ceremony and ritual, of community building, and of learning to work together cooperatively to create the special kind of healing energies that can only be created by a feminist shamanic community. Participation in the Intensive is a requirement for all apprentices and students. 

The Intensive begins with the creation of a feminist shamanic ceremonial spaces within and without, and with  readying the student Medicine Wheel on the Center's property for the work that is to come.  We begin with a talking circle within which each apprentice/student shares the highlights, challenges and accomplishments of the year past, without being challenged, questioned, or asked for clarification. She is simply heard, allowed to speak at length about her shamanic life without interruption. 

Two major ceremonies are held each year during the Intensive:

The Snake Medicine Transmutation Ceremony, during which we bring up and then release to Snake all anger, pain, resentment, and grief that we may still be carrying within our spirits as a result of our responses to the past year's events;

and The Sea Turtle Incubation Ceremony, during which we use Sea Turtle Medicine to "bury" goals that we wish to accomplish, so that they may mature in the right way before being brought out into the world, and for those who have participated in this ceremony the previous year, "buried" goals are visited and brought into physical reality for action.  

The process of creating and carrying out feminist shamanic ceremony is learned first-hand as we also create special ceremonies for individuals in the community who may request them. 

Those in the community who have completed quests, challenges, tests of power, or who have accomplished a long-held shamanic goal, can present the stories of their journeys in all of those areas to other members of the community,  and those who have successfully completed the first three levels of training present a shield (which can take many forms) that speaks of their accomplishments, as a way of making themselves known shamanically to the rest of the community.

In 2010, the final day of the Intensive will be a day dedicated to a feminist shamanic Goddess Council, during which apprentices will offer feminist shamanic guidance to any women who seek it. There will be no fee for seeking guidance, but donations to the Center are welcomed.