ABout the Institute for Self Crafting
Institute for Self Crafting, led by Hollie Wildëthorn, is a Company that values Contribution, Authentic Connection and a Self Crafted Life.
Institute for Self Crafting is for people who believe this world is so much more than what the mainstream paradigm is offering.
This is for anyone who is ready for immediate change to live your most desirable life.
for anyone who is ready to clear out the f*ckery that’s holding you back and get on with living the life you imagined.
Everything here is designed to inspire and support you to take actions that set you free from the boring, limiting boxes that everyone else is tolerating. Self Crafting is the process of eliminating the blockages that keep you from being everything you could be.
Learn how to use traditional wisdom in the areas of mental, environmental, emotional, physical and spiritual health to build a life overflowing with benefits. Sessions, events, books and online content promote personal, positive action so that anyone can be the full contribution they came to this life to be.
You know you are living a Self Crafted Life when you are responding from autonomous choice, rather than reacting from fear.
Self Crafters create connections that out-thrive all else society has to offer.Our people are truly the artisans of their own reality. The Lunation Annual Planner is the Institute's signature product. A transformative personal growth program, disguised as a diary, the Planner is a daily workbook for creating a life that sets you free.
Aims for the Institute for Self Crafting
Institute for Self Crafting is dedicated to:
supporting wellness through social connection, education, sharing stories, and sacred practice
fostering mental, physical, emotional, environmental and spiritual health through the foundational wellness pathways of nutrition, light, flow, movement and rhythm
empowering members of the community to be free to live well, unrestrained by gender, age or socio-economic bias
challenging cultural stereotypes that contribute to inequality and restriction, particularly in relation to health and wellness
educating the community on topics attaining to wellness, resilience, reciprocity, longevity, social connection and sacred living
promoting lifestyle practices most likely to contribute to long and joyful living
Check out the Institute's Womanifesto here >>>
About Hollie
Hollie Wildëthorn is a psychotherapist and coach working in the intersections of trauma healing, neurodiversity, ecology and feminism.
With a background in natural and ancestral health; witchcraft and magick,;altered states and sacred space; martial arts and natural movement; home education and offgrid living; Women's Mysteries and conscious Wild Living.
Hollie promotes self care-based lifestyling, facilitated through counselling & coaching, personal & community development and feminist values. In honouring life’s transitions, the healing process is supported with compassionate enquiry, personal reflection and purposeful action. Her mission is to support people who know there's more to life, to craft the best self-version so far. She is passionate about empowering people to live well, with an unlimited and unbound life.
Hollie has a respectful disregard for the status quo and mainstream culture. She promotes choice and believes in the capacity of human beings to do extraordinary things, when they live authentically.
For more of Hollie's story go here >>>
Media Appearances
Hollie has written 50+ articles published in a wide range of print media including journals, magazines and newspaper.
Her podcast appearances are listed below:
Lunar Planning, Cold-Water Healing and a Dog Named Dreamer on The Witchcast
Using Movement to Cultivate Energy, Strength and Mental Clarity on The Big Possible
Fostering Mental Wellness through Sacred Productivity with Dr Carey Heller
In Violence We Forget Who We Are Panel for Braidwood Says No to Violence
Talking Therapy, Horses, Drumming and Women’s Spaces on Kath’s Women’s Voices Women’s Wisdom
Co-Regulation and Vagus Nerve Play on Rise to Thrive with Laurien Zurhake
Yarns on 2XX Radio - 22nd September 2023 with Petra Jungmanova
Creating your own Vision Statement on Turns Out She’s a Witch Podcast
Persephone : Inanna : Freyja : indivdiually on the Ancient Love of Gods
NICE THINGS PEOPLE SAY
I wanted to thank you for the help you provided me during our sessions last year
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I credit you for guiding me to a new path in my life and reminding me I have the strength to succeed
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I wanted to thank you for the help you provided me during our sessions last year • I credit you for guiding me to a new path in my life and reminding me I have the strength to succeed •
“I love your work and what you put into this world. Thank you for being such a kind soul and so nice to work with.”
“I’ve gained a huge amount from doing this (work). I’ve been working on myself fairly intensely for a couple of years now, and using the Planner just fits beautifully with everything I’m trying to be and everything I’m trying to do.”
“Wowowow so much information! Oh my goodness this is the legit pot of gold at the end of rainbows. The SCW work is so generous - thank you for compiling all that, that must of taken so long!
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“I just wanted to tell you what a wonderful things it’s been to use your Planner and what a high opinion I have now of the work I do. The lay out and energy really works perfectly for me and since I’ve been using it I’ve been able to focus and get my shit together. I love the self supporting stuff you talk about on your website and you’ve managed to articulate for me what my heart has been trying to tell me for ages. Thank you for holding such beautiful space. ”
“I want to say thank you for all the work we’ve done together over the years. It hasn’t always been easy but it is so worth it. Thank you”
“Thankyou for holding the space, and being such a great support - hmm, seems to me that you’re kind of a ‘rebirth doula’ ”
“Who else could work me through my PND and life baggage, reframe my relationship to how I care for my body, teach me how to box and lift while also indulging my whole-life loves of witchyness, astrology, making lists, metal music and horses. You’d think no such person would exist. Let alone here and now.”
The Institute for Self Crafting is a tree with many branches.
At the Institute we strongly support synchronous projects, with different flavours, that share the same ultimate aim : to support people to create a life that sets you free.
Projects draw upon Hollie’s background in
natural and ancestral health
wellness
martial arts and functional movement
sacred space
off-grid living with horses & hounds
home-education and educating adults
Women’s Mysteries
Here’s some of the (current) focus areas for the Institute for Self Crafting
Counselling : Anxiety, Trauma and Neurodiversity
Hollie is a Clinical Counsellor and Coach, working with a Psychodynamic Self-Psychotherapeutic framework and incorporating Process Oriented, Relational and Somatic models of therapy. With a special interest in trauma-sensitive, anxiety informed and neurodiversity-affirming therapy Hollie supports people to shift anxiety and/or depression; change the thoughts that aren’t serving; integrate trauma and/or grief; increase holistic wellness : mind, body and Self; deal with your mother/father/boss/neighbour… issues; and think, move, eat, do well, in order to live well. In 2022 she completed the Certificate of Psychedelic Assisted Therapies under the tutelage of Tra-ill Dowie and Nigel Denning.
PACFA Reg. Clinical 25488 | mental health articles on this site | strategies articles on this site | Work 1:1 with Hollie | a case study
Equine Assisted Therapy & Ecotherapy
Acknowledging that we live and work on the unceded Country of the Dhurga speaking people of the Walbunja Yuin Nation. We recognise and celebrate the ongoing connection between land, sky, water and community and the beauty and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with deep respect for the ongoing traditions of land wisdom, health knowledge and treatment which have been practiced for generations. Sessions are held on private land, nestled into the edge of the Budawangs, in relationship with the forest, the waterways, the 🐴Herd, the garden and any other elements of the Wilde that show up to work with us.
Work Ecotherapy with Hollie | 📸 @hollie.wildethorn for lots of eco pics | Women Who Dream with Horses year-long program
Self Crafted Wellness
For people who are ready to take action for a better quality of life. Expansion Packs on the Self Crafted Life Platform are the result of Hollie’s journey deep dive into wholebody health after a longterm chronic illness. This work, framed within filters of circadian biology, ancestral wisdom and mitochondrial function will set you up with cutting edge, wellness centred, usable information you can use right away, to get out of stuckness and into the best version of your life. If you’re jaded by working with professionals who have let you down, or confused by the different information about health out there, or you’ve tried everything and still not well you will find information to lead you to health empowerment on our Platform.
📸 #selfcraftedwellness | Self Crafted Wellness Expansion Pack Subscription | @selfcraftedwellness Radio
Wise Gatherings
With deep concern for the loss of wisdom. For seekers who believe that the preservation of traditional wisdom is a key to a sustainable and beauty-full world. Whether you'd prefer an educational lecture, a professional conference or a spiritual retreat, we have an event that will serve your search for knowledge and help you to reach unlimited potential. Wise Gatherings is a purveyor of quality events promoting the spreading of traditional wisdom, holistic living and the Mysteries. We offer various entry points for anyone who desires a community of authentic wisdom keepers and seekers.
Wise Gatherings is the host of Wisdom Gathering Journal and the annual Wise Women Gathering conference.
Motion Ninja Academy
For people who strive for the best quality of life. For those who wish to challenge themselves, transform and Self Craft an ultimately functional life. We teach an integrative framework for personal development via movement and self awareness, for wholebody wellness.
motionninja.online | 📸 @motion.ninja.academy | C-Force article | Warrior Woman Movement Retreat
