Wilderness Trails
A Wilderness Trail is an excellent space for inviting and unusual, transformative experiences. In the unpredictable, dynamic and non-judgmental wilderness environment we invite to slow down, gain perspective, connect with yourself and surroundings, live healthy, gain awareness, choose mindset and know your wisdom to assimilate the learnings in life and change as a result. We create Wilderness Trails, varying in duration from 3-10 days, in a variety of eco-regions all around the globe.
Expedition trails
The Expedition Trail provide a strategic framework and incomparable learning environment, making it the ideal place to challenge yourself, your team and advance your leadership potential. You will find yourself in a wild and beautiful natural world that was intentionally designed and created out of chaos where you can ignite your natural leadership and lead from everywhere, connecting with peers that are looking for the same as you. We organize Expedition Trails around the globe, from a 5-day mountain ascend to 2 weeks ski-trekking in the arctic with local indigenous immersions.
In-nature workshop
Boost your corporate event with meaning and learning through and in nature. Improve wellbeing, health, and awareness in your organisation by enhancing our relationship with the natural world. Activities can include walking, foraging, bushcraft skills, meditation, awareness games, solo-time and outdoor team challenges. Our in-nature workshops are offered as a complementary learning event or as a stand-alone program adapted to the needs and objectives of the organization. We can organize this both within an urban and natural environment.
Trusted guide
In-nature experiences designed to deepen personal learning and compel courageous action in your leadership. Inspiring you to learn life lessons in the wilderness to enrich your life and business in a trusted environment. Meaningful conversations, friendship, connection, insights, inspiration, and action taking are the natural key elements. Our Trusted Guide´s provide scheduled group adventures and tailor-made individual or team wilderness coaching experiences in a private setting.
Expedition trails
The Expedition Trail provide a strategic framework and incomparable learning environment, making it the ideal place to challenge yourself, your team and advance your leadership potential. You will find yourself in a wild and beautiful natural world that was intentionally designed and created out of chaos where you can ignite your natural leadership and lead from everywhere, connecting with peers that are looking for the same as you. We organize Expedition Trails around the globe, from a 5-day mountain ascend to 2 weeks ski-trekking in the arctic with local indigenous immersions.Wilderness Trails
A Wilderness Trail is an excellent space for inviting and unusual, transformative experiences. In the unpredictable, dynamic and non-judgmental wilderness environment we invite to slow down, gain perspective, connect with yourself and surroundings, live healthy, gain awareness, choose mindset and know your wisdom to assimilate the learnings in life and change as a result. We create Wilderness Trails, varying in duration from 3-10 days, in a variety of eco-regions all around the globe.In-nature workshop
Boost your corporate event with meaning and learning through and in nature. Improve wellbeing, health, and awareness in your organisation by enhancing our relationship with the natural world. Activities can include walking, foraging, bushcraft skills, meditation, awareness games, solo-time and outdoor team challenges. Our in-nature workshops are offered as a complementary learning event or as a stand-alone program adapted to the needs and objectives of the organization. We can organize this both within an urban and natural environment.Trusted guide
In-nature experiences designed to deepen personal learning and compel courageous action in your leadership. Inspiring you to learn life lessons in the wilderness to enrich your life and business in a trusted environment. Meaningful conversations, friendship, connection, insights, inspiration, and action taking are the natural key elements. Our Trusted Guide´s provide scheduled group adventures and tailor-made individual or team wilderness coaching experiences in a private setting.In-nature workshop
Boost your corporate event with meaning and learning through and in nature. Improve wellbeing, health, and awareness in your organisation by enhancing our relationship with the natural world. Activities can include walking, foraging, bushcraft skills, meditation, awareness games, solo-time and outdoor team challenges. Our in-nature workshops are offered as a complementary learning event or as a stand-alone program adapted to the needs and objectives of the organization. We can organize this both within an urban and natural environment.Expedition trails
The Expedition Trail provide a strategic framework and incomparable learning environment, making it the ideal place to challenge yourself, your team and advance your leadership potential. You will find yourself in a wild and beautiful natural world that was intentionally designed and created out of chaos where you can ignite your natural leadership and lead from everywhere, connecting with peers that are looking for the same as you. We organize Expedition Trails around the globe, from a 5-day mountain ascend to 2 weeks ski-trekking in the arctic with local indigenous immersions.Wilderness Trails
A Wilderness Trail is an excellent space for inviting and unusual, transformative experiences. In the unpredictable, dynamic and non-judgmental wilderness environment we invite to slow down, gain perspective, connect with yourself and surroundings, live healthy, gain awareness, choose mindset and know your wisdom to assimilate the learnings in life and change as a result. We create Wilderness Trails, varying in duration from 3-10 days, in a variety of eco-regions all around the globe.Trusted guide
In-nature experiences designed to deepen personal learning and compel courageous action in your leadership. Inspiring you to learn life lessons in the wilderness to enrich your life and business in a trusted environment. Meaningful conversations, friendship, connection, insights, inspiration, and action taking are the natural key elements. Our Trusted Guide´s provide scheduled group adventures and tailor-made individual or team wilderness coaching experiences in a private setting.Trusted guide
In-nature experiences designed to deepen personal learning and compel courageous action in your leadership. Inspiring you to learn life lessons in the wilderness to enrich your life and business in a trusted environment. Meaningful conversations, friendship, connection, insights, inspiration, and action taking are the natural key elements. Our Trusted Guide´s provide scheduled group adventures and tailor-made individual or team wilderness coaching experiences in a private setting.In-nature workshop
Boost your corporate event with meaning and learning through and in nature. Improve wellbeing, health, and awareness in your organisation by enhancing our relationship with the natural world. Activities can include walking, foraging, bushcraft skills, meditation, awareness games, solo-time and outdoor team challenges. Our in-nature workshops are offered as a complementary learning event or as a stand-alone program adapted to the needs and objectives of the organization. We can organize this both within an urban and natural environment.Expedition trails
The Expedition Trail provide a strategic framework and incomparable learning environment, making it the ideal place to challenge yourself, your team and advance your leadership potential. You will find yourself in a wild and beautiful natural world that was intentionally designed and created out of chaos where you can ignite your natural leadership and lead from everywhere, connecting with peers that are looking for the same as you. We organize Expedition Trails around the globe, from a 5-day mountain ascend to 2 weeks ski-trekking in the arctic with local indigenous immersions.Wilderness Trails
A Wilderness Trail is an excellent space for inviting and unusual, transformative experiences. In the unpredictable, dynamic and non-judgmental wilderness environment we invite to slow down, gain perspective, connect with yourself and surroundings, live healthy, gain awareness, choose mindset and know your wisdom to assimilate the learnings in life and change as a result. We create Wilderness Trails, varying in duration from 3-10 days, in a variety of eco-regions all around the globe.SHELTER
Make your own warm and cozy shelter with your own hands from locally found resources.Than sleep in it and enjoy the warmth of mother nature protecting you. Very suitable as last night solo experience to be combined with an additional accommodation to provide comfort and safety required for an optimum experience.HAMMOCK
Did you ever sleep overnight hanging in between two trees you have chosen yourself? Very suitable as last night solo experience to be combined with an additional accommodation to provide comfort and safety required for an optimum experience.Tents
Tents can we brought anywhere, in your backpack, on mules or brought in by our crew. Flexibility, connection with the elements and childhood memories are key factors to your camping experience.INDIGENOUS CAMPS
A deep and profound experience, living in a most authentic way as our indigenous people have been doing for thousands of years. Native will share with you their ancient knowledge and way of living, sharing and their perspective on nature, earth and universe.GLAMPING
You want to enjoy the fresh breeze at night and enjoy the stars but normal camping is too basic for you? enjoy our many different proposals of luxury camps to be set up in any place on earth for you to experience the most profound and intense living-in-nature experience without compromising on your basic needs.MOUNTAIN CABINS
Far out, isolated and alone enjoying 360 views of pristine and endless mountains. The hike towards de accommodation forms part of the journey, efforts pays off and the achievement helps in sensing connections and fulfilment.Hotel
Sometimes a quick Airport connection, the conference facilities or room capacity may make you decide to choose a more normal and centrally located hotel. Of course, we will organise this with the safe dedication as always making sure your event has this slight touch of wilderness and nature connection.WILDERNESS LODGE
American concept of accommodations out in the wild, authenticity and comfort blend into a perfect experience in nature. Isolated and connected to the earth, these venues are a good option for profound team transformations.ECO-LODGE
Nature friendly, sustainable and ecological or locally produced food and normally located in a natural protected area. A lot of optionality in locations around the globe. Perfect to connect with nature and to support or enforce the sustainability objectives of your company
What is Wilderness Learning?
Wilderness Learning prepares you for the new frontiers in personal leadership and is particularly valuable for those experiencing an inflection point, be that personal or organisational.
Experience Collaborative Leadership, working towards a holistic view of leadership in the 21st century to more agile and resilient modes.
Meeting where people are, serving the essential reality being in and part of nature in a challenging and inspiring environment.
Context and outcomes
- Unique & Connected: We are all unique and connected
- Nature: Being part of nature is being meaning-, play- and learning full
- Authenticity: Vulnerability, integrity, and transparency
- Inner wisdom: There is a place of peace and wisdom inside us where everything is known
- Explorer Mindset: A natural curiosity, resilience, determination, focus, preparedness, risk appetite and sense of higher purpose
- Change: Take action of the learnings and create consistency on a daily base
- Mastery: The ability to master your inner world is the mastery of the outer world
- Experience: Being fully present + real emotions + learning = long term wisdom
- Habit: Being away from your known environment gives you the chance to be yourself and with yourself
- Challenge: to learn new things you need to be challenged, it is at the other side of those thoughts and feelings that block you where you will find the magic
Why in nature?
Spending time in nature awakens and clarifies your senses.
- Learning in a new form of creativity, living force, leadership will take a paramount role for the development of an emerging culture and civilization globally.
- Evolving a natural ability of leadership needs to be developed with a great clarity regarding cultural challenges and circumstances issues that the modern culture faces and needs to solve, evolve with.
- Challenge, to perceive nature, as mostly human perception is condition by its subconscious mind, emotions and pre set perception.
- Inspire a new and closer relationship with Earth in a period of growing environmental and social crisis.
- Connect, and experience interdependence.
- Retreat from the daily life, away from the constant stimulation of the habitual external environment, giving the opportunity to go beyond yourself.
Because NATURE heals…
Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones. Research done in hospitals, offices, and schools has found that even a simple plant in a room can have a significant impact on stress and anxiety, just imagine yourself immersed in a true wilderness…Because NATURE restores…
One of the most intriguing areas of current research is the impact of nature on general wellbeing. In one study in Mind, 95% of those interviewed said their mood improved after spending time outside, changing from depressed, stressed, and anxious to calmer and more balanced. Other studies by Ulrich, Kim, and Cervinka show that time in nature or scenes of nature are associated with a positive mood, and psychological wellbeing, meaningfulness, and vitality. Furthermore, time in nature or viewing nature scenes increases our ability to pay attention. Because humans find nature inherently interesting, we can naturally focus on what we are experiencing out in nature. This also provides a respite for our overactive minds, refreshing us for new tasks.
Because NATURE connects…
According to a series of field studies conducted by Kuo and Coley at the Human-Environment Research Lab, time spent in nature connects us to each other and the larger world. This experience of connection may be explained by studies that used fMRI to measure brain activity. When participants viewed nature scenes, the parts of the brain associated with empathy and love lit up, but when they viewed urban scenes, the parts of the brain associated with fear and anxiety were activated. It appears as though nature inspires feelings that connect us to each other and our environment.Your brain and NATURE…
Research in a growing scientific field called ecotherapy has shown a strong connection between time spent in nature and reduced stress, anxiety, and depression. It’s not clear exactly why outdoor excursions have such a positive mental effect. Yet, in a 2015 study, researchers compared the brain activity of healthy people after they walked for 90 minutes in either a natural setting or an urban one. They found that those who did a nature walk had lower activity in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region that is active during rumination — defined as repetitive thoughts that focus on negative emotions.
Digging a bit deeper, it appears that interacting with natural spaces offers other therapeutic benefits. For instance, calming nature sounds and even outdoor silence can lower blood pressure and levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which calms the body’s fight-or-flight response.
NATURE´S impact on our health…
- Forest bathing, or Shinrin-yoku, as they call it in Japan, is a famous way of spending time in nature. Research has shown that people who practice forest bathing have optimum nervous system functions, well-balanced heart conditions, and reduced bowel disorders.
- Outdoor activities reduce the chances of developing eyesight problems like hypermetropia and myopia. A survey conducted on children in Australia revealed that school-aged kids who participated in outdoor activities had better vision than kids who spent more time indoors (Rose, Morgan, Kifley, 2008).
- Studieshave related nature connections to lower BMI. People who exercise outdoors are less fatigued and have fewer chances of suffering from obesity and related conditions.
The Forest Bathing research also suggested that by stimulating the production of anti-cancer proteins, frequent walks or trips into the wilderness help patients in fighting terminal diseases. Although this is ongoing research and firmer evidence are awaited, this suggestion is strong enough to prove the benefits of being outdoors.
NATURE improves Psychological and physical Well-Being…
- Nature walks benefit people suffering from depression (Shern et al., 2014). Studies had shown that people suffering from mild to major depressive disorders showed significant mood upliftments when exposed to nature. Not only that, but they also felt more motivated and energized to recover and get back to normalcy (Berman, Kross, Kaplan, 2012).
- Reduces pulse rate, blood pressure and cortisol levels (Chiba University).
- It gives improve cognitive functioning and mental well-being (Kaplan, 1993, 2001).
- Strengthens the immune system and increases resistance to cancer cells (Qing Li, 2009).
- Recent investigations revealed that being outdoor reduces stress by lowering the stress hormone cortisol. Besides that, it also makes us immune to allied problems like hypertension and tachycardia (Lee J, 2011).
- Improves memory by up to 20% (Berman, et al, 2008).
- It has a significant positive effect on autonomy, personal growth and a sense of purpose (Nisbet, Zelenski, Murphy, 2011).
- Increases creativity by 50% (Atchley et al, 2012).
- Nature walks and other outdoor activities build attention and focus (Hartig, 1991). There are pieces of evidence that indicate strong environmental connections to be related to better performance, heightened concentration, and reduced chances of developing Attention Deficit Disorder.
Spiritual Enhancement in NATURE…
- Environmental psychologists have argued that there is a value component added to the human-nature relationship. By staying close to nature, we feel more grateful and appreciative of what it has to offer to us (Harold Proshansky). Seeing the wonders of the world outside automatically fosters within us the urge to protect it.
- Breathing in nature gives us wholesome sensory awareness. When we spend time outdoors, we are more mindful of what we see, what we hear, what we smell, and what we feel.