Wilderness Trails offer an integrated, holistic development experience, designed to reconnect leaders to themselves, each other, and to our planet.
By getting back into nature without phones and interruption we remember what it means to be in relationship with nature, and to remember and redefine our soul's purpose.
Our Team
Our facilitators have formal trail facilitator training, a deep love for the wilderness, and experience in taking leaders, intact teams and organizations into Nature as a way to invite stillness, spaciousness, and sensory attunement. We will help you calm the mind and tune into your whole self through practices based on Indigenous wisdom and neuroscience.
We partner with a phenomenal outdoor leadership and guide organization, Trailhaven, who ensure safety, promote learning from Nature as a living, thriving ecosystem, and provide an inclusive experience for all.
The Art of Being Human
Spending time in nature with other leaders raises awareness of essential leadership skills, such as deep listening and curiosity, as well as the art of noticing: personal and team patterns, our limiting beliefs, our perceptual gifts to sense what is not being said and tune into all our senses to scan organizational landscapes.
Tuning into these distinctly human qualities enables leaders to gain greater clarity of their contributions to the systemic forces they feel compelled to shift: in the team, their organization, and broader ecosystems.
Coming Home
to Ourselves
A solo experience as part of the wilderness trail gives you the chance to slow down, be with yourself in an uninterrupted environment, reflect and reconnect to your highest potential, and make powerful choices for the next chapter.
Trail Principles
Leadership & Nature
Here are parallels clients see between Leadership and Nature.
1
Being in the woods
Leadership is like earth’s soil: "the more we take care of the soil (i.e the container for our teams) the more fertile it is to grow and sustain life."
Circle of life: "we need to let go in order to allow new life / ideas to emerge and form."
2
Fire making
“We are greater than the sum of our parts, as we saw building our individual fires to create one firm. This was from recognizing the different acquisitions coming together to form a holistic organization, creating the opportunity to be led, by this senior team, from a place of strength vs fragmentation.
3
Solo Experience
"The power of spending time to think on your own, noticing the quality of reflection deepening over time, and how we need as leaders to create space in our calendars: it is not a luxury but a necessity”.
4
This team are like the roots
of the (Sequoia) trees:
"Who achieve their height not by burrowing their roots deep but by extending their roots wide to bond and connect with other trees’ roots."
This analogy provided the anchor for a global senior leadership presentation that same week.
Gallery
Capturing the beauty on our trails in the Spanish Pyrenees, sub arctic circle in Norway, upstate New York and Zion, Utah.