What We Offer
WILDERNESS TRIPS for CHANGING TIMES
The Wilderness Within offers wilderness trips that seek to expand awareness around our relationship with nature, and to explore life's deeper questions in a fun and meaningful way.
For centuries we have set out into the unknown reaches of the earth's beautiful wilderness to seek understanding and explore deeper parts of ourselves. In today's fast and complex world, it is easy to lose connection with who we are. Through setting out on a journey into the wilderness, we may cross a pyschological threshold into a wilderness within.
Participants begin by learning how to live in the wilderness. They journey into some of the earth's wildest places together. The magnitude and power of the wild compels us to look deeper within. The mystery of life calls us into action.
We offer trips for adults, families, parents, schools, graduating seniors, university students, youth, businesses, fraternities, individuals seeking therapy interventions, professionals seeking training, and private groups. Our programs are unique because the participants play an active part in the design of their own adventures. Clients work with their guides and peers to co-create their personalized wilderness experience. Many options and activities are available, for example:
The solo • Music • Team-building • Art • Sports and games • Meditation • Primitive skills • Rock climbing • Journal writing exercises • Rope courses • Adventure • Deep wilderness exploration • Ceremony • Backpacking • Paddling
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UPCOMING TRIPS
Little Story Big Story - A Wilderness Trip
Throughout history humans have lived from our knowing of our connection to the earth, using the mirror of nature as a way to gauge the seasons of our lives, know ourselves, mark life transitions, say thank you, and ask for what is needed. In the fast pace of our modern lives many of us have unknowingly lost sight of this connection, contributing to the lack of care we exhibit towards the earth, and a parallel loss of an essential piece of who we are. When we see the place where the small story of our lives meets the larger story of the world in which we live, a valuable new perspective is gained. This journey is an invitation to find that place, to sit in it for a long quiet look at who we’ve been, who we are now, and who we are to become.
This summer, shoulder your pack and walk out with us into some of the wildest parts of California. As no two journeys are ever the same, participants will be asked to work alongside guides to co-create the experience. We will spend time exploring, learning, relaxing, and expanding our awareness of the world with wilderness skills both ancient and modern. At the heart of the journey will be a solo experience focused on renewal, deep inquiry, and claiming of our full participation in the world. Understanding this connection is as old a practice as there is. Using nature as teacher, we go out, alone and together, to do just that.
Cost: sliding scale $850 -- $1,100 includes dinners, permit fees, group gear, guide fees
Ages 16-20 recommended. For more information email lead guide Will Scott at: willscott6@gmail.com
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