Narrative
Animal
Take your work outdoors
Wilderness rites of passage work for those who feel disconnected from the world they have inherited.
The deepest personal development work asks us to look beyond the personal.
We work with leaders, teams and philanthropists who realize that hyper-rational, high-pressure environments have fractured our thinking, burnt out our people, and narrowed our visions.
We use ancient land-based technologies that have regulated human nervous systems and created communities for millennia:
Ceremony, ritual, and mythic storytelling
Wilderness skills & wildcrafting
IFS, Somatic practices, and deep ecology
Fire by friction and fire cooking
Wild camping
Astronomy & cosmology
Threshold crossings & medicine walks
We Work with:
Teams & Companies
Philanthropists & Family Offices
Individuals & Practitioners
On Land
Land-Led Workshops & Evenings
Half-day or evening nature immersives + storytelling events.
1-Day Immersives
Deep nature connection and somatic exploration.
3-Day Camps
Intensive nature connection that have rites of passage and ritual built into them.
9-Day Wilderness Vigils
Traditional vision quests for profound transformation.
In Office
Eco-systemic Strategy, & Narrative
Bring the more-than-human world into their decision making process and Align long-term organizational vision with natural systems.
Leadership & Team Mentoring
Guiding executives and teams toward ecological leadership.
In-House Professional Development Customized internal staff days.
Online
Ongoing Mentoring
1on1 virtual guidance for continuous personal or professional integration.
The Narrative Hearth Live online storytelling circles and mythic study groups.
Integration Circles Post-vigil or post-camp online support to ground land-based insights.
To consider more than the human world,
you have to relate with more than the human world.
It’s time to take your work outdoors.
Values for Creating Good Ancestors
Most strategic projects work to uncover the unique values in each group or individual. We don’t. Our work focuses to four ancestral values under which all others sit. Differentiation comes from deciding how you’re going to live each value.
Aliveness
Curiosity, Hunger, Drive
Reconnect with what makes you want to bare your teeth at the world.
Entanglement
Reciprocity, ConnectednessOnce you give your attention to the wider world, it starts looking back.
Listening, receiving, devotion. Humility
Interconnection puts us in our place, literally and metaphorically.
Service, Accountability, ActionResponsibility
Once we know our place in the wider web, we can begin to show up for it.
Meet the Animals
Yonke van Geloven
Yonke is a farmer, permaculturalist, and passionate nature connection facilitator and vision quest guide based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, central Victoria. As a single mother of three, she stewards a 20-acre permaculture property where she weaves together regenerative land practices, storytelling, and community ritual. Her work invites others into deeper relationship with the land and their own wild selves.
She’s devoted to guiding others to reconnect with ancestral skills and the rhythms of the natural world, inviting people to slow down, listen, and remember their place in the great web of life. Yonke was a participant on season 3 of Alone Australia.
Adam Beal
Adam is a writer, strategist, IFS & somatic coach, and an internal wilderness guide. Over the past 15 years he’s worked with global organizations and individuals to better articulate and embody their story and purpose in the world. During that same time, he’s shifted from consulting in New York City to writing in a bus in a cow paddock in Australia.
He’s constantly asking why people choose to transform and how he can better support bodies and minds through their transformation. He weaves myth and movement through all his work and challenges others to engage more deeply with life. He was not a participant on season 3 of Alone Australia.
Anna McCracken
Anna is a writer, wilderness guide and social strategist. With a background in human rights law, she has spent over a decade working at the intersection of communities, government and business — listening deeply and bridging the stories from communities into the rooms where decisions and policies get made.
Across that time, Anna has lived nomadically from her home on wheels throughout remote Australia. She has come to learn that relationship and connection are at the heart of aliveness and belonging and that nothing meaningful shifts without them.
It is this understanding she brings to the wild.
She is the author of Do Wildness (Do Book Co), out September 2026.