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THE WILD
COURT
Dominant Culture tells us to go up.
We were made to go in.
A guided experience in three parts — preparation, three days in wild country, and integration — designed around the larger story you want to step into.
They say we are the sum of our five closest friends.
Where is the moon on your list?
Human-centered decision-making has got us very far but it has also got us very lonely. We have never been further as a culture from our more than human kin.
When everything is built around the human, the human becomes the only thing that matters. We start making decisions from a world that contains only us.
Birds drop off our list of friends.
The moon becomes a backdrop to our busy lives
We forget entirely about the long, deep story of time that we are connected to and who exactly we belong to.
For most of human history, the five ‘friends’ on people’s list would have been more-than-human. It would have included the sun, the moon, oceans and rivers, rocks and trees, birds, snakes and the animate forces that make up our world.
Through our time together we'll walk to the edge of the human-storied world and step back into the relationships we forgot we belonged to. Out there we will listen to the land speak. Make fire by friction. Learn the stars. Share stories, song and myth. Tune into bird language and remember the ancestral skills that kept our people alive.
And slowly, through all of it, reorient ourselves back into our place in the web of all things. Together we will move through three thresholds.
The thresholds change for each group but the bones stay the same
Prep for the Wild
Four weeks out from our time together in the wild we connect. This preparatory threshold involves myth mapping, somatic practices and reflection to start building relational connection, loosening the grip of the usual story, and beginning to feel the pull of what's waiting. This is so none of us arrive as strangers to ourselves or each other.
Into the Wild
We will spend a minimum of 3 days in the wild where life really lives. We’ll pitch camp out there, practice skills, listen to stories, tell some of our own, and enter into conversation with forces far bigger than ourselves.
A few days in the wild does something that a year of the usual things doesn't. It resizes you. Reorients you to meet the the edges of our wild selves.
You arrive as someone who leads things and you leave as someone who belongs to them.
Return Home
The hardest part isn’t going out, it’s coming back. In some of the myths people return home and snap right back into their old lives. Some stop at the gate and need to wander for 7 years before entering. Others leave marks on the trees so they know how to get back every night at 3am.
After our time together, you’ll get to choose the best next step for you. Maybe it’s a mentoring relationship. Maybe its IFS work on the parts holding you back. Maybe it’s going deeper into fire and hunting. Whatever your next path — we’ll work alongside you or connect you to people who can.
Who is this for?
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The further up you go, the lonelier it gets. The decisions get bigger and everyone around you can feel a little like an echo chamber. Your thinking, dreaming and visioning is moving at the speed of light and it starts to comes from a place that’s always under pressure.
You can't feel what's true anymore because everything is moving too fast and everyone needs something from you.
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You're sitting with real power and resourcing that can make a significant impact yet you feel a creeping sense that your frameworks, strategies and relationships aren't big enough to respond to what the world actually needs.
You've watched money move toward problems and seen it not be enough. Something in you knows that what the world is hungry for isn't more funding. It's relatedness. And you're not sure yet what that means or how to offer it.
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You went into the work because something called you, yet the system you are working inside feels limiting, exhausting and harmful.
Somewhere along the way your calling got bureaucratised. Now you spend more time navigating the machinery than doing the thing that matters. You live between worlds, the one your clients are in and the one you sense is possible and you're tired of translating with no home in either.
This is not a workshop.
We are not Gurus
But we do know what it feels like after a time of deep connection to return to the same inbox. The same pressures. The same problems and how before long that moment you had by the fire with the stars feels like it happened to someone else, not you.
We won’t let that happen.
The Wild Court Team
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.
Adam Beal
Adam explores the ways our bodies hold and move with story and identity. Over the past 15 years he’s worked with individuals and organizations to better articulate and embody their purpose. He is an IFS & somatic coach, Gua sha practitioner, & student of relationships. He weaves myth, movement, and communication skills through everything he does.
Anna McCracken
Creative and strategic in equal measure, our marketing director brings fresh ideas to every campaign. They turn insights into action and help our message resonate with the right audience.
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