September USA November AUS
Narrative
Animal
Wild relationships
Start building relationships with the more-than-human world and step into a larger story.
They say we are the sum of our five closest friends.
Where is the moon on your list?
For most of human history, the friends on that list were not human. They were the sun and the moon, the river you drank from, the mountain you woke to, the animals you watched and feared and followed.
People oriented themselves by these relationships the way you orient yourself by a skyline — looking up to find your place. Change what you keep close, and you quite literally change where you stand.
What we pay attention to is what we belong to
Our elements
Sleeping Outside
Fire & Fire Cooking
3am walks
Ceremony & Ritual
Movement practice
Myth, Storytelling & Song
Wildcrafting
Foraging & Hunting
Tracking
Stargazing
Reflection & Personal Narratives
Deep Ecology
Somatic practice & bodywork
Together we will move through three thresholds.
The thresholds change for each group but the bones stay the same
Duration | 4 weeks
Story | 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.
Prep for the Wild
Duration | 3 to 5 days
Story | Pitch camp, 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.
Into the Wild
Duration | 4 weeks to open-ended
Story | 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.
Return Home
Who is this for?
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The decision you’re needing to make are getting bigger and bigger and the place you’re making them from feels smaller and smaller. You want to do work that’s meaningful, work that outlasts you, and that takes more than a new strategy. It takes changing what you're in relationship to and how you relate to it. This work will bring new perspectives, new voices, and new felt-sensations into your decision-making process. You’ll arrive as someone who leads things. You’ll leave as someone who belongs to them.
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You're sitting with real power and the weight of consequence that comes with it. The problems are enormous, the choices are overwhelming, and the frameworks for deciding where to put resources feel increasingly inadequate.
The deepest intelligence about what's needed doesn’t live in solutioning problems, but in deepening relationships.
Before money can move in new ways, funders need to move in new ways, speak and relate in new ways. We’ll establish these new patterns together so you can shift from ‘outsider funder’ to ‘active participant.’
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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.
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, IFS & somatic coach, Gua sha practitioner, & student of relationships. Over the past 15 years he’s worked with organizations and individuals to better articulate and embody their story and purpose in the world. He’s constantly asking how our bodies hold and move with identity and he weaves myth, movement, and communication skills through everything he does.
He invites those around him into a deeper engagement with their own life and the life around them. He was not a participant on season 3 of Alone Australia.
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.