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Join our Community and explore with us as we build relationships in remote and wild parts of the globe - places where the natural world is respected and honoured and where community is a way of life. 

 

We are committed to learning from and then working in partnership with those who understand how to live daily in synthesis with nature.

 

We plan to increasingly build opportunities so that adventurers and leaders from our technology saturated culture can travel, explore and learn with us.

 

We hope that we and our fellow travellers will return to careers and communities inspired to share our learning with others and for our children.

 

Above all, we want to think about how we might discover a less driven and a more reflective, natural and fruitful life. 

 

All of our adventures are a collaborative process with our hosts and fellow travellers.  We work extremely hard to price trips in a way that makes them inclusive.

 

We need to cover our costs but the communities are never designed to make money. Instead, we do all we can to make these experiences accessible to people who share our curiosity and commitment to go into wild places to listen and to learn in community. Wherever possible we also try to fund places for individuals. 

 

 

2024:

 

March - Austria: Mountain Community Summit (John, Harry, Grant, Sandra)

 

May - Turkey: Mediterrannean Coast: Freediving Community (John, Alex & Fatma)

 

June - Nepal: Tiger, Elephant & Rhino Sherpa Community (John & Tsering)

July - Guernsey: Salsa & Paddleboarding Community (John & Trish)

July - Cornwall: Adventure & Personal Development Community TIP (John & Neil)

 

July - Yosemite: California, USA - CC Retreat Community

October - Madeira: Portugal Community (John & Sini, Leti)

October - North Carolina US: Stages of Growth Community (John, Becca, Brandon)

October/November - New York & Canada 

November - Cadiz, Spain: Culture & Food Community (John, Ali & Joy)

If you are interested in getting e-mail info about

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As I have travelled widely these last few years, I have noticed certain things about my thoughts and emotions that have struck me. 

 

As soon as I return to my own country, so very quickly, my mind experiences a peculiar sense and change. 

 

In my culture and society, it seems that the over-riding factor in my mind becomes my own opinion, my viewpoint. 

 

I am absolutely expected to possess some way of thinking that posits the world and other people in a particular light of which I should feel certain.

Inevitably, in the hierarchy of my opinion, my own view and my tribe emerges pre-eminent.

 

Interestingly, the consequences of this bring about 2 psychological outcomes within me.. elements that I also notice strongly in others when I return home. 

 

The first is that I tend to feel a growing sense of lack, of dissatisfaction with the world and with myself; with me and how things are. I quickly experience myself become covetous of and desiring that which I do not have and a huge amount of my thinking about the world and about me can become speedily preoccupied with this sense of me and my life not being enough. Because my opinion overrides all else, the consequences are always that I am left feeling that I need something that I do not possess to bring me peace and contentment. 

 

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, when my own opinion is pre-eminent, it seems that my feelings tend to have huge power over me. I start to experience many more emotions about myself; and whenever I find myself not in complete control, they are likely to be towards anxiety, anger or negative emotion.

 

If I am not careful I so quickly become controlled by what I feel about myself. 

 

I have noticed that in other parts of the world where people have so much less, and are connected to nature and to one another - and live more closely in community; this pattern seems to be very different. 

 

People seem to be much more oriented around curiosity, humility and just being present. Their own opinion rarely seems to be expressed or even considered and this seems to free them from these two orientations that I often feel in myself when I return home.

 

I have begun to wonder why we so rarely consider,  in our wildly individualistic culture; that the cost of our certainty and strong personal opinions and me-centric thought processes might be our peace of mind and contentment. 

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