In the ReWild Quest we take a year to go into Deep Rewilding.

What is Deep Rewilding? Good question.

Lots of people want to learn bushcraft and be able to survive and thrive in the wild.
They don't realise that the main obstacles to this are the emotional and psychological aspects. Compared with what comes up inside of us in response to the vast power, flow and richness of wild nature, learning the practical skills of bushcraft is almost easy. No one gets to grow up in our culture without accumulating emotional wounds and limiting psychological conditioning - judgements, beliefs and stories too small and rigid to accommodate the reality of wild nature, and our wild selves.

Deep Rewilding is an inner and outer movement. The journey to being at home in the wild brings with it the journey to being at home in ourselves. It involves the real, practical, physical skills (for example shelter, water, fire and food), which are a doorway to a profound shift in our internal reality, to one of personal sovereignty and the inner wisdom that comes from true self knowledge.

We're interested in what comes up for us, say, as we make fire. What do we do with the frustration and anger, when the notch in the kit is the wrong shape, or our hands blister, or we just aren't getting it? We're interested in the question 'what is this teaching me?' 

So making fire is a doorway to an emotional journey, and a spiritual one. To be at home in the wild our fire kit isn't just a couple of sticks, it is a treasured friend. Our shelter isn't a pile of leaves, it  cradles us with once-living arms, has idiosyncrasies, needs its own care and tending. Our food not just a convenient source of calories, it is a being who has given up its life so that we may live. Water is a precious gift - the cleansing, quenching life-blood of our planet. We come to know these things at a visceral level, in a language older than words.

We are all part of a vast, interconnecting web of life. When we begin to experience this directly, our place in it, feel how we are supported, then our actions move into harmony with everything around us. And the roadblock to our dance with all that is, is our isolated experience.
We become disempowered by our dependence on external authority, on schedules, outcomes, rules and being 'good', instead of being real. We look to the outside for our emotional meal ticket, instead of finding what we need inside ourselves.

To move through this story is challenging. It's much harder than twirling a stick to get a little coal that is the difference between water you can drink and going thirsty, or warm toes instead of hypothermia. You will meet the gnarliest, ugliest thing out there. Yourself.

There are many pathways to self knowledge. This is ours. A mysterious thing happens when we enter wild nature with an intent to go deeper. It flushes up our projections, assumptions, stuck patterns, wounds, and the myriad obstacles we keep cracking our shins on in life. There are powerful tools to dance with these. You can learn to love all of your many parts, mine them for the strengths they bring, release old hurts and move through them into peace. You can learn to listen to the only voice that matters, the voice of your wild heart, which always knows the next step.

We are not your teachers. We are your guides and your mirrors. We can show you some things, and reflect you back to yourself, but what you do with this is your dance, and yours alone. We will lay out stepping stones, but you choose which of them is your to rest on, or leap from.

In the year we will explore our inner worlds through the lenses of these skills...
shelter
water
fire
primitive hunting and trapping
edible and medicinal plants (identifying, harvesting and processing)
stone and bone tools
baskets and other containers
cordage (string and rope from natural fibres)
bird language
natural movement (awakening your wild body)
stalking and camouflage
tracking (internal and external)
eco-literacy (reading the book of life)
emotional processing, breathwork, trauma healing
​dance meditation
Vision Quest
8 day wilderness immersion journey

If this lights a fire in your belly, welcome to the ReWild Quest. Every two months there is a hands on weekend exploring physical bushcraft skills, such as shelter, water, fire or food. At the same time we delve into the emotional and psychological aspects of internalising the wisdom inherent in that skill.  Group Skype mentoring calls in between provide support on your journey, a chance to discuss homework, share breakthroughs and connect with your fellow ReWild Questers. A Vision Quest is part of the year. This is one of the most powerful ceremonies we know to bring you into harmony with your purpose, your inner truths.
Finally, we weave everything we have learned together with an 8 day wilderness adventure, moving as a tribe through the landscape, building shelters, making fire, finding food and feeling our connection with all living things.

If you just want to dip your toe in the water, this is not the course for you. But if you yearn to be at home in the wild, and to be at home in yourself, moving in a state of grace and harmony, able to walk without disturbing the land, with access to the pure silence from which wisdom arises, then you've come to the right place. If you want to read the stories in the landscape, track animals and ecology, understand what the birds are telling you about the weather, or where the predators are... If you want to go into the bush for our end of year wilderness trip with a solid sense of your place in a greater mystery, and a well-honed set of skills to support you physically, emotionally and mentally... come join the Rewild Quest tribe. We can't wait to meet you.

Course structure-
5 x 3 day workshops (these are Friday to Sunday)
10 x group Skype mentoring calls
Vision Quest 
8 day wilderness journey
Cost $4200