What is the Vision Quest?
Have you ever felt the call to step away from the busyness of daily life and reconnect with something deeper?
A Vision Quest is an ancient practice, a time-honoured journey of self-discovery and transformation. It invites you to pause, reflect, and listen to the whispers of your inner voice – the part of you that knows who you truly are and what you are here to do.
Rooted in traditions from across the world, a Vision Quest is both a physical and spiritual experience. It offers you the space to step into nature, leaving behind the noise and distractions of modern life. Through a carefully guided process, you will create the time and openness to explore your purpose, clarify your path, and reconnect with your authentic self.
This is not a retreat or a typical coaching session. It’s a rite of passage – a personal journey where you meet yourself at a deeper level. Whether you’re standing at a crossroads in life, seeking direction, or simply yearning for clarity and connection, a Vision Quest can help you uncover the answers that lie within.
During your Vision Quest, you will:
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Spend intentional time in nature, reconnecting with its wisdom and rhythm.
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Reflect on your life’s journey so far and the path that lies ahead.
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Be guided through powerful exercises to gain clarity, release old patterns, and step into the person you are becoming.
You won’t be alone on this journey. While the experience is deeply personal, you’ll have guidance and support every step of the way. I’ll help you prepare, walk you through the process, and support you in integrating the insights you gain into your everyday life.
The Vision Quest is an invitation to slow down, tune in, and transform. Reconnection time with nature can be used as an effective "shock absorber" to support us in our life, as well as giving us a chance to step back and reflect, and to delve deeper in to questions around meaning, and our place in the natural world. Whatever location, duration, environment - together we will personally tailor the experience for you.
This is your chance to super charge stepping into your authentic power. It’s a journey for those who are ready to step into a deeper sense of alignment and purpose. If you feel the call, trust it.
The Door, by Adrienne Rich
Either you will go through this door, or you will not go through.
If you go through, there is always the risk of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen.
If you do not go through, it is possible to live worthily, to maintain your attitudes, to hold your position, to die bravely.
But much will blind you, much will evade you, at what cost who knows?
The door itself makes no promises.
It is only a door.
Deep within your soul lies a fire that directs your passion and purpose. Often this flame lies quiet like the ancient whispers of smoldering embers; sometimes directed by those internal voices, not belonging to you, that came from another time and place. In the Vision Quest you reach out and ask "WHO AM I?" and "WHAT AM I HERE TO BE AND DO?".
Nature based questing is designed to help you develop positive transformation and wellbeing in your life, work and community. The Vision Quest is designed to develop awareness, intention, choice, relationship and action.
We have all been shaped by the elements around us, which means we show up with certain limitations and conditions based on our past. I believe it is vital to step up and face the uncertain reality we all have ahead of us. To do this, we must be aware of how important it is to operate from a deep sense of authenticity. This means having enough awareness to make choices in support of our own needs, but also the needs of others, the needs of systems we are part of and the needs of the world around us.
There are a number of tools, protocols and maps that we use to facilitate nature based questing. The simplicity of the approach actually supports individuals and groups to go deeply into their own exploration and to work with their own transformation and insight. One such model is based on the medicine wheel, used for centuries by indigenous cultures. This helps us to understand where we are stuck, where we are most effective, and what steps we can take to bring about our objectives. Another example is working with the four elements as a way to experience and reflect on how we are part of the ever regenerating process of nature.
Dates and Location
The dates for next Vision Quest are flexible for 2025. There are options for May and October this year.
There are also several location options, including a beautiful spot in the Southern Alps of France. This is where the ocean and the mountains come together in a rugged and wild range of limestone mountains.
I am looking for a small number of people to come together and experience the power of the Vision Quest. Together we will tailor the experience for you and what you need.
Why nature?
Countless scientific researches from the 1980s to the present demonstrate the positive impact of experiences in contact with Nature on our physical and psychological well-being. These positive effects translate into the improvement of the coachees’ ability to face their difficulties, developing their sense of self-efficacy, awareness and self-realization. At the heart of Nature Coaching is the reconnection of the coachee with Nature, as well as through it with its most authentic Nature, in terms of personal uniqueness, talent, skills, resources, ideas, intuitions, solutions, presence and awareness.
Getting out into the wild, and discovering the stillness and the vastness of our mind can be some of the most transformational experiences of our lives. For me, this is enough of a motivation to take coaching work outside. However, there is also a large body of research showing the positive impacts on wellbeing, creativity, transformational change, wisdom, resilience and growth that come from working within nature and with nature.
These programs are designed to develop awareness, intention and choice for individuals and teams in powerful and sustainable ways to support you. Like the natural world, we have all been shaped by the elements around us and by our own inner nature. We often show up in the world with limitations and conditions based on our past - this means we are all less impactful and less fulfilled than we could be. My invitation to you is to get in touch, and to find out how I can help you bring more intention, awareness and choice to your future and to develop your work and life goals - through adventures exploring beautiful natural places.
Why now?
We are all, fundamentally, part of the natural world. All our food, water, air and energy comes from the natural ecosystem, as does a lot of our medicine. All our waste is ultimately processed and recycled within the natural ecosystem. The biggest opportunities for our fulfilling and safe future come from being integrated into the natural systems, and all of our biggest threats as a species and civilization also come from the natural world, such as ecosystem collapse, climate change and new diseases. Simply put, if we don't start acting as though we are a key player within the natural world, we will miss our opportunity to have a successful and shared future looking ahead to our own lives and future generations.
Nature based coaching can be considered as an approach developed in connection with Nature (not in a simple “presence” of Nature). It is aimed at restoring human beings to their natural ability to take care of themselves, of other living creatures (human and non-human), and the Earth. We all have an ancestral ability to dialogue with Nature; retrieving it means recognizing our place in the broader context of all our relationships.
This way, coaching can contribute to conditions that help and sustain life on Earth, for generations to come. This nature-centred approach has, at its foundation, a view of each person (microcosmos) as the reflection of the macrocosmos (the world around us).
