The Vision Quest
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Are You Feeling the Call for Something More?
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Do you find yourself at a crossroads, sensing that a deeper shift is needed?
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Are you longing for clarity, seeking renewal, or feeling the pull to mark a new commitment in your life?
Life transitions are not always obvious, and stepping into the unknown can feel daunting. Sometimes, the way forward only becomes clear when we pause, lean into self-reflection, and listen to the wisdom of the natural world.
A vision fast is a profound, nature-based rite of passage - an opportunity to step away from the familiar and into a space of deep transformation. It is a journey that engages your whole being, asking you to fully claim yourself.
Held in a wild landscape, this experience is both challenging and nourishing. You will be supported by a skilled facilitator and often a community of fellow seekers, offering a container for the growth and insight you are ready to receive. I will help you prepare, walk you through the process, and support you in integrating the insights you gain into your everyday life.
What is the Quest?
This journey weaves together Nature, Spirit, and Community, culminating in a three-day and three-night solo fast in the wilderness.
The experience unfolds in five distinct phases:
Answering the Call - This is about you deciding you want to commit to a Vision Quest. This phase comes before the retreat, but it is still part of the journey. We will have calls to explore your motivations and intentions, and we will agree preparatory practices and rituals for you to work through before you arrive for the actual retreat.
Severance – A time of preparation and letting go. You will explore what you are leaving behind and clarify the deeper intentions of your fast.
Threshold – The four day 4 night solo fast itself. Alone in nature, without food, without a tent but with basic shelter, without distractions, you will cross into the unknown to meet yourself more fully.
Incorporation – The return. The final days are dedicated to integration - sharing your experience, receiving guidance, and preparing to bring the insights of your journey back into your life.
Integration - The integration phase is where you bring your new insights to bear fruit in your every day life. It is the return to the normal world from the Hero's Journey. I will continue to support you as you find your way through this part of your journey.
This experience is open to all genders and welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds. Unlike gender-specific fasts, the shared space often sparks rich conversations about identity, transition, and personal growth.
Is the Vision Quest for You?
A vision fast is for those who feel called to step into something new—whether that’s stepping into adulthood, embracing elderhood, navigating a major life transition, or seeking greater clarity and purpose. It is for those who sense that life is asking something more of them.
You might be drawn to this experience if:
You are ready to mark a significant transition - marriage, divorce, parenthood, career shifts, loss, or personal transformation. You seek a deeper connection with yourself, nature, and spirit. You feel like you missed an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, or manhood. You carry an important question that you want to explore deeply.
This is an ancient, time-honoured practice - one that has taken different forms across cultures and generations.
While we honour indigenous traditions, this is not a Native American vision quest but rather a modern, nature-based rite of passage designed for those seeking meaning in today’s world.
If you feel the pull toward something deeper, if you are ready to listen, to let go, and to step forward with clarity—perhaps this is the moment to answer the call.
Are you ready to answer the call?
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.
Dates and Location
The next Vision Quest will be October 2025. Please contact me for exact dates.
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.
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.
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).
