Leadership and The Outdoors
Sometimes getting outside is enough. Other times, it becomes something so much more.
Our outdoor experiences can be as simple as exploring a new place, trying a new skill, or stepping a little outside your comfort zone. Through rock climbing, hiking, camp craft, paddling, and time spent in nature, there is always an opportunity to learn along the way. Most importantly, there is an opportunity to have fun.
From there, the experience can grow deeper. The outdoors becomes a place to put life skills, wellness, and leadership into practice: building confidence, making decisions, communicating with others, and discovering what we’re capable of through practice and action.
On the Rock
Into the Water
On the Rock
First Rock
- A welcoming introduction to outdoor climbing for someone who has never climbed outside. Learn the basics, get comfortable on the rock, and enjoy trying something new.
Gym to Crag
- Take the climbing skills you've developed indoors and bring them outside, while learning the techniques, awareness, and considerations that come with climbing on real rock.
Rock and Rope
- Build your technical climbing skills through hands-on practice with anchors, rope systems, and rappelling. Explore traditional, monolithic, and Joshua Tree-style anchors, top-rope management, and other practical skills for the crag.
Open trail
Into the Water
On the Rock
Trail and Terrain
- From an easy walk on a local trail to an all-day excursion, hiking can meet you wherever you're comfortable. Explore new places, spend meaningful time outside, and choose a pace and challenge that feels right for you.
Mindfulness in Nature
- Slow things down through intentional time outside, using mindfulness, grounding, observation, and awareness to become more present with yourself and your surroundings.
The Silent Mile
- A guided walk in silence that creates space to listen, observe, reflect, and experience the outdoors a little differently, followed by an opportunity for conversation.
Into the Water
Into the Water
Into the Water
SUP and Tubing
- Get out on the water, find your balance, or simply enjoy the ride. From learning the basics of paddleboarding to a relaxed float on the water, these experiences are about having fun, trying something new, and enjoying time outside.
Meeting the Cold
- Cold-water immersion and mindful practice centered around breath, awareness, and responding intentionally to discomfort. An opportunity to slow down, stay present, and explore how we meet challenge in both body and mind.
Camp Craft
Finding your Way
Into the Water
Shelter & Tarp Craft
- Learn the fundamentals of creating practical shelter outdoors using tarps, natural surroundings, knots, and thoughtful site selection. Explore different setups and build the skills to create a comfortable, functional space at camp.
Tending the Flame
- Explore fire building from spark to flame through flint and steel, bow and hand drills, and other traditional methods. Learn what it takes to create and sustain a fire, while exploring what it means to tend the fire within ourselves.
Feed your Soul
- Explore outdoor cooking from planning and food prep to preparing meals over a fire or camp stove. Learn different cooking systems, what to bring for the journey ahead, and how a good meal can bring comfort, connection, and energy to time outside.
Finding your Way
Finding your Way
Finding your Way
Map and Compass
- Learn the foundations of outdoor navigation through map reading, compass use, route planning, and understanding the terrain around you. Build practical skills to stay oriented and move with greater confidence outdoors.
Modern Wayfinding
- Learn to navigate with the tools we carry today, including GPS, mapping apps, downloaded maps, route planning, and location sharing. Build confidence using technology effectively while understanding its advantages, limitations, and place alongside traditional navigation skills.
Grounded Leadership
Grounded Leadership is a nature and skill-based mentorship program that brings together outdoor skills, personal development, and leadership. Through time outside, hands-on learning, shared challenges, team building, and intentional mentorship, participants can strengthen their abilities while learning how to work with, support, and eventually lead others.
As experience grows, so does the opportunity to take greater ownership. Communication, decision-making, problem-solving, teamwork, and teaching become part of the process. Leadership doesn't have to mean being in charge. It can begin with learning to lead yourself, becoming secure in what you know, and gaining the confidence to share it with others.
Along the way, this becomes meaningful work that reaches beyond the skills themselves. Time in nature and shared experiences create space to practice self-awareness, manage emotions, strengthen relationships, communicate with intention, and better understand how we care for ourselves and those around us.
The goal is to grow from learning a skill into becoming more capable, responsible, and confident in how you use it, both for yourself and alongside others.
Join Us
Discover How You Lead
It starts with a conversation. Tell us what you're curious about, what you'd like to explore, or simply what sounds fun. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, so together we can discover what feels meaningful, find an offering that fits, and take it from there.