Training in Wilderness Engagement Skills
1) A line of tracks or spoor left by a person or animal.
2) A process of discovery, awareness, and connection through following a sequence of signs. A process of seeking. A literal or metaphorical path by which greater understanding is achieved. Mysterious, awe-inspiring, and full of wonder.
Trackline Field Studies helps children and adults develop greater comfort and connection in the natural environment, through a combination of safety, skill, and awareness training.
Wilderness Skills Training
Fundamental Skills 4-Week Course
Start Here
Your first step is to build fundamental skills of safety and survival, so you can begin to feel more comfortable in nature. By building wilderness skills, the natural environment becomes more inviting and opens the door to developing greater awareness.
Wilderness Connection Group
Ongoing Development
Building on the Fundamental Skills group, this group provides more advanced training in the skills necessary to increase awareness and develop connection. Through proficiency in these skills we can begin to safely and comfortably re-immerse in nature.
Family Wilderness Skills Group
Ongoing Development for Families
Nature is an incredible playground and schoolroom, bringing joy and teaching lessons to those who are willing to participate. In this group, families learn wilderness skills together to feeling more competent in nature, and benefit from its countless teachings.
Developing your wilderness engagement skills
We offer training through a progressive skill-development program.
You love being outside in nature. You’ve tasted the euphoria that can exist there. You want to learn greater skills to enhance your sense of safety, comfort, awareness, and connection to make that experience more common and less fleeting. With Trackline, you will build engagement skills through a clear progression:
Safety
Learn the fundamental safety and survival skills to ensure you can properly assess risk, understand how to deal with hazards, and take care of yourself even under the worst of scenarios.
Comfort
By gaining proficiency with safety and survival skills, you will begin experiencing a newfound comfort in the wilderness. You’ll learn to rediscover the skills that makes nature your home, where you can exist without struggle or dependency on equipment, the way our ancestors lived for millennia.
Participation
Continuing the evolution, the participation phase means you can begin experiencing nature—safely and comfortably—in new ways. No longer limited by seasons, climate, conditions, or equipment, you can begin participating with the wild environment in its full spectrum.
Exploration
With greater participation comes skills that build a natural curiosity, exploration, and discovery process. Proficiency within this developmental phase becomes the catalyst for awareness training.
Awareness
Our brains and bodies have extraordinary capabilities of awareness, which often go underutilized. Awareness training is a core component of everything we do at Trackline. You will learn to observe in new ways and develop levels of internal and external awareness never experienced before.
Understanding
Like a detective piecing together clues, awareness raises questions which, when answered, begin to correlate with other discoveries and create a network of deeper understanding of the natural environment.
Connection
As skills of awareness and understanding become integrated, the myriad of individual entities in nature all begin to reveal their interconnected relationships; relationships which also involve us! The deep sense of connection that occurs through awareness and understanding of the interplay within a biosphere is profound.
Engagement
Owning our unique ability as humans to actively engage with, and care-take for nature is a high value within Trackline. The skills of engagement come from dedication, personal work, and considerable “dirt time.” The reward is an indescribable level of belonging, completely unimaginable to most people.
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Personal development through wilderness skills
Trackline is a service of BEing There Enlightenment Systems, one in a range of services designed to provide opportunities for you to consciously create awareness, connection, and health in all aspects of your life.
Trackline is designed to capitalize and build on the sense of ease, tranquility, and harmony most people experience outside in a natural environment. As a form of experiential education, Trackline mentors safely and deliberately engage students in a progressive series of exercises designed to increase wilderness skill, build awareness, invite reflection, and effectively encounter and deal with the issues inhibiting their growth in the process. The skills learned in this process are applicable and transferable to all aspects of someone’s personal development.
The natural environment provides a wonderful backdrop for personal growth work, in part by its inherent dualities: it feels both welcoming and indifferent, safe and threatening, comforting and hostile, tranquil and turbulent. In all likelihood, you love being in nature and have tasted the euphoria that can exist there. For most people, the wilderness is a place that beckons to us, where we venture forth for a few hours or a few days at a time, with cars and backpacks packed full of gear and equipment to insulate us from the threats we perceive and the vulnerability we experience.
Fundamentally, the natural environment is where we began, where we evolved, and where—up until only a few generations ago—we simply called our home. Our existence in nature has been deeply embedded in our DNA for 150,000 years, only relatively recently displaced by “modern civilization,” with its sterile, climate-controlled, digitally-(dis)connected environment, removing us from the skills necessary to exist harmoniously in a place with deep-seeded benefit to our humanity.
Trackline teaches the wilderness skills necessary to develop greater awareness, and identify, explore, and deal with the issues inhibiting connection. Learning the skills to reconnect with nature inherently means reconnecting with our lost selves; our own innate awareness, perception, sensory ability, and internal experiences, in order to create deeper connection to self and reconnection to the place that has historically been our source of everything we need to grow and thrive.
Connecting with nature
is not just taking pictures of flowers on your phone.
Join us if you’d like to…
… be more self-sufficient and less reliant on others
… stop feeling like an outsider and feel like you belong
… learn more about yourself
… learn to connect better with other people
… learn greater self-awareness
… teach your kids how to love being outside
… deepen your sense of enjoyment in nature.
