Nature-Based Leadership Adventures — “Edge & Elevation: Leadership through Wild Experience”
Nature-based leadership expedition
Description:An immersive, multi-day leadership expedition designed for senior leaders and founders who want to grow resilience, trust, and decision-making capacity by engaging with controlled challenges in natural landscapes. These adventures occur in spectacular environments (e.g., Scandinavian wilderness, fjords,…
Workshop
Description
Description:
An immersive, multi-day leadership expedition designed for senior leaders and founders who want to grow resilience, trust, and decision-making capacity by engaging with controlled challenges in natural landscapes. These adventures occur in spectacular environments (e.g., Scandinavian wilderness, fjords, mountains, forests) and blend outdoor adventure with facilitated coaching and leadership frameworks.
Core Activities & Sessions:
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Multi-Day Expedition Journeys: Wilderness travel on foot, kayak, or low-impact adventure movement with strategic navigation and logistical decision opportunities.
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Facilitated Risk & Resilience Workshops: Structured experiences where groups encounter calibrated challenges (weather, terrain transitions, timed goals) to explore real-time leadership dynamics.
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Small Group Coaching Circles: Daily reflection sessions to integrate sensory experiences with leadership principles.
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Optional Follow-On Coaching: Tailored coaching after the adventure to embed learning and translate field insights into business realities.
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Transition Rituals: Evening wind-downs that include sense-making, breath work, and narrative exercises to deepen neural integration of the experience.
Benefits
Clear Benefits:
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Heightened resilience and stress tolerance through managed exposure to environmental challenge.
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Enhanced trust and team interdependence cultivated in small group adventure contexts.
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Improved decision-making under uncertainty with real, live scenario practice.
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Sharpened situational awareness and risk assessment capacity.
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Deepened sense of self-efficacy driven by achievement in novel terrain.
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Greater alignment with purpose and team values through shared challenge.
Outcome:
Leaders return to the workplace with enhanced mental agility, trust, resilience, and decision confidence — equipped to navigate high-pressure environments with greater composure.
Additional Experience Info
Please consider this as a 'special' experience that could be offered alongside my other core offerings OR part of wider Culture Vitale offerings for multi day experiences and retreats. I am experienced in outdoor leadership and experiences so I just wanted to share the idea more than anything:). I could not upload pictures but can send seperately.
Hosted by Joshua Ellins
About the Host
15 years in leadership and performance coaching. Military and corporate background to create IP and credibility with a passion for 'going deeper' with different modalities and partnerships to create impact with clients from somatics to breath, yoga, art and movement. Skilled and experienced in coaching, workshops, speaking and panels.
Certifications & Credentials
Executive Coaching, change and programme management. I come from a military and corporate background but this is more my 'facade' the way to gain credibility then operate more in the somatic, nature and sometimes even spiritual space…I have found this approach to be very beneficial to clients. It is the sort of 'way in the door' and create trust. I have closely partnered with other practicioners such as breathwork, yoga and artists.
Focus Areas
Location
Alleparken, Maglekildevej 9, 1853 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Languages
English
Travel Locations
Canada (I am from Vancouver), Europe, Africa, South America, India, Asia and Oceania. I am quite open.
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
So set requirements, often a quite space and I regularly try to bring clients to new less familiar environments such as nature
Past Clients
Tik Tik, Ørsted, Bio Innovation Institute, Quiet Space, One Thirty Labs
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