Reach Your Potential

What is Wilderness Therapy?  

Well despite it popularity there is no definitive meaning for the title ‘Wilderness Therapy’.  Although we run ‘extreme team’ weekends, the wilderness therapy weekend could not be further from this.  The weekend is an opportunity to become unstuck in your every day life, to go back to yourself and find out what is stopping you from moving forward.  We define it as a Stress and anxiety free weekend.  Mother nature is the key along with a mix of guided meditation and visualisations, some light bushcraft and guidance and support from the two person team and Trinnie the therapy dog (if she is welcome).

In essence, the feeling of excitement and mild anxiety in reaching out to come on one of our weekends is cushioned by a warm welcome and a harmonious atmostphere.  Is your deeper sense letting you know that you need to stop and take stock of your life right now?  Do you feel an upward sigh and an inward soar when you are in the outdoors, at a quiet beach or in a place of your desire?  Despite your love of nature is the thought of joining a group you do not know an anxiety provoking one?  We understand.  That’s all we need to say.

There are no muscle bound men who are clearly masters of their own training wall but not exactly confidence builders for someone new to them.  There is some physical challenge and we will be sleeping outdoors in hammocks or tents and you will be treated like an adult.

We pick you up from Bodmin station and take you to the destination where we spend Friday evening setting up camp and enjoying a light meditation before preparing ourselves for the day and a half ahead.

Louise Whitehead and Steven Rolfe founded Reach your potential as a career transition coaching company and along with their background in the outdoors, psychotherapy and life transition they use the outdoor environment as part of their work with individuals, couples and groups.

There is usually a mixed crowd, some with experience of the outdoors, some without.  It is usually an easy meeting with no badges or forced introductions.  You are handed a rucksack with a few essentials and equipment and given space and calm in the mornings.

The experience is an opportunity to recognise the cycles we all get into, a new self discovery is guaranteed.  The key is to stretch your limits, push your boundaries in an non-intellectual way.  The reflection that takes place, along with the challenge of being with mother nature for two days uplifts most spirits.  Being self sufficient but not struggling and connecting with others with the same purpose is beyond what we sense physically, feel emotionally and discuss intellectually.  You’ll leave wanting more.