Track and Sign Training

In our wilderness education training, we teach effective methods for building a deep connection with nature and equip participants to independently organize and lead nature- and wilderness-education programs for adults, young people, and children. As a wilderness educator, you accompany people on their journey into nature and create spaces for experiencing nature and themselves. Along the way, you discover the teachings of the coyote, known as Coyote Teaching, as a teaching and learning method. It is the traditional way Indigenous peoples pass on knowledge, sparking curiosity about the world around us through play, inspiration, and enthusiasm. Almost without noticing, you will work through the core routines for connecting with nature, which form the basis of wilderness education. They train your awareness of nature and yourself, as well as practical skills needed outdoors. Wilderness education: A journey into nature and to yourself! The wilderness education training leads us to engage deeply with nature, its laws and cycles, and with ourselves. Above all, it is a journey to yourself! A journey that lets you discover new things, both outside and within. One that takes you out o

Basics of living in nature.Our Wilderness Basics Course: Wilderness Living includes the fundamental practical knowledge for living and surviving in and with nature. It is less about intensive survival training and more about the goal of feeling connected to nature again and at home in it. Learning traditional Indigenous techniques is the focus, helping to strengthen renewed confidence in one’s own abilities for a simple life in nature. In addition, we regularly come together as a community and share our experiences in nature.<\/p>

When we think back to our childhood, we will remember not so much the words that were said, but the experiences so memorable that they stay with us forever! Our Parent-Child Camp during the summer holidays is designed to create the setting for just such a wonderful memory. It is intended for children aged 7–14 and their parents (Mom, Dad, or both). Younger children are of course very welcome too. The minimum age of 7 is simply meant to indicate that from that age, children can take part in absolutely everything “for real.” The camp is limited to a maximum of 30 people. Together, you’ll spend five days in our wilderness camp in the forest with like-minded people, while learning all kinds of wilderness skills, games, and adventures along the way. We spend the evenings around the campfire, telling stories or making music. Anyone who likes may bring their instrument along.

Connected to nature. Mindful. Wild. In this women’s wilderness course, we encounter nature as a source of strength, wisdom, and connection. In a safe circle of women, we share experiences and create space for you to grow closer to yourself and to nature. Together, we mark the summer solstice with a ritual.

Our Survival Trainer Training is a very practical course that comprehensively trains you in a wide range of wilderness skills (bushcraft), survival skills, and traditional nature crafts, so you can live in and with nature for extended periods of time. The training prepares you and your established group to live for 14 days in the Swedish wilderness of Lapland under basic conditions and put what you have learned into practice. Thanks to its strong practical focus, you will experience comprehensive survival training with your body and mind. Because only what you experience with your body and mind can you truly understand. The Survival Trainer Training enables you to plan your own concepts methodically and didactically so you can work with your own groups in nature. Alongside practical skills, we also focus on community life and the development of the social qualities required of a Survival Trainer. We show you ways and methods that provide structure, orientation, and stability to community life, and over time we develop the profile of a Survival Trainer. At the same time, this training is also a journey toward a deeper connection with nature and with yourself, during which nature a

Do your thing—in this case, make your own knife! Under the expert guidance of Steffen the blacksmith, you’ll get a close-up look at one of the oldest crafts of all: blacksmithing! You’ll be right in the thick of it, forging your own knife, designed according to your own ideas and vision—or simply taking shape as you work.

Tracks tell stories—of encounters, habits, and the secret lives of our fellow creatures. In the past, reading these signs was a vital survival skill; today, it opens up a deep connection with nature. With sharpened perception and open attention, we discover clues that often seem invisible and learn to recognize connections in the web of life. Together, we follow the paths of wild animals, let their secrets guide us, and learn about their wisdom and way of life.

There is a story. According to this story, we have the coyote to thank for the way our footprints and handprints look. In the story, the coyote created them after the model of a lizard so that we could do all the things we are able to do and enjoy life here on Earth as good people (Barrett, 1919 in Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok). And basically, every discovery of a track begins this way: with a story, because someone or an animal must have left it for a reason—and that is where we begin. Are you curious about who shares the natural world with you besides your fellow humans, and would you like to explore your surroundings in a completely different way? Do you enjoy puzzles, stories, research, and detective work to uncover even the last secret? Do you love a challenge? Would you like to connect with the animal world on a deeper level of awareness and share our fascination with its diversity and understanding of species? Would you like to delve deeply into all the areas involved in tracking and sharpen your perception in a completely new way? To experience and get to know the world differently, interpret animal behavior? Perhaps even learn more about yourself? Then this course

The skill of reading animal tracks arose very early out of the need to provide people with food and clothing. This need led the first trackers to develop the ability to pay attention to and perceive the tiniest clues from animals, people, insects, the wind, and the weather. This helped them establish and maintain a deep connection with their surroundings. .. We spend the whole day outdoors, moving between various locations and picking up tracks ...

Wilderness Education: Tracking All living beings leave signs as long as they move about and live on this Earth. This may be a footprint, a feeding sign, or a mark indicating a claimed spot. When we learn to read these tracks and signs again, it is like a code, a “signature” shining back at us. It can provide clues and information about the time or the state of mind of its creator. When we read tracks, we connect with the web of life and with ourselves. Track reading is probably one of the oldest forms of “reading” there is, since it is based on the principle of “pattern recognition.” This pattern recognition develops in much the same way as lines are put together to form letters, letters to form words, and words to form whole sentences, which create and convey an image and a story before our mind’s eye. This happens once the skill and knowledge have been established and learned. We can begin to “read” the forest and nature again, conjuring up the most beautiful stories from the tracks they leave behind—stories that remain hidden from the uninformed observer.

In trailing, you follow an animal’s trail and read the tracks and signs it has left behind. You will learn to find and identify trails, follow their course, and understand them in context. The course combines practical work on the trail with an exploration of animal behavior, perception, and approach. Across four sequential modules, you will experience trails as they unfold from winter through autumn.

Who was here, what happened, and where did the animal go? In this training course, you will learn step by step to recognize, identify, and interpret the tracks and signs of wild animals. Four modules build on one another, taking you from a single footprint to complex trail patterns—outdoors by Lake Deulowitz and across the seasons. This training course is right for you if you work outdoors or would like to deepen your knowledge of nature.