Wilderness Survival Weekend 2027 on May 21 – 23, 2027 in Otzberg

Are you ready to open the door to a new connection with nature? With this training, we would like to give you the opportunity to take steps once again toward the creation that surrounds us. Our continuing education course invites you to discover the fascinating connections in nature, learn about principles and methods, and connect deeply with it. What does it feel like to be at home in the wilderness? In the wilderness education training, you will immerse yourself in the valuable knowledge of Indigenous peoples. What does it mean to you to live a life in the wilderness? With new tools and methods, you will bring your relationship with nature back to life and learn to perceive it mindfully. As part of a close-knit group, you will contribute your unique strengths and talents to enrich and strengthen the team. How can you value the talents that lie dormant within you and put them to use for the good of the community? Recognizing and nurturing your individual abilities plays a decisive role in our shared personal development. This training will equip you to support people in connecting with nature, plan activities, and carry out engaging experiences. Are you ready to support others

Deepen your knowledge, become native Are you ready to continue along your “wild path”? After successfully completing your Wilderness Education I training, now is the perfect time to deepen your connection with nature and discover new horizons. This year, you’ll become part of an intimate group exploring fascinating and challenging topics in wilderness education together. Imagine how much support and inspiration your clan will offer as you spend several days in nature. What can you expect? Your journey will take you through exciting topics—from nature crafts and knowledge of wild plants to clan life and the language of truthfulness. Each area helps strengthen your connection with nature and deepen your roots. For this adventure, we’ll stay at various base camps of the wilderness school. A tent or tarp is required, as we leave behind our comforts to immerse ourselves fully in nature. Are you ready to take on this challenge and grow together with us? Exchanging and sharing stories: Personalized, focused guidance Each team (clan) consists of a maximum of 14 people and 2 mentors Personal 1:1 coaching Individual support whenever you need it Digital meetups Take part in inter

Wilderness Education 3 - Wilderness Instructor Training Survival Guide Expedition Are you ready to push your limits and discover nature? In the third year of our wilderness education training, we spend 21 days in the impressive mountains of central Sweden and an additional weekend in the Odenwald. In the wilderness, you learn to deeply experience survival skills and a connection with nature—going far beyond knowledge alone. The challenges help you recognize and overcome old patterns. At the primitive camp, feel how a sense of “wilderness as home” grows. Your skills and the equipment you make yourself become practically useful within the community. The mountain landscapes of central Sweden will be our teacher and invite you to experience the primordial.

Natural Tanning as in the Stone Age Immerse yourself in the ancient natural craft of the wilderness. Wildnisschule Odenwald invites you to an intensive tanning workshop where you will learn to transform animal hides into soft, durable buckskin using entirely natural methods. You will work with the tried-and-tested method of brain tanning—fat-and-smoke tanning—entirely without industrial additives. No more chemicals: In just three days, you will transform a red deer or fallow deer hide into your very own leather with your own hands. You will take home not only a unique product, but also learn a survival skill that has connected people with nature for thousands of years.

Would you like to learn to move more safely outdoors and feel a direct connection to nature again? In this three-day Survival Basics Training, you’ll learn fundamental wilderness skills—without military drills or apocalyptic scenarios. Even with no prior experience, you can gain practical experience alongside a small group, try your hand at wilderness crafts, and strengthen your own approach to challenges.

The Survivalkurs-Basic is intended for those who would like to get a taste of the topic of "survival" without immediately investing in a sleeping bag, sleeping mat, etc. and sleeping out in the forest. A packed lunch as a light midday snack is included. Anyone who would like to sleep in a self-built emergency shelter should take a look at the two-day Survivalkurs-Advanced course.

In our Primitive Survival training courses, we teach the knowledge and skills needed to live and survive in nature with minimal equipment. The aim is to compensate for the lack of equipment through knowledge, skills, improvisation, and physical presence. The focus is on the four basic needs: fire, water, shelter, and food. Getting to know, testing, and gradually expanding your physical and mental strengths sustainably changes how you see yourself. Knowing that you can ultimately find your way and ensure your survival anytime and anywhere creates a profound sense of security in today's uncertain times.

If you enjoyed 7vs. WILD and ALONE, you’re in exactly the right place! The Survival: Beginner course is ideal for anyone taking their first steps in the wilderness and wanting to learn the most important survival basics. In a safe, hands-on setting, we’ll show you how to get by in nature with simple means—authentic, tangible, and without any showmanship. What to expect: You’ll learn how to build a weatherproof shelter from natural materials, start a fire with a ferro rod while finding suitable tinder in nature or making it yourself, find and purify clean drinking water, identify edible plants, and gather simple emergency food from the surrounding area. You’ll also learn how to conserve energy, set the right priorities, and think clearly under pressure—the foundation of true survival. Who is this course for? Whether you’re a beginner, an outdoor enthusiast, or a complete newcomer, you don’t need any prior experience—just curiosity and a desire to learn new things. The course is perfect as an introduction to practical survival skills or as an immersive nature experience that will stay with you long afterward. Practice, not theory: Here, you learn by doing. From creating your first

In this training, we will immerse ourselves deeply in the wilderness around us together with the participants. Over the course of a year, participants will learn extensive survival and wilderness skills, alongside skills for meeting the basic needs of warmth, shelter, food, and water. This involves expanding one’s perception, reading the landscape, making food found in the wild edible, the psychology of survival, understanding oneself and community, tracking, navigation, and physical presence and fitness. A deep connection with nature forms the basis of all these areas and runs through the training as a central element. The aim is for participants, after completing this year, to move through nature with new eyes. Tracks on the ground will tell stories. Their comfort zones will have expanded, and fears will have lost their power. They will perceive their surroundings as alive and full of possibilities.

This two-day survival course is intended for those who may have already had a taste of the subject of “survival,” or who would like to take the challenge up a level and sleep directly in the forest. The Survivalkurs-Advanced is therefore explicitly also suitable for complete beginners. Unlike the Survivalkurs-Basic, here we want to rely predominantly on natural resources when building our shelter and starting a fire. We will also work much more with knives, learn the most important knife techniques, and much more. Essentially, we move a little away from the pure “survival mindset” and more toward “bushcraft.” A hot dinner—prepared directly over the fire we lit ourselves—on Day 1, as well as breakfast on Day 2, is included.