Learn Natural Tanning in the Odenwald – Tan a Hide Yourself in 3 Days on October 10 – 12, 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.

Would you like to spend a night under the starry sky and build your own shelter from natural materials? During our Wilderness Survival Weekend, you’ll learn traditional techniques and practical skills for living in nature. Together, we’ll discover edible plants, make cordage from natural materials, and prepare food over the fire. You’ll spend time outdoors and learn to experience nature with heightened awareness.

Tanning course – tanning leather, hides, and fur For hunters, farmers, self-sufficient people, bushcrafters, and nature enthusiasts. Deer and roe deer, as well as goats and rabbits, are fascinating animals. Their meat serves as food for us. We have used their bones, sinews, and skins for clothing and other useful items for thousands of years. We share a diverse relationship with them that has a long history. The course teaches you how to turn freshly skinned hides into high-quality leather, pelts, or furs, thus connecting with this history. This simple way of tanning with natural materials requires physical fitness. The mind grows calm, and in the end you hold something velvety soft in your hands that you have made yourself. A natural product, entirely free of chemicals, that has been with us for thousands of years. At the end, each participant can take home the buckskin, pelt, or fur they have made themselves. It is the ideal material for clothing: handmade, with guaranteed provenance, chemical-free, hard-wearing, and durable. An unforgettable experience. As part of the course, each participant is provided with a fallow deer hide for tanning into leather. It is also possible t

Turn the old into something valuable: Learn how to sustainably process animal hides Rescue raw hides from being wasted and transform them into soft, durable sheepskins – traditionally, sustainably, and handmade. Who is this course suitable for? The course is perfect for anyone who: is interested in traditional crafts,appreciates sustainable and natural materials,would like to create a unique, handmade product.No prior experience is required—just a willingness to learn and participate! Below, you’ll see a shorter time period because the booking tool doesn’t allow longer events, but you’ll automatically book the entire event (3 days).

Learn to tan fur skins from marten, rabbit and fox using natural ingredients such as bark and fat. We show you how to remove the skin from animals (without damaging fur) and how to tan it using traditional methods. You’ll also get an introduction to fur sewing and learn to make a hat or headband from the finished fur.

Through the ancient craft of tanning, our ancestors have been transforming animal hides into beautiful and durable materials using Stone Age techniques since the Stone Age. Today, too, we are increasingly enjoying hides, for example sheepskins, or leather for clothing, such as leather made from deer hide. Especially when these come from local sources. **This course is also intended for hunters and people who would like to make use of the hides and skins of our native animals.** This course therefore provides the foundation for practically learning and continuing this ancient craft. **Over the weekend, each participant will make a hide or piece of leather using traditional brain tanning with the dry-scraping method, and take it home.** Naturally, you may also bring your own raw hide by prior arrangement. **Course topics include:** **Tanning materials and accessories,** **Fundamentals of brain tanning, etc.** An additional €55 for meals and materials is payable on top of the course fee, directly during the course.

This course teaches you how to turn hides into high-quality leather, skins, or furs. Tanning as a natural craft—without chemicals. For thousands of years, people have hunted deer, roe deer, raccoons, foxes, and martens. They use their hides for clothing and other everyday items. The tanning process, which turns a hide into valuable leather, is an ancient craft that reaches far back into human history. During this seminar, an animal hide will transform into leather in your hands.It will tell you about the animal that wore it: about its strength, endurance, and gentleness. These are all qualities you need when tanning. At the same time, a pleasant inner calm will come over you. For when your hands are working, your mind will grow still. At the end of an intensive process, you will hold a piece of velvety-soft leather in your hands that you created yourself. A natural product that has accompanied, protected, and adorned us humans for thousands of years. An unforgettable experience. In this course, you will work on either a roe deer or fallow deer hide and can take home the buckskin you have made yourself. It is the ideal material for clothing: it regulates temperature and mois