Your objective is to come through the FPH process with firm new personal or team intentions and immediate work or personal actions, formulated by you, for when you return to your project, team or organisation.

• These actions might be targeting a specific mission, program, issue, problem, solutions approach, design, missing creativity, or short-circuiting a blinkered way of homogenous, cloned group-thinking.
• Or these intentions and actions may be around generating a new purpose for you as an individual, or to generate a new vision, mission and purpose for your team or organisation.

FPH is about Rebel Ideas and Imagination.  The FPH Program facilitates you to focus on what you or your project or organisation are really all about, in the most unconstrained way possible at your apex – the spear tip – and how you or your organisation are contributing to Future Proof Humanity.

THE eQe MISSION:

• Re-Awaken the Human Potential
• Future-Proof Humanity

We do this by working with individuals and teams in a wilderness context, to try and facilitate them in freeing their imagination in work and vision, to try and un-stick sticky problems, and unleashing as much of their potential and positive impact on the world through their work as possible – Clearing away the clutter and distractions, to get to the epicentre of what the issue truly is, and to then generate firm intentions and immediate actions around that.

Our eQeOUTDOORS’ team includes:

• MBA-Qualified Consultants
• Ex-Industry Scientists
• Senior Managers to Managing Director level
• Business Coach
• Advanced Bushcraft Practitioner and other Outdoor Leaders
• Therapists and Counsellors
• Vision Quest Guides

Since 1983, eQeOUTDOORS’ Director Robin Sheehan was a climatologist, oceanographer and environmental scientist; a developer in environmental and space systems; and Managing Director in the GIS sector for Europe, Middle East and Africa.  We’ve worked hard to develop the application of this powerful, established personal development VQ process, creating the accessible 1-week FPH programme.

Irrespective of whatever theme or issue you have brought with you, these 5 principles scale to relate to everything, from a whole organisation focus, all the way down to an individual and their role within it, and everything else in between –

Envisioning: Building Vision and Scope – far beyond what everyone else is currently doing or thinking; moving far beyond a simple competitive or reactive “keep up with the rest” approach.  Refusing to blindly follow or fall in line.

Radical and Rebellious Thinking – Who says you can’t? Removing the blinkers of “Group-Think” peppered with blind spots. Dare to lift your head, see and say something different.  There are radically different ways of approaching things than how everyone has been blindly pursuing them for years.  And just because “everyone says it is like this” doesn’t mean it’s true or that it’s not time for a new idea.  Dare to throw away the invented-rule book we all propagate and unleash your radical rebellious mind to re-imagine new avenues of exploration, solutions, technology and timescales.

Decluttering: Single mindedness and focus – New clarity of direction and target objective.  Clear out the distractions, diversions, red-herrings, and blinkered industry-peer pressures and blind spots.

One Tribe: Your Tribe in the Workplace – Belonging – Belief – Ownership – People

Intention: Formulate and execute immediate next actions, based on the above

 

FPH allows you the space within the process to address questions and issues typically relating to your role, your project and your thinking, unconstrained:

Removing the walls and ceiling in our minds and imaginations – Releasing Unblinkered Thinking and Creativity in Role

Working with Intention – Direction, Momentum, Target and Resolve in Work

Envisioning and Passion – Purpose, Mission, and Vision as an Individual, an Organisation or Team

Staff / Personal Development and Motivation

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

Clarity and De-Cluttering in Teams and Individuals

Dealing with Change and Making Changes

You are here because you choose to be.  Because you want to radically change your thinking or your approach to something in your work and thinking.

No tech to new tech! Stripping away technology – laptops, phones, and even a roof over our heads – we are freed from all external influences and diversions to focus in a unique and powerful way on our own strengths, objectives, and reasons for being here on this FPH program.  For many, this may be the first time they have approached their objectives or issues cleanly, and completely outside of other expectations and limitations, and completely outside of their current lifestyle and constraints – In the wilderness.  Unless it’s raining, this is the original blue-sky thinking.

• Severance: Freeing ourselves from outside influences and making a mental shift to focus only on the objectives at hand that we have brought with us to the FPH program
• Preparation and Exploration: Exploring our own creativity and imagination in problem solving and new idea formulation, using our Mesolithic ancestors’ problem solving and multiple-solutions-focused thinking as a creative metaphor for developing our own solutions and intentions around our own objectives. Strip away current thinking, current technology, industry expectations – This is the time to learn how to approach your problem or objective at hand …when all you have to start from is a blank sheet.
• Threshold: Intense and productive solo time in the wilderness, to gain crystal clarity in our own specific objectives, away from all other influences, stripping away all vestiges of self-imposed constrained thinking, and stepping away from constraints or influences put upon our thinking by other people, situations, and also the limiting culture and expectation from our industry or workplace. This is the phase where clarity takes hold, and the real issues emerge, demanding our firm intentions and actions to move forward.
• Incorporation: Final honing of firm intentions for actioning on your return.

Combined approaches in this process assist in freeing us from constrained thinking:

• Coaching and personal development approaches

• An exploration of ancient tribal and wilderness living skills, and multiple-solutions-focused thinking

• Rebellious Thinking and Diversity of People and Ideas

• Smash our mindsets and mental cages- Traditional Wilderness Vision Quest and Rites of Passage techniques, to generate subsequent intentions and actions beyond all normal expectations. VQ is how our ancestors sometimes approached decision making, change making, seeking answers to issues and problems, or even to discover what the REAL questions actually are in the first place.

• Established and recognised therapeutic approaches to facilitate personal development

These are uniquely integrated tightly with an exploration of how our ancestors approached technological problems with multi-faceted solutions-focused thinking, imagination and creativity, for example:

 

• Advanced and Basic Bushcraft, and Mesolithic long-term living skills, tackling objectives and technology for:
  • Fire mastery
  • Shelter mastery
  • Basic Tool mastery
  • Making tools and items we may need as a tribe from forest materials
  • Water / hydration mastery
  • Safety systems and keeping yourself and others safe – the Buddy System
  • Orientation and natural navigation in the landscape
  • Familiarisation with the local terrain and your choosing your personal solo area

 

More background details here, on our FAQ pages >>> https://www.Life-Engineering.co.uk/vision-quest-faqs/

It’s disturbingly easy to lose sight of the target, and become blocked from progress as an organisation, a team, or an individual. 

Or to become lost in the fog and clutter and distractions of “real life” business and organisational issues, email, admin and legislation.  Group-Think and homogenous “just like me” teams can also blinker an organisation and steer it endlessly down a wrong path, fuelled by unquestioning “everyone here accepts this is the way and keeps going” mentality.  

It feeds our own comfort and affirms our opinions to be with like-minded people, who know the things we know, and have the same experience or background to us.  Individuals are intelligent, experienced, maybe the best in their field, and they have correct ideas. 

But collectively, the group is homogenous, with no-one bringing to the table anything different to anyone else.  Because they are all the same.  The group is “clones”, with limited boundaries on thinking and no experience beyond the sphere they all work together in – experts or not.

You act like Vikings, but the truth is you’re all just rowing together in the wrong direction, because you all agree with each other, think the same way, with no diversity, with no reality-check compass, no wind in your sail, and you can’t see anything for the fog.  And no-one lifts their head to see a different truth beyond the comfort-blanket of the fog, and say “stop – go that way”.

It’s about getting out of your normal context, into the wild, to address issues, mission, vision, and clarity, outside of your normal work and life environment, and away from the people and influences that funnel us down a predictable path to a predictable answer.

 

It can generate movement in “stuck” situations and provides a reality check for the issues and situations we bring with us, often even resulting in the questions we are asking to be changed to the questions we should be asking.

 This is based on an established, powerful, personal and life development process, and eQeOUTDOORS uses the power of being out in the Scottish wilderness, alongside a strong focus on learning practical bushcraft and wilderness living skills needed there, to reconnect with our natural world, integrated with modern coaching and therapeutic approaches in order to propel ourselves forward in life and as a person.  Magic does happen, and you make it happen.