This is either a one-week or two-week personal development program in the wilderness.  You will focus on your specific issues and objectives that you bring with you.  This is based around an established and effective process known in some circles as Wilderness Vision Quest.

The objective is to come through the VISION QUEST or HERO QUEST process with clarity, firm new intentions, objectives and immediate actions, formulated by you, for when you return to your life context.  For those bringing their personal anxieties, fears, and behaviours which are impacting their personal wellbeing, one of the things we can do on an individual level to pull ourselves out of this darkness is to take positive action – Do something.  Take control.

These intentions and actions may be around generating a whole new vision, mission and purpose for your life.

The program facilitates you to focus on what you are really all about, in the most unconstrained and uninterrupted way possible, in a mind-set altering environment and wilderness context you would never normally approach your issues from.  This is what frees your thinking and also your emotions, in order to clear away the clutter and blockers, expose your blind-spots, allowing you to get to the heart of what is truly important and urgent in your objectives for attending this program.  In the light of this new and different context, participants are frequently surprised to discover other different objectives – that the things actually needing to be dealt with are not what they thought.  Clarity.

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

Stripping away technology – laptops, phones, and even a roof over our heads – we are freed from all external influences and diversions (including people) to focus in a unique and powerful way on our own strengths, objectives, and reasons for being here on this 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
• Preparation and Exploration: Exploring our own issues, creativity and imagination, and new intentions for our lives going forward. Also 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.  This is a Solutions Focused approach.
• 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 daily lives. 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 and incorporating into your life over the coming days, weeks, months or even years.

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 with a Tribe of diverse people and diverse 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 life and tribal 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/

Our eQeOUTDOORS’ team includes:

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

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.  He is a trained Wilderness Vision Quest Guide, and Director of Wilderness Therapy and Training for eQe.