The Wilderness Challenge is not a boot camp or fight for survival. Susan and Tom, along with highly skilled volunteer staff, are patient, firm, knowledgeable and caring and all professional staff members participate in every aspect of the training. However, the program is not designed as entertainment, but rather as workable knowledge providing obtainable results useful in everyday life. Neither is the program experimental. It is based on the wisdom of the ages and ancient skills inherent in all of us.
Results begin immediately, grow exponentially and last a lifetime.
By utilizing hands-on skills, participants never forget the skills they have learned. Developing an understanding of the way of the wilderness ensures a permanent life-changing experience. The knowledge attained applies to all aspects of an individual s life. It creates a passion for life, awareness of surroundings and encourages a participation and control of ones own life through freedom of choice blending with nature rather than fighting to survive. Using the tools to succeed - their own two hands and their brain, utilizing knowledge that can never be taken from them, participants learn to speak from the heart and thereby become unique, important, capable human beings.