Find Your Bearings
Nature - Based Coaching
and Hypnotherapy
Gunnison, CO and Online
The world got faster. Your nervous system didn’t. Find your rhythm again — through coaching, hypnotherapy and the intelligence your body never forgot.
This work is for anyone ready to find their own path to a flourishing life.
Calm Mind · Wild Heart · Your First Intelligence Was Natural
You've been following someone else's map. You're ready to find your own path
You're capable, responsible, respected. You did what was expected. And something in you is asking who you actually are
You're tired of managing your life from the outside in. You're ready to live it from the inside out
You didn’t lose your way.
You’ve been following someone else’s
Most of us learned early to trade authenticity for belonging — to stay attached, to be accepted, to reduce friction, to make things easier for everyone around us.
The work here isn't just recovery. It's navigation. Learning to read your own signal again, and move from there — honestly, imperfectly, forward, and home to yourself.
RECOGNIZABLE MOMENTS
— You know how to show up for everyone else. Maybe no one ever told you that you mattered too.
—You've mastered the science of achievement. Now you're searching for the art of fulfillment
— You catch yourself editing — what you say, how you feel, what version of yourself you let people see.
—Some part of you has been waiting for permission to be more fully yourself. You're just not sure how to give it to yourself.
Ways to work together
Coaching, Guided experiences and practical inner work for men seeking clarity, grounding and direction
Hypnotherapy & Coaching
Hypnotherapy sessions, Past Life Regression, Ikigai ( life purpose) Coaching. Tailored to where you are at. Online everywhere and in-person Gunnison, CO
The Inner Compass Journey
A structured three month program reflecting, exploring and shifting your beliefs with coaching and hypnotherapy. helping you to develop your deep reason for being
October Retreat
A group retreat at Waunita Hot Springs Ranch. Rest, Reset, Recharge and Recover your path in life. 2026
I Used To Build Houses. Now I Build People
In the last four decades I’ve had a career in outdoor education and wilderness medicine, traveling and teaching around the world. Building — homes, a business, a real estate investment portfolio, a family, a life that felt right. And I kept listening. Not always well. Not without getting pulled by ego, money, praise, the need to feel like I had it together and finding ways to heal. But I kept coming back to the signal underneath all of that. From working in the world of outer sustainability, I have learned inner resiliency.
I'm trained in transpersonal hypnotherapy, Ikigai coaching, and mindfulness. I've also built many homes, run a full service design build company, managed employees, managed teams, run non-profits and spent wonderful and difficult times in the backcountry. The wilderness outside and the wilderness within have always been the same practice for me.
The compass isn't something I hand you. It's something you already have. My job is to help you learn to read it.
— Dusty Sylvanson
A few of the many offerings:
Hypnosis for Anxiety
Hypnosis for People Pleasing
Hypnosis to release old patterns
Hypnosis for update old beliefs
Hypnosis for spiritual exploration
Past Life Regression
Ikigai Coaching - Life Purpose
Coaching for mindfulness
Small business owner coaching
Recovery coaching
Before the world told you who to be -
There was an authentic knowing that was yours
You don’t have to have it figured out to begin.