N A T U R A L I N T E L L I G E N C E
THE COMPASS COURSE
Mindfulness in Nature Skills Training
July 25 - 26, 2026 · Gunnison, CO
You are more capable — and more exhausted — than any previous generation was asked to be. And somewhere in all that capability — something quieter, something that cares more about meaning than output — has been waiting for the noise to settle.
The tools that were supposed to make life better have made it louder. Your nervous system was designed for stillness, depth, and genuine connection with the living world. The gap between those two things is what most people call stress, or burnout, or the vague sense that something important has gone quiet.
It isn't weakness. And it is workable.
THE GUIDE
I built homes from straw and timber. Guided people through wilderness. Found my way through dark seasons of my own — I learned that we don’t change when we see the light, rather it’s through the heat that changes a person permanently.
The intelligence you need is already in you. It was never lost. Only unattended.
Life coach · Ikigai coach · Transpersonal hypnotherapist · Mindfulness instructor · Outdoor educator
Two days of principle-based skills training. Practical, grounded, built for the life you're actually living. Closer in spirit to a wilderness first aid course — you leave with tools that work in real conditions.
Four Orientations — The Inner Compass
N O R T H. ·. S O U L · W I N T E R
Insight & Purpose
Ikigai — your daily and lifetime reasons for getting up. What you love before the world told you what to value.
S O U T H · B O D Y · S U M M E R
Natural Intelligence
The body as instrument. Nature as the original classroom. The intelligence your body has been carrying all along
E A S T · M I N D · S P R I N G
Awareness & Attention
Training focus — the capacity to choose where attention lands before it's captured by design.
W E S T · H E A R T · A U T U M N
Connection
Feeling as information. The capacity to be present with what you feel without being swept away by it.
DAY ONE
The Outer Landscape
The world you live in. Your nervous system. Natural intelligence around and in you. Significant time outdoors.
DAY TWO
The Inner Landscape
Your emotional life. Your sense of purpose. A personal practice you'll carry forward with 30 and 90-day return prompts
Not Sure where you are on the compass? Start here:
E I G H T M O D U L E S — W H A T ’ S T A U G H T
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Orientation · compass framework · natural intelligence as central premise
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East · Mind · attention training, eagle vision, breath anchor, the Breathe Button
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East & South · Modern devices are engineered to hijack your attention through dopamine reward loops. This module explains the neuroscience of why digital life feels exhausting — and gives you a practical, nature-based path through it.
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South · Body · outdoors, seasons cycle, Sit spot practice, nature journaling
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South & North · demystifying trance, the interior crew, guided safe space session
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West · Heart · sky and clouds, emotional cascade, RAIN, the six C's
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North · Soul · authentic Ikigai, four-circle inquiry, craftsman ethic, Imagineering
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All orientations · Personal Bearings declaration, small group witnessing, closing ceremony
LIVE FORMAT · IN PERSON
July 25-26, 2026 · Gunnison, CO
$350 $97 Pilot Program special · includes all course materials, coffee, tea and snacks.
º Two full days — 8am to 5pm
º Limited space - 12 Participants
º Significant outdoor time* both days
º Live guided self - hypnosis session
º Learn/practice meditation techniques
º Sit spot and nature journaling
º Student workbook / field guide
*(location and weather dependent)
ONLINE FORMAT · SELF-PACED
The Online Course
º 8 modules — self - paced, no expiration
º Interactive online workbook — responses saved
º Guided audio for self - hypnosis skills and practices
º Seasons circle — downloadable PDF
º Complete practice index and reference library
º Recommended reading by orientation
º Optional 1:1 integration session add-on
º Lifetime access to all materials
COMMON QUESTIONS
Do I need experience with meditation or hypnotherapy?
None at all. The course teaches everything it uses. If you have existing practice, it deepens. If you have none, every practice is accessible from the first session.
Is this therapy?
No. The Compass Course is skills training — principle-based and practical. It will likely have a therapeutic effect, because slowing down and paying honest attention tends to do that. But it is not a substitute for clinical mental health support.
Will I lose control during self-hypnosis?
No. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. You remain in full awareness and full control. The state is similar to being deeply absorbed in a film. You will be guided somewhere you are already capable of going.
What’s the difference between live and online?
The live course offers the group experience — outdoor sessions, small group witnessing, closing ceremony, and shared presence. The online course delivers all eight modules with interactive workbook and guided audio. Both are complete.
How do I know if I’m ready?
If you felt something when you read "the world got faster and your nervous system didn't" — you're ready. No other qualification required. Come as you are. The compass works from here.
W H A T B E C O M E S P O S S I B L E
Participants leave with a personal practice built from their own honest attention — not borrowed from someone else's system. Tools that work in real conditions. A compass that points inward as reliably as any compass points north
And something harder to name — a quality of ease with themselves that was always available, and is now a little more accessible than it was before.