What

There are three ways to experience the Wild School. Each programme is of a different length and offers a different opportunity to explore, experiment, and learn. The goal of the programmes remains the same, aligning purpose and action, but their intensity and pace varies. The river is impetuous and with well defined banks. The forest grows strong through time of its many different trees. And the mountain invites its walker into a committed transition from one valley to the other.

Way of the River

One week · An immersive retreat

As a River Walker, you spend five days exploring five relationships: with yourself, someone close to you, a group, the living world, and the mystery of life.

Watercolour of four people helping one another cross a wide, rushing river.

Way of the Forest

Five weeks over 18 months · A journey of exploration and practice

Over a year and a half, Forest Walkers return to the School for five residential encounters combining collective inquiry, experience and practical challenges. Each return to the School ends in a quest that Forest Walkers are invited to take, either on their own or with others in their group.

Watercolour of a small group gathered in conversation beneath tall trees in a forest.

Way of the Mountain

One to three months · A self-directed residency

Mountain Walkers bring something they'd like to work on during their time at the School: a piece of art, a book, a research project, an experiment, or a question they'd like to give more time to.

Watercolour of a solitary walker on a path climbing a mountain across open hills.