Your leadership is welcome in this time of Global Change
Nature-Inspired Self-Reliance & Leadership Training to Build
Courage, Confidence & Connection
From essential skills like wilderness survival to nature immersion retreats that restore presence and wonderment of the natural world, Wildkind Outdoors inspires ALIVENESS.
Founder Jess Caldwell curates transformational experiences in wild places. It's time to restore and rebalance the negative effects of modern living. The Way of the Wildkind is to energize a growing community of change makers who value ancestral wisdom and keeping the traditions of our human adaptability skills alive. Nature is our greatest ally as we cultivate a profound reverence for life, a sensitivity towards our symbiotic relationship with all living things and compassionate leadership for a thriving future.
In 2025, Wildkind Outdoors will be launching online courses for self-study, a powerful membership platform to support the growth of our community as well as a gear shop to empower the journey.
We will also be launching Wildkind Academy, a nonprofit Rewilding School for Women.
Jess Caldwell is the founder of Wildkind Outdoors. She is a passionate nature-based skills educator, certified Wilderness First Responder and dedicated ALIVENESS practitioner. She believes that the personal rewilding journey offers a vital compass for navigating these uncertain times of global change. Join me and others who feel drawn to expand and challenge themselves into a more integrated partnership with the natural world. Our time to build resilience while honoring the joy of living is now.
The Problem Wildkind Outdoors is Solving
In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven society, many individuals suffer from nature deficiency and an over-reliance on convenience to meet their basic needs. Urban city centers, the indoor lifestyle and the addiction of digital consumption has become a modern epidemic in the western world. This recent paradigm shift has created a generation of humans who are experiencing a failure to thrive.
Modern lifestyle design supports sedentary habits and convenience-driven behaviors that replace deep human connection and holistic health with a single personal numbing device. As a result, depression, stress, anxiety, and feelings of overwhelm are at an all-time high. Few challenges exist that build true resilience of the mind, body and Spirit. Within the last 100 years, we have lost essential survival skills and longevity traditions collected and passed down from generations of ancestral wisdom. This sudden lifestyle shift leaves individuals unprepared for a rapidly changing world and we are experiencing unprecedented vulnerability.
We are living in complacency, disconnected from the rhythms of nature and the healthy reciprocity between humans and resources. We don't know where our food and water comes from. We have replaced wild places for temperature controlled isolation. We have lost basic human skills that foster resilience and self-reliance. We are experiencing a numbing crisis - People are living without ALIVENESS.
Wildkind Outdoors exists to bridge this gap by offering hands-on wilderness skills training and nature immersion experiences that reconnect people to their personal sovereignty. Humans crave meaning, purpose and connection. We teach the vital human skills needed to rewild our culture. As a women owned and operated outdoor education and ALIVENESS advocacy company, we offer a warm and inclusive learning environment for the transformational rise of leadership. Welcome to Wildkind Outdoors, Nature-Inspired Self-Reliance & Leadership Training to Build Courage, Confidence & Connection.
"To Rewild your life is to embrace nature immersion and unplug from the modern lifestyle of disconnect and convenient consumption. Learn the "hard skills" otherwise known as basic human skills that have been passed down for generations. Embrace connection to self, the land and community. Now is the time to renew the health and well-being of all things wild and free".
