Tell me, what is it
that you plan to do
with your one wild
and precious life?
Dear Darkness
- Winter Retreat with Somatic Nature Connection
- 30.12.–
- 03.01.2027
New Year’s winter retreat: five days in the Waldviertel to pause as one year ends and a new one begins. Instead of avoiding the cold and the short days, we step into them – on threshold walks through the wintry forest, in silence, with Authentic Movement and the Work That Reconnects. Indoors and out, at the Apfelweberhof. 30 Dec – 3 Jan, max. 13 participants, German or English.
Zwischen mir und dir
- Therapeutic group for self-experience
- 19.10.–
- 23.11.2026
October 19 – November 23, 2026
6 sessions | Mondays | 6:30–8:30 PM
Perceiving needs, recognizing boundaries, and trying out new possibilities
Registration by email: bijan@openvision.earth
Praxis Orthologicum, ABC-Straße 38, 20354 Hamburg
Maximum 10 participants.
Wild Quest Norway
- A Journey into Nature and Psyche in Southern Norway
- 17.08.–
- 27.08.2027
An intensive 9-day self-experience seminar in southern Norway. Far from everyday life, space opens up for (re)connecting with yourself, with others, and with the living nature around you. New perspectives on your own life are waiting to be discovered.
Erasmus+ Wild Quest Denmark
- gather - connect - respond
- 30.09.–
- 07.10.2026
A cost free program for young adults (age 18-30) from Austria, Danmark, Sweden, Germany and France
CUBIC – Cultur und Bildung im Context (Austria)
LØS – Landsforeningen for Økosamfund (Denmark)
Grain & Sens (France)
Institut für Naturorientierung und Lebensstil e.V. (Germany)
Earthbound Ecovillage (Sweden)
Nature and Self
The vision quest is a form of self-experience in nature. It supports times of transition, crisis, and reorientation. Nature becomes a mirror: in silent walks and intentional solitude, fundamental questions begin to clarify. Answers arise through direct experience. Crises can be experienced as transformation—connected to a larger whole.
Roots of the Vision Quest
The modern vision quest traces back to the School of Lost Borders (Meredith Little, Steven Foster). It translates cross-cultural structures of nature-based rites of passage into a contemporary framework. It does not follow the traditions of a single Indigenous people but draws general inspiration from North American rites of passage traditions.
Modern Development
Today the vision quest continues to evolve—especially through the work of Bill Plotkin (author of Soulcraft and Wild Mind), who connects it with Western depth psychology in reference to Carl Gustav Jung. Through contact with nature, inner aspects of the psyche are explored. The approach is also influenced by Joanna Macy and her framework The Work That Reconnects. In this way, a bridge emerges between the traditional vision quest format and contemporary psychology.
