Evolve Wild offers Nature Based Experiences to help guide people through Journeys of Personal & Cultural Transformation. Influenced by Ecopsychology and ancient practices at the heart of Earth-based cultures, we aim to deepen the relationship people have with the natural world.
Aligning with one’s wild nature, or authentic self and the part you play in changing yourself in relationship to the culture and the world becomes more vivid.
The further you live this version of yourself into your everyday life, or integrate, the more you step into what you envision during your journey. We have a focus on integration.
The summer between high school and college, I had my first perception-altering psychedelic experience during a Phish concert. I thought this awareness that I found would be what people learned to live into in college, and through adulthood. Boy, was I wrong! Even in the field of psychology, such states were not only rarely explored, they were ususally diagnosed as serious mental health concerns!
I studied and worked in the world of mental health and education for over a decade looking for answers, but the times when I felt the most connected is when I was in nature. One summer I got a job as raft guide, lived in a tent in a community of other dirtbag rafters, and I was never the same. After graduation, I combined my skills with my psychology degree, and worked in wilderness therapy. That’s when I realized how people’s contact with wild nature truly affects everything.
I then discovered ecopsychology, got my M.A. in it, journeyed personally in a number of ways, and in 2016 I opened my first outdoor experience company! In 2023, the first year psilocybin was legal in Oregon, I went through InnerTrek’s psilocybin facilitation program.
Now I, along with some incredible guides and facilitators, can offer you incredible legal, permitted, licensed and insured nature based journeys with psilocybin for the most transformational and healing experience you can find!
Our Journeys were designed to help you get into a different relationship with nature. Here’s how:
You have your own site, with distance and trees between your neighbors.
You can chill out on your own or relax at the group (social) site, where there is always at least one guide, within reasonable hours anyway. Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, you get to decide how much you want to engage with other people!
Access to nature may be one of the biggest hidden privileges in our society today.
We welcome, and do our best, to offer our experiences to people of all skin colors, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, beliefs, languages, religions, SES, and political affiliations. Your experience is about you and your relationship with the world around you. We'll do our best to hold others to those standards.
And always know that if you don't feel respected you can talk with us about it, or disengage by leaving the social area and going to your own site (and, of course, talking with us later).
How you engage is up to you!
We offer a lot of ways to engage with the experience, and some of it pushes people's boundaries. Whether it's yoga, rafting, paddle boarding, sharing your intentions for coming out, or checking in with the group about where you're at, you get to decide what you do and what you don't do.
Even if you're good with all that, there are other things you can do to create a deeper shift, both before you come out and while you're here. The difference between what people think they will do at first glance vs. what they actually do while they are going through it can change dramatically! Our best advice is to stay open to what arises while you're here.
Socially, the vibe is laid back.
I (Eric) talk about lots of things on this site, but it’s more just to let you know where I’m coming from and why I went to all the trouble to create Evolve Wild. I don't get preachy or judgmental, and try to keep that stuff out of group conversation.
If you're looking for deeper conversation, have questions about some of the stuff I talk about, or just want to trip out, we're happy to go there. But there's no requisite talking points or anything like that.
This is not a party / loud scene!
We aim to get away from modern-day distractions to allow the world around us to speak to us. But it's a soft language, and easily drowned out. We discourage heavy drinking, loud music, and motors. We ask that you respect others on the experience by refraining from such things as well.
This is meant to be a small, but important, step along your larger journey. It's not about what we think you should be doing, it's about you doing what you feel as it arises, and allowing the experience to unfold.
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