🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️ 🚶♂️🚶♂️🚶♂️ + Me - Murph = 9 Curious men interested in exploring hindsight, foresight and insight as a path to greater wisdom 🥾 2 Days = 2 walks 🪓 wilderness survival skills 🔪 ⛺ 👂🏻 Deep Listening and Dialogue 🚶♂️🚶♂️ 👬 Camaraderie through Community 🏞️ Staffordshire Moorlands 🏞️ 🔥 Campfire Conversations under stars 🌃 … Continue reading The Next Fellowship Retreat 25th & 26th May…
We’re told the future belongs to faster thinking. Smarter tools.Sharper competition.More individual optimisation. But that’s not how humans have ever met uncertainty. Our advantage was never information.It was wisdom. Not speed — but sense-making.Not dominance — but creative collaboration.Not noise — but dialogue. When the world became complex, humans didn’t sit still and compete harder.They … Continue reading The Fellowship Community – Men’s Retreats
Every day we pass trees, flowers, and plants. Most of us don’t truly see them. We’ve been trained to treat green things as mechanisms, objects — resources to be managed or ignored. That way of looking is the same mechanistic story that’s pushed us toward crisis. From cradle to grave we learn to put “nature” … Continue reading Walk with the Living World
It happens when people are in the right state to think together. Dynamic Team Walkshops take big, abstract problems and make them human-scale. By walking side-by-side in nature, people move into a calmer, more coherent mental and emotional state. This isn’t theory – it’s biology. Gentle movement and shared rhythm naturally increase anandamide, serotonin, and … Continue reading Real change doesn’t come from telling people what to think!
We’re living through fast, uncertain, disorienting times. And one of the most damaging myths of the modern world is that a man should walk the path alone — that silence is strength, and self-reliance is the pinnacle of maturity. But our ancestors knew a different truth: They circled. They shared food, fire, fear, stories and … Continue reading 🌲The Fellowship: Why Men Need Each Other Now More Than Ever… 🔥
“Wisdom Walking Retreat" Wisdom Walks: Rediscovering the Ancient Rhythm Across cultures, men have stepped away from society to walk together in wild places — Hadza hunters, San trackers, Aboriginal elders, and Inuit explorers. These weren’t just journeys for food or survival, but for wisdom. When we walk and talk in nature, something shifts. Hierarchies dissolve. … Continue reading Fancy Walking Back to Wisdom? … There’s one place left!
(An hour in the park. A lifetime of lessons.) This morning started with a pillow. Not the kind you rest your head on, but the kind someone tore apart and dumped in the local park — its synthetic filling scattered by the wind like snow made of plastic. So my son and I grabbed a … Continue reading Why We Wild School
In an AI-driven world, intelligence is outsourced, wisdom is neglected, and wellbeing is an afterthought. We’re bringing it back—Aristotelian style. Just as the philosophers of ancient Greece walked and talked to sharpen their minds, The Fellowship is a space for men to reclaim their clarity, courage, and curiosity. No gimmicks. No corporate “resilience” workshops. -Woodland … Continue reading The Fellowship — Men’s Retreat
Really? I just spent a few days in wild country with a Silver DofE group. Heatwaves, storms, dodgy kit, team tensions, tricky nav — and they faced all of it head-on. Their research project? “Does adventure improve mental wellbeing?” They didn’t just talk about it — they tested it. Tracked their moods. Reflected. Looked after … Continue reading “Kids these days are soft…”
When we think, we don’t just think inside our heads. Our environment, our tools, and the people around us shape how we process information. This is the essence of extended cognition—the idea that thinking isn’t just locked inside the brain but extends into the world around us. And what better way to explore this than … Continue reading Netwalking & Extended Cognition – Thinking Beyond the Brain 🧠
