We are at the tipping point of social collapse. Not in a doom & gloom way… In a CHANGE way. Because CHANGE is the only CONSTANT in LIFE.

I don’t like the word SURVIVAL associated with outdoor living or time spent in nature. I find it limiting to some extent even degrading.

Nature provides. With all it’s limitations. We are only visitors here. I remember the revolutionary script of the blockbuster movie The Matrix by W.-bros. Some rules can be bent, others can be broken.
This applies to human rules and laws. Nature’s laws are unbendable. For instance – if you are naked at -15oC in winter conditions, most people won’t last an hour. But Ice Man, Wim Hof , showed us techniques to bend this law – by changing our body and mind and adapt to the environment. Accepting what it is completely. And embracing the limitations. And then moving these limits to next level. So what you do is you BEND YOURSELF: your mind, your body. YOU change, YOU adapt.

In past centuries (especially in the past 130 yrs) we have been trying to bend the natural laws, trying to adapt nature to our ways. Thinking we know better. That we are better.
But time and time again we fail miserably. We have destroyed natural habitats, species, life in general – for profit, for “happiness”, for “comfort”, for “indulgence”, for “insatiable hunger”, for “lust over power”.

This is purely mental, not spiritual. Not oneness, but loneliness. It does not support life, co-exist or co-create. It destroys, murders, slaughters, betrays, subjugates and enslaves.
Not being aware of the process we condition ourselves each day into the destructive patterns. And we blame everybody and everything for the results of our programming..
The young generation is excited about “life hacking”. Fancy word, a lot of buzz – In our era, Shakespeare would probably call it “Much a buzz about nothing” … same text… another cover.
If you ask any granny or grandpa, the will tell you that they were daily life hackers – even before you were born. They are professional life hackers. They made their plans out of necessity, not indulgence.
More and more kids are interested in volunteering, open source, open code, life hacking, local community organizing ways of thinking.

And this is good.

Answers in Nature – Peaceful and Balanced Communication for Students
The basis of any relationship is communication. There are many types of communication, but all of them have one thing in common – we want to share our life experience or convey the message and we want to be heard.
I’ve found, through careful observation and over many years, that communication in the urban jungle is vastly different from communicating in a wilderness or natural environment. With this change in the way we communicate, relationships change. And what we create as an individual and group too. Positive, beautiful, sincere, open, lovely, creative, …
There are countless forms of communication, toned with every emotion, thought and feeling we have in the moment of our expression.
At Black Raven Wilderness Academy we remember/teach kids, youth & adults cooperating communication: peaceful – expressing thoughts, ideas, emotions, feelings in a non threatening or non aggressive manner. Communication is balanced – everyone shares their own opinion. It is agreeable – “we agree that we don’t agree”. It is solution-based – talking about the solution to a problem and not conversing about the problem. There is equality – your opinion is equally important as mine.
This equips the participants with experience of cooperating & balanced verbal interaction in comparison to and in contrast with the mostly destructive & power-struggle-for-superiority based communication observed in modern society and it’s communicating channels.
And thus each individual perception of reality is changed – for the brighter!