Backpack Retreat For Leaders
Lead others to success by first stepping into your own power and strengths. Have FUN and Grow from the challenges and coaching that comes from direct interaction with the wilderness, other leaders and the personal metaphors in your experience.
If you are in a place of transition or you are hoping to rediscover passion in your work and increase team effectiveness, in 4 days we are going to help you reconnect with the most important part of life, YOURSELF. Take the chance to push yourself into something new.
Late Spring to Early Fall dates available
Where: Rawah Wilderness, Northern Colorado
Discover your true Self
Our team skills and background in coaching, wilderness education, executive leadership and personal development will assist you through your empowering experience
Understand your Strength
Experience the clarity that comes from physical challenges while in the wild. Leave the expedition with insight, clarity, trust and a bold sense of personal power.
Impact Other's lives
Personal achievements are great part of success and happiness, AND one of the most gratifying feelings is born in the positive impact we can have on other people's lives. Learn how to maximize your leadership.
Meet Our Coaches
Kristen Truman-Allen
Kristen has over 20 years of experience as a facilitator and educator in clinical, academic, corporate and wilderness environments. She serves as an executive coach, organizational consultant and facilitator for individual and team development.
Kristen is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She earned two master’s degrees in Nursing Education and Human and Organization Systems. Kristen is a PhD is in Human and Organizational Development with a focus on Coaching and Metaphor through Fielding University.
Her experience as a Professional Coach and also Outward Bound instructor has given her the honor of empower and inspire leaders, artists, teams and entrepreneurs to transform their lives.
Coaching partners report greater life and job engagement as well as team effectiveness as they work to eliminate the barriers that hinder success.
Rue Freeman
Rue Freeman, EDPMA, WFR, Wilderness Instructor/ Admin, Mom of humans and animals.
Life is an adventure. Adventure can be found in the outdoors, the family, the mind, body, arts and everywhere imaginable.
Rue has spent more than 25 years leading Outdoor Education and Outdoor Adventure trips and nearly that same number of years focusing on the power of the personal learning experience. She believes strongly in the story the mountains, rivers and valleys have to tell. To step away from the busy and discover the ‘real world’ is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. Prioritizing the experience instead of the task, to find beauty in successes, failures, the unexpected and your companions is a gift indeed.
With nature as a teacher we can find our best selves over and over again. Every expedition has it’s big and it’s quiet moments and to keep exploring and adventuring we need both. Rue’s intention is to set a safe and unique experience that encourages transference of learnings from the course to daily life and back.
When Rue is not working, she is boating, skiing, hiking, going to concerts and chilling with her family and friends, or on her own.
4 days and 3 nights in the Rawah Wilderness, Northern Colorado. Price includes backpacking EQUIPMENT, FOOD and TRANSPORTATION provided from Fort Collins, Co.
What to expect
Frequently asked questions
Upon confirmation of your registration, you will receive a list of supplies for your expedition. Your enrollment fee covers the cost of personal and group technical gear such as tents, camps stoves, sleeping bags, etc.
Tents and sleeping bags are included with your fee to provide a comfortable and adventurous experience.
This expedition is designed to be challenging as well as safe. We ask for participants to be in moderate physical condition and to be responsible for knowing their health limits.
Your safety is our number one priority. Our leaders are specifically trained in Wilderness First Response and Emergency Trauma Nursing with a focus on assessment and response to emergencies. They are highly skilled and will be able to address minor medical needs that may arrive on your journey. Processes are in place to support exiting the expedition should an emergency arise.
Safety involving skin care, traveling together, inclement weather etc. will be addressed on an ongoing basis with the individual or group.
Occasional encounters with wildlife such as moose, marmots and bears are possible. Your leaders will ensure that you have proper gear and food protection to limit the attraction of animals.
We will be more than happy to answer all your questions and concerns. You can always call (970) 821-6960 or email us to [email protected]
