At Wilderness Expertise, we recognise that fostering employee development and connection in the workplace is fundamental to long-term business success and retaining top talent.
Whether you’re looking for graduates, interns, or apprentices, our programmes are crafted to kickstart early careers with immersive, hands-on experiential learning that teams won’t forget. With a focus on fun and personal development—and rooted in robust academic theory—each session equips teams with the skills to thrive in the workplace.
We offer four flagship programmes, each using the great outdoors, and each tailored to meet your unique aims and objectives:
The Wilderness Experience is a team challenge, designed around providing teams with the key survival priorities - positive attitude, shelter, warmth, water, signals, first aid and food.Our skilled facilitators use the tasks to develop skills, as well as to develop confidence and resilience, collaborative problem solving skills, creative thinking and fostering physiological safety within teams - all whilst having fun in the great outdoors!
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Join us on our Shackleton Challenge. Using the incredible true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team, the programme develops leadership and presentation skills, collaboration and communication, time management and creative problem solving.Expect to build life rafts, decode maps, build storm shelters, and salvage supplies from a shipwreck - all in the name of survival!
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Our Mission Everest programme is ideal for driving team collaboration and developing self-awareness, problem solving, leadership and time management skills.Build within an immersive story, teams prepare their skills for the climb. They pitch against one another in order to win the permit to climb Mt Everest. This is an energising, fun programme with a seriously competitive edge.
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Hills and Mountain skills are programmes that earn you a nationally recognised qualification on completion.Courses challenge teamwork, develop problem solving skills, resilience and trust, plus enjoying the great outdoors! People will talk about their mountain adventure for a long time to come!They're delivered by highly experienced Mountain Leaders. Our favourite location for the Mountain Skills course is Snowdonia. We deliver Hill Skills in hilly locations across the UK.Find out more information about the course below.
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