Month: January 2024

Coming up: Knifemaking Workshop – Out on the Land, August 4-7

January 28, 2024

■ Knifemaking ■ Nature connection through material study ■ Handicraft skill development ■ Work with wood, antler, bone, bark, leather, and more ■ Outdoor living craft experience ■ Community outdoor living
4 – 7 August 2024, Edsåsdalen, Jämtland, Sweden

Welcome to join us and create your own knife and sheath. From August 4 – 7 we will be gathering to familiarize with a variety of natural materials, learn the process of creating your own knife with your personal choice of natural materials and patterns, try different techniques, and take home your own knife and skills that will accompany you for the rest of your life.

The act of crafting with natural materials tends to be a very connecting and empowering one. To craft such things that can serve many other of your endeavors, journeys, and undertakings allows for an even deeper connection both to the crafting process as well as to the use and the ‘thing’ created and owned.

We will set up camp out on the land. Gathered around the fire, this will be our base for living, cooking, gathering, sleeping, and most of all: crafting. We will be staying in tents and cook over the fire.
From our base-camp there is plenty exploration and adventuring to do, and the crafting process will allow for self- and collectively chosen breaks.

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION –

Where: Edsåsdalen, Södra Årefjällen, Jämtland, Sweden.
Travel information TBA.

When: 4 – 7 of August 2024.  Arrival and departure time TBA.

Who: This workshop is for all ages above 18, as well as anyone between 8-18 accompanied by a fellow adult, read more...

 with a yearning to explore their own creativity whilst developing skills, making a personallized tool for further outdoor experiencing, and keen to do all this while living outdoors in the Swedish fells. 

Language: Our common language will be English, and guidance can be given in Swedish or Dutch too. No matter your mother tongue, you are welcome. read more...

The facilitator-team harnesses the languages English, Swedish, and Dutch.
If all group members speak Swedish or Dutch, we can adjust the guiding language accordingly.

Costs: €320,- – €520,-  Our contribution range*
read more...

This covers the basic costs of the workshop for you and the organizers, plus a contribution for the organizers for the enabling of the experience.                  
We welcome you to find the contribution that respects your care, gratitude and support for the sustainability of the work we do to enable this journey, as well as your own financial means.
If your financial means allow you to contribute in the higher range, you directly enable someone else’s participation by allowing us to offer a discounted spot on the journey. Thank You!

*Having access to the outdoors is fundamentally important to us and we therefore wish that money is not the constraint that keeps you from partaking in the journey.  For this reason, we offer a few discounted places. As these places are limited, please get in touch in case you’d like to request a discounted spot. 

Reserve your spot by contacting us at homeboundjourneys@gmail.com.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – 

Experience level and Physical abilities: This workshop doesn’t require any previous experience. Participants must be able to walk to base-camp, 2-5km in moderate terrain.

Gear: Participants must bring their own personal gear as well as a tent or other sleeping equipment. Equipment such as tents, sleeping bags, etc. can be rented and reserved through us for rental cost.
Group equipment such as cooking equipment, crafting tools, and camp equipment for collective use will be catered for.
read more...

We will provide extended instructions, tips, and packing list, as well as assistance with gear rental if needed.

Safety:  Every participant is responsible for their own personal travel insurance.

Food: We provide full organic meals catered to all allergies and diets.

A rough workshop-outline:
Day 1: Arrival, settling in, and workshop start.
Day 2: Crafting
Day 3: Crafting
Day 4: Crafting and closing.
* This workshop-outline can still be adjusted.

Will you join us? Send an email to homeboundjourneys@gmail.com and sign up!

Coming up: Spring Equinox Winter Experience, March 17-23

January 28, 2024

■ Winter outdoor-learning ■ Communal outdoor experience ■ Bushcraft and fire-making skills ■ Shelter building ■ Nature orientation ■ Ski/Snowshoe exploration ■ Stories of the land ■ Exploring transformation within and around

 17 – 23 March 2024, Jämtland, Sweden

Spring-winter is around the corner and we are heading out! Join us from March 17 to 23 for a journey into the light-filled and awakening world of Swedish spring-winter on this Spring Equinox Winter Experience.

This journey takes us to the wilderness-frontier of Southern Norrland where we will embrace the Spring Equinox and one of the 8 of the nordic seasons called ‘spring-winter’ as it is in full swing. At this time of the year, while the land is still covered in snow, the abundance of darkness has made way for the ever-growing light, and the world of life is starting to buzz all around. It is a time that truly brings forth the change that lays the base for the transformation of this year’s cycle. This transformation of the awakening life around and within us will be the theme that guides us on this experience.

We will be based in basic huts throughout the journey, with the option of overnights in natural shelter that we will build. We will venture out on ski’s/snowshoes to learn, connect and discover through skills, story, exploring, listening, sharing, and being. The land, elements, circumstances, and experience will naturally guide our learning of winter outdoor-living skills along the way.

Through direct experience and skills practice this journey welcomes you into the learning of winter skills in bushcraft, outdoor living, wilderness experience, and nature connection.


PRACTICAL INFORMATION –

Where: Södra Årefjällen, Jämtland, Sweden.
Travel information TBA.

When: 17 – 23 of March 2024.  Arrival and departure time TBA.

Who: This journey is for all ages above 18* read more...

 who are longing for direct experience and a strengthened relationship to outdoor living in wintry-circumstances and the integration of nature connection in their lives. It is for anyone who is eager to meet the joy, magic, beauty, challenge and teachings of outdoor living and the Swedish ‘spring-winter’, where the cold asserts us to create warmth within and around us, and the the declining darkness welcomes us to notice the light that is growing within us too. 

* Check in with us about participation possibilities for those under 18. They should be accompanied by a fellow adult.

Language: Our common language will be English. No matter your mother tongue, you are welcome. read more...

The facilitator-team harnesses the languages English, Swedish, and Dutch.
If all group members speak Swedish or Dutch, we can adjust the guiding language accordingly.

Costs: €590,- – €790,-  Our contribution range*
read more...

This covers the basic costs of the journey for you and the organizers, the organizers’ travel costs, plus a contribution for the organizers for the enabling of the journey.                  
We welcome you to find the contribution that respects your care, gratitude and support for the sustainability of the work we do to enable this journey, as well as your own financial means.
If your financial means allow you to contribute in the higher range, you directly enable someone else’s participation by allowing us to offer a discounted spot on the journey. Thank You!

*Having access to the outdoors is fundamentally important to us and we therefore wish that money is not the constraint that keeps you from partaking in the journey.  For this reason, we offer a few discounted places. As these places are limited, please get in touch in case you’d like to request a discounted spot. 

Reserve your spot by contacting us at homeboundjourneys@gmail.com.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – 

Experience level and Physical abilities: This is an entry-level journey. Our transfer distances will be approx. 3-7 km on ski’s or snowshoes, as you like. Each participant must physically have the equivalent ability to carrying a backpack of 10kg through rolling terrian for 15km.read more...

 We will assume that participants have little to no experience with winter-journeying and the cold of the north, and will build up skills to move and live outdoors in the winter landscape step-by step. Although no previous experience is required, each participant must have the physical capacity to carry their own backpack with some gear and food for the day, alternatively pull a sled, through rolling winterterrain. No skiing experience is required, practice will be catered for.

Gear: Participants must bring their own personal gear, aside from the group gear provided such as cooking equipment. Ski’s/snowshoes, as well as wintergear such as boots, sleeping bags, etc. can be rented and reserved through us.read more...

We will provide extended instructions, tips, and packing list, as well as assistance with gear rental if needed.
Sleeping spaces are shared.

Safety:  Every participant is responsible for their own personal travel insurance.

Food: We provide full organic meals catered to all allergies and diets.

A rough trip-outline:
Day 1: Arrival and settling in.
Day 2: TBA
Day 3: TBA
Day 4: TBA
Day 5: TBA
Day 6: TBA
Day 7: Morning closing and departure.
* This trip-outline can still be adjusted. 

Through direct experience we will be discovering and meeting the spring-winter world around us, and allow this to inspire the creative inner-work throughout the journey.

Will you join us? Send us an email to homeboundjourneys@gmail.com and sign up!

Coming up: Generational Navigation – A Walking Journey, August 10-17

January 21, 2024

■ Swedish Mountain Experience ■ Nomadic Walking Journey ■ Bush Craft & Traditional skills ■ Fire making ■ Nature Connection and Observation ■ Navigating in the wild ■ Personal & Group Inquiry ■ Creative excercises 

 

On this journey we engage with cross-generational connection as we explore how our current life phase offers unique qualities in relation to ourselves, others, and Earth. Join us from August 10-17 for a walking journey into the vast-stretching fells where the ancient, rolling mountains of mid-Sweden guide our way.

10 – 17 August 2024, Jämtland, Sweden

  • What does it mean to belong to this Earth today? How am I being called to participate? What qualities is my current stage in life giving me? How do I stand in relation and engage with other generations? What does it mean to truly listen? These are some of the questions we will be working with throughout the journey. 

For 6 days we will roam the southern fells of Åre county in Jämtland, which have been home to Sámi people for thousands of years and today hosts a multifaceted blend of people. On this journey, we will be working with different aspects of life-phases and the enriching potential of generational exchange. Through meeting the ancientness of this land read more...

 – practising outdoor living skills such as varying ways of fire making, navigation and working with natural materials – observing and reading the land and the elements – engaging with local stories – group conversation – creative exercises – and personal exploration – we will explore and learn of our own ancient connection, relationship and responsibility to this Earth, how these can evolve throughout our lives, and how every life phase offers chances to discover both ourselves and the world anew  – so to welcome this as a grounding foundation and support in our lives. 

Will you join us? Send us an email to homeboundjourneys@gmail.com to sign up!

This journey combines skill-based learning with personal inquiry and, through this, guide you to step into active participation with the ever-interwoven physical outer journey and the often more hidden inner journey of the soul.

Facilitated by Inte Koster, Lief Cuyvers, and Anna Brunain. A cooperation between Homebound Journeys, De Zomereik, and Mannaz.

 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION – 

Where: Södra Årefjällen, Jämtland, Sweden.
Travel information TBA.

When: 10- 17 of August 2024.  Arrival and departure time TBA.

Who: This journey is for all ages above 18 read more...

 who are longing for direct experience and a strengthened relationship to the integration of nature connection in their lives. It is for anyone who is eager to meet the joy, magic beauty, challenge and teachings of outdoor living and the Swedish north.

Language: Our common language will be English. No matter your mother tongue, you are welcome. read more...

The facilitator-team harnesses the languages English, Dutch, Swedish, and a basic French and German. 

Costs: €590,- – €790,-  Our contribution range*
read more...

This covers the basic costs of the journey for you and the organizers, the organizers’ travel costs, plus a contribution for the organizers for the enabling of the journey.                  
We welcome you to find the contribution that respects your care, gratitude and support for the sustainability of the work we do to enable this journey, as well as your own financial means.
If your financial means allow you to contribute in the higher range, you directly enable someone else’s participation by allowing us to offer a discounted spot on the journey. Thank You!

*Having access to the outdoors is fundamentally important to us and we therefore wish that money is not the constraint that keeps you from partaking in the journey.  For this reason, we offer a few discounted places. As these places are limited, please get in touch in case you’d like to request a discounted spot. 

Reserve your spot by contacting us at homeboundjourneys@gmail.com.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION – 

Experience level and Physical abilities: We believe in the power, value and importance of community and the variety of qualities, experience, skills and interests that each individual brings. Therefore this journey welcomes all levels of experience. read more...

Our walking distances will be approx. 10-15km, of which 3-4 days will be with gear.  Each participant must be able to carry their own backpack with gear and dried food through the rolling terrain of the fells. Estimate your backpack to weigh anywhere between 10-16kg.

Gear: Participants must bring their own personal gear, aside from the group gear provided such as cooking equipment. read more...

 We will provide extended instructions, tips, and packing list, as well as assistance with rental of gear if needed.
Tents can/may be shared.

Safety:  Every participant is responsible for their own personal travel insurance.

Food: We provide full organic meals catered to all allergies and diets.

A rough trip-outline:
Day 1: Afternoon/Evening arrival and settling in.
Day 2: TBA
Day 3: TBA
Day 4: TBA
Day 5: TBA
Day 6: Last walking day, return to Vallbo. Optional evening sauna.
Day 7: Final rounding off and closing. Afternoon departure.                                                                                                         * This trip-outline can still be adjusted. 

 

Through direct experience we will be discovering and meeting the late-summer world around us, and allow this to inspire the creative inner-work throughout the journey.

 

 

Sign up? Questions? Write us an email to homeboundjourneys@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!