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Trackways 7-Month Nature Immersion Intensive

A rite of passage into purpose, confidence, and deep connection with the Earth

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Do you want to feel truly at home anywhere on Earth?

To wake up with clarity about your purpose.
To trust your instincts.
To stand strong in uncertain times.
To guide others back into meaningful relationship with nature.

If something in you is calling for more depth, more connection, more truth — you’re in the right place.

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Why This Course Exists

Modern life moves fast. Too fast.

Many of us feel the quiet ache of disconnection — from land, from community, from ourselves. We sense that the systems around us are unsustainable. We feel the pull to live differently… but we don’t always know how.

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This 7-month intensive is a structured path back.

Back to competence.
Back to belonging.
Back to purpose.

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Through immersive time in nature, we restore what has been fragmented — building not just survival skills, but self-trust, clarity, leadership and inner steadiness.

This isn’t escapism.
It’s preparation for meaningful living.

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What You Will Gain

By the end of this journey, you will:

• Feel confident spending extended time alone in nature

• Develop advanced wilderness survival and bushcraft skills

• Deepen your intuitive and sensory awareness

• Build leadership and mentoring capacity

• Integrate ancient wisdom with modern ecological understanding

• Experience a powerful rite-of-passage-style Survival Quest

• Form lasting bonds within a committed, supportive community

This course doesn’t just teach skills.
It reshapes identity.

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Who This Is For

This intensive is for those who feel the call.

• Environmental educators wanting deeper embodiment

• Bushcraft practitioners ready for advanced immersion

• Permaculturists and regenerative land stewards

• Forest School leaders

• Graduates seeking grounded, lived experience

• Adults pivoting away from conventional education routes

• Those seeking personal transformation and purpose

 

Since 2000, this programme has trained educators and mentors now working across the UK and Europe.

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If you’re ready to commit, you will be held — and challenged — in equal measure.

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The Experience

Over 7 months, you will move through:

• Five immersive gatherings

  • One opening weekend

  • Three five-day intensives

  • One week-long solo Survival Quest

 

Each module builds progressively.
Each session deepens both outer skill and inner capacity.

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You will study:

• Advanced survival skills

• Tracking and naturalist studies

• Birds, plants, and animal behaviour

• Mentoring principles

• Nature-based awareness practices

• Practical Earth-living systems

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The skills are taught through principles — meaning you gain adaptability across environments, not just memorised techniques.

This is long-term integration, not a short course high.

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A Modern Rite of Passage

The Survival Quest is a defining moment.

Facing yourself in nature builds a deep, unshakeable trust in your own resourcefulness. Many describe it as life-changing.

It marks a transition — from participant to practitioner. From seeker to guide.

Leadership & Lineage

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The majority of the course is led by Thomas Schorr-Kon, with over 27 years of teaching experience.

• First practitioner to teach Tom Brown Jr.’s wilderness philosophy in the UK

• One of the first trainers of Jon Young’s nature connection model in the UK

• Mentor, regenerative land steward and founder of multiple training initiatives

• Author of True Nature and From B to A: Hacking the Flow State in Love, Life, Work and Parenting

 

You will be learning from a lineage of deep wilderness knowledge combined with decades of hands-on teaching.

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The Bigger Picture

In a time when “nature deficit” is no longer theory but reality, this course equips you to:

• Reclaim balance in your own life

• Bring others back into relationship with land

• Contribute meaningfully to cultural renewal

 

This is not a hobby course.
It is a commitment to living differently.

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The Invitation

The Trackways 7-Month Intensive has been running for over two decades and remains one of the most established immersive nature programmes in the country.

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Places are limited. Commitment is required.

If you feel the call, the next step is simple:

Email your application and questions to:
tischorrkon@gmail.com

Or message on WhatsApp:
07801 492482

Let’s speak.
 

Let’s see if this is your path.

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Evening meals will be provided and various wild food treats over the year. Other than this the courses are largely self-catering so please bring food for the duration and a stove. We encourage a cooperative approach to this and will assist in making this aspect work well for everyone.  Cooking will be encouraged in and around the fire and ways of using the fire for cooking will be explored over the course.    Tea and coffee and a kettle will always be available.

(Certain modules may be open to advanced students where appropriate)

  

To Apply

It is possible to spread the payment over the year though a deposit of £600 must be sent with the application. The total cost for the year course starting in 2026 is £2800.

Trackways also offers a program of teaching experience including mentoring and guidance for those wishing to become teachers.

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Listed below are the modules which may run in a slightly different order depending on the start date of the year course.

Itinerary for Year course:

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First session; Session: 

This first session allows us to get to know each other and build group coherence. We will start with learning the basic skills of survival and nature awareness. This itinerary is the same as the Wildcraft course.

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Second Session; 5 Days: Advanced Survival skills.  Establishing a survival camp moving towards survival living. Skills covered: group shelter, advanced fire making, Traps, Awareness routines, Cooking in the fire, more cordage, plant I.D. including edible and medicinal plants. Tracking, Hide tanning, Flint knapping,  Bow making and Arrow Fletching, Bark work, Raw hide use.

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Third session: 5 Days: Nature Awareness& Connection: Bird language, silent and invisible movement, camouflage, concentric ring study, blind fold work, balance work, tracking at speed, silent communication.

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Fourth Session; 5 Days: Additional skills & Quest Preparation: We will make sure every one's skill level is up to the challenge of the quest as only a maximum of 3 items can be taken and we will try to help you make them all. (Bowl, Blanket, Knife)

 

Fifth session 7 Days: Survival Quest putting your skills to the test living wild for four days.  

 

Year course cost £2800

 

​Some of the skills covered over the year course:

 

Flint knapping, making arrow heads, wild food preparation, shelter building and living

Advanced fire methods, bow drill fire with natural cordage, axe, saw and knife use and safety, survival bow making, arrow making, fletching, tools made by fire, water purification methods, fire cooking methods,  hide tanning, raw hide work, bark basket making including water carrying baskets, bone work, the use of different bones for specific purposes, making tools from bones, use of sinew, native hunting methods, trapping, primitive pottery, Flint knapping making hand axes, knife blades & Celts, primitive food preparation including making jerky, hand drill fire method, bow making principles, snap bow, father and son bow, bow in an hour, working with pine pitch, the art of invisibility, many diverse stalking steps, expert camouflage, concentric rings in nature, the study of bird language, the routine of invisibility, scout psychology and awareness, body control,  group dynamics, the scout shelter, nature awareness, plant and tree identification, natural soaps tooth brush etc, detailed study of medicinal plant use, herbal first aid, tracking techniques, track ageing, the tracking stick, night tracking, pattern classification, pressure release studies, single track analysis, natural navigation.