you’re already part of it…

Don’t just visit nature. Learn to belong to it.

re-wild helps you get to know the nature on your doorstep, live a little wilder and pass it on. Watch the 3-minute film, then choose where you would like to go.

black bryony, by the path

What is Wilding?

Watch the 3-minute film

Know nature, live wilder, pass it on: the whole idea, set to the song Wilding.

Where would you like to go?

Start hereNew to re-wild? See what it is, who it is for and where to begin.Go →What is Wilding?My way of connecting with nature: know nature, live wilder, pass it on.Go →Activity guidesOver 800 printable activities, games and skills to try outside.Go →How guides workSee one activity guide explained, front to back.Go →CoursesOne and two-day courses outdoors with me, for adults and groups.Go →ShopThe Wilding books, activity guide collections and the whole Rucksack.Go →About JayWho I am, and why I do this.Go →ContactQuestions, group days or just to say hello.Go →

“I would like to invite you to get to know nature and learn ways that will support you to live a little wilder.” Jay

Safety and where the activity guides come from

Look after yourself and others. Outdoor activities carry real risks: fire, tools, water, weather, heights, plants, fungi, animals and getting lost. Every activity guide includes safety notes, but you are responsible for your own safety and for anyone in your care. Supervise children closely, get the landowner's permission, follow the Countryside Code, never eat anything you cannot identify with complete certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe. If in doubt, leave it out.

With gratitude to the lineage. The Wilding Practice Keys and many of the activities in the activity guides have been adapted from the core routines of nature connection in the 8 Shields approach (Coyote Mentoring), mapped by Jon Young and shared in Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young, Haas & McGown), and from the many teachers, mentors and traditions who have passed these ways on. Wilding is my way of carrying them forward. — Jay