Being part of the Wilderness Fit team has brought so much more to my life than I had expected. Yaz has created an environment in which the facilitators and the participants are not in a hierarchical structure, we are all on the same level and therefore those who contribute to the weekends benefit from the experience just as much. I struggle with my mental wellbeing on and off, as most people do, and these weekends have become my opportunity to reset.
I feel incredibly lucky to get this opportunity so many times in a year. The uplift that I get is not just from me getting time in good company and in nature, but is predominantly through the moments of vulnerable connections with strangers. Both through the connections I make personally but also through observing the transformation in those who come along.
Words cannot describe the impact that one weekend can have on peoples lives, it blows me away literally every time. The lasting impact each time is that I leave feeling inspired from the new skills learnt from all of the facilitators, heart filled up from deep and vulnerable chats with strangers whom I may not have had the chance to meet otherwise and with hope from listening to peoples stories of struggles and the multitude of ways in which they have brought stability back into their lives.
Hannah, Wilderness Wellbeing facilitator