adventure
an unforgettable experience
The Epic Adventure provides a platform from which Epic Life clients get to practice for life’s challenges while embarking on an unforgettable experience.
An experienced adventurer, I offer to a select number of clients a unique "epic adventure" option, in combination with coaching and/or consulting over the course of the year.
options
2 types of guided Epic Life adventures
One-on-One Epic Adventure
The one-on-one epic adventure is a sunrise-to-sunset challenge, guided by me, in a natural, awe-inspiring location such as Zion, Grand Canyon or Yosemite national parks.
It's about the hike
It will take place in scenery that is so spectacular it can move you to tears. It will provide solitude and space that will facilitate reflection, introspection and result in increased clarity about who and what matter most in your life. It will be one heck of a hike, so you'll reap a tremendous health benefit resulting in the preparation for, and completion of, the adventure. You will have improved self-leadership and increased confidence. You will earn "bragging rights" from accomplishing such an epic adventure. And, it will be an unforgettable experience.
And yet, it's not about the hike
The epic adventure is not a guided tour or a vacation. To be effective, the epic adventure must push you not only physically, but also mentally and emotionally. I will level you up. We will select an adventure that you are not certain you can accomplish, but that I'm certain you can. Often the adventure is used as a metaphor in your life, or for a change that you are considering making, or working on. Despite the short length, the experience will be epic. At the most, it will be a life-changing experience. At the least, it will be an unforgettable experience. Either way, you will return more, and better, than you were before it.
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Small Group 5-Day Guided Adventure
In partnership with NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School), Epic Life provides a 5-day guided backpacking expedition in stunning mountain country.
This adventure is offered to select clients, in combination with coaching and consulting that occurs throughout the year, pre- and post-adventure.
During the expedition, clients will be pushed physically, mentally and emotionally, participate in hands-on leadership skill development courses, experience awe-inspiring scenery, make new friends, and enjoy what will be an unforgettable adventure.
The expedition serves as a platform from which clients will learn about and practice route finding, which has practical implications in one's personal life as well as in her/his work. Clients will cook and camp together, and learn and practice the tenets of Expedition Behavior. The expedition provides an epic platform for practicing team building and expanding leadership while gaining skills and confidence in a unique, inspiring setting.
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testimony
What clients say about Epic Life adventures
"Such limitless energy and so much experience and wisdom to channel that energy into."
Antonia Ruppel
Senior Cornell University lecturer, and "trail comrade"
"An inspiring and endearing companion."
Jon Dorn
Editor-in-Chief, Backpacker Magazine, and "trail comrade"
"Shelli is just plain 'real;' there is not an ounce of phony or exaggeration in her."
Jon Rosenfield, Ph.D.
conservation biologist, WFR, NOLS alum and "trail comrade"