Nature-Inspired Self-Reliance & Leadership Training to Build Courage, Confidence & Connection. From essential skills like wilderness survival to nature immersion retreats that restore presence and wonderment of the natural world, Wildkind Outdoors inspires ALIVENESS. Founder Jess Caldwell curates transformational experiences both in wild places and through online connection. It's time to restore and rebalance the negative effects of modern living. The Way of the Wildkind is to energize a growing community of change makers who value ancestral wisdom and keeping the traditions of our human adaptability skills alive. Nature is our greatest ally as we cultivate a profound reverence for life, a sensitivity towards our symbiotic relationship with all living things and compassionate leadership for a thriving future.