Nature-Inspired Self-Reliance & Leadership Training to Build
Courage, Confidence & Connection
Wildkind Outdoors offers Corporate and private training events for wilderness survival and leadership training along with adventure retreats both co-ed and women only.
In 2026 we will be launching online courses for self-study, a powerful membership platform to support the growth of our community as well as a gear shop to empower the journey.
Founder Jess Caldwell curates transformational experiences in wild places. 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 changemakers 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.
Jess Caldwell is the founder and lead instructor of Wildkind Outdoors. Jess inspires resilience and self-reliance training in a modern world that is suffering from convenience culture. She is a survival instructor, well-versed in enthnobotony, and a preparedness expert who is certified as a Wilderness First Responder.
Jess offers unique trainings for private groups including corporate leadership retreats and curated adventures in wild places.
With her unique background in holistic health, mindfulness training and nature immersion experiences in the backcountry, Jess is an advocate for living with ALIVENESS as a vital compass for fearlessly navigating these unprecedented times.
The Problem Wildkind Outdoors is Solving
In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven society, many individuals suffer from nature deficiency and an over-reliance on convenience to meet their basic needs. Urban city centers, the indoor lifestyle and the addiction of digital consumption has become a modern epidemic in the western world. This recent paradigm shift has created a generation of humans who are experiencing a failure to thrive.
Modern lifestyle design supports sedentary habits and convenience-driven behaviors that replace deep human connection and holistic health with a single personal numbing device. As a result, depression, stress, anxiety, and feelings of overwhelm are at an all-time high. Few challenges exist that build true resilience of the mind, body and Spirit. Within the last 100 years, we have lost essential survival skills and longevity traditions collected and passed down from generations of ancestral wisdom. This sudden lifestyle shift leaves individuals unprepared for a rapidly changing world and we are experiencing unprecedented vulnerability.
We are living in complacency, disconnected from the rhythms of nature and the healthy reciprocity between humans and resources. We don't know where our food and water comes from. We have replaced wild places for temperature controlled isolation. We have lost basic human skills that foster resilience and self-reliance. We are experiencing a numbing crisis - People are living without ALIVENESS.
Wildkind Outdoors exists to bridge this gap by offering hands-on wilderness skills training and nature immersion experiences that reconnect people to their personal sovereignty. Humans crave meaning, purpose and connection. We teach the vital human skills needed to rewild our culture. As a women owned and operated outdoor education and ALIVENESS advocacy company, we offer a warm and inclusive learning environment for the transformational rise of leadership. Welcome to Wildkind Outdoors, Nature-Inspired Self-Reliance & Leadership Training to Build Courage, Confidence & Connection.
"To Rewild your life is to embrace the natural rhythms of life and unplug from the modern lifestyle of disconnect and convenient consumption. Embrace connection to self, the land and community. Now is the time to renew the health and vitality of all things wild and free".
