WildKind Rewilding & Leadership Cohort:
Become a Community Resilience Practitioner
A Year-Long Rite of Passage for Women. A call to visionary women ready to activate their wild wisdom, awaken embodied leadership, and rise as stewards for a world in transition. We are welcoming 12 women to the Way of the Wildkind 2026 Cohort ~ Your leadership is vital in this time of global change.
Rewilding & Leadership Cohort Begins in 2026
Applications are now being accepted!
Why This Matters
We are living in unprecedented times, and the structures and systems of our world are changing rapidly. It has never been more important to have long vision, to navigate with intuition and gather the skills required to live well and with the land. We are living at a threshold moment. As the old systems crumble and new ways of being continue to emerge, the world is calling for women who are:
Rooted in Earth Wisdom
Living like spring water in the flow of ALIVENESS
Lit from within by the fire of passion and courage
Calm & present Healers who feel deeply
Soul-guided and open to the profound connectivity to all of life
Changemakers who will support holistic survival and the rise of resilient communities
In this technological age, many humans living in urban centers have grown accustom to convenience, numbness and distraction. Many have lost touch with:
- The rhythms of the seasons
- The skills of self-reliance and holistic survival
- The art of being in sacred space and circle
- The intelligence of our bodies as instruments for ALIVENESS & Self-Sourced Wisdom
- The framework for bold action, education, and organization
- The courage and clarity to navigate a changing world
This is why we created the Way of the Wildkind...
Become a Wildkind Leadership & Community Resilience Practitioner
A 12-month intimate mentorship journey for Changemakers.
Throughout the journey, we’ll guide you through:
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Holistic Survival & Resilience Training
Rooted in nature connection, intuitive skill-building, and grounded self-reliance for the modern wild woman. -
Seasonal Wisdom
Harmonize with elements, nature's cycles and rhythm's. -
Embodied Leadership & Space-Holding Practices
Cultivate presence, integrity, and somatic intelligence to lead from authenticity and wholeness. -
Temple Tending & Self-Reclamation Rituals
Build personal rituals that help you tune-in and connect to what matters: The coherence of your mind, body & Spirit. -
Practical Tools for Resilience, Self-Reliance & Community Care
Learn about holistic survival practices that are rooted in ancestral wisdom. From firecraft and wild food foraging to situational awareness, mindset training, creativity and relevant skills to build community resilience. -
Awakening Intuition & Wild Sensory Perception
Cultivate trust in your intuition while learning to read the signs and signals of the living world. Strengthen your ability to perceive using all of your senses. -
The Art of Initiation & Earth-Honoring Leadership
Step into your role as a regenerative leader to guide collective transformation.
Your Invitation
This is not a theoretical course. This is a living, breathing journey into experiential wisdom. This is a portal you can emerge from with tools to take aligned action in service.
We welcome you into an initiation of embodied leadership, community stewardship, and deep reverence for Life itself.
You were born for these times... Live the change you wish to see in the world.
This is the Way of the Wildkind
Wildkind Leadership & Community Resilience Practitioner includes:
2 Monthly Live Trainings (Zoom) with Co-facilitators Jess Caldwell & Lindsay James + Guest Speakers
- Meet by Zoom bi-monthly for 2-hour sessions each held on Sundays
- Starts at 12pm PST // 3pm EST
- Dates: TBA
- Monthly themed teachings (See 12-month curriculum)
- Intimate breakout work each session
- Leadership training through small group facilitation
Guest Speaker Series: Women in Leadership (Zoom)
- Sunday's (one call per month)
- Starts at 12pm PST // 3pm EST
- Dates: TBA
- 1-hour teachings from 12 incredible female visionaries who bring Earth based skills, wisdom, and possibility forward. We are gathering leaders from ethnobotany, ceremonialists, community organizing, leadership training, ancestral arts, death doulaship, and more. The blessings will be bountiful.
Quarterly Art Integration Live on Zoom with Michelle Osborne: Intuitive Painting for Wildkind Integration
Monthly One-Hour Integration Group Call (Zoom)
- Open space to ask questions, share hearts, and freely explore the landscape of the territory we have been covering in our work together.
Online Community
- WhatsApp group for connection and continued community stewardship
- We will include weekly inquiries for discussion and for deepening the integration of your personal journey
Resources:
- Roots & Rites: The Art of Tending Life Itself, A Living Guide for Space Holders (E-Book) by Lindsay James
- Forgotten Home Apothecary: 250 Powerful Remedies at your Fingertips byt Nicole Apelian Ph.D.
- Wildkind How to Make Herbal Oils & Salves
- The Way of the Wildkind: A Year-Long Seasonal Guide to ALIVENESS by Jess Caldwell
Certification Opportunity:
- Begin your journey to become a certified WildKind Leadership & Community Resilience Practitioner (Must attend the Fall Retreat & Summer Training to complete certification which is not included in the year-long cohort).
- Participate in all calls (recordings available) + integration submissions
- Complete 3 Community Service Projects
- Feel empowered and anchored in leadership skills that will help you to grow your own practice as a community resilience facilitator
- Confidently step forward as a teacher. We will be covering all practical and mystical aspects of leadership from Lindsay and Jess's combined experience of facilitating, teaching, and training.
- There are a series of submissions due throughout our course work, as well as service in your local communities that will be required to receive your leadership certification.
Volunteer Opportunities
There will be volunteer opportunities throughout the year in our Wildkind Academy Nonprofit for Teens ~ Mentoring the next generation of resilient leaders.
Jess Caldwell is an ALIVENESS coach, resilience trainer, wilderness survival instructor and Wilderness First Responder. With a degree in Health & Holistic Wellness and as a certified Health Coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Jess offers a multi-faceted approach to integrated living. With a unique training as a Death Doula, Jess has been a public speaker and educator for empowered end-of-life practices from green burial to home funerals.
As the founder of Wildkind Outdoors, Jess has been educating, leading workshops and facilitating rewilding retreats for over 5 years. She has a unique curriculum that incorporates holistic survival skills that build confidence and leadership in the outdoors while weaving situational awareness, mindfulness practices and intuition training throughout the context of learning.
Jess is a full-time rewilder who lives in harmony with seasonal alignment, nature studies and wild food harvesting for holistic health. She believes that self-reliance is the new self-care as we navigate a modern world that is changing rapidly. Now is the time to deepen our relationship with self, community and all things wild and free in nature to cultivate a truly inspired life with meaning and purpose.
If you want to learn more about me, please visit the Meet Jess page.
Lindsay James is a Ceremonialist, Death Doula & Grief Tender, Community Leader, Teacher, Breath & Sound Practitioner, Mystic, and Mentor.
As a seasoned facilitator, she has spent over two decades guiding individuals and groups through transformative processes that cultivate leadership, community resilience, and a return to right-relationship with self, kin, and the living Earth.
As an Earth-based practitioner and educator, Lindsay specializes in weaving nature’s rhythms, ancestral skills, and somatic practices into powerful learning experiences. Her teachings are rooted in years of hands-on facilitation—training space holders, mentoring practitioners, and leading groups through immersive rites of passage.
At the heart of her work is a devotion towards collective care, embodied leadership, community action and stewardship of land and life itself.
Registration Includes:
- 24 Live Zoom Trainings including 12 Guest Speakers
- Integration call once/month
- Ceremonial and Practical gift package included
- Wildkind Cohort WhatsApp Group
- Roots & Rites: The Art of Tending Life Itself, A Living Guide for Space Holders (E-Book)
- Wildkind How to Make Herbal Oils & Salves
- Certification Opportunity
Is the Way of the WildKind for You?
This 12-month personal rewilding & leadership initiation + opportunity for certification is for women who are:
Teachers, facilitators, and space holders ushering the Sacred.
Healers, therapists and visionaries carrying medicine for these times.
Mothers, sisters, and stewards of community weaving connection.
Changemakers, ritualists and empaths ready to remember their wildness and lead from Soul.
Doulas, mentors and guides tending the threshold of change.
We are welcoming 12 women who are called to embody leadership in these changing times. Women who are ready to remember their wildness & claim their power to serve. Women longing for deep connection ~ To Self, Nature, and Community. Women seeking practical skills for resilience and soulful service.
This is not a quick fix or surface-level certification training. This is a deep dive into the truth of who you and how you can amplify your unique gifts in this time of global change.
We will be in a focused initiation to cultivate grounded and practical leadership skills. This is Soul work. Field work. Heart work. Body work & Earth work.
Be the Changemaker. Build community resilience. Live from ALIVENESS. This is the Way of the Wildkind.
