Nature Calls Adventures …the path less traveled, offers participants the opportunity of a lifetime to relax, rejuvenate and reflect in a wilderness space with wild animals and tribal people – African Bush Style. The experience supports Personal Development, Corporation Restructuring and/or Sporting Excellence.

The Adventures take place in Southern and Eastern Africa, and in Italy. They are hosted by EcoPsychologist, Mandy Young who has thirty-one years of privileged experience journeying with clients of all ages towards emotional healing and good relationships. Added to this she has twenty-one years of enjoyment learning from wild animals – white lions, mountain gorillas, wild dogs, elephants, meerkats, dolphins and whales; and from tribal people – the Bushmen and the Maasai.

All these wilderness experiences have at their core the understanding that Mental Health and Environmental Sustainability are interdependent. An essential focus is Self-Discovery because it:

  • motivates,
  • creates confidence,
  • creative thinking,
  • passion and purpose.

Nature Calls Adventures…the path less travelled..impacts on the lives of Tourists, Corporate participants or Sportsmen and women who want to learn better how to connect with themselves and their families, their work colleagues or those in their sports team. Nature provides the context to use all our senses, even our much neglected intuition, and thus cutting-edge, competitive solutions are possible.

Animals with social behavior and tribal people are our teachers because they are well adapted to their environment and know how to survive in a changing environment. They know how to relate well and be a team. Thus their lifestyles offer Corporate participants the springboard to discuss Authentic Leadership, Corporate Structuring (or preferably de-structuring and de-centralizing) and consideration of future  trends that offer long term sustainability of production and employee wellbeing.

Sports & Safaris, a dimension of Nature Calls Adventures offer sportsmen and women a nurturing environment in which to prepare for sports challenges ahead. They learn to regain their intuition and the ability to make connected, split-second decisions in the heat of the game. Sportsmen and women train hard to develop optimal physical performance but also become aware of their strengths as well as their vulnerabilities as well as those of their team mates. As such they know well how to consider one another with awareness and fit together as a team to achieve sporting excellence.

You do not need to be a sportsman or women or a Corporate employee to participate in a Nature Calls Adventure. This path less travelled is for the discerning Tourist who want something unique, restful, adventurous and fun.

All participants in the Nature Calls Adventures have the privilege of Mandy’s integrating expertise. She facilitates daily self-reflective discussion groups with guests after time spent with a specific aspect of Nature, a certain wild animal species or with a tribal group. The group discussion always has at its core self-discovery but the conversational theme may vary according to the needs of the specific group of people.

Some of the understandings Mandy has gained through her professional work and days in the bush are backed by the wisdom and expertise of other well known personalities, they include:

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Bushmen, Victoria Falls & Wild Dogs

meerkat tour oudtshoorn wildlife corporate team buildingA flight from Maun, the gateway to the Okovonga Delta on a small light aircraft takes us to Grasslands Lodge where we stay close to the Hunting place of the Naro Bushmen. Beyond expectations they are authentic animal skin clad group of small muscular people with ample bottoms who live and survive off the desert land. We spend 5 days with them then fly for a night to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, Victoria Falls. We stay at the famous Victoria Falls Hotel and then move on to 4 days of Painted Hunting Dog tracking whilst staying at the exclusive Somalisa Bush Camp in the heart of Hwange Game Reserve.

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Maasai Skill Building & Beho Beho Wildlife

descriptionWe begin this experience learning important Survival & Team Building skills from the Maasai of the Ilngwesi clan in northern Kenya: weapons training, animal tracking, making medicines from local plants for healing & learning how to survive in the bush through making fire, constructing shelters & finding water. We then spend 5 days & 4 nights in the Beho Beho wilderness, measuring 55,000 sq kms - one of the largest areas of game ‘preservations’ in Africa..It is possible to stay here for days without seeing any other human beings – just wild, wild nature in all her splendour. Guests stay in a ‘bandas’ - local stone construction, thatched in palm leaves, but with one wall totally open to the bush.

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Wild Dogs, Elephants & Dolphins

descriptionWe start our adventure at the world-renowned, award winning Thanda Game Reserve where we track a pack of Wild Dogs. We then travel to several families of Elephants, well-known to Mandy, who reside at Pongola Game Reserve. After spending 4 days in their presence staying at Mvubu Lodge on the edge of the Pongola River gorge, we travel across the Cozi Bay border into Mozambique where we will spend 5 tranquil, but exciting days swimming with Dolphins. Here we stay in a pristine luxury tented camp on the edge of the sea shore.

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