
Global Wilderness Guides Gathering 2025
Embercombe, Devon, UK, 12th – 17th April 2025
We are delighted to be able to share with you that the next Global Wilderness Guides Gathering is happening in the UK at Embercombe, Devon.
Please join us from 12th – 17th April 2025
UPDATE – 23rd November 2024
The Gathering is currently full with a waiting list for accommodation with catering spaces. However, please do continue to register holding the dates, as more information re day tickets will be announced soon. Thank you.
UK Gathering Information
About the 2025 Gathering
The time is now, the call has been heard to meet on these lands together as wilderness guides, to explore how this work is unfolding, where it may be going, and who it is serving. We hope you’ll join us for this wild and beautiful gathering of souls.
Wilderness rites of passage have been growing in these lands for many years, there have been many changes and more energy coming in. It is time to look at how this work is growing, at our relationship to this land, and what wants to emerge over the years ahead. Please join us, bring your experience from here and around the world, to come and gather.
Acknowledging the extraordinary field generated by the coming together of diverse guides, youngers and elders, from all continents of the earth – historically these have constituted ‘landmark life events’ for many attendees; wells of nourishment to drink from, and cairns of power to steer by, for years to come.
This is a 5-day gathering. We will be held by a lightly facilitated structure with spaces for themes and questions to emerge, with space to gather inside and on the land, time to eat together, to come together in wider circles and smaller to share practices, lean into each other to feel nourished, and to make space to listen to old ways and the new. Let’s come together to feed the hearth.
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About us
Wilderness Guides UK is inspired and supported by the Global Wilderness Guides Council and together we are dedicated to reintroducing meaningful, earth-based rites of passage and related programs in the context of our modern culture.
A small group of guides from the UK have put their names forward to support the emergence of the 2025 gathering.


History of the Wilderness Guides Council
Born from the vision and holding of the School of Lost Borders, Wilderness Guides have been meeting regularly since the first gathering in 1988 in the Eastern Sierras, California. Read more about the history here.
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