Many people feel drawn to spend more meaningful time in nature, but don’t always know how to begin.

What starts as a desire for fresh air or quiet often carries something deeper—
a need to slow down, to notice more fully, and to reconnect with what feels steady and true.

The Elemental Journey offers a different kind of time in nature.

Not simply being outdoors, but learning how to experience the natural world with attention, awareness, and relationship.

What this is

The Elemental Journey is a private, one-to-one immersion experience held at The Gentle Wild.

Across a series of guided sessions, you’ll explore nature through sensory awareness, creative observation, and reflective conversation.

Working at a gentle pace, these practices gradually become a personal way of engaging with the landscape—one that can continue long after the sessions conclude.

For many, this work brings clarity during times of transition, creative renewal, or reflection.

How It Unfolds

  • 🌿 Arrive

    Each session begins by slowing down and engaging the senses, allowing attention to shift from doing to noticing.

  • 🌿 Explore

    Through guided practices, you’ll work with observation, creative response, and reflective awareness in natural settings.

  • 🌿 Deepen

    Over time, the experience becomes a personal practice—supporting clarity, self-awareness, and meaningful connection.

What Makes This Different

This is not a hike, a lesson, or a performance-based workshop.

It is a guided practice in relationship—between self and nature, perception and place.

The focus is not on outcome, but on attention.

As the sessions unfold, nature is no longer something you visit—
it becomes something you begin to relate with.

The Journey Through the Twelve Sessions

The Elemental Journey unfolds through twelve private guided sessions, each offering a distinct point of entry into awareness, relationship, and creative exploration.

  1. Nature Without Barriers — Making connections
  2. Finding Creative Center — Identifying mindset blocks
  3. Reconnection — Introduction to building relationships
  4. Art, Breath, & Circuit Training — Skill development and confidence
  5. Trust, Respect & Oneness With Nature — Wholeness, appropriate assertiveness, and observation
  6. Dances With Nature — Deepening self-awareness
  7. Hear Ye — An adventure without sight; trust, articulation, and active listening
  8. Spark Your Inner Child — Creative play, understanding, and mutual respect
  9. Art of Relationship — It’s all up to you
  10. Art of Change — Transformation through common sense
  11. Art of Mutual Trust & Respect — Changing perspective to understand the value of relationship
  12. Absolutely Wonderful You — Focus and gratitude

Each session stands on its own, while also building gently toward a deeper and more lasting experience of nature immersion.

Who It's For

This journey may be a good fit if you…

  • feel drawn to spend quiet, attentive time in nature
  • are curious about sensory awareness and creative observation
  • appreciate reflective conversation in natural settings
  • are navigating a period of transition or seeking clarity
  • want to develop a personal practice of nature immersion

Experience level

No previous artistic experience is required.

Format

This is offered as private one-to-one guided sessions, allowing for a more personal and responsive pace.

The Format

  • Session length

    1.5 hours

  • Location

    The Gentle Wild — Rocky View County

  • Scheduling

    By appointment

Ways to Begin

Participants may begin with a single session or follow the full twelve-session immersion.

A single session offers a meaningful introduction.

The full journey allows the experience to deepen gradually through:

  • sensory awareness and perception practices
  • creative observation and eco-art exploration
  • reflective conversation and insight gathering
  • development of a personal nature immersion practice

Each session builds gently upon the last, allowing the work to settle and grow over time.

What's Included

Single Session

One 1.5-hour private guided immersion session

Full twelve-session journey

  • Twelve private immersion sessions
  • The Nature Book Series - 3 books
  • Guided workbook for personal practice

Between-session support

The books and workbook are designed to support continued reflection and practice between sessions and long after the series concludes.

What People Often Gain

While each person’s experience is their own, this journey often supports:

  • greater sensory awareness
  • renewed clarity during times of transition
  • deeper self-awareness and reflection
  • a more meaningful relationship with the natural world
  • a personal practice that can continue beyond the sessions

Facilitated by Sherri Phibbs

The Elemental Journey is facilitated by Sherri Phibbs—artist, bestselling author, and experiential learning facilitator whose work integrates nature, perception, and creative practice.

At The Gentle Wild, she offers guided experiences that invite people into slower, more attentive ways of noticing, relating, and creating.

Investment

Individual Session:$120 CAD
Full Elemental Journey:$1,200 CAD for 12 sessions

Begin With One Step

If you feel drawn to spend time in nature in a slower, more attentive way, you are welcome to begin with a single session.

Reserve Your Session

In Closing

You are welcome to come as you are, prepared to allow the wilderness without to balance the wilderness within.