Wilderness Trail

This ClearWater Wilderness trail, a 4-month program, is about connecting with and learning from Nature and thus with yourself through deep, personal experience. It is key to transforming your thoughts, actions and approach to life. The trail expands your consciousness and ability to embed the experience in your day-to-day life. It is a program towards a personal inner transformation and power to co-create the life in a world we want to live in. It is designed and extended to create a profound positive impact on everyone involved; you as a participant, Bergplaas and its mission.You will largely spend time outdoors in untouched nature far from the familiar and from the daily routine, to simplify and slow down without distractions of watches, telephones and computers.

Place

The trail will be held at Bergplaas Nature Reserve, South Africa which was established by Princes Irene of the Netherlands in 2002. The 5.000-hectare Bergplaas Nature Reserve neighbours the iconic Compassberg in the Sneeuberg Mountains of the Great Karoo. Its altitude ranges from 1400m to 1800m and it serves as a key water catchment for the Karoo and the Eastern Cape. Bergplaas is an official Quiet Park and located a 4-hour drive from Port Elizabeth.

Why participate?

We live in a fast-paced world, and we are often busy doing.
How often do we give ourselves time to slow down and reflect? What are we doing? How do we really feel, and why? In this program, we take the time to reflect on our life, our personal leadership and professional development. What do we want to create in our lives? Embarking on this program is a real journey of discovery.

The journey begins with more awareness from the whole of you: your brain, your heart, your gut and your soul. What you receive is expanded self-awareness and choice, clarity and focus in what you want to create, balance between me and we and more connection to nature and our planet. The 4-month program includes individual and group coaching, with the wilderness trail as the pivotal moment.
Transitioning your new insights, awareness and choices moving into your future is unique in this program.

For whom?

We encourage an international and diverse group of leaders – from different backgrounds, professions, organisations or entrepreneurs. People who already and/or are longing to create a positive ripple in the world. People yearning for a deep transformative experience. People who hold a question. People who feel something is missing or feel stuck. People wanting to make a next step in the way they lead and create their life and/or career, to become conscious of the impact they have on their environment (personal, private, professional, planet).

The experience

Through experiencing the interconnectedness of life, we connect to our own nature, our own path. We become aware of what has formed who we are and where we are in life now. Being in nature creates a place of inner peace and silence from which new thoughts emerge. Thoughts that create a new life experience. This program allows for the unfolding of our inner leadership by aligning all aspects of ourselves with what surrounds us, what we are part of. It is a collective (we) and a personal (me) journey, which includes guided walks, silence, group and individual reflections and an extended solo time.

Information

• Date: 23 November – 30 November 2025 (travel days 22 November and 1 December)
• Location: Bergplaas Nature Reserve, South Africa
• Kosten: € 4700 excl. BTW. For South Africans, please connect with us for the local price. 
• Max: 8 people

The program will be led by facilitators: Karin Oeseburg and Welmoed Kronemeijer and wilderness guides Ian Read and Wayne Maspero.

• Karin Oeseburg (karin.oeseburg@weareclearwater.com, +316 20212299) en
• Welmoed Kronemeijer (welmoed.kronemeijer@weareclearwater.com,+316 51939806).