WILD RETREATS OUTDOOR OFFSITES FOR LEADERS
"If you want to go fast, go alone
if you want to go far, go together."
Cohesion and trust between individuals are proven to increase during activities and challenges outside the workplace. They learn to recognize (and accept) each other's strengths and weaknesses and begin to communicate more effectively and openly. In other words, multiple individuals merge into a powerful team with healthy and effective conflict resolution capabilities.
Nature sprinkles a special sauce on top. It boosts the mood and immune system, increases creative output, and improves the ability to solve problems together.
Our multi-day team experiences offer the perfect conditions for bringing about lasting transformation rapidly. They combine action, adventure, learning, reflection, insight, and relaxation. This leads to unforgettable experiences that align courage, motivation, and purpose.
What will you find
- A powerful offsite for trailblaze thinking
- Different methods to (re)connect
- Reflections and collective insights
- Pathways to empathetic leadership
Who is a Wild Retreat for
- Company teams
- Organizations
- Entrepreneurs (associations)
- Teams with a common goal
Why do you choose Outdoor Heroes
Why do you choose
Outdoor Heroes
- Custom programs
Fully tailored to your team's size, goals and needs.
- Professional facilitators
Experienced English-speaking instructors ensure safety, learning and fun.
- Multiple languages 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇳🇱
Activities can be organized in the Catalan, Spanish, Dutch and English language.
- Inspiring locations
Natural environments that motivate, challenge and connect.
- Logistics management
The possibility to have all bookings, logistics and gear managed.
Locations in Spain and The Netherlands
Locations in Spain and
The Netherlands
The team's objectives and preferences often determine a matching location. Thanks to our large network of guides, we can always find a suitable location that meets the requirements for the team or company's offsite. That said, Outdoor Heroes already has an impressive list of beautiful locations, from Spain to Bosnia! These include:
- Alella, Maresme – Catalonia (ES 🇪🇸)
- Montseny, Barcelona – Catalonia (ES 🇪🇸)
- Catalonian Pyrenees, Girona (ES
- NP de Hoge Veluwe, Gelderland (NL 🇳🇱)
- De Lage Vuursche, Utrecht (NL 🇳🇱)
- Sutjeska, Foča (BA 🇧🇦)
Our team
We work with a flexible team of wilderness guides, international mountain leaders, expedition chefs, Spain's best survival instructor, and a coach.
Additionally, our network allows us to cherry-pick from Europe's best mountain guides and facilitators.
Meet some of us:
Miro Helmers
Wilderness Guide
Former investigative lawyer focused on high profile organized crime. Now guides people through wild places and transitions. Miro enjoys sharing his knowledge in a way that challenges both mind and body, and exposes intrinsic motivation.
Joosje Heringa
Awareness Facilitator
With a gentle touch, Joosje knows how to release any tension people may be feeling. In her own unique way, she guides you to a deeper state of clarity and peace, using the power of cacao and meditation to bring you back to your essence.
Gerard Scheij
Growth Leader
Entrepeneur, member of multiple boards of directors, MMS coach, but above all an invaluable support figure for any worthwile endeavor an individual or team may embark on. Gerard provides context and insights. He will make you see and believe.
Frequently asked questions – FAQ
Absolutely! Nature is our office and we are trained to guide you there, but the focus remains on leadership and team dynamics. The physical challenge is adapted to the level of the group.
Participants return with renewed confidence in themselves and each other. They communicate more honestly, resolve conflicts more effectively, and renew their relationship with responsibility. They face change with new energy. Courage, motivation, and purpose are aligned, while empathetic leadership is stimulated.
We offer various levels, from authentic wild camping under the stars to stays in remote mountain facilities, always with carefully selected locations that stimulate peace and reflection.
What we would like to hear from you
- objectives and expectations for the offsite;
- the minimum level of comfort and maximum level of physicality;
- sought balance between hard skills, soft exercises and development;
- the need for a pre- and post offsite trajectory;
- location, periode or dates for the offsite.
The Next Leader Expedition
The Next Leader Expedition is an intensive multi-day leadership program in nature. There is no pampering involved here. This expedition is specially designed for up-and-coming talent within organizations: the people who are most likely to take over the reins one day. This expedition challenges, inspires, and transforms.
At Outdoor Heroes, we believe that this next generation will shape the future and thus the key to sustainable progress. Early investment in development of their awareness, empathy, resilience and responsibility lays the foundation for future-proof leaders who put the greater good first. In the broadest sense possible.
What makes this expedition unique?
The expedition does not begin and end with the adventure in nature. For lasting impact, pre-expedition assessment and post-expedition coaching follow-up(s) are part of the program.
During these expeditions, participants are intentionally moved far outside their comfort zone. They are confronted with physical and mental challenges and intensive team scenarios that expose true leadership. They venture exactly where friction exists and where the most personal and professional insights occur.
Without distractions such as phones and time, participants really get to know themselves and each other.
They will be challenged to lead, follow, let go, trust and take unrequested responsibility – in a very dynamic group context where all of this is experienced very directly.
Wilderness is one of the masters in this school of learning. The environment and weather will both pull and push the group. Participants will learn survival techniques and test their improvisational skills to the limit. Existing structures blur here, creating space for natural leadership.
The expedition is overseen by professional wilderness guides, a coach, and in some cases a psychologist who further facilitates the integration of the experience.
This life-changing experience is designed to have lasting effects far into their careers. Participants return with:
a foundation for authentic leadership,
more empathy and emotional intelligence,
with faster and healthy conflict resolution capabilities,
proven resilience in tough conditions,
sharpened self-insight and reflective ability,
a newly formed perspective on responsibility,
the ability to bring others along in the journey of change,
- an unbreakable bond with fellow expedition members!
