Sam Robertson

Sam finds great purpose and inspiration in the world of nature. His relationship with nature has led him to intensively study and teach primitive survival skills. Sam has travelled throughout Australia learning, seeking and testing survival skills and knowledge. Sam has also received extensive training in Survival Skills, Tracking, and Awareness at Tom Brown Jnr’s Tracker School USA.  Sam is a qualified Vision Quest Protector and together with Kate is running Vision Quest programs in Australia. Sam is particularly passionate and committed to sharing these transformational skills with youth and is actively pursuing this through the Nature Tracks program. Sam currently works as a youth worker with disadvantaged teenage boys within his local community and is studying Environmental Science at Southern Cross University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kate Rydge

Kate has studied nature philosophy, awareness and survival skills in both Australia and America. She finds great happiness in the arts of wandering, primitive fire, bush food, natural fibers, basketry and teaching survival skills. In 2003 while training in America Kate spent a year living primitively in the New Jersey Pine Barrens as a Caretaker for Tom Brown Jnr’s Tracker School. Kate is also an American trained Vision Quest Protector and has been facilitating Vision Quest programs both in Australia and America for the last 5 years. Kate is a professionally trained counsellor and currently works with teenagers on the North Coast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JJ Bruce

 

JJ is a qualified environmental scientist, who has spent many years exploring his relationship with nature. With a focus on sustainable living and preserving the natural environment, JJ has developed and refined his skills including, landscape and natural process interpretation, mapping and navigation, tree climbing and abseiling, handcrafts, hunting and gathering. Through initial Deep Ecology experience, JJ’s intuitive relationship with nature was reaffirmed. More recently, formal training by Sam Robertson and Katie Rydge through their Nature Philosophy program has provided a complementary framework for JJ to expand and explore his relationship with his environment, and be involved with the programs presentation.