Project Description

FACILITATOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 2025:
SPAIN

September 2025 – January 2026

Welcome to a new FDP cohort

A Nature-Based Training to Elevate Your Coaching Practice.

Program details

  • Program length: Five months

  • Program start: September 2025

  • Group Size: 8-12

  • Location: Spanish Pyrenees + Virtual

  • Investment: 7400€ / $7800 USD (ex VAT)

  • Wild Journey Retreat: November 9 – 15, 2025

  • Virtual sessions: Three 3-hour Workshops

  • 1:1 Coaching Checkpoints

  • Peer Learning Pods

  • Self-Paced Experiential Learning

Program elements

Aplication details

  • The deadline for applications for this program is Sept 30, 2025.

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OUR INTENTION

Inherently, all people are deeply connected to Nature, but some have forgotten this. Our yearning to reconnect with the natural world is latent, and if surfaced and held with expert facilitation and in purpose-led teams, profound creativity, insight, and leadership can arise. It is a potent field for integration and development.

With such deep potential impact on the self, and on teams, organizations, and the world, we are called to create a co-learning space for senior facilitators to grow their capacity to utilize this natural field – safely, effectively, and with joy.

To become conscious in our decisions, we must re-visit our true Nature. From that space we can create meaningful questions and seek authentic answers. Nature is a natural source of inspiration and wisdom. In our connection with Nature, we step away from the routines of daily life to create the space for exploration and discovery of what is truly needed to embrace transformation in your work and life.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

To the extent possible, we intend this to be a co-creation between TrailHaven, our faculty, and participants, with the core intention that participants will:

– Engage with and open themselves to a true personal development experience.

– Grow their capacity as a transformational facilitator, coach, and convener.

– Practice with new ways of facilitating, and in new environments.

– Experiment in their life and client work by applying the principles and formats shared in program.

– Explore hands-on outdoor skills: navigation, rough terrain, nutrition, fire, shelter, etc.

FACULTY TEAM

During this program, you will work with multiple senior TrailHaven faculty – guides, facilitators, coaches, and more. These diverse perspectives will stand alongside your brilliant peers to add richness and new ways of seeing your tools as an experience designer and convening of leaders.

Alexander
Martin 

Guide and Facilitator

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

Alexander is a trail facilitator, consultant, coach, and explorer. Over two decades dedicated to supporting development and provoking leadership, he has found the outdoors to be the most powerful learning space we have. Alexander practices what he preaches and recently took his young toddler out camping in the wild!

Anna
GILI 

People’s lead and Marketing

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

After earning her certificate as a Wilderness Guide, Anna moved to Panama, where for over five years she led outdoor programs and guided expeditions in the rainforest—adding yet another role to her already diverse professional background. Currently, she lives in Mallorca and focuses on TrailHaven's crews and communications around the world. 

Bram
von Blomberg 

Trail Chief, Guide and Facilitator

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

Bram has 25+ years of experience as wilderness, mountain, and wildlife guide with a strong interest for personal development, meditation energy and breathwork. Currently founder of BigSoulia, Director of the European Wilderness Education School and Wilderness Facilitator at TrailHaven.

Jyotish
Patel

Facilitator and Wisdom keeper

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

Jyotish is a regenerative healthcare practitioner and transformation guide who weaves ancient wisdom with modern insight, empowering people to reconnect with their innate capacities and the wisdom of the body. As a TrailHaven facilitator, he helps individuals reconnect with purpose and wholeness, bringing depth to leadership journeys. He has pioneered the use of energy medicine in organizational settings, supporting both human and business transformation. Jyotish lives in Southern England with his family and two horses.

Peter
van den Berg 

Founder/Managing Director 

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

Peter helps clients (re)discover their purpose and passion, which allows them to make courageous choices from which they benefit professionally and personally. He combines three backgrounds: consulting, management and leadership development. Peter has facilitated trails since 2005. Peter's love for learning has led to an unmanageable array of free time hobbies. 

Rafa
Carrasco 

Trail Chief and Guide

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

Rafa is Trail Chief at TrailHaven, where he leads outdoor experiences with depth and purpose. He's also a Lead Learning Coordinator at the EWES, a certified Wilderness Guide, and an International Mountain Leader. With 10+ years managing complex projects in multinational companies, Rafa now brings that expertise into wild settings — guiding individuals and teams through meaningful learning in nature. He believes in the power of pure landscapes, shared moments, and lifelong learning.

Gerard
van den Berg 

Founder/Managing Director 

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

With over 25 years of experience guiding people back into connection with their natural selves and the wild places around them. Expert in expedition design, Wilderness Guide training, and trail-based learning. When not guiding, he's likely being chased through Spanish canyons by his three young boys.

Josetxu
Estebanez

Guide and Safety expert

“I like to share experiences with people and I love nature”

Has led numerous expeditions to the 5 continents in search of challenges where the person is only one more piece in the wild nature. High Altitude Mountain guide (UIAGM) with more than 30 years in the Mountain Rescue Group, and Dive Instructor.

WHETHER YOU’RE SEEKING A QUICK RESET OR A LONG-TERM JOURNEY,
WE’RE HERE TO CO-DESIGN THE PATH WITH YOU.

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