Date

In planning

Group

8 maximum

Mode

Backpacking

Facilitators

Mountain instructor and sports psychologist

Duration

5 days

Leadership and autonomy in the outdoors

Five days in the mountains to train leadership, decision-making, and resilience

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This isn't a traditional mountain course: here you don't just learn to move, you learn to lead. Over five days in the field, each participant plans, guides, makes decisions, and supports the group in real-world conditions.

The approach combines technique and human resources: you'll learn to organize a journey, read risks in real time, adapt plans, communicate under pressure, and emotionally support your team. Leadership is rotated, evaluated, and learned through experience.

In-depth training for those seeking to lead with awareness, act with presence, and emerge from the mountain transformed, not just trained.

Purposeful training in real-world settings

A method that combines technique, experience, and nature to activate leadership and presence through lived experience.

The technical as a basis, not as an end

Learn to Moving safely is key, but it's not everything. The technical aspect serves a deeper experience: knowing oneself, supporting oneself, and moving forward with others, beyond the manual and the rope.

Experience as real practice

Here, we don't talk about leadership: we lead. We don't teach how to decide: we decide. Experience is the method. What is experienced on the ground transforms; What is simulated in the room is forgotten upon return.

Nature as a formative setting

The mountain isn't just a pretty backdrop: it's a living, challenging environment. It pushes us to adapt, be present, and let go of control. Here the classroom has uneven ground, changeable weather and unexpected lessons.

Human abilities as the ultimate purpose

Lead, communicate, support others. The solutions are designed to awaken the human Facing the real challenge. The technical aspect empowers; the emotional aspect leaves its mark. That's where the real learning lies.


"It's not just a course. It's an experience that trains you for life."


Skills

That you will live and integrate on the ground

This course doesn't teach you through presentations. It teaches you through the terrain, the weight, the group, and the decisions you make. Every day, you'll face real challenges where you'll lead, adapt, support others, and learn to act when the path isn't clear.

I want to participate

ITINERARY

  • PRE-ONLINE SESSION

  • Planning, safety and equipment class.

  • DAY 1:

  • Start of the route and first field practices.

  • DAYS 2 to 4:

  • Extended trekking, rotating leadership, daily planning, navigation, decision-making, and group management under real-world conditions.

  • DAY 5:

  • Group closure and individual feedback.

INCLUDES

  • UIMLA Mountain Instructor

  • Sports psychologist in the activity

  • Transport from Santiago

  • Meals happens

  • camping equipment group

  • Diploma of participation

  • Emergency satellite communication

  • A first aid kit

  • Accident insurance

NOT INCLUDED

  • Personal mountain equipment

  • Meals outside the program

  • *Optional equipment rental

Your training begins with us

We walk by your side, guiding processes that awaken leadership, awareness and autonomy.

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Vicho Verdugo

UIMLA Mountain Instructor and Sports Coach

UIMLA Mountain Guide Instructor, Outdoor Educator, Wilderness First Responder, Sports Coach


Vicho seeks to lead pedagogical processes with a perspective that combines technique, awareness, and experience. He enjoys creating deep learning spaces outdoors, where leadership is trained in action. He believes that teaching in the mountains is about developing more present, more human, and more capable people.

“Educating in the mountains is about developing criteria, not just skills.”

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Javi Vidal

Facilitator and Sports Psychologist

Sports and Human Performance Psychologist, Leave No Trace Teacher, Wilderness First Responder, Sports Coach


Javi provides support in challenging contexts and seeks to facilitate unseen human learning: managing fear, making decisions under pressure, effective communication, and self-awareness. He believes the mountains are a unique educational space for training body, mind, and relationships.

“We don’t just walk: we educate in awareness, connection, and action.”


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✅ This course is for you if:


  • Do you want to learn leadership in real-world settings.

  • You are interested in combining technical skills with personal development.

  • You value the group learning and collaborative work.

  • Are you willing face physical and emotional challenges.

  • looking for one formative experience, not just recreational.

⛔️ Not for you if:


  • Are you looking for a mountain course? focused only on the technical.

  • You are only interested exercise or meet a physical goal.

  • You prefer mass-produced or low-commitment activities.

  • You are uncomfortable sharing or working in a team.

  • You want something fast, without pause or depth.

Are you interested in this course?

Leave us your contact information and we'll let you know before anyone else when we open new dates. Limited seating.

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