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friluftsliv- free.air.life

Guide

Take the opportunity to be taken on a guided walk, ride, paddle or ski with a passionate advocate to living life through friluftsliv. Get "the mountains are calling fix" here. 

Consultancy

Embark on a personal developmental journey. Understand and develop high performance skills underpinned through independent doctorate research. This empirical groundbreaking research will support the vastly knowledgeable academic who can provide a multi faceted approach to any individual, team or organisation.

Tutor

Want to become and leader or coach in the outdoors ? Courses can be delivered by a tutor who has a vast amount of experience and knowledge in Outdoor activities.

Background

Being outdoors is in my DNA. My philosophy and passion for the outdoors has been developed over 27 years as a Physical Training Instructor in the Royal Navy. During this time and through my studies I came across the Norwegian term ‘friluftsliv’ (fril-uft-sliv) loosely translated to free, air and life. The opportunity to do activities outdoors can give you the dopamine highs and the mood regulating serotonin and anxiety reducing epinephrine neuro-chemicals. Embracing the friluftsliv concept with me, training can be tailored to support whatever goal you want to achieve. This could be being guiding on a journey in the UK or overseas, providing consultancy work to increase you and your teams high performance capability, increasing a variety of developmental skills to aid both physical and mental wellbeing along with leadership skills. If however you feel you want to be empowered and have a desire to lead others on these types journeys in the outdoors tailored courses are available for a variety of activities. In 2024, I will embark on a new journey. One where I will develop my knowledge through a doctoral level study. Undertaking a multi faceted empirical study, I will look to develop research on how e-sport can enhance physiological, psychological and social well being. The main objective of this is to enhance my capabilities and broaden the knowledge that I can offer through my consultancy work. If you want to work with an academic with high performance skills training and can offer outdoor education coaching courses get it touch.

"Our instructor, James, was fantastic. As there were only two of us (father/son) he was able to design the weekend Mountain Biking activities exactly around what we wanted to achieve. He was patient, enthusiastic and really knowledgeable. We learnt a lot over the two days and had an excellent time."

Mark and John undertaking a Mountain  Biking coaching session in North Wales.