One Wild Life Expeditions
Let the wild transform you
Coaching expeditions that take you deep:
into the wilderness, into the healing power of community, and into your own greatest truths.
Being in wild places connects you to your core self.
You find out what you are made of and hear what’s calling your soul. One Wild Life Expeditions are immersive backcountry coaching expeditions that get into the bones of your longing. Designed for anyone in transition or on the verge– in life or work– our expeditions help you get clear on your purpose and align your life with what matters most.
If you are in any kind of transition —personal, professional, creative, or spiritual — our expeditions are for you.
Maybe you’re looking to shake up your career. Maybe you’re facing the end of a long relationship. Maybe you’re hungry for deeper meaning or larger influence in how you lead, live or love. Whatever soup you are in, we’ve got you. You’re in exactly the right place.
Our expeditions offer
• a powerful, clarifying recharge
• a chance to crystalize around your guiding why
• a catalyst into the truest and most alive version of you
What can I expect?
One Wild Life Expeditions are a mix of deep experiential learning, group process, individual coaching and adventure. Our journeys are carefully facilitated and led, but not guided. You’ll set up tents, learn to cook outside, communicate, navigate, and make decisions. Each person contributes to a nourishing, rich community. As a group, you’ll travel through the remote backcountry and emerge uniquely transformed.
Join us for a life-changing expedition.
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Yellowstone Backpacking
August 28 - September 2, 2025
Backpack into the heart of Yellowstone and into deep personal evolution.
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Labyrinth Canoeing
October 14-21, 2025
Canoe the Green River through Labyrinth canyon on a transformative journey.
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Patagonia Backpacking
February 19-27, 2026
Backpack into the heart of the Aysén Region in Patagonia and hear your soul’s calling.
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Canyons Backpacking
Spring 2026
Backpack deep into the magic of Utah’s canyon country and power up your life’s purpose.
You’ll come away with:
• Deeper confidence and self trust, surrendering to your highest wisdom as you navigate your next steps.
• A stronger connection to who you are, what you know and what matters to you.
• Practices to sense and trust your inner compass.
• A deeper partnership with your own animal body and your kinship with the more than human world.
• Insight into the patterns and habits that get in your way.
• A community of kindred spirits dedicated to your evolution.
About You:
• You are invested in your personal evolution and ready to stretch.
• You long for a deeper connection to nature and your own wild possibilities.
• You are eager to contribute to a powerfully supportive community.
Hear what past participants have to say about the change they brought into their lives:
What’s different about One Wild Life Expeditions?
This isn’t just an amazing trip in a pretty place. This is an opportunity to cultivate core life shifts that stay with you well beyond the expedition.
In the backcountry, you practice and embody new capabilities. Coaching offers you a framework for understanding your habits and what you are longing to step into. The group offers you profound witnessing. All of these factors lead you straight to the heart of your truth, opening a clear path for new ways of being.
Before your expedition begins, you’ll meet with your coach and get crystal clear on your deepest longings and intentions. We’ll explore what has you stuck and what parts of you are ready to be unlocked. Together we create a coaching program that sets you on a course for change.
On the expedition, you’ll receive a mix of group and individual coaching, facilitated reflection, somatic practice and deep experiential leadership learning. You’ll gain powerful insights into your habits and patterns, and find soul shifting ways to live closer to your dreams.
After the expedition, you have a followup session with your coach to integrate the powerful shifts you found in the wilderness. Together you’ll chart a path forward that will let you live lasting change. You’ll be supported by loving community every step of the way.
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I gained such a sense of freedom that I didn't know I needed.
When I am stuck in my old ways and unsure of my next move, I picture myself soaring with ease, arms spread wide in abundance. My body feels calm and I smile because I know there is another way. To be surrounded by people that not only accept and honor where I am but who also believe in all my possibilities is such a treasure. I’m so grateful for the depth and abundance of this community, these are people I will continue to draw my life force from for years to come. Thank you thank you thank you Lindsay and Liz.
Kelly Sloan — Non-profit leader
Labyrinth Expedition
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My world shifted inside and out...
I shed my heavy pack 8 months ago but still feel your company alongside as profound transformation continues to shift my world inside and out.
I hiked into Yellowstone one way and emerged into a whole new, deeper way of being in the world that continues to unfold. Heart sure and steady on.
Sue — Equity & Inclusion Educator
Yellowstone Expedition
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This is the kind of trip that will leave you operating at a new frequency.
You know something powerful is happening when an experience invites both prolific laughter and healing tears. A year later, I still see my learnings reflected back at me almost daily.
Sara Benge — Outdoor Educator
Yellowstone Expedition
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The Wisdom of Heart Medicine
The Labyrinth Canoe Expedition combined the power of the wild world with the wisdom of heart medicine. The internal work we did on the expedition was held masterfully, deeply, and also playfully. At times I felt speechless in the best possible way, in touch with a deeper knowing and healing. And also, I laughed and slept under the stars and felt freedom slip in to my bones and tickle me again. I am emerging renewed and with some tools to help me continue to grow and to relate more skillfully. My New Way is with me, offering a wise and wry smile and open branch, beaming down with love to myself and you two. Yee-haw!
Holly Jones — Educator, musician and mamma
Labyrinth Expedition
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Do The Scary Thing...
"I changed cities because Liz, Lindsay, and the members of the Yellowstone Expedition were instrumental in my feeling brave enough to Do The Scary Thing, make a decision, and act on it! You were the catalyst for my bravery and my steps into the scary wild unknown. I am so grateful."—Kate Rask, Hair Stylist
Yellowstone Expedition
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The Yellowstone expedition helped me unearth a sense of clarity and deep confidence at a pivotal moment in my life.
Even now, a year later, when I’m feeling uncertain or anxious about my purpose or next steps, I only have to think back to my time on the trail with Liz, Lindsay, and my incredible co-journeyers, and I’m able to re-center, to ground myself in the certainty that I have all I need to meaningfully move forward.
—Stefani Farris, Writer
Yellowstone Expedition
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Paddling into the canyons while journeying inside myself felt raw and vulnerable,
but I was so held by our group and so supported by Liz and Lindsay. To be seen in all my human messiness and to be loved for who I am, and who I believe I can be, was - and is - such a gift. I carry with me from our trip a greater awareness of how I can change, a growing inspiration to walk that path, and the support from this cohort that makes me feel more capable.
Andy Notopoulis – Therapist
Labyrinth Expedition
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This trip has both softened & strengthened me.
Broken me open & gently nurtured new growth. It is deeply transformative to move my life in new ways while being held simultaneously in the cradle of community & wilderness. Both are what is needed to change the world.
Gillian —Therapist
Yellowstone Expedition
Meet your Coach / Facilitators
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Liz Hardwick
I’ve spent a lot of my life outside and find profound power and healing in nature. For the last 20 years I’ve led life changing backcountry expeditions through NOLS. For the past 6 years I’ve been supporting people on transformational journeys as an Integral Master Coach. Coaching matters deeply to me, not just for the profound expansion my client’s experience, but for the ways this work allows us all to live into a world with more liberation and more healing. I’m all about radical self-love, emergence, and having the audacity to dream about what’s possible. I’m steeped in self-inquiry and spiritual practice, community work, and trying to keep some semblance of sanity and parent small kids. I draw sustenance from the Wind River Mountains where I live, the traditional territory of the Eastern Shoshone, Northern Arapaho and 11 other tribes.
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Lindsay Priefert
“Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen monk and teacher
The paradox of this quote lays the foundation for my ability to see unique gifts in everyone. I have a passion for helping people develop new capabilities they long to embody. I’ve been a coach and mentor my whole career. As a NOLS instructor I help people build self-awareness in challenging and uncertain environments. As a coach I rely on presence, embodied listening, connection, and humor to support people into profound change.
I’m a faculty mentor at NOLS, a Professional Integral Coach and a Mindfulness Practitioner through the Mindful Life Program. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration focused on leadership development and organizational culture. And I’m going to make you laugh till you pee at least once.
