Holistic Outdoor Leadership Program is an Erasmus+ opportunity we co-created in June at amazing mountains of Spain. During the experience, we got the chance to challenge ourselves by living in the mountains, in our own tents, cooking with each other, hiking from 1200m to an altitude of 2000m and working on our inner self through adventure and coaching.

A group of participants from Portugal, Germany, Poland, Greece, Cyprus and Spain learned through experience how to facilitate leadership behaviors within a group, helping to form what is known as a “smart group” 🤓 that is a group that: 

👉 Works collectively towards a common goal.

👉 Empowers and is enriched by each member of the group.

👉 Understands and manages the interactions and conflicts that occur in the group.

👉 Knows the roles that arise within the group.

All this they learned thanks to two days of a very dynamic social leadership training by activist, trainer and author Nacho García Pedraza (from Cooperativa Garúa)☀️

Then, for the next two days, we experienced something also a very special (and important for the group): a space dedicated to self-knowledge, self-love and self-leadership carried out by facilitators Carlos Sanz and Anastasia Tasoula 💜

And all this finally made sense when it could be put into practice during two days of expedition through the Sierra Northeast of Madrid accompanied by our mountain guide Javier Velasco ⛰ in which the participants, in a self-managed way, had to plan their route to the top, to catch a sunset and a sunrise in different points and face the challenges that make the experience a real adventure 🗺🎒.