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Experiences that move people
] speak, facilitate, and lead guided walks for conferences, teams, and gatherings, and I guest on podcasts about walking as a practice and finding direction when the map runs out.
Wild Wayfinding is my solo practice. I design and facilitate every engagement myself, and when scope calls for partners, you‘ll know who they are.
Guided Walks for Teams and Gatherings
Some learning happens best when people are moving. Wild Wayfinding‘s organizational experiences—Labyrinth Walks and Wayfinding Days—bring the body into the learning and create connection to self and others. These experiences work as standalone team events, as additions to an existing offsite or retreat, or as opening or closing experiences for a conference day. Each one is designed for your group, your setting, and what you want people to leave with.
Engagements start at $750 for a 90-minute session. Half and full days are quoted based on group size and travel. Reduced rates are available for nonprofits and community organizations. Please ask.
Labyrinth Walks
A Labyrinth Walk gives a group a container for focused reflection while the walk itself carries the structure.
Entering—participants step in holding the present reality: the challenge in front of the team, or how each person is arriving to their role.
At the center—a pause to notice what strengths and insights they carry, and what possibilities are surfacing for themselves and for the group.
Returning—attention turns forward: what to carry back, what shift or commitment to make, and how it applies to the way the team navigates change together.
The Labyrinth Walk works with a permanent labyrinth installed onsite, or I bring a canvas, rope, or chalk one, indoors or out.
Formats: 90 minutes to 6 hours, standalone or built into a longer agenda.
Group size: Participant size varies depending on length of time and if it is a drop-in activity.
Setting: Indoors or out, and no trail required. A flat, smooth surface like carpet, wood, cement, asphalt, or grass is required.
Physical demand: Gentle walking at each person‘s own pace, fully accessible those who use assitive mobility devices. Hand-held Labyrinths available upon request.
What‘s included: Planning conversation and on-site facilitation.
Lead time: 6 week minimum.
What teams take away: A shared experience of pausing together. A practice they can return to individually. One thing each person named to carry forward.
“Lea‘s calming presence, thoughtful guidance, and intentional approach created such a grounding and meaningful experience for all of us. She reminded us of the power of slowing down, tuning in, and being present—not only in our work but in our everyday lives. The practices she shared will stay with us and continue to support our wellbeing moving forward.”
—The Wellness Team
Wayfinding Days
A Wayfinding Day takes your team outside for a half or full day of walking, reflection, and creative practice. People walk in pairs and small groups, gather what they notice, and turn it into something the team can use. The day moves through Appreciative Inquiry from Define to Discover, Dream, Design, and Deliver, so we start from what‘s already working in your team and build the next step from there.
A typical experience includes a grounding practice, partner walks that surface stories of the team at its best, a harvest of what those stories share, small-group walking on a real challenge the team is facing, and a closing session where the group decides what to carry forward. When the setting allows, a Labyrinth Walk can sit at the center of the day as the reflective turn.
Moving side by side rather than face to face changes the conversation. It lifts the pressure to solve everything at once and opens a more collaborative kind of thinking.
Formats: 90-minute session, half day, or full day
Group size: 6 to 20 participants
Setting: outdoor paths and a gathering area, or a building with a courtyard, sidewalks, hallways, or stairs
What‘s included: a planning session with your team lead beforehand, on-site facilitation, reflection cards and walking prompts, and customized Appreciative Inquiry worksheets
Optional: a follow-up coaching session or a debrief report
Lead time: Twelve weeks or more for half and full days. Shorter sessions often come together faster. Ask anyway if your date is sooner.
What teams take away:
Conversations they don‘t have in the office or over video calls. A shared picture of the team at its best. Ideas the group generated together, with a decision about what to try first. Small practices they can use at work the very next day.
Speaking Engagements
Two standalone talks. One coherent journey.
You Are Here: Learning to Read the Signs Your Longing Is Sending
An original framework for reading your longing as direction rather than a problem to fix.
Most of us have felt it: a physiological restlessness, a philosophical ache, a something-more-than-feeling that surfaces and won‘t quite go away. This talk introduces the Taxonomy of Longing, an original framework for reading the body‘s interior signals as navigational tools, the same way a walker reads the land.
Longing isn‘t a problem to solve. It‘s information. It‘s the part of you that has already seen the path and is waiting for the rest of you to catch up. This talk offers a way to listen to it, name it, and let it point you somewhere real.
Best for: Conferences, wellness and higher-education audiences, and anyone curious about what their longing is trying to say.
Available in 30, 45, and 60-minute formats
Something Comes from Something: Making a Life from What We‘ve Lived
Your losses, pivots, and worn-out seasons are not obstacles to a meaningful life. They are the material.
This talk makes a quiet and deeply practical case: we always have something to create from. Every fragment carries a trace of what it was. The losses, the pivots, the worn-out seasons are not obstacles to a meaningful life. They are the material.
Part of what the material teaches is patience, and the value of doing things differently. The life I am making now is slower and more deliberate than the one I once imagined, and that turned out to be the point rather than the compromise. Doing things differently is often what lets us keep doing them at all.
The premise is simple: you build what comes next out of what you already have, including the parts you would not have chosen. Drawn from years of walking, writing, and making, this talk offers a way of seeing your own fragments as the beginning of something rather than the end.
Best for: Conferences, wellness retreats, higher education, creative and maker communities, and any room in a season of change.
Available in 30, 45, and 60-minute formats
Interested in bringing a wayfinding talk to your event? hello@wildwayfinding.com
“Lea graced our stage and left us all in awe. She spoke with raw honesty, reminding us that ‘flourishing comes in choosing to make the best out of the moment.’ Her journey is a testament to resilience—not just surviving, but thriving with grace and intention. Lea‘s presence is powerful.”
—Ehmandeh R.
Podcast Interviews
I am available for podcast interviews around the world and can accommodate recording schedules from most time zones.
Sample Topics and Questions
1. Mindful walking as a practice
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What makes a walk mindful rather than just exercise?
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How does someone start if they‘ve never paid attention this way before?
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What do people notice on a walk that they miss everywhere else?
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Does this require a trail, or can it happen on a city block?
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What do you say to someone who finds it hard to slow down?
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Tell me about your book, Walking & Wayfinding: Create Your Own Mindful Practice, One Step at a Time.
2. Wayfinding when the map stops working
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What is wayfinding, and how is it different from planning?
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How do you read restlessness or longing as a form of direction?
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How does someone take a next step before they can see the whole path?
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What's the difference between wandering and being lost?
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What does courage have to do with any of this?
3. Pilgrimage without leaving home
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What happened when your Camino de Santiago trip was cancelled?
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What makes a walk a pilgrimage?
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How does someone design one from where they already live?
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What did the California coast teach you that a famous route wouldn‘t have?
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What did you learn when you finally went to walk the Camino?
4. Walking, aging, and coming back to the trail
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What changes about hiking as we age, and what doesn‘t?
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How did you return to backpacking after a hip replacement?
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What does it mean to embrace limits without shrinking your life?
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What do you wish people understood about getting outdoors at sixty?
You can listen to all my podcast recordings on my YouTube Channel here.
Where Wild Wayfinding shows up:
Recent and past engagements include:
• Facilitator of an online wellness retreat for alumni/ae of Erickson Coaching International, on their Erickson+ platform
• Presenter and workshop facilitator on wellbeing at work for the online women's leadership network at a global fintech company
• Presenter on building resilience at the African Coaching Summit based in Morocco
• Featured speaker for She Stories, Flourish Storytelling Event
• Guest lecturer in the course, “Current Issues in Career Education and Counseling,” at Cal State Northridge
• Three-time presenter and panelist at President Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge in Washington, DC
• Keynote speaker at the UM Benefits Conference in San Diego on the topic of clergy wellness
• Presenter on community building and human connection at numerous national professional association conferences