Walk the World. Find Your Path.
A mythic journey to the core of who you are
Photo by Clay Berthelsen
identify your core gift, ways to bring more of WHO YOU ARE into the
world, new people, distant landscapes on epic
walking adventures.
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Trek Epic: Walk Into What’s Next
An immersive model for practitioners who guide others in growth and transformation.
Trek Epic offers reflective walking experiences designed for educators, facilitators, coaches, and purpose-driven professionals who support others through transition, healing, and growth. At the heart of the Trek Epic model is a 10-day international walking journey—an intentional pause that anchors participants in personal reflection, connection with others, and renewed purpose.
Set in breathtaking landscapes across Europe, each trek is a living classroom. You’ll experience what it means to step outside the noise of everyday life and into a space where deeper questions can emerge:
What is the gift I offer to others? How am I meant to lead, guide, or support in this season? What does alignment look like—personally and professionally?
These facilitated journeys blend the Core Gift Discovery Process with dynamic group practices, allowing you to both experience and observe powerful tools in action. You’ll explore your own purpose while learning transferable approaches to use in your own work—whether in education, counseling, gap year design, or organizational leadership.
More than a retreat, this is a professional and personal revival. A chance to connect deeply with yourself, others, and the work you are called to do in the world.
If you're seeking a new way to support the growth of others—while nourishing your own—this is a path worth walking.
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A Community of Purposeful Practice
Amid the shared rhythms of daily trekking and cross-cultural exploration, you’ll walk alongside a cohort of fellow practitioners—educators, guides, coaches, and leaders—who are also asking meaningful questions: Who am I becoming? How can I lead from purpose? What’s next in my work and life?
Together, you’ll navigate moments of reflection, challenge, and insight—building authentic relationships rooted in shared intention and mutual growth. These treks offer not only personal renewal, but a professional learning community that supports your evolution long after the trail ends.
Each experience is intentionally designed to help you clarify your Core Gift, reconnect with your intrinsic motivation, and explore how your life and work can align more fully with what matters most. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of yourself and a clearer sense of how to bring your purpose into the spaces and communities you serve.
Immersed in new landscapes and meaningful dialogue, you’ll remember what it feels like to belong—not just to a group, but to your own calling. In the Trek Epic community, you don’t just travel—you integrate, revive, and return ready to give your gift with renewed clarity and courage.
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The Core Gift Discovery™ Process: A Framework for Purposeful Living and Leading
At the heart of the Trek Epic experience is the Core Gift Discovery™ process—a guided framework that helps you uncover the deeper strengths, values, and motivations that define how you show up in the world and how you contribute to the growth of others.
Through intentional reflection, facilitated dialogue, and shared exploration with a cohort of like-minded peers, you’ll identify your unique Core Gift—the personal quality or ability you most naturally and powerfully offer to others. This isn’t theoretical. It’s grounded in your lived experience and becomes a compass for how you lead, teach, coach, or serve.
The process invites you to examine your story with new eyes, name your intrinsic purpose, and begin to integrate it more fully into your professional and personal life. Whether you’re supporting students, clients, teams, or communities, the Core Gift framework gives you tools to lead with greater clarity, alignment, and authenticity.
Rather than offering abstract inspiration, the Core Gift Discovery™ process meets you where you are. It helps you translate your life experience into a practical, purpose-centered roadmap—one that aligns your work and decisions with what matters most.
Meet Our Trek Team
Leslie Johnson
Co-Founder
President, Trek Guide
Andrew Bryan
Co-Founder
Executive Director,
Trek Guide
Bruce Anderson
Facilitation Consultant
Core Gift Institute
Josie Bryan
Trek Guide,
Core Gift Master Facilitator
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