Wildcard Wilderness Survival
Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion • GEORGIA
$595.00
Unit price perJoin Jacks Genega from Season 13 of The History Channel's Alone: World Championship, for a wilderness immersion that celebrates ancestral skills, craft, and community that will deepen your relationship to your wild within.
The Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion is a transformative experience designed for women who want to reconnect with their confidence, capability, and authentic selves through wilderness living skills, community, and emotional freedom. Set in a supportive and encouraging environment, this immersive experience blends ancestral skills with nature connection and personal growth that allows one to step away from the noise of daily life and rediscover their inner lionheart.
SKILLS
Develop Skills that Build Confidence
KNOWLEDGE
Discover Insights that Weigh Nothing
CONNECTION
Deepen Relationships with the Self and Nature
COMMUNITY
Bond with Like Minded Individuals
Feeling Disconnected?
With the Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion, women will discover capability and the power of the heart through experiential, transformative exercises and skill-based learning (without judgement and pressure) that forges a path to a more connected life rich with a belonging to nature and loving the self.
At Wildcard Wilderness, we teach women and families how to build real-world outdoor skills and inner resilience (and not through macho bootcamps or fluffy getaways) but through trauma-informed spaces and grounded, hands-on courses and retreats that transform fear into confidence and skills into self-healing.
Wildcard Wilderness Survival
Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion • GEORGIA
$595.00
Unit price perWILD HEART WILDERNESS IMMERSIOM
- 3 DAYS/2 NIGHTS
- Participation BEGINS 9:00AM on Friday and ENDS 2:00PM on Sunday
COURSE DETAILS:
• Build confidence through hands on wilderness skills and real world practice
• Optional swimming/bathing in the river
• Learn essential firecraft using primitive methods like bow drill and hand drill
• Discover water procurement and storage methods
• Learn the art of marksmanship with archery and arrow making
• Work with the elements of matter to lean into emotional freedom, intention setting, courage awakening, and nature connection
• Learn knife safety, tool use, and woodland craft fundamentals
• Explore wild edibles, useful plants, and natural resources found in the landscape
• Strengthen resilience through guided meditation and holding space for intention
• Experience deeper connection with nature through observation and awareness exercises
• Participate in immersive outdoor living experiences that build capability and union
• Spend meaningful time around the campfire sharing stories, laughter, knowledge, and community
• Return home with greater confidence, competence, resilience, and a renewed connection to your wild heart
Sleeping Arrangements:
Students are not required to stay on site, however, overnight camping is encouraged to deepen social bonds around the fire.
Students can set up their tents or hammocks along the woodline in the field (suggested) or in the woodland area near the classroom.
Restrooms:
There is a Port-A-John along the woodline near Basecamp for use.
Food:
Food is not provided so students are required to bring their own meals and snacks for consumption.
There are scheduled breaks for meal times. Everyone usually gathers around the campfire during mealtimes, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere for fellowship.
If you have a cooler, we recommend filling it with ice to store perishable items to keep everything fresh and ready to enjoy.
Students should still inform the instructor of any critical food allergies if any.
Terrain:
The property is rich in resources with varying tree species on top of a diverse range of edible and medicinal plants.
There are deep creek beds that can make navigating for some difficult. Participants should be mindful of their physical limitations and potential for mechanical injury when navigating off the trails.
The trail into the woods is a worn down dirt path so vehicles can risk getting trapped. Those driving sedans or 2WD vehicles are not recommended to pass.
Cell Coverage:
Cell service is reliable except for some T-Mobile users where reception is rare, but can sometimes receive signal.
WiFi is available near the farm house for emergency use.
Water:
We suggest bringing plenty of water for hydration, cooking, and hygiene.
Potable water is available on site near the farmhouse and also near the shower stall next to Basecamp.
There is a single outdoor shower stall that is usable barring certain weather conditions.
Power:
There is no external power source available for students. Participants should bring their own power stations or chargeable units for cell phones, head lamps, etc.
Trash:
There is a trash can available in Basecamp and a dumpster along the driveway.
Please respect this land and “leave no trace.”
TRAVEL ITEMS REQUIRED BY THE PARTICIPANT:
- Sleep System (Tent/Hammock) and Insulation (If choosing to stay on site)
- Collapsible Chair
- Headlamp with Spare Batteries
- Proper Clothing for Season and Weather
- Leather Gloves
- Cookware and stoves for personal meals you provide
- Water and Container
- Hygiene items and Medications
- Notebooks and Pencils
- Combination Tool like a Leatherman or SAK
Download Wildcard Wilderness' Packing List
TOOLS AND GEAR FOR COURSE USE WILL BE PROVIDED by Wildcard Wilderness Survival
If you choose to bring your own gear, then below is what is recommended and not required!
OPTIONAL GEAR LIST:
- Fixed Blade Knife with Sheath (4” min blade length)
- 1 x Roll of Jute Twine (100 ft min)
- Folding Saw (Silky is suggested)
- Ferro Rod with Striker
- 1x Lighter
- 50’ Paracord
- 1x Stainless Steel Container with an Enclosed Lid (Altoids tin will work fine)
- 1 x 100% Cotton Bandana or Shemagh (to be burned)
- 1 x Matches (Any Kind but Waterproof is suggested)
- 1 x Magnifying Lens
- 1 x Poncho (Helikon or Snugpak suggested)
Georgia Bushcraft
1150 Carruth Rd, Watkinsville, GA 30677
FINE PRINT:
- Instructor is Wilderness First Responder certified and a licensed HAM Radio operator (KE8WHY)
- Potable water is available on site and in the classroom
- Be prepared for All Weather as this class is in an outdoor setting
- Students can tent camp or hammock camp, however, space is limited for hammocks
- Firearms are not permitted in the classroom
- Alcohol and drug use are not permitted during class hours
- Students accept all liability for personal injury
Discover Your Inner Lionheart with #WildcardJacks
Join Jacks Genega, featured female contestant from Season 13 of The History Channel's Alone: World Championship, for a wilderness immersion that celebrates ancestral skills, craft, and community that will deepen your relationship to your wild within.
This is not a typical Wildcard Wilderness Survival course with a heavy focus on survival priorities and fear-based obstacles, instead, this immersion is curated for deepening our connections to the natural environment as we focus on the four elements of matter: earth, air, water, and fire. Through relationship and ritual we will embrace the fifth element, heart, which speaks to how love and resilience rounds out our rooted belonging to the natural world and awakens our divine embodiment of a shared union.
The Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion is a transformative experience designed for women who want to reconnect with their confidence, capability, and authentic selves through wilderness living skills, community, and emotional freedom. Set in a supportive and encouraging environment, this immersive experience blends ancestral skills with nature connection and personal growth that allows one to step away from the noise of daily life and rediscover their inner lionheart.
Awaken Your Winning Wild Hearts
Deepen your connection to the natural world and discover your wild within.
What will you embrace?
Day 1 - Earth: Learn various medicinal and edible plants, create medicine for use at home, discover pivotal grounding techniques to aid in stress reduction
Day 1 - Water: Discover passive and active ancestral fishing techniques and embrace the flow of emotional freedom
Day 2 - Fire: Learn primitive firecraft, remember your capability, and embody your courage and desire as we release what doesn't serve us in our central fire
Day 2 - Air: Nod to the spirit of the huntress learning archery and arrow making while setting intention for life's projection
Day 3 - Heart: Discover your power in the natural world and within, welcoming your capability, curiosity, self-preservation, and infinite love
Throughout the experience, participants will learn essential wilderness skills curated to life along the water's edge, firecraft, archery, and medicine making from wild edible and medicinal plants, each paired with one of the four elements in nature: earth, air, water, or fire, and developing resilience, self trust, and a deeper connection to our ancestors, ourselves, and the natural world we are blessed to embrace.
Whether you are completely new to outdoor skills or looking to deepen your existing knowledge, this immersion provides hands on learning, meaningful community, and the opportunity to empower rather than overwhelm.
More than a wilderness course, Wild Heart is an invitation to remember that confidence is built through action, resilience grows through experience, infinite love is all healing, and the wildness we seek in nature often helps us rediscover the wildness within ourselves.
Come learn, love, grow, and return home to yourself with new skills, lasting friendships, and a renewed sense of who you really are.
Projects include: medicine making, primitive fishing techniques, natural containers, arrow making, archery, primitive firecraft, a musical instrument, and community building
Ante Up with Heart
Why should this immersion matter?
Modern life has made many things easier, but it has also made us more dependent, more distracted, and increasingly disconnected from both the natural world and ourselves. Surrounded by convenience and constant stimulation, we have fewer opportunities to slow down, solve problems, and develop the confidence that comes from genuine capability. This immersion invites you to step away from the noise and reconnect with the wilderness, your own resilience, and a shared human heritage.
For thousands of years, wilderness skills were passed from one generation to the next around campfires and through lived experience. Women played an essential role in that legacy, tending fire, gathering food and medicine, carrying water, crafting tools and clothing, and preserving the knowledge that helped families and communities thrive. These skills are not relics of the past. They are part of our collective inheritance.
Throughout the weekend, you'll explore the timeless lessons found in the four elements. Earth teaches observation, resourcefulness, and how to read the landscape for food, shelter, and medicine. Water reminds us to adapt, sustain ourselves, and recognize the value of life's most essential resource. Fire represents warmth, protection, transformation, and the community that naturally forms around its light. Air teaches awareness of the unseen, from changing weather to the steady breath that keeps us calm, focused, and capable under pressure. As you build fires, work with natural materials, connect with nature and our ancestors, you'll gain practical wilderness skills while strengthening your ability to think clearly, trust yourself, work alongside others, and foster a path to emotional freedom and regulation.
More importantly, you'll discover that resilience has never been built through skill alone. It is forged through the combination of capability and heart. Heart gives us the courage to face uncertainty, the compassion to support those around us, and the perseverance to keep moving forward when life becomes difficult. In a world that often leaves us disconnected from nature, from one another, and from ourselves, this immersion offers an opportunity to return to what has always made us strong. You'll leave with practical wilderness skills, greater confidence, meaningful connections, and a renewed appreciation for the wisdom carried by those who came before us and the spirits all around us. Because the goal is not simply to learn wilderness skills. It is to cultivate the resilience, character, and heart to navigate our being.
"We are conditioned to believe that vulnerability is a weakness. We are trained to suck it up and grow a pair in a world designed to create distance from ourselves, each other, and the wilderness.
Through emotional freedom we can rid these barriers and enliven our spirit that belongs freely and safely in the natural world.
Skills can aid us in returning to what it is to be human, an embodiment of what lives and breathes around us.
Through the power of the heart, we can return to a state of belonging and trust in ourselves that we are capable of dreams beyond reach and are a part of the immeasurable gift of being alive."
Stay wild.
Jacks Genega, Founder of Wildcard Wilderness Survival and Featured Female of The History Channel's Alone Season 13, World Championship
Georgia Bushcraft
