Why Men Return to Inventure
Women say yes to the Inventure experience in the Karoo with greater ease, but it is men who return.
I have wondered why this is the case, and when I enquire about it, this is what I discover…
From both my formal and informal conversations with men, it is becoming increasingly clear that they are battling. There is a loneliness and isolation that is palpable. A deep sense of overwhelm and angst that is becoming increasingly evident and witnessed in what can be described as a physical and mental health crisis.
An Inventure is a distraction-free space. It is the idea of coming on your own and feeling a freedom to be how you need to be, away from demand and having to hold it all together. A neutral space without the pull of obligation.
The way we design the experience allows for an openness to take place between men that invite space for real and deeper-than-usual conversations. Men connecting with men…about what they struggle with. Whether it is a personal or relational dynamic, a business challenge, a space to share deeper feelings, or just to meander side by side in silence through the Karoo veld.
In this environment, conversation and connection is not forced, but the space allows men specifically to step into it from a different and renewed place within themselves. It is the reason why we strongly suggest that people come on their own and not with close friends or family.
So why do men return to the same space?
Indeed, the space is the same, but the landscape is different. The individuals around the fire are different. The river flows differently, yet the stars offer a familiar welcome and the land, as always, is ready to awaken something new within us.
Nothing is the same when we return again because we are different.
An Inventure is an inner adventure but it is not a solo experience, the gift of this space is the quality of connection that takes place between strangers in a distraction free wilderness area. We all require this and deeply crave it, because we have forgotten our humanness, we have forgotten how to be with one another and it is these 5 days that offer us a necessary remembering.
