Out of My Comfort Zone

Shaun Raaff

Inventure Experience, Men's Inventure | May 2023

My inventure experience has been difficult to put into words! In fact, almost three weeks later it has been difficult to fully realize the impact it had on me! Having never done anything remotely like it, I was hesitant to commit to 4 days with no signal away from work and family. Life tends to hold you in and not want to let you out.

Having committed though, I was very excited to spend time in the great wilderness of the Karoo. The isolation of the Karoo is quite incredible, besides the beauty of the land by day and stars by night, there can’t be too many places as unique and special. The feeling of being FAR FAR away from civilization is liberating, you feel like you are the only people on earth (particularly when you phone gets ceremonially taken from you on day one).

I never committed to the experience because I thought I had something wrong, or something personally to fix! I was eager to do something that was out of my comfort zone and something that might teach me something new about myself! The experience delivered on both fronts and because of how Julie designed the days for me personally, the time was far from a holiday and time that I took a huge amount from! It pushed me both mentally and emotionally! As hard as it was for me disconnect from my family and my work, both have benefitted from the time I spent out in the beautiful Karoo!

I really couldn’t recommend the experience more! Worth every penny and every minute away!