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Our Website: www.yourwildheart.org
A Beginning That Matters
We live in a time when many people feel disconnected ; from themselves, from one another, and from the living world around them.
Not because we lack information, but because something more essential is missing: spaces where it is safe to feel, to slow down, and to be fully human.
Wild Hearts is a response to that need. A response lived through direct experience : engaging the body, the land, and real human encounters as pathways back to connection. Not urgently, not loudly - but steadily, concretely, and with care.
This crowdfunding campaign supports the founding phase of Wild Hearts as an independent non-profit organisation, helping this work take root with integrity and long-term vision.
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What Wild Hearts Is
Wild Hearts is an emerging non-profit dedicated to connection ; to ourselves, to one another, and to the living world we are part of.
At its heart, Wild Hearts brings together emotional intelligence, embodied awareness, and relational work, grounded in direct relationship with nature and adventure as a living system.
During our Wild Experiences, Nature is not used as a backdrop or a setting, but approached as an active teacher and mirror. We engage in outdoor and adventure-based settings that invite collaboration, movement, challenge, shared inquiry and responsibility, and sometimes physical effort, always held within a safe and intentional relational container. Through contact with Natural placed, rhythms, and living environments, people are invited to reconnect with their own inner nature - their bodies, emotions, purpose and sense of belonging within the wider web of life.
By slowing down, listening, and sensing in real environments, participants rediscover a felt sense of connection ; to themselves, to others, and to the world around them. This naturally deepens ecological and empathical awareness, care, and respect, not through ideology, but through lived experience and relationship.
The work of Wild Hearts takes many forms, including:
- Theme-based group coaching events and workshops,
- retreats journeys and adventures in wild natural settings,
- ongoing group practices and spaces,
- and impactful presences in social, educational, and humanitarian contexts.
To explore the vision and approach in more depth:
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Why Wild Hearts Exists
We are living in a time of fragmentation — across societies, between people, and within ourselves. Alongside the search for meaning and aliveness, there is a growing and very real need for inner safety: the ability to feel grounded, regulated, and at home in oneself and in relationship with others.
Many existing approaches focus on performance, productivity, or rapid transformation, while the deeper emotional and relational foundations of being human — safety, trust, and belonging — are often overlooked.
Wild Hearts exists because:
- People need spaces where they can feel safe enough to be real and fully themselves.
- Emotional literacy and embodied awareness are essential life skills,
- And reconnection — to self, to others, and to the living world — is a prerequisite for meaningful and sustainable change.
By supporting inner safety as well as aliveness, Wild Hearts creates conditions where individuals, groups and communities can meet life with greater resilience, responsibility, and care. At Wild Hearts, inner safety is not cultivated by avoiding challenge, but by meeting it together - with support, awareness, and shared responsibility.
This work is not about scale for its own sake.
It is about depth, presence, and rootedness.
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Why This Crowdfunding?
Wild Hearts is currently in its founding phase as an independent non-profit organisation.
Allowing a project like this to root properly takes time. It means building structure without rushing, growing without overextending, and making choices that protect integrity rather than chasing visibility or premature expansion.
This crowdfunding campaign exists as a bridge fund ; supporting this careful process of rooting:
- without taking shortcuts, or unnecessary risks,
- without injecting unsustainable capital,
- and without compromising values under financial pressure.
The financial needs of this phase are met through multiple channels: this campaign, ongoing applications for public and private subsidies, and the development of sustainable partnerships ; some of which are already in place and continuing to grow.
Together, these elements allow Wild Hearts to develop as a stable and ethical non-profit. grounded in relationship rather than urgency, and built to last.
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How the Funds Will Be Used
Funds raised through this campaign will be allocated approximately as follows:
- 40% : Non-Profit Foundation & Structure
Legal setup, administration, governance, insurance, accounting, and essential infrastructure.
- 30% — Social & Humanitarian Projects (= the Wild Response)
Seeding non-commercial initiatives in social, educational, and humanitarian contexts where human presence and emotional support are most needed.
- 20% : Core Coordination & Work Capacity
Partial salary and coordination during the founding phase, covering project development, partnerships, facilitation, communication, and overall coherence. This is not personal profit, but functional sustainability.
- 10% : Communication & Outreach
Website development, multilingual communication, documentation, and public accessibility.
Transparency and ethical use of funds are central values of Wild Hearts and will be presented on our website.
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About the Founder & Team
Wild Hearts is initiated by Ruben Carpentier, a circle group facilitator, authenticity coach, somatic-emotional therapist and mountain guide & educator working at the intersection of embodiment, relational intelligence, and nature-based practice. His work bridges inner transformation and real-world environments, bringing the same quality of presence to heart-connecting circle spaces as to mountains, trails, and wild landscapes.
In its early phase, Wild Hearts is carried by a small, committed team that holds responsibility for its vision, integrity, and continuity. While the project is not built around a single person, its founding phase requires clear coordination and accountable leadership.
Part of this campaign supports the practical capacity needed to hold that responsibility sustainably — without relying on unpaid labour, burnout, or urgency-driven decisions.
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How You Can Support
You can support Wild Hearts by:
1. contributing financially to this bridge fund,
2. sharing the campaign with people or organisations who resonate with grounded, human-centred work,
3. participating in future events and practices,
4. or simply helping this initiative live in conversation and community.
Every form of support helps this work take root with integrity.
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You Become Part of the Founding Circle
Supporting this campaign is not just a donation — it is a conscious “yes” to the birth of Wild Hearts.
Everyone who contributes becomes part of the Founding Circle — the people who stood at the very beginning and helped this non-profit take its first real steps.
As a supporter, you will:
1. receive personal updates as Wild Hearts roots and grows,
be invited to a special online Founding Ritual to mark this beginning together,
2. have the possibility (with your consent) to be included in a symbolic Founders Map,
3. receive a transparent report at the end of the campaign showing how the funds were used and what they made possible.
Wild Hearts is built on relationship. Your support is honored as part of its foundation.
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A Final Word
Wild Hearts is not about grand promises.
It is about creating and protecting spaces where human connection, emotional presence, and compassionate responsibility can co-exist , especially where they are least visible and most needed.
This campaign is an invitation to support the foundation of that work.
Thank you for standing with this beginning.
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