The Lithica Gathering

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Somewhere in Scandinavia - July 6 2026 - July 12 2026

The Lithica Gathering

A week of Rewilding, Nature, Workshops, Storytelling, Sharing & Community in Scandinavia.

Who among us has not thought from time to time how much more fulfilling and fun it would be to live as a clan where we share skills, stories, songs, laughter, tears, meals, chores and so much more with a multi-generational group in a natural, pristine environment? 

We have often pondered ourselves: why is it that some of the few wild places left on Earth are preserved for wild animals and wild plants but not for wild humans?

The gatherings are the beginning of our vision of Rewilding Humans. To become a community that is excited to invest in creating and living on the first Lithica Land.

Looking forward to meeting you around fire!

- The Lithica Team

Meet some of our previous instructors

This is a selection of our amazing instructors. Can’t wait for next summer to start your rewilding journey? Check out their websites for retreats, workshops and courses organized by them.

2026 instructor team will be announced soon

  • Lynx Vilden

    Lynx Vilden

    Lynx Vilden walks a path that used to be natural to all of us, but for most people no longer is.

    She has explored the natural environments and indigenous cultures of arctic, mountain, and desert regions from Hudson Bay to the Kalahari desert. She has lived in a Sami village in Scandinavia, in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico, in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and the North Cascades of Washington. She has been practicing and teaching primitive living skills in both the United States and Europe since 1991.

    She is probably most known for her Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects and the Living Wild school bringing others to live this way for extended periods of time.

    https://www.lynxvilden.com/

  • Daan Timmers

    Daan Timmers

    Do you also want to move like the hunter/gatherer? Do you secretly find that your body is more adapted to the sofa /desk than to the forest? Experience with Daan how you can change this process with clear insights so that you too can move smooth and naturally.

    Human health has never (!) peaked as high as in Palaeolithic times. Let’s go back and see what we are missing these days, and even better what do we need to do to get back on track? Issues as not having time will not do. Daan will teach you how to stack your life as the hunter/gatherer. Do the things you normally do but, in a hunter/gatherer kind of way!

    https://www.verwildernis.nl/

  • Anton van den Heuvel

    Anton van den Heuvel

    Teacher in historical shipbuilding, building master in pre-historic dwellings, NLP-coach, bushcraft-teacher and guide to help you learn more about yourself.

    Since the end of the 1980's Anton has been involved in prehistoric and historic house- and boatbuilding projects, working with professionals and teaching students develop their craft-skills as well as themselves.

    Anton is an open, positive and creative human who loves to be in nature. To create inspiring experiences with others and to expand your consciousness both in the physical and non-physical world.

    https://devuurboog.nl/

  • Mo Wilde

    Mo Wilde

    Monica ‘Mo’ Wilde is an expert on wild food and medicine and was brought up in Kenya. She teaches foraging  in Scotland and is the author of ‘The Wilderness Cure’ and ‘Free Food’. Mo lived on only wild food for a year and then set up The Wildbiome Project - a large citizen science study into Western human survival on hunted and foraged foods, and the effects on our bodies.

    With a Masters degree in herbal medicine, Mo also teaches on the Herbology Diploma courses at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and works with the Claid Clinic specialising in Lyme disease. Mo also helped found the Association of Foragers and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

    Mo is warm, approachable and passionate about restoring vital connection through and with nature. She loves to share her deep knowledge of the plants and old ways, honouring our own ancestral teachings and earth-based ceremonies that still remain, rooted in Celtic and druidic culture. 

    www.monicawilde.com

  • Man wearing traditional leather clothing with bone decorations, outdoors in a natural setting.

    Werner Pfeifer

    Werner was born in Namibia and grew up on a bush farm. As a child he often walked in the bush with rifle and dog. After military service he worked as a game warden.

    After moving to the north of Germany, he did some private studies in Archaeology and History at the University and roamed Northern Europe as a hobby Viking and Stone Age man, acting in museums and historic markets.

    During this time he learned to make stone tools and now gives flint knapping courses in Germany, England and Namibia.

    He also teaches bow making and bow shooting courses specialising in replicas of the north European Stone Age.

    https://stoneagegathering.eu/contact

  • Sofie Kleppe

    Sofie Kleppe

    Sofie is a positive woman full of energy and adventures. She finds her inner-peace and connection to Mother Earth by skiing high mountains, swimming in cold water and absorbing the light from the low sun. She’s a mother of 5 children and love to play with kids and teach them everything that they would need to live a life in nature and in the circle around the fire.

    Sofie has more than 25 years’ experience with traditional tanning of hides and making of clothes and gear in skin and leather. Since 2006 she has run courses in tanning and sewing in Finland and Norway, and she has a Master's degree in tanning with traditional methods. Especially she admires the beautiful craftsmanship of Inuit’s and their unique skills to make clothes and garments that keep warm and dry in arctic weather.

    Together with her husband Roni they run the company “ULU of Norway” and make natural tanned and chemical-free outdoor clothes that fit modern people.

    https://uluofnorway.no

  • Roni Öhman

    Roni Öhman

    Roni grew up in the Finnish forest and has a strong passion for primitive living. For more than 15 years he has joined different wilderness-schools and projects to learn and practice skills that you need to live a life in nature. Roni has been a teacher and guide in “Naturliv” and ''Guardian-training'' courses in Sweden.

    Roni is a positive man with thousands of visions and tons of love. He has a great impact on youth and children and enjoys playing and challenging them. With his calmness and self-confidence, he goes for the responsibility and masters the father-ship of 5 children. His strongest passion is to run a primitive school for children and youth where they can play free and learn from nature.

    Roni is a professional tanner and skilled craftsman, and together with Sofie he runs the company “ULU of Norway''. His dream is to live a balanced life in the wilderness with his family and a clan.

    https://uluofnorway.no

  • Michael Wachter

    Michael Wachter

    Michael is a founder of ‘Human Keystone’ is an experienced Outdoorsman, Forager, Fisher, Hunter and primitive skills practitioner from Hastings. Through month long solo and group immersions into some of the last truly wild parts of Europe he has over the years developed deep kinship with the natural world.

    Using skills as pathways, Michael has formed strong ropes of connection with plants and animals around him. Even though Michael has been trained by some of the best naturalists and ancestral skills practitioners in Europe, his teachings are strongly influenced directly from nature. His teaching style is unorthodox, ancestral as well as process rather than goal orientated.

    https://www.humankeystone.uk/

  • Johan Örlander

    Johan Örlander

    Johan’s biggest passion in life is to live in a circle in nature. He has spent the last 20+ years learning and teaching about how to do that - practically, socially, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. He has finished two year long wilderness guide programs at the Teaching Drum Outdoor School in the US. He was involved in initiating the Wild Moon programs, which he later brought to Europe. He was also involved in starting Naturliv, a Swedish outdoor skills organization. For the last 7 years he has been running a year long Folk High School course also called Naturliv.

    He feels most at home in the role of a guardian in groups, but can also take on the roles of being a leader and a nurturer. He is a father and has many years experience with living and guiding family wilderness immersions.

    https://www.munkafolkhogskola.se/naturlivskurser/

    https://www.wildmoon.eu/

    https://teachingdrum.org/

  •  Carolin de Laval

    Carolin de Laval

    Carolin grew up in the south west of Sweden, gathering berries and mushrooms with her grandparents. On her own she explored a variety of crafts and taught herself about edible plants. Since early childhood, she dreamed of leaving modern society behind, to disappear into the forest. 

    Since then, she has spent a lot of time living off grid and under the open sky. For several years she travelled between historical markets as a viking age reenactor. 

    Today Carolin has more than 20 years' experience of sewing and traditional tanning, and a journeyman's certificate in both trades. Since 2016 she is a teacher at Bäckedals Folk High School in Sveg, Sweden, where she teaches tanning, sewing and other historical craft techniques.

    https://backedal.se

  • Mathias Caspersen

    Mathias Caspersen

    Mathias grew up in southern Funen in Denmark where he spent almost all of his free time in nature. He has always been fascinated by animals and their varying roles in natures ecosystems and wondered about his own role in it.

    He has been hunting with his dad since the age of 6 and as soon as he turned 16 he got his own hunting license. Naturally, one of his main interests within primitive skills is hunting and fishing - “not because I enjoy killing, but because that to successfully harvest an animal, you need to understand your prey. You need to know what they eat, where like to sleep, when they move and why they move”. As such, Mathias has had a lifelong passion for tracking, spear fishing, and archery as well as animal behaviour.

    https://www.instagram.com/danish_bushman/?hl=da

It is better to be on a journey, than to stay put in one place.

- Sami Proverb -

Workshops

Program and workshops for 2026 to be announced.

Previous gatherings we had workshops in:

Flint Knapping

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Fire Making

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Bone Tool Making

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Geese Processing

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Rawhide Container

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Primitive Pottery

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Making Barefootshoes

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Fishing Techniques

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Fish Hide Tanning

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Bird Skin Tanning

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Tension and Trauma Releasing (TRE)

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Animal Processing

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Community Building

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Edible & Medical Plants

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Wisdom Circle

Flint Knapping 〰️ Fire Making 〰️ Bone Tool Making 〰️ Geese Processing 〰️ Rawhide Container 〰️ Primitive Pottery 〰️ Making Barefootshoes 〰️ Fishing Techniques 〰️ Fish Hide Tanning 〰️ Bird Skin Tanning 〰️ Tension and Trauma Releasing (TRE) 〰️ Animal Processing 〰️ Community Building 〰️ Edible & Medical Plants 〰️ Wisdom Circle

Who is it for?

People who want to connect with their truest, wildest selves.

People who want to support others on the same journey.

People who dream of becoming part of Lithica and help shape our future.

The Lithica Project

The Lithica project has been maturing over years, with many people under many names. Our collective deep quest is to find and buy a large tract of land where we could live wildly and invite as many people as possible to rediscover their inner Wildness.

We even dream of a network of such places, so that, like the old days, we could experience a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle. 

Lithica is no longer a dream but a movement gaining interest in many places all over the world. In this moment it’s private people pledging to turn a piece of their backyard into their wild Lithica zone, and several groups talking and discussing buying land together.

In May 2022, a small clan of Stone Age friends entered the model Lithica Wilderness Zone in Norway. We brought in some flint and hammer stones, skins and a hand drill fire-kit. We made a ceremonial opening of the vision of Lithica North, breaking a large cobble of flint with a local river cobble. We created a hearth, made a fire, drank from the stream and spoke our dreams for the future of this amazing project.

In June 2023, we held our first gathering in Telemark, Norway. It was a fabulous event enjoyed by all and we were inspired to run it again. In 2024 the Gathering was held on Blikberget in Norway, where the very first Lithica land experiment is alive, consisting of zone 2 and 3. In 2025 we explored Sweden at an eco-community in Furudal. For 2026 we are considering going back to the beautiful wild Fyresdal of our first Gathering, but definitive arrangements have not yet been made.

The vision is alive and you can be part of it!