Today I want to welcome to the Palmer Bear Hikes podcast,

write-of-passage guide, mythologist, founder of the Great Earth School,

with nearly 20 years of experience leading global wilderness immersions and transformable retreats.

His work blends

ancestral wisdom, myth, dream work,

and nature-based leadership

to help people clarify purpose,

deepen resilience,

and reconnect with the natural world.

Darren recently launched his own podcast,

The Return with Darren Silver.

Darren Silver, welcome to Papa Bear Hikes.

Hey, hey, it is great to be here.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So, Darren, this all sounds very interesting.

It was a bit of a mouthful to say.

There was a lot going on there, all related.

But I think our listeners would like to hear from you rather than me.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and what it is you're doing here at DeBritre at school.

Yeah. Yeah. So about 22 years ago, I first studied with a man named Tom Brown Jr.

And at that point, the school was in kind of the countryside, the mountainside of New Jersey.

And he held some classes in the Pine Barrens, which later all the classes were in the

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