2025 CALENDAR

JANUARY
Field work in North America: MT, CO, NV, ME, VT, MN.

FEBRUARY
9 – 15 Feb 2025. Winter Wolf Trailing with Matt Nelson and Abel Bean. Join us in the heart of Wisconsin’s wolf territory for an unforgettable experience. You’ll stay in a warm and comfortable home that we have rented for our stay, surrounded by the winter beauty of the region. Over the course of five full days in-the-field (with an arrival and departure day on either end totaling 7 days together), we’ll venture into the snowy landscape to track the resident wolf packs. Through their trails, tracks, and signs, you’ll gain a deep understanding of these magnificent creatures, and of the other beings that they share the land with.

MARCH
1 Mar – 29 Apr 2025. A Nature Guide Training program – 60 days of Guiding and Tracking instruction and assessment in South Africa, resulting in national certification to guide in South Africa on the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa standard (FGASA) and CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification and Trailing certification (upon passing). Led by Guide/Tracker Vaughn Jessnitz and supported by Lee Gutteridge and Kersey Lawrence. Contact lee@natureguidetraining.com for information.

16 – 24 Mar 2025. An African Yoga Safari, part of our “Slow Down Safari” series of programs. Ashtanga Yoga, Tracking, and Nature Guiding in South Africa with Yogi and host Dylan Bernstein and Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. A CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification Assessment is available. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to discuss customized education or research programs for your group, organization, or academic institution.  

20 – 23 Mar 2025. International Tracking Symposium through European Wildlife Tracking – CyberTracker Europe in the Netherlands. https://europeanwildlifetracking.com/symposium

APRIL
12-13 Apr 2025.  CyberTracker North America,  Track and Sign Identification – Specialist Evaluation, central Ohio, USA. Hosted by Sandy Reed of Original Wisdom, this evaluation can register up to 10 participants. Zoom study-session dates TBD, with at least a one-day field session before this weekend certification, free to all confirmed participants (food and lodging not included). The Primary Evaluator is Marcus Reynerson and External Evaluator is David Moskowitz. Contact sandy@originalwisdom.com for information. 

26 – 27 Apr 2025. North American Wildlife Trackers Conference, 3^rd biannual, online. https://trackercertification.com/conference/

MAY
19 May – 1 Jun 2025. University of North Carolina – Wilmington, a tracking, ecology, and culture program with a research component in South Africa. A CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification Assessment is included. Led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to discuss customized education or research programs for your group, organization, or academic institution.

JUNE
8 -18 Jun 2025. Tracking & Black Leopards in Laikipia, Kenya. Hosted by Kenyan Guide Daniel Peel and led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge. A CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification Assessment is included. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to discuss customized education or research programs for your group, organization, or academic institution.

22 – 29 Jun 2025. Private Trailing Program hosted by European Senior Tracker / Evaluator John Rhyder and led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge.

JULY
1 – 16 Jul 2025. Hopkinton High School (NH), a tracking, ecology, and culture program in South Africa. A CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification Assessment is included. Led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to discuss customized education or research programs for your group, organization, or academic institution.

AUGUST
3 – 16 Aug 2025. Forest Therapy and Wildlife Tracking Safari in South Africa, part of our “Slow Down Safari” series of programs. Hosted by Sandy Reed and Stana Luxford-Oddie and led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. The combination of Tracking and Forest Therapy is a powerful one. To clarify, Forest Therapy doesn’t need to take place in a forest. On this program, we will travel together from the city, over a mountain plateau to the African savanna-bushveld and then back to the city through a rainforest. Forest Therapy philosophy is all about human beings in relationship with their environment. All things are Beings. The trees, the grass, the animals …everything. A CyberTracker Track & Sign ID certification is included. And …of course, you will see African wildlife, by vehicle and also on-foot, because the flora and fauna are all around us. You will come away with a better understanding of our relationships and connections to our ancient ecosystem, as well as with some amazing memories. Contact sandy@originalwisdom.com for more information.

18- 30 Aug 2025. University of Aberdeen (Scotland), a tracking, ecology, and culture program with a research component in South Africa. A CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification Assessment is included. Led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to discuss customized education or research programs for your group, organization, or academic institution.

SEPTEMBER
1 – 12 Sep 2025. South African Tracking Intensive, part 1 – 12 days of Track and Sign identification on the landscape in Botswana. A CyberTracker Track and Sign Identification is included. Led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com for information. 

17 – 27 Sep 2025. South African Tracking Intensive, part 2 – 11 days of Trailing practice on the landscape in South Africa. A CyberTracker  Trailing Assessment can be arranged but is not included. Led by Guides/Trackers Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge and their team. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com for information. 

27 – 28 Sep 2025. CyberTracker North America Track & Sign Identification Evaluation with Nate Harvy evaluating. Hosted by Original Wisdom’s Shane Hawkins in southwestern New York at the Allegheny River Basin Mudflats. Open to ANYONE, no prior experience necessary. Zoom study-sessions will start in June, with a field session Weds-Fri before this weekend certification, free to all confirmed participants (food and lodging not included). Contact Shane@originalwisdom.com for details. 

OCTOBER
1 – 19 Oct 2025. Tracking in Madagascar: fossa, lemurs, indri, couas, and more, on this island nation where many of the people still live close to the land! Exact dates and program TBD. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com for information.

11 – 12 Oct 2025. CyberTracker North America Track & Sign Identification Evaluation with Matt Nelson evaluating. Hosted by Original Wisdom’s Shane Hawkins in southwestern New York at the Allegheny River Basin Mudflats. Open to ANYONE, no prior experience necessary. Zoom study-sessions will start in June, with a field session Weds-Fri before this weekend certification, free to all confirmed participants (food and lodging not included). Contact Shane@originalwisdom.com for details. 

18 – 19 Oct 2025. CyberTracker North America Track & Sign Identification Evaluation with Matt Nelson evaluating. Hosted by Original Wisdom’s Shane Hawkins in southwestern New York at the Allegheny River Basin Mudflats. Open to ANYONE, no prior experience necessary. Zoom study-sessions will start in June, with a field session Weds-Fri before this weekend certification, free to all confirmed participants (food and lodging not included). Contact Shane@originalwisdom.com for details. 

25 – 26 Oct 2025. CyberTracker North America Track & Sign Identification Evaluation with Marcus Reynerson evaluating. Hosted by Original Wisdom’s Sandy Reed in central Ohio, USA. Open to ANYONE, no prior experience necessary. Zoom study-session dates TBD, with at least a one-day field session before this weekend certification, free to all confirmed participants (food and lodging not included). Contact sandy@originalwisdom.com for information. 

TBD Oct 2025. Northeast Trackers Conference. https://northeastwildlifetrackers.org/

NOVEMBER
TBD. Tracking in North America – Track and Sign Identification workshops and Trailing Workshops and CyberTracker Trailing Assessments – led by Original Wisdom founder and Senior Tracker / Evaluator Kersey Lawrence. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to arrange workshops or evaluations in your region of North America. 

DECEMBER
TBD. Tracking in Australia – Track and Sign Identification workshops and Trailing Workshops in the CyberTracker style of assessment – led by Senior Tracker / Evaluator Kersey Lawrence and Master Tracker / External Evaluator Lee Gutteridge. Contact kersey@originalwisdom.com to see if you can get involved.   

Don’t forget about our correspondence and online Tracking courses at TrackerMentoring.com

Contact us for information on any of our programs, or to design an educational or research-based program for you in Africa, North America, or wherever else you are in the world!