Manuel has spend the last years guiding individuals, groups and organisations on journeys to the outer and inner wilderness. His focus lies on hosting experiences with elements of solitude and fasting in nature, knows as Vision Quests or Wilderness Vision Fasts.

With a background in social entrepreneurship, Manuel spent six years building his own company, “Modelminds”, in Amsterdam, where he worked as a creativity coach and radical honesty consultant with a range of businesses. He then continued to work self-employed, mentoring and training individuals and organisations in Visual Changemaking.

Manuel’s passion for the outdoors and traditional living led him on a transformative journey. He sailed and fished with indigenous communities in the Pacific, journeyed through the desert for three months with his father, lived in a tipi on a small Swedish island for a year and worked at a traditional natural leather tannery in Norway. He studied traditional outdoor living, craftsmanship, and leadership of groups in nature and the wilderness in Sweden for three years.