We are an international ecotourism company offering hiking adventures and specialised creativity retreats. Charissa Wright recently joined the Edgewalkers Team.
Reconnecting you to nature, creativity & your most adventurous self! 🌸
https://edgewalkers.com.au/mongolia-walking-adventure THE TEAM
Edgewalkers was founded by Dr Erika Jacobson, a theatre practitioner, artist and entrepreneur with a specialisation in creativity and transformative learning who loves writing, walking and wildflowers. Kirra Diconza, is an environmental scientist, yoga instructor, and student of Chinese medicine who loves to surf and create culinary magic. Charissa is an artist, designer and entrepreneur with background in science and agriculture. She loves wildflowers, birds and being outdoors. Behinds the scenes Francis Cubillo is our office administrator and email marketing expert, with superhuman organisational skills. WHERE WE LIKE TO BE
From August to November most of our events take place in Western Australia's florally biodiverse southwest, including the Cape to Cape track in the Margaret River Region, the Fitzgerald Biosphere and the Stirling Range National Park. We also offer a walking adventures through the ancient rugged landscape of the Murchison Gorge in the Kalbarri National Park in WA's midwest. In June and July we head to the Tavan Bogd National Park and hike with small groups through the Altai Mountains in the in northwest Mongolia and to the Prokletije National Park to hike the Peaks of the Balkans through Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo. Our international Creativity Retreat will be held on the magical island of Korcula, Croatia. We offer set events throughout the year but mostly organise bespoke adventures for individuals, organisations and government departments. Our mission is to bring people closer to nature, creativity and their most adventurous selves.
18/03/2026
This picture was taken during a scoping trip in Mongolia, before we officially started running the walking adventure in the Tavan Bogd National Park.
My friend , who took the picture, was not convinced it was a path.
“It’s a f****** 🐐 track!”, he kept shouting from behind me.
“Just follow me, I can see a path! “ I shouted back.
Okay, maybe it was a bit of a goat track, but we made it across, and we will both die treasuring this exhilarating memory and everything it’s lead to since.
The point is: some of us can walk on goat tracks!😝🐐
Some of us can see paths where others can’t.
Just something to think about when someone is telling you you’re on the wrong path!
17/03/2026
We all know that professional success doesn’t automatically translate to personal fulfilment.
After 20+ years designing and facilitating creativity workshops and university courses, I’ve observed a consistent pattern:
High-achieving women in their 50s and 60s often report feeling disconnected from their creative expression, not because they lack creativity, but because they’ve spent decades prioritising competence over exploration, organisation over the mess of innovation… and often, outside their careers they’re often the ones holding down the fort at home.
The Creativity Retreat addresses this to research back method:
🙋🏻♀️ embodied art based practices that engage body and senses, bypassing intellectual overthinking to access insights beyond logic.
🙋🏻♀️ nature immersion along the Cape to Cape track and Boranup Forest - nature’s proven to be effective for stress reduction and creative inspiration. ✨
🙋🏻♀️ transformative learning frameworks from my PhD research.
🙋🏻♀️ creative thinking tools from university level creativity and innovation curriculum
🙋🏻♀️ Perr community for authentic sharing in a safe and nurturing environment
Outcomes:
✨ clarity on creative aspirations and directions.
✨ tools to overcome creative blocks
✨ reconnection with innate creativity.
✨ 30 day sustainable action plan.
✨ renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
✨ a brand-new set of like-minded women to support you and celebrate you
Next dates: April 16 - 19
Location: Margaret River - luxury holiday home immersed in pristine bush
Capacity: 3 more people - 9 total
“I believe in you” words that water flowers.
Michael Faudet
These flowers are all found in or around the Stirling Range National Park in early September - can’t wait to be back there again this year.
13/03/2026
The last day is always a reminder of th spectacle we’re leaving behind - check out the Potanin Glacier - surrounded by the 5 Sacred Peaks of the Tavan Bogd National Park - wow! 🤩
12/03/2026
Have a read if your body sometimes doesn’t quite feel like it’s your own body - spot on about the expectation we have of a body that has changed - and how much hormones do in our bodies - if youre a hiker in your fifties or more you’ll provably relate - i did. 🙋🏻♀️
Rachael Mead’s body once carried her across Antarctic ice sheets. At 55, she set out to reclaim her resilience – and what she discovered was surprising.
12/03/2026
There are places in the world that still feel untouched.
Mongolia is one of them.
Walk through vast open valleys, beneath snowcapped peaks, with nothing but wilderness ahead. No crowds. Only the noise of bustling streams and shrieking hawks.
Just you your fellow adventurous and some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet.
And witnessing traditional nomadic culture firsthand.
This is the Edgewalkers Mongolia Walking Adventure, and you have to come see for yourself.
31 July - 13 August
There are literally 2 spots left.
DM us for an itinerary now.
10/03/2026
This is a must read about the refent fires in the Fitzgerald River National Park.
A UNESCO-recognised WA biosphere reserve is in ruins after fire, yet the catastrophe has barely rated a national headline.
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EDGEWALKERS - walking you closer to nature & your most creative self
It was during a long coastal hike, along the famous Cape to Cape track, immersed in scented Boronias and Honey Myrtle, surrounded by swishing Peppermint Eucalyptuses and low lying prickly Acacias (names I did not know then) that I came to realise two things.
First, I realised that in spite of loving being out in nature I knew very little about the natural world that surrounded me. When I looked at trees I saw, well, trees; when I looked at flowers, I saw colours, red ones, purple ones, yellow ones.
I wondered if other people also felt the same. Whether they were also yearning for a more profound connection and understanding of the natural world, yearning to move like Edgewalkers, effectively across the edge between the structured and the untamed, between the sophisticated and the primal.
Second, I realised that walking, but especially in nature, was, and is, an integral part of my creative process…that I have been doing it for a long time.
I realised that I hiked the mountains around Almaty, Kazakhstan trying to find a way to finish the first draft of my first novel in 1999, and that I regularly traversed King’s Park, Perth, while solving production issues with my first play Trollop(e) in 2002. I understood that I had walked my way out of every single challenge in all the theatre-based projects I created with Act Out www.actout.com.au from 2007 – 2014 and that I am still bushwalking now as a way to solve problems, to let my mind expand and my imagination soar.
I understood, that day on the Cape to Cape with the Southern Native Roses dangling red above the limestone outcrops of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, with Western Spinebills fluttering among the Melaleuca and the Cockies’ Tongues, that walking is how I negotiate the edge between the world of what is and the world of what is yet to be; between the world of the created and what is yet to be created. I wondered whether others also felt a desire to move more freely between these two realms.
By naming my new business adventure Edgewalkers, I am conjuring the possibility of playing a role in bringing people closer to the edges they yearn to walk boldly along; closer to nature, closer to their natural creative and expressive selves; I am conjuring the possibility of all of us having intimate knowledge and competence of all the worlds we inhabit and create.
OUR RETREATS
We are educators, nature lovers, artists & walking enthusiasts who love sharing our knowledge & passion for nature & a deeply creative life. Our retreats are designed to give you focused and uninterrupted opportunities to immerse yourself in stimulating surroundings and discover/rediscover your creative aspirations...and ways to reconnect with them.
Through aesthetic and embodied activities & techniques you will explore your creative aspirations, your desires and hopes and generate ways to create a trajectory to a more creative & self-expressive life.
During the retreats the creative process is harnessed by guided walks immersed in nature through some of the most pristine and biodiverse environments in the world, including sections of the Cape to Cape track & Boranup forest in southwest Western Australia & in the Altai mountains of northwest Mongolia. In addition, special workshops with contributing local artists during each retreat will enhance your creativity experience.
OUR WALKS
When you walk with us you are not just walking with a tour guide, you are walking with a philosopher, an artist, a writer, an environmentalist who offer a unique perspective and sensitivity to the experience.
