Our Purpose
Wyld Within is a consultancy and resource hub cultivating capacity for regenerative leadership. Our purpose is to guide and nurture the leaders of the emerging living-systems paradigm by creating containers of support and accountability. We acknowledge that we are one small part of a larger ecosystem, and are committed to the continued healing of our human and non-human kin.
What we do
Blending science and spiritual practice, we bring coaching and training for individuals who desire to shift from lopsidedly mechanistic ways to more balanced living systems ways. Through our leadership programs, clients become witness to current patterns of burnout and de-humanizing structures, and transform awareness towards new frameworks for true health and vitality. In shedding cultural conditioning and harmonizing masculine and feminine energy, they become better leaders.
Our Values
The work of transformation can feel confronting or complex, and requires a great deal of vulnerability. That’s why integrity and warmth are at the heart of our mission. We always show up in open, receptive, reliable, and supportive ways so that you feel emboldened to explore, question, consider and then embrace how you want to create and live out a life that fully represents who you are on the inside.
Authentic leadership is integrous and heart-centered, which creates potential and synergy for larger-scale transformation.
Who We Work With
individuals…
We help people cultivate a healthier life that fully represents who they are on the inside. If you want to better understand regenerative principles on a human scale, so that you can increase your success at implementing these principles on a project and organizational scale, this work is for you.
Wake up to your authentic self and develop inner courage to live more harmoniously internally and externally.
We create community spaces for regenerative leaders to gather and share their process of discovering what it means to them to be a human in a regenerative paradigm. Because we are in this together, co-creating a new paradigm right now and none of us know “exactly” how to do it, so sharing our stories and showing up for each other in accountability and support is key. To help the living-systems paradigm to emerge, we get to be the humble role models. Wyld Within supports this brave meandering journey so real change can happen.
and teams…
We fold our work into organizations that are in right alignment.
Generally, this consists of companies that are ready to infuse living-systems principles into their workspace on an individual-scale or teams level. and/or
This also includes providing management support for projects that are shifting the status quo towards a healthier future for all (i.e. scaling permaculture /regenerative agriculture, enhancing soil health, educating the public on metabolic health, and increasing access to real clean food).
How We Work
We right our relationship with nature
Helping individuals learn about their nature wound, so they can heal it through study, understanding, spending time alone in nature and relating to nature. Fundamentally reconnect with oneself and our existence.
We follow our joy
Inviting individuals to follow their heart's desire and energy flow, so they look back on their life proudly without regrets.
We right our relationship to ourselves
Nurturing the development of grace, compassion and empathy within individuals, so they can honor their imperfectly perfect human-ness.
We create community
Hosting containers to bring regenerative leaders together to share, support, and inspire each other on their journeys shifting into the regenerative paradigm
We right our relationship with others
Easing the path for individuals to courageously step into their relational shadow work to help heal generational trauma, societal stories of separation, and dismantle colonization.
We share the harvest
Giving portions of our profits to leaders, organizations and efforts that are contributing to the highest good for all
About the Founder
Elise Suronen is a warm-hearted explorer, intellectual, life-long learner and guide.
Around the age of seven, Elise experienced a pivotal life moment while walking through the woods. She found herself in awe of the amazing interconnectedness of everything on this planet and how that connection is critical for life to thrive. She knew then that modern-day society was depleting life, which lead her to take a pledge to protect Mother Earth.
Growing up, Elise followed her love for nature by studying science and guiding canyoneering, rafting and backpacking trips. She earned a M.S. and published two scientific papers in Restoration Ecology. This path fortuitously led her to become a Program Manager in land stewardship. Elise has orchestrated the highly collaborative efforts to finance and technically assist projects that protect water quality, sequester atmospheric carbon, improve soil health and enhance habitat on small family farms in California, New Mexico, and Colorado.
In 2019, Elise plunged into the unknown of an inner knowing that the life she had designed for herself did not feel completely aligned. Pushing the guilt and confusion aside, she allowed herself to question everything she has ever learned. Part of this process required letting go of her strong solo-act and hiring someone (a coach) to shift the lens on her life (and, as timing would have it, opening herself up to committed romantic relationship). Elise ended up embracing her soft skills, becoming a professional certified coach and studying how to apply living systems models to organizations. She was also drawn to focusing her energy on how to embody the regenerative paradigm (the type of worldview and way of living that her seven-year old self yearned for). She discovered that she was disconnected from herself because she was taught by the colonial system to fit in, like a cog in a machine, instead of embracing her true nature, which is nature.
The product of this journey (Elise’s radical unraveling back to her true core) is Wyld Within. A node in the system to help others discover this collective nature-wound and heal it, so that others can boldly embrace, move towards and express their inner knowing.
DIVERSITY - EQUITY - INCLUSION
I am striving to create a respectful and equitable business.
I still have a lot to learn and I am dedicated to proactively growing my perspective, awareness and activism.
It is important to me to not only understand my white privilege but to take active allyship and to uplift BIPOC voices and leadership.
I am also on a path to understand how I can right my relationship with nature, as a white-bodied person growing up in westernized society.
Righting relationship with each other and nature is the only way forward to create the healthy, thriving and vibrant future that I want to be part of.
Thank you to the following women for their work and being my teachers: Dra. Rosales Meza, Layla Saad, and Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.
- Elise Suronen, Founder
Gratitude
I am eternally grateful for the love and support that Andrew Michael Llamas poured into my life as I stepped into creating this business. He is my rock, biggest encourager and an honest sounding board. Deepest thank you.
Also, appreciation towards my family and friends for loving me along the way.