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.
25/01/2026
If you’ve been following the news from the great Southern in Western Australia, you will know that 200+ people have been fighting fires throughout the Fitzgerald River National Park.
Fire plays an important role in the regeneration of the Australian Bush.
But it’s always sad to learn about devastating fires and the destruction of Bush - more than 150,000 hectares have been burnt over the last week.
I was happy to learn that the west side of the park, the areas where we go walking in every year have not been touched by the devastating fires that are still being put out as I write this.
But, feel deep sadness about the loss of thousands of animals, insects and plants.
Here are some memories from my walks in the spectacular and extraordinary national Park that forms part of our natural heritage here in Western Australia.
24/12/2025
Happy holidays everyone - wishing you time to restore and reconnect with everything that brings you joy!
19/12/2025
Reading testimonials from participants of the Creativity Retreat in Margaret River fills me with a deep sense of fulfilment and joy… all I want is to reconnect as many people as possible in this lifetime with the innate and beautiful creative power that lives inside everyone of us.
It gets pushed back and suppressed but it’s there!
It might feel small and weak, but it’s there!
It might only whisper softly but it’s there!
Creativity is a muscle that needs working out regularly, vigorously and joyfully.
Sometimes we need some space and time to disrupt the habits we’ve adopted so we can come home to our natural and magical creative selves - to world that is full to the rim with possibilities.
If you’re being called to create something new- to step into uncertainty and mystery… give yourself a gift that spills out into all areas of your life.
11/12/2025
We love mountains!!!
Our two favourite mountains ranges (so far 😉)
1. the Altai Mountains (that’s .erika.jacobson on Malchin Peak in the Altai Mountains in northwest Mongolia.
2. The Peaks of the Balkans through the Prokletije Mountains / Albanian Alps across Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo.
10/12/2025
Need more reasons?
🥾recharge your mind
🥾relief stress
🥾reconnect with nature
🥾Reconnect with yourself
🥾Get physical walking up mountains
🥾Have something to tell your coworkers when you get back…
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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.
