Entrepreneur Program

Do you want to start your own business with our entrepreneur program?

Do you want to invest in yourself for more than the summer season?

Living in our community as an entrepreneur year round allows you to:
- Experience all the challenges a new business owner can face, with the support of experienced entrepreneurs
- Learn how to run your own business and what you need to get started
- Connect more deeply with nature as you experience the wilderness in every season
- Invest more in your personal development as each season presents different challenges to learn from
- Contribute more to conservation as different projects arise throughout the year
- Become more self-sufficient, empowermed, conscious and aware
- Contribute more fully to our community as you invest in developing our philosophy
- Experience our family environment where we share meals, successes, challenges and our evolvement

Joining the entrepreneur program in the Trails to Empowerment community is an opportunity to invest in your own nature connection, personal development, conservation, self-sufficiency, empowerment and consciousness and awareness. It is an opportunity to learn what it takes to start and run your own business with the safety net of experienced entrepreneurs by your side. But it’s also an opportunity to invest in a community.

How does the entrepreneur program contribute?

To join us long term, you need a vision and an entrepreneurial mindset, a strong purpose and clear goals and visions. Contribute by taking on responsibility to run and develop one of the below options. Gain hands on experience and vaulable entrepreneur skills as you have the freedom to run your chosen department like your own business. This allows you to learn how to run your own business with a safety net that most new entrepreneurs don’t have:

  • Wilderness Guide School
  • ESL School
  • Accommodation Rental
  • Sustainable Woodlot Logging
  • Transportation
  • Guest Ranch
  • Products & Services
  • Horse Pack Trips
  • Snowmobiling Tours
  • Hiking Tours
  • Wildlife Tracking and Conservation
  • Mountain Biking Trips
  • Backcountry Skiing Trips
  • Fishing Trips
  • Bushcraft and Survival Trips
  • Guide Outfitter
  • Online Training Programs
  • Website Development
  • Hay Fields
  • Sawmill
  • Conservation and Stewardship
  • Carpentry and Mechanic

Or bring your own entrepreneur project that fits our philosophy and contributes to the community. This allows you to set up your own business from the start. Our community partners are only limited by their imagination.

If you aren’t a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, you will need a visa for the entrepreneur program. Take a look at these visa options to see which option fits your circumstances.

Read this blog story by a graduate of our entrepreneur program to see how it works and gain more insights into how to run your own business and learn entrepreneur skills:

Entrepreneur Program

Already working on your own project and just looking for accommodation and an office or studio? We have ranch-based accommodation and remote satellite research huts available to rent for the summer where you can join our community but work on your own project.

Submit the Wilderness Readiness Survey to find out more!

Not ready for the long term entrepreneur program or can't join us in person?

Try one of our volunteering, practicums or online options and see if Trails to Empowerment is a good match for your interests, goals and purpose.


Are you ready for more in life?

You are the master of your destiny. Will you take ownership for your life today? 

Join us on the Trail to Empowerment towards a greater sense of personal development, nature connectionnature conservation, self-sufficiency, empowerment and consciousness & awareness. Evolve with a positive mindset by facing challenges and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. 

The only remaining question: If not now, then when?

Trails to Empowerment

Gain FREE access to our Personal Development Course today!

All of our programs and courses with our training partner the Wilderness Training Academy are self-directed providing you with information, inspiration and self-reflection prompts for you to put into action. 

Are you ready to gain free access to your Personal Development course?

You will: 

  • discover your interests, goals and purpose
  • create a mission statement to live your life with purpose
  • self reflect and be inspired to grow and evolve to be your best self

Have you checked out all our hands on opportunities?