Ken Wylie
BPE, IFMGA
Author, Speaker, Adversity & Human Hazard Management Educator.
The Making of an Adversity Human Hazard Management Educator.
In the summer of 1987 Ken was hired by the Pacific Crest Outward Bound School to run programs in Washington, Oregon and California. It was through this work that he first learned about author, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl and his idea that the last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
It would take a tragedy for him to embody it for himself.
“The Zone” film 2019
Arcteryx Master Class Chamonix 2017 Photo: Drozdz
Head Winds On The Colorado River
Instructing Outward Bound in Joshua Tree
On The Sticks in Oregon
Coaching Lead Climbing 2017
Photo: Pelig Levi
Teaching Lead Ice Climbing 2010
In 2003, Ken survived an avalanche that resulted in fatal consequences for seven of their clients. He was part of a professional team whose failure to communicate and work together with mutual respect was the primary cause. The details related to the tragedy, and the responsibility he took for the role he played (ignoring his own better judgment) are chronicled in the book Buried. Abandoning oneself is by far the most egregious of errors that can be made. This is perhaps one of the most important lessons for humanity as we can easily make the error of following flawed leaders into situations that have high consequences for all of us.
Thriving again with the knowledge he has gained provides a granite foundation for all of Ken’s work with his clients. The process he uses provides universal self-evident values-based principles, that have great utility for managing adversity and the resulting human hazards.
At this point in history, society needs a legion of people who are strong, resilient and have deep integrity. Be the change. Join us on a course today.
Contact us.
ken@archetypal.ca
(250) 319-6470
555 Voutrait Road, Mill Bay, BC, V0G 2P3