A 2-day workshop for feminist killjoys, environmental advocates, outdoor leaders, and disruptors who are sick of the status quo of the outdoor industry.
Part 1: Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET (about 2.5 hours)
Part 2: Saturday, May 16, 2026 at at 10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET (about 2.5 hours)
Part one of this workshop (Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm CT, plan for about 2.5 hours) will address and deconstruct how conquest-based, toxic masculinity, greenwashing, and ongoing colonization informs the outdoor industry’s “business as usual.”
Part two of this workshop (Saturday, May 16 at at 10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET, plan for about 2.5 hours) will address how we can actively disrupt the status quo of the “Outdoor-Industrial-Complex and neo-liberal environmentalism, so we can co-create a safer outdoor industry for all.
Have you ever had that gut feeling that something is off or wrong, but you held back or hesitated to say something because you didn't want to make any "waves," disturb the "peace," or upset your friends, family, co-workers, boss, etc.?
Have you ever wanted to point out and interrupt toxic behavior, but you're afraid if it's not the "right time or place"?
Have you ever been gaslit, tone-policed, or silenced within a group, among your friends, or at work when you've tried to speak out about toxic, harmful, or violent behavior or language, and now you're second-guessing yourself?
Do you sometimes find yourself wondering if you're "crazy," "too sensitive," "being dramatic," overthinking things? Or maybe you've been labeled these things before?
Do you wonder if maybe you're the problem and you're making a "mountain out of a mole hill"?
In a society that conditions those in power to shirk accountability, shift blame to the victim/whistleblower, and project their shame onto you, the truth-teller, it's easy to internalize this abuse.
In this training and workshop you will gain in-depth knowledge about how toxic masculinity manifests in the outdoor industry, receive actionable advice about how to interrupt/disrupt toxic masculinity, develop tools for self-compassion and nervous system regulation, and leave with a grounded sense of confidence to catalyze anti-oppressive change towards gender and racial justice wherever you are within the outdoor industry, as well as your personal and professional sphere of influence.
"The cycling industry is the least diverse outdoor industry and toxic masculinity touches every aspect of it from narratives, gear, to culture. This workshop gave me the tools to identify how toxic masculinity manifests and how to disrupt it in my own work. This workshop helped me imagine new narratives away from patriarchal brainwashing in the outdoors to narratives that honor and uplift our humanity and The Land. A must workshop if changing the narrative of outdoor culture is important to you." - Christina Torres, Founder of Cyclista Zine
Introduction
Terra Incognita Media's political lineage and origin story
Land Acknowledgment as a living practice of disrupting erasure
A brief history of imperialism, the "white man's burden," and how modern outdoor culture was built on domination and conquest
The Legacy of Toxic Masculinity in the Outdoors
Toxic masculinity as a symptom/expression of ongoing colonization
How settler colonialism shapes outdoor spaces
Manifest Destiny and the rise of the "warrior complex"
Media Analysis
Cultural narratives in media that normalize toxic masculinity
"Peter Pan Syndrome," "Himpathy," and the "Lone Wolf" archetypes
How outdoor culture, storytelling, and branding shape our ideas about who deserves to belong and be centered
The "Outdoor Industrial Complex": Systems of Domination
Connecting the dots between the outdoor industry and the Military Industrial Complex
A look at religious and political roots of control
Sites of Shaping + Internalized Oppression
How do systems of dominance live inside our bodies?
DARVO, gaslighting, and survival adaptations
Reflective journaling + group share
Reimagining Leadership + Collective Healing
Relational power as leadership
What does it mean/look like to "Tend to Your 500 Sq. Feet"? (credit to Toi Smith)
Somatic Integration + Embodied Practice
Meditation
A somatic practice to anchor our learning in the body and heart
Collective reflection, closing prompts, and next steps
At the end of each workshop there will be ample time for questions and group discussion.
We don't do tight, rigid timelines around here at Terra, so please be open and flexible with the timing. We've found that these workshops go longer and take us to unexpected, winding places. Having an open-ended time frame means we're able to give ourselves the space and room we need to process these weighty topics.
Attendees will leave this workshop with a heightened ability to pinpoint, understand, and discern what toxic masculinity looks like in the outdoor industry, as well as learn strategies for disrupting it in real-time. Attendees will also gain valuable tools for self-care, nervous system regulation, and compassion through a somatic approach.
- Andreas Hopfgarten, Workshop Participant Spring 2023
This is a two-part workshop happening across two days.
Part 1: Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET (about 2.5 hours)
Part 2: Saturday, May 16, 2026 at at 10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET (about 2.5 hours)
Zoom link provided upon registration.
Both workshops will be recorded, and you’ll have access to the replay 48 hours after the event. Please note that this recording may also be used for future sales of the workshop. By attending live, you agree to this use.
Includes: two-day, live workshop access and full replays
Early bird (until Sunday, February 22, midnight CT): $77
Payment plan: 2 monthly payments of $38.50
Regular Pricing (after February 22): $97
Payment plan: 2 monthly payments of $48.50
Are you a returning student?
You’re invited to use a discount code for 20% off, with love and gratitude for being on this journey. Past students will be emailed their code. If you don't receive it feel free to get in touch!
Need a scholarship or financial aid? No problem! Email heyterracollective@gmail.com and we'll get you set up. No questions asked.
We charge differently for group organizations and/or corporate teams.
Please email us at heyterracollective@gmail.com if you'd like to register your group. We appreciate your integrity and transparency.
On a case by case basis, Erin donates her time to put this workshop on for free for students. Please email Erin at heyterracollective@gmail.com and let's see if we can put something on the books!
Erin is the founder of Terra Incognita Media and a settler on the traditional and stolen lands of the Osage, Miami, and Oceti Sakowin peoples, otherwise known as St. Louis, Missouri. She is a writer, advocate, educator, and a trauma-informed mindset and embodiment coach with a background in anti-oppressive facilitation.
Erin is driven to cultivate a nourishing and supportive community through her work. Her dream is to build Terra Incognita Media into a robust educational platform for folks who strive to dismantle systems of oppression in the outdoor industry and beyond --not rooted just in theory, but in action! (She also dreams of opening her own climbing gym co-op one day....)
There are no true safe spaces, but we can work to dismantle imperialist-white supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy as bell hooks called it, and foster safe(r) spaces where everyone's humanity is uplifted and honored. Let's expose toxic masculinity and re-write the dominant narrative of the outdoors.
"Toxic masculinity is constantly in the headlines, images, narratives and films of the outdoor industry. The workshop, 'How to Interrupt Toxic Masculinity In The Outdoor Industry' interrogates how we got to this point. This workshop lays bare our history and socialization that permits harmful patterns of abuse that ultimately lead to the dehumanization of women, Indigenous communities, people of color and The Land."
Christina Torres, founding zinester of Cyclista Zine
- Andreas Hopfgarten, Workshop Participant Spring 2023
With all of our feminist killjoy rage, solidarity, and care,
The Terra Collective
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