Somatic Integration
One-to-one support for stress, overwhelm, psychosomatic symptoms and life transitions. Online or in person.
Professional profile · Founder of Wild Hearts
Ruben Carpentier
Facilitator · Founder · Somatic & relational practitioner · Mountain guide
I design and hold spaces where people, relationships and organisations can meet real change — with body, heart, nature and responsibility in the room.
I work where life becomes difficult to fake.
At a glance
A broad practice with one clear thread.
Ruben is the founder of Wild Hearts and the creator of Wild Crossings. His work brings together professional training, embodied practice, nature and years of working with people in real situations.
FounderWild Hearts International
FacilitatorIndividuals · couples · groups · retreats
PractitionerSomatic · emotional · relational
GuideSwiss Alps · rock · mountain · wilderness
LanguagesEnglish · French · Dutch
What I offer
Different doors. The same standard of care.
Choose the context that fits. Ruben keeps the offer specific, the scope clear and the work connected to ordinary life.
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Wild Intimacy
Private couples work around recurring conflict, distance, trust and intimacy.
Wild Coaching → The Wild Path
Three-month one-to-one mentorship for men, with conversation, continuity and body-aware practice.
Facilitation and retreats
Circles, group process, programme design and careful holding for retreat companies, communities and institutions.
Wild Leadership
Embodied and nature-connected work for founders, leaders, teams and organisations carrying responsibility.
Wild Crossings
Ruben’s signature rite of passage in nature: private work or small groups, shaped by terrain, weather, movement and relationship.
Wild Adventure and Wild Constructions
Nature, movement and exploration — plus a distinct regenerative field of practical building and collaborative creation.
Qualifications
Training, degrees and field experience.
A CV-style overview of the foundations behind the work. Exact titles and legal wording can be updated as documentation evolves.
Movement, health and physical education
Bachelor’s and Master’s level university education at Ghent University.
Special-needs education
Master’s level study and professional work with young people and adults.
Somatic coaching and psycho-somatic therapy
Somatic coaching, emotional awareness, Autogenic Superior Training and psycho-emotional therapeutic support.
Parts and trauma-aware practice
Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing-informed foundations and consent-led work.
Heart-connected circle facilitation
Heart IQ, relational practice, circle facilitation and group process.
Swiss federal rock-climbing and mountain guide
Mountain and climbing guidance, wilderness-based training, outdoor education and practical risk awareness.
Founder and programme creator
Wild Hearts, Wild Brotherhood, Wild Crossings and the private, leadership and collaborative fields around them.
Languages: English · French · Dutch · Ongoing study, supervision and collaboration across emotional, relational, educational and nature-based fields.
Experience in practice
Professional presence, in the room and outside it.
Ruben has worked with the physical reality of mountains and the emotional reality of difficult conversations. He can prepare, facilitate, assess risk, listen closely and name the next responsible step.
Trusted capacities
- Facilitation and group process
- Retreat and programme design
- Somatic and relational accompaniment
- Mountain, climbing and wilderness guidance
- Education, coaching and special-needs work
- Leadership and organisational dialogue
Founder of Wild Hearts
An organisation helping people come home to themselves through nature.
Wild Hearts is the wider home for Ruben’s work. It gives each field its own shape while keeping the central thread intact: body, relationship, nature, belonging and lived practice.
The central field
Wild Brotherhood
Community, mentorship and initiation for men.
Explore Wild Brotherhood ↗The Wild PathThree-month private mentorship.Wild CrossingsRuben’s signature experience in nature.Walking the EdgeA longer initiation through nature, council and immersion.
Private and relational
Somatic Integration · Wild Intimacy
Individual and couples work with a clear, grounded scope.
Somatic Integration ↗Wild Intimacy ↗Wider fields
Wild Leadership · Wild Adventure
Responsibility, movement and exploration for people and organisations.
Wild Leadership ↗Wild Adventure ↗A different kind of work
Wild Constructions · The Wild Voice
Regenerative building, collaborative creation, ideas, practices and voices.
Wild Constructions ↗The Wild Voice ↗The thread through it all
Grounded, relational, open to mystery.
The work is practical without becoming mechanical. It makes room for the body, the heart, the spine, the people around us, the natural world and the mystery of life itself.
BodyNotice what is happening.
HeartWork with emotion, need and longing.
SpineStay anchored as life changes.
RelationshipMeet contact, conflict and repair.
NatureLearn from terrain, weather and effort.
MysteryStay in the question without pretending to know.
Scope and responsibility
Care includes knowing the limits of the work.
Ruben’s therapeutic support and programmes have defined scope. They are not crisis care, and medical, psychological or psychiatric referral may be more appropriate. Consent, autonomy and responsibility matter throughout.
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Let’s find the right doorway.
For private work, referrals, retreat partnerships, organisational work or a role inside Wild Hearts.
