The Wild Willpower Workbook
A somatic journal for restoring connection and inner strength
Through guided reflection, sensory awareness, and nature-connected practices, it supports the restoration of inner strength as body, mind, and the living world come back into relationship.
Start the year grounded — not rushed.
We’re often told to try harder.
More discipline.
More motivation.
More control.
And yet, many people find themselves already tired — overwhelmed by constant stimulation, competing demands, and the sense that something essential has gone missing.
If traditional goal-setting leaves you feeling disconnected, resistant, or numb, the problem isn’t your willpower.
It’s the way we’ve been taught to use it.
A different relationship with inner resolve
The Wild Willpower Workbook offers a different understanding of inner resolve—one rooted in relationship rather than pressure.
Drawing on nature-based reflection, sensory awareness, and gentle inquiry, this workbook supports you in:
• Reconnecting with what actually gives you energy
• Restoring steadiness without burnout
• Clarifying direction without rigid goals
• Beginning again without self-criticism
This is not a productivity system.
It is a structured, embodied way of listening, noticing, and responding — the way living systems do.
Inside the Workbook
The Wild Willpower Workbook is designed to be used slowly, over days or weeks.
Inside the workbook, you’ll find:
• Short, nature-rooted reflections that orient attention
• Guided prompts for journaling, noticing, and somatic awareness
• Body-based explorations that reconnect you with your senses, rhythms, and inner compass
• Open space for reflection—without fixing, forcing, or self-correction
There is no finish line.
There is only deepening relationship.
This workbook is for you if:
You are tired of forcing motivation
You want a calmer, more grounded start to the year
You feel drawn to nature, reflection, or creative renewal
You want to reconnect with your body, nature, or intuition
You’re seeking a ritual practice that involves doing, not just thinking
You long for an unstructured creative space that honors the wild parts of you
It may not be for you if you’re looking for:
Hustle culture
Rigid goal frameworks
10-step productivity hacks
This work moves at the speed of meaning.
The Wild Willpower Workbook is not meant to explain everything.
It is a threshold—a first encounter with a way of relating that restores inner resolve through attention, relationship, and presence.
For those who feel something familiar stirring here, this workbook is part of a larger body of work exploring how reconnecting with the living world renews the inner capacities needed for resilience, imagination, and meaning.
You don’t need to understand that whole landscape to begin.
You only need to start where you are.
Created by Dana Klisanin, PhD, psychologist and futurist, founder of ReWilding: Lab.
Dana’s work explores how modern life has narrowed our inner landscapes—and how reconnection with nature, creativity, and embodied awareness can restore capacities essential for personal and collective flourishing.
You don’t need to reinvent yourself this year.
You don’t need more pressure.
You may simply need a different way of beginning.