WoN Guides

Brad Kahland

Senior Guide

Crestone, CO

Brad Kahland began his study with John P. Milton in 2002, joining a Sd Passage in Baja California Mexico. Since that first Passage 20 years ago, Brad has completed many Passages and a 28-Dayacre and 44-Day Solo Awareness Training in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains above Crestone, Colorado where he currently resides. Having also completed an 8-year Advanced Awareness Training with John, Brad guides Sacred Passage programs, as well as provides teaching and logistical support for other Way of Nature programs. Brad designs, organizes, and guides multi-day Wilderness River Rafting programs and Whale Encounter Expeditions for Way of Nature. He enacts his own wilderness meditation solos each year. Brad has enjoyed a close relationship with Nature since growing up in the Ozark Mountains of rural Arkansas, and values the trainings with John which have brought an incalculable depth and breadth to his path of relationship with inner and outer Nature and the communion of the two. He is happiest when able to share this joyful path of mystery with others.

In addition to studying with John, Brad has been blessed with receiving teachings from several Native American teachers from Lakota, Ojibwe, and Hopi lineages.

Along with his work guiding Sacred Passage programs, Brad has worked as a Grand Canyon National Park Ranger, a Sea Kayak Guide in Monterey Bay and Tomales Bay, California, an Adventure Guide in Vietnam, Alaska, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S., and a naturalist in Boulder, Colorado. Brad's professional work also includes work with wilderness therapy programs in Colorado for adolescents and their families, serving variously as a Field Instructor, Logistics Coordinator, Education Director, and Family Counselor. Through this extensive outdoor guiding experience, he also maintains a Wilderness First Responder medical certification. Brad was also a support team member of the Extreme Ice Survey, a global project documenting the rapid retreat of the world's glaciers.

Jennifer Menke

Senior Guide

Yucatán, Mexico

Jennifer Menke has been studying and apprenticing with John P. Milton since 2003 and completed his 7-year Advanced Awareness Training within this time. She has completed over 500 days of solitary AllOne time in Nature and has led and supported Way of Nature retreats in Crestone, Colorado, Canyonlands, Utah, Baja California Sur and Yucatán, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Europe.

She’s a fellow of the Academy for Systems Change, Founder and Executive Director of Regenerative Earth, and is currently working on preserving biological diversity and indigenous wisdom through systems change in keystone ecosystems globally.

She is also mentored by Apache/Yaqui wisdom lineage holder La’ne Saan Moonwalker, and brings her love for the Earth and her healing and teaching gifts into all she does.

Pat Parker-Roach

Senior Guide

Groton, MA

Pat Parker-Roach first met John P Milton in 2002 at a Society for Organizational Learning lecture at MIT’s Sloan School. Immediately intrigued, Pat started studying Tai Chi with John leading to Pat’s first Sacred Passage in Baja California Mexico in 2003. This first passage, with its Way of Nature training, changed the course of his life. Pat has completed a number of nature solos of various lengths over the years and a multi-year Sacred Passage Guide Training program culminating in a 44-Day AllOne solo in 2023.

Pat’s 40-year corporate consulting career centered on deep reflection, both his own and other’s. Pat was a pioneering Knowledge Engineer in the pre-machine learning, Expert Systems’ decade of Artificial Intelligence where he helped worldclass domain experts around the world (Creative Flavor Consultants, NASA Mission Control Specialists, Airline Crew Scheduling, etc.) reflect upon and articulate what it was that made them the leaders in their respective fields. While working with the Society for Organizational Learning, Pat formally trained in the use of Dialogue as a large-scale cultural change mechanism. It was there that he came to realize Dialogue as more than a reflective conversation between participants. He now includes a deep, reflective and honest conversation with one’s self as well. Due to his association with John P Milton and the power of the Way of Nature Principles, Pat recognized the power of John’s approaches for individuals and groups to connect to their Outer, Inner, and True Natures and is dedicated to share these practices with others for the benefit of all beings.

Pat has co-facilitated workshops and passages with John P Milton and Way of Nature in Boston, New York and Crestone, CO. Pat regularly teaches Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and Way of Nature principles to his students in the Boston area. Additionally, he is engaged in a number of roles in the Way of Nature organization and is facilitating the establishment of a Way of Nature Community of Practice in America’s Northeast.