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Company Description

Second Nature Entrada is hiring wilderness professionals to work 
as Field Instructors.  This position allows you to transform 
your love of wilderness into a meaningful, life-changing 
career.  Our Field Instructors combine their wilderness skills 
with the desire to teach and role-model healthy behaviors to 
adolescents and young adults.   

On a daily basis, Instructors keep clients safe while 
backpacking through the high desert and red rocks of Southern 
Utah.  Instructors facilitate group activities such as cooking 
meals, playing games, group therapy, and hiking.  Instructors 
fill the role of teacher, role-model, and support network while 
they are in the field.   

Second Nature is a clinically focused program.  At Entrada, 
doctorate level therapists work together with Field Instructors 
as a treatment team.  Instructors work in a team of three to 
four staff with a group of eight to ten clients.  Treatment 
plans are individualized for each client.  The wilderness 
provides immediate natural consequences for client’s choices.  
The treatment team is available to process this cause and effect 
relationship and facilitate the client making new choices in the 
future.  Entrada focuses on teaching clients how to communicate 
assertively and be accountable for their choices. 

In addition to the clinical approach, Field Instructors teach 
primitive skills, backpacking skills, and Leave No Trace 
ethics.  Instructors will learn and teach clients how to make 
fires with bow drills and hand drills, set up shelters with tarp 
and cordage, carve spoons, and find water in the desert.  Our 
clients and instructors backpack a minimum of five days a week 
between two to ten miles a day.  Our Instructors work an eight 
day shift in the field with six days off to mountain bike, rock 
climb, travel, or simply relax.

Entrada is a small, owner-operated company.  Aside from the 
friendship and the family feel at Entrada, the position offers 
many benefits.  Pay starts at $115.00 per day up to $195.00 per 
day with regular scheduled bonuses.  Prior experience is 
recognized.  We offer full health and dental insurance and paid 
vacations.  Entrada provides training stipends for WFR courses, 
professional conferences, hard-skills workshops, and other 
professional development.  We also offer a variety of  
professional gear deals.

Available Trainings:  May 22-28 2009, June 19-18 2009, July 24-30
2009, August 14-20 2009.  Application deadline is 60 days prior
to training date.  For more information please visit
www.2nentrada.com.