SKOGSPAUS FOR ORIENTEERS

"From Navigation to Consciousness"

EVOLUTION:

🧭 Orienteering teaches us TO READ the forest

🌲 Skogspaus teaches us TO FEEL LIKE GUESTS in the forest

✅ ORIENTEERING APPROACH:

🧭 Orienteering teaches us to read the forest

Navigate efficiently, extract information, use terrain features

✅ SKOGSPAUS APPROACH:

🌲 Skogspaus teaches us to feel like guests in the forest

Recognize you're entering someone else's home, behave respectfully

THE DIFFERENCE:

🧭 Navigation mindset: "I move through this terrain"

🌲 Guest mindset: "I'm visiting someone else's home"

✅ FROM NAVIGATION TO GUEST CONSCIOUSNESS:

ORIENTEERING MINDSET:

🧭 "I navigate through this terrain"

📍 Forest as tool for my objectives

⚡ Efficient passage through landscape

SKOGSPAUS EVOLUTION:

🌲 "I'm a guest in someone else's home"

🏠 Forest as living community with inhabitants

🤲 Respectful presence in shared space

✅ WHAT CHANGES WITH GUEST MINDSET:

BEFORE (Navigator mindset):

• Enter forest focused on your route and timing

• Move through terrain to achieve your objectives

• Extract information needed for navigation

AFTER (Guest mindset):

• Enter forest acknowledging you're visiting someone's home

• Move with awareness of forest inhabitants around you

• Receive insights while respecting the living community

✅ PRACTICAL BENEFITS FOR ORIENTEERS:

  • Enhanced awareness - Guest mindset makes you more sensitive to forest signals

  • Better flow state - Respectful presence reduces forest "resistance"

  • Improved performance - Forest inhabitants less disturbed = clearer navigation

  • Sustainable practice - Guest consciousness creates long-term forest relationship

THE BENEFIT:

Guest consciousness enhances your forest sensitivity, making you a more aware and effective orienteer

Enhanced forest sensitivity that actually improves orienteering performance