Align with Nature. YOUR Nature.
Access Creative Potential. YOUR Potential
Lens-based.
When unaware of our relationship with everything natural, we invite chaos, stagnation, disempowerment on many levels, in any area of our lives.
So, we’re unable to create new choices for ourselves. Intelligent choices.
You are at the right place if you are:
THE (un-) CREATIVE
Photographers, writers, filmmakers, architects - any creative who’s well has run dry, who suspects the solution isn’t another technique, an equipment upgrade or AI.
Ready to know why you create at all? How to transcend your depth or plateau?
THE SEEKER IN TRANSITION
Anyone at a crossroad, a standstill, cycles of repeating distractions - who senses a restlessness to enter the next chapter or season of life, a higher level of mind.
Are you ready for your second breath?
THE CONSERVATIONIST AT HEART
You care deeply for (wild) nature, and want your life to matter - not through guilt or obligation, but by regaining a deeper capacity for love and respect for life.
Discover how to integrate your insights into your daily existence back home?
Herb’s story
A life shaped by lenses, lions and a quest for deeper consciousness
THE BEGINNING
Borne from Southern African Wilderness. Countless hours into remote bush into across Southern Africa & Namibia. Life- and Geoscience at South African Universities. Professional safari guide - leaning that wilderness is the ultimate classroom.
THE LENS
Career as Photographer and Wildlife Cameraman. Three decades behind the camera in untouched wilderness. Learning that a photograph is not taken, it’s an opportunity given. Trained by trackers and intuitive healers across South Africa, North and South America.
NOW
Ancient Nature Philosophies and Neuroscience Coaching. Formal training in Brain Based Neuroscience Coaching fused with integrated rites of passages received from ancient spiritual nature traditions. Herb now facilitates what he lives - creative nature immersions, transformative coaching and mentoring , lens based communication and journalling. Wilderness Expeditions and Quests away from chaos, impact and distraction.
THE TURNING POINT
While filming the award-winning National Geographic documentary The Last Lioness in Zambia, Herbert spent years following Lady Liuwa — the last remaining lioness of Liuwa Plain.
Her solitude, resilience, and unexpected relationship with humans profoundly changed him. What began as a wildlife assignment became a direct encounter with something far deeper: the understanding that nature mirrors our inner world with absolute honesty.
Lady Liuwa taught Herbert the importance of remaining open-minded while never surrendering the responsibility to discern consciously. Through her, he came to understand that growth begins with the choices we make — again and again — and that consciousness evolves through awareness, presence, and intentional action.
His programs are born from that experience. Not to teach people how to create better, but how to see differently.
The Last Lioness is more than a wildlife documentary.
It is a deeply human story about solitude, resilience, connection, and the intelligence of the natural world. Watch it slowly, let it affect you, and allow it to reconnect you with what truly matters.
Why Herbert requests your support for African Parks?
Herbert’s years in Liuwa Plain profoundly shaped both his life and work. Through African Parks’ pioneering conservation efforts, a landscape once devastated by poaching has become a living example of restoration, coexistence, and hope.
If this work resonates with you, it would mean the world to many to support African Parks and the long-term protection of Africa’s wild places.
Three Ways to Enter, one WILDERNESS
All programs and offerings Herb facilitates are intentional, developed for participants who are curious, open minded, dedicate themselves to their tasks and practices and commit to transformation, to expand their consciousness. If you are looking for entertainment, regular education, conventional recreation, escape and return back into your current existing life then this is not for you.
PhotoLife Synthesis.
FOR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS - beginners and experienced - who want to stop copying and start creating. Nine days, or individually tailored in wild, undisturbed landscapes.
You learn to re-connect consciously with your environment, align with what draws your attention and compose images that reflect your inner conversation. A strong focus lies on effective visual design and communication as translated through appropriate camera technique.
You go home as a better photographer with a renewed perspective on your work and relationship with nature.
Upcoming dates on request
Facilitated from 1 up to 6 people
Renewal of Flow and Meaning.
FOR CREATIVES, LEADERS, RETIREES AND VISIONARIES - anyone in crisis or transition - who has lost access to themselves. This program supports you with taking the first step into another chapter or season of your life on a higher level than you currently find yourself in. A combination of creative nature mentoring and transformative coaching, the photographic process and journaling serve as daily practices to discover, reflect and renew.
Join me and my co-facilitators deep in nature to recalibrate your mind & body, away from digital and societal distraction and impact.
Upcoming dates:
August 2026 - Botswana
October 2026 - Namibia
December 2026 - Namibia
On Assignment with Herbert
FOR THE LEADER WHO LOST HIS/HER NORTH STAR IN LIFE
The rarest offering. Join Herbert on a conservation or custodianship shoot. Herb works intermittently on a number of multiple year-long photographic projects. Carry gear, drive a 4x4, sleep under the stars. Witness his world, understand why many call him “lucky”, living his dream.
You come back home within yourself, straight to your essence to move on with clarity.
This is an exclusive tailor-made experience - 9+ days - Namibia
TRUTHS HERBERT LIVES BY
INTEGRATED NATURE
The moment you are born, you enter a relationship and deep connection with what’s natural, what’s true - a unique alignment when you’re conscious of it. Herbert doesn’t take you on a walk through landscapes, doesn’t give you answers. He makes you ask better questions, guides you towards YOUR Nature, expects you to ground YOUR wisdom through YOUR own experience.
FROM WITHIN
Reacting to the outside world’s distractions, expectations and pressure sucks from your power and life force, clouds your mind. Re-arranging your life based on external motivation might bring change, possibly illusions. Living a life INSPIRED FROM WITHIN brings lasting transformation and a fulfilling life.
NOT LEARNED, ACCESSED
Pressing your camera’s shutter, journalling your thoughts - these are not the goal. They open the doors into the unseen, vast realities waiting to be discovered. Responding creatively from within, you renew your creative flow and empower your world with that which only you can bring. You are here because the world wants that.
What people carry home with them
“At once simple, yet profound, Herbert’s unique coaching model has the ability to propel you straight out of your comfort zone – if you are up for the challenge. We get stuck in places of comfort yet unfulfillment, knowing in our hearts that there is more.
At times like these, we need a new map of being, a new pathway to travel. Herbert does not give you the compass, he guides you to find it yourself. And find it you will, provided you are committed. That final leap of faith opened up a whole new perspective for me. Having taken that leap and jumped into the flow, my book that was waiting for something to happen for years has, after our first session, been published in an unprecedented short amount of time.
Our time on this earth should be about living our truth. Don’t waste it being stuck. Let Herbert guide you to opening yourself up to all you can be."
Linda Park, Author, The Book of Samson
“My time spent with Herbert could only be explained as deeply inspiring. We began our relationship as work colleagues but soon became good friends and Herb became my biggest mentor. Being in a very remote part of western Zambia, our conversations about life, spirituality and what it all means to us became our common camp fire conversations. Never have I met a man so in tune with the Beings, our planet, and himself. Herb is a true mentor and I owe my career to his early influence and teachings.”
James Boon Cameraman on “Survivor”, “Snakes in the City” etc.
"My coaching experience with Herbert meant that we got very quickly to the point I had to focus on. He expanded my awareness. From there everything happened fast and I could see improvements in my life, growing constantly. In my mind I am still going back to that first coaching session when in need for inspiration and motivation.
It feels as if he has opened an energetic channel that I can access to create from anytime. Thank you again Herbert."
Manuela Sanfelicci - van Loggerenberg, Owner of Mal d'Africa
“Conversations with Herbert leave me with a deeper understanding of myself, greater acceptance of what is, and renewed trust in discovering my own truth and purpose.
What he offers goes far beyond photography or film. Through his presence, insight, and lived experience, Herbert creates space for real inner growth — the kind that quietly transforms how you see yourself, your life, and your place in the world.”
Helen Wilson, MD, Makweti Safari Lodge, Welgevonden
