Field sessions.
The training your training skips.
What is a Field Session
Field Sessions are short-format, skill-based outdoor experiences built to develop practical confidence and judgment in environments that don't forgive sloppy preparation.
Each session is a single day — no overnight. No expedition logistics, focused on one core competency: performance under stress, environmental awareness, navigation, recovery, decision-making in real environments.
❋ Intentional StructureField Sessions sit deliberately between a workshop and an expedition. Workshops are too clean, they teach concepts without conditions. Expeditions assume you already have the skills.
Field Sessions are the part in between: an instructor-led day where you practice the thing under the kind of friction it actually shows up in. Heat. Fatigue. Cold. Cognitive load.
Train the way you work.
❋ Community FocusedConnection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the content itself.
Run with local partners. Each Field Session is built with the venues, instructors, and brands whose expertise sharpens the day.
❋ Expert FacilitationLed by experienced guides, first responders, retired military, and athletes. All who know how to hold space, encourage participation, and keep things moving with purpose.
❋ A Supportive SpaceOur events prioritize comfort, safety, and respect—so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
Upcoming field sessions
What This Is.
Performance rarely breaks down because of a lack of effort. It breaks down when conditions change faster than we're prepared to adapt. This session is designed to expose how the body and mind respond when those variables stack and how to maintain clarity, control, and output when they do.
What We’ll Learn.
Physiology Under Stress: How heat, altitude, and fatigue impact energy systems and output.
Cognitive Performance: Decision-making and focus when physical and mental load stack.
Early-signal Awareness: Spot fatigue, mood, and reaction-time shifts before they become breakdowns.
Recovery & Resilience: First hand experience of evolving approaches and emerging perspectives from clinical and field settings (think shamans in the jungle)
Who’s It’s For.
Athletes and individuals who train seriously and want to take it beyond the gym. This is for individuals that are curious about an alternative approach to performance.
What is Included.
Group exercise (run/hike/walk)
Practical learning session with case studies and facilitated discussion
Open access to Hooga House’s sauna and cold plunges
Community social hour with music, Caffeinated Cowboy Coffee, and snacks
When: June 13th, 2026 | 8:00am MST - 1:00pm MST
Location: Hooga House
Pricing: Early Bird ($95, Limited Availability with Code), Regular ($125)
The team
Blaine Lints, PhD, CSCS | Featured Instructor
Most performance experts come from one of three worlds: the operator, the scientist, or the athlete. Blaine has been all three.
As a Navy SEAL, he operated in environments where there is no room for physiological breakdown.
As a professional triathlete, he tested those same limits on himself in competition. As an applied physiologist, he spent years studying exactly how heat, altitude, fatigue, and cognitive load reshape what the body and brain are capable of in the moments that matter most.
His work focuses on a question most training programs skip: not how to push harder, but how to perform when conditions stop being neutral and how to recognize the difference between discomfort and degradation before it costs you the day.
In Performance Under Pressure, Blaine translates that work into something hands on. Heat. Altitude. Fueling. Hydration. Recovery. Decision making under load. The frameworks are evidence based, the delivery is field built, and everything is calibrated to athletes and operators who already train hard and want a sharper edge for the variables they don't control.
The operator, the scientist, and the athlete are rarely in the same room. On June 13, they're the same person.
Megan Runyon | Founder and Facilitator
These field sessions started because the conversations Megan kept wanting to have weren't happening in the usual places. Not in boardrooms, not in podcasts, not in the brief windows between training sessions and back-to-back meetings. They happen when people are tired, sweating, sharing food, and trying something hard alongside each other. Venture Forward exists to create those rooms intentionally, and Performance Under Pressure is one of them: a small group of people, a real challenge, and the kind of honest conversation that only shows up when you've done something together first.
She's built the day to be physically real and mentally honest, challenging without being performative, and safe enough that people can actually show up as themselves. Expect interactive elements throughout, not just a session you sit through. You'll meet the people next to you. You'll move with them. You'll talk with them. You will leave knowing a few more people who understand the feeling and desire to do “tough shit together”.
How a Session Runs
Every Venture Forward field session follows the same structural arc, regardless of subject. We move, we set conditions, we apply the skill, we recover, we debrief.
The day is built to be physical and cognitive in equal measure. Not a lecture you sit through, not a sufferfest without a frame. Most sessions run four to six hours on the ground, capped at a small group so the instruction stays personal and the room stays accountable.
