Corporate Immersive Experiences
at
Brother Fish Ranch
Your Team Deserves More Than Another Meeting Room
Private. Purposeful. Unforgettable.
Six minutes south of Calgary, Brother Fish Ranch offers corporate teams something the boardroom never can — space to breathe, land to walk, and experiences that actually stay with people.
We specialize in small, intentional gatherings for teams of 6 to 13.
No large venues, no generic agendas. Just your people, this land, and an experience designed to restore what the daily grind takes away.
Grounded in nature. Guided with care. Available year round
Before you touch a single material, your team will be welcomed onto the land the way this land has always asked to be entered — with intention.
You'll hear the story of the Rolling Hills Tipi — a teaching gifted to us by the Starlight family. You'll step inside a hand-painted liner made by Joe Starlight and his son Bison, sewn by Deanna and her daughter.
For those who wish, there is an optional smudging ceremony.
Only then do you sit down and begin.
This is not a corporate venue. This is a living place with stories woven into every corner of it.
Trade the glass towers for sky-scraping trees — just for a day.
The view from your office is impressive. The view from ours will change something.
This is where teams come to remember what they're capable of.
The Ranch doesn't just teach you to make something — it reminds you that you already know how.
These crafts don't belong to one culture. They belong to all of us. Rattle making, drum making, and working with natural materials are traditions found across Celtic, Druidic, Pagan, Indigenous, and countless land-based cultures worldwide. At Brother Fish Ranch we honour all of those roots.
CHOOSE YOUR EXPERIENCE
CORPORATE STAMPEDE CYANOTYPE EXPERIENCE
Painting with light and land.
A half-day corporate experience on five acres of Foothills country — just six minutes from Calgary.
Your team walks the land. They gather what calls to them — grasses, wildflowers, seed heads, feathers. They bring it back to the Rolling Hills Tipi and arrange it on sun-sensitive cotton fabric.
The sunlight does the rest.
Every scarf is completely unique — a print of this land, this day, this team.
Permanent.
Unrepeatable. Theirs.
No experience needed.
No hierarchy. Just
people making something real together.
This is what actually builds a team.
Investment:
$2,199 flat rate 6 to 13 participants — Harvest Table Lunch available — let's talk about what works for your group.
The land provides. You just show up.
This is more than a craft workshop.
It's a morning on the land - and a piece of it you get to keep
What You’ll Experience
A morning walk on the land — foraging wild Alberta botanicals that become part of their design
Working side by side with no titles, no hierarchy — just people and materials
Arranging their findings on sun-sensitive fabric alongside feathers, rowels
Watching the sun do the printing — 180 years of photographic history, happening right in front of them
The reveal — rinsing their scarf and seeing their print emerge for the first time
Leaving with something permanent, unrepeatable, and completely theirs
All materials and fabric provided — your team just needs to show up
Who is this for:
Teams who've outgrown the usual Stampede routine
Leaders who want their people to feel something real
Companies who understand that restoration is a productivity strategy
Groups of 6 to 13 who want a half day that actually changes something
Anyone who knows their team deserves more than another catered lunch
CORPORATE À LA CARTE EXPERIENCE
Coming soon
Brother Fish Ranch is home to a growing community of skilled practitioners — artists, naturalists, land-based teachers, and healers.
We are building a curated roster of experiences your team can choose from, mix, and match.
Think of it as your team's day — designed around what they actually need.
Interested in building a custom corporate day? Contact us to start the conversation.
Limited to 13 people.
Coming soon — each À La Carte experience includes full facilitation, all materials, and private use of the Brother Fish Ranch property. Details confirmed on booking.
What You’ll Experience
Your team steps off the treadmill and into something real.
Each À La Carte experience is guided by a skilled practitioner in their craft — whether that's land-based art, sound healing, movement, storytelling, or something we haven't announced yet.
No two days look the same.
That's the point.
Who is this for:
Teams who are done with generic. Leaders who know their people need more than another catered lunch.
Groups of 6 to 13 who want a day that actually changes something.
CORPORATE ADVANCED RATTLE MAKING EXPERIENCE
Coming soon
Guided by Butch MacPherson & Debby Rowland at Brother Fish Ranch, just minutes from Calgary.
Limited to 13 people
Investment:
Your rattle. Your embellishments. Your lineage.
Your hide is provided at the workshop — elk, moose, or deer depending on availability. You'll use cutting templates to shape it, then spend time on embellishments — painting, four direction coloured sinew, crystals, feathers, and fur.
This is where your rattle becomes unmistakably yours.
What You’ll Experience
Two days deep in the craft — building on what your hands already know
Advanced techniques for hide work, shaping and construction
Guided embellishment — painting, four direction sinew, crystals, feathers and fur
Butch's knowledge of the deeper traditions behind each design choice
A finished rattle that reflects who you are — not just what you made
Who is this for:
You've already made something with your hands and felt what that does to you.
You're ready to go deeper.
You want your rattle to carry more — more intention, more detail, more of you.
You value craft that takes time and rewards patience.
You're ready to sit with the process — not just the product.
CORPORATE 15" DRUM EXPERIENCE
Coming soon
What if your outfit told a story only you could tell?
Some things are meant to be felt, not just heard.
The drum is one of the oldest instruments on earth.
Before orchestras. Before recordings. Before earbuds.
There was a hand, a hide, and a heartbeat.
At Brother Fish Ranch, you'll spend a full day building your own 15" hand drum from the ground up — stretching the hide, lacing the back, shaping something that will carry your voice for years to come
Butch MacPherson will guide you through every step — not just the how, but the why.
This isn't a craft project. It's a reclamation.
Limited to 10 people
Investment: $375
You'll leave with more than a drum.
You'll leave with something that knows your hands.
What's included:
15" drum frame
Hide and all lacing materials
Drum beater — built from a softer hide
Embellishments — fur, coloured sinew, and a crystal
Butch MacPherson's guidance for the full 7 hours
Care instructions for your drum for life
What You’ll Experience
Learning the full drum-building process from hide to frame
Stretching and lacing your own hide under Butch's guidance
Understanding the traditions and meaning behind each step
Time to connect with your drum before you leave
Walking away with a 15" hand drum and beater, both built entirely by you
All materials provided. Limited to 10 people.
Who is this for:
You've felt drawn to the drum for a long time.
You want to build something that will last decades.
You value learning the why, not just the how.
You're ready to give a full day to something that matters.
You want an experience that goes deeper than a class.
Prerequisite: Some hands-on craft experience helpful but not required.
YOUR GUIDES AT THE RANCH
We don't just teach these crafts. We live them
Meet your hosts
BUTCH MacPHERSON
Outdoor Educator, Naturalist & Workshop Guide
Butch MacPherson is the kind of person who makes you feel like you've known him your whole life — and that the outdoors has been waiting for you all along.
A lifelong naturalist and outdoor educator, Butch has spent decades learning from wild places and passing that knowledge on with patience, humour, and genuine love for the craft. Whether he's scaling a rock face, carving a line down a mountain, or guiding a drum making circle, he brings the same unhurried presence — the kind that makes you slow down just by being near him.
Butch is an accomplished rock climber, a skilled skier, and a competitive cattle penner who has ridden alongside Debby Rowland more times than either of them can count — including at the Calgary Stampede, where their team competed against some of the best in the country.
In the workshop circle he is equally at home. His knowledge of traditional earth-based crafts — rattle making, drum building, and the stories woven into both — runs deep. He teaches the way this knowledge was always meant to travel: slowly, deliberately, hand to hand.
When Butch is your guide, you're not just learning a craft. You're learning how to pay attention.
Meet your hosts
DEBBY ROWLAND
Debby Rowland doesn't fit neatly into any one category — and she's perfectly fine with that.
She spent years navigating the boardrooms of corporate oil and gas, mentoring people through the kind of transitions that don't show up on any org chart. Along the way she discovered what she already suspected — that the most profound growth happens not in conference rooms, but in quiet moments of honest reflection.
Today she brings that same depth to everything she does at Brother Fish Ranch.
A certified 3 Brains coach and Sufi tarot reader, Debby works with the whole person — head, heart, and gut. — mind, body, soul.
She understands that real transformation is slow, layered, and often arrives sideways.
She also came 3rd out of 450 teams at the Calgary Stampede's 150th anniversary cattle penning competition — so she knows a thing or two about showing up fully and trusting what you've trained for.
At the Ranch you'll find her among her horses, chickens, dogs, and cats — living the life she built deliberately, and welcoming others into it.
Brother Fish Ranch isn't just a venue. It's what happens when someone decides to stop performing and start living.
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