Featured Skills and Themes

 

Skills

Understanding Ecological principals in action: Reading animal signs & tracks,

Identifying and using wild plants for food and medicine,

Making pottery using traditional tools and ways,

Building shelters from natural materials

Field natural history

Colonial American culture and lifeskills

Woodworking and knife safety,

Woodland Indian culture and lifeskills

Bird Language:  understanding the patterns and meaning of bird calls

How to call Wildlife

Understanding Hazards:  learning how to be safe a wilderness setting

Lostproofing:  strengthening our sense of place

Fire-making without matches,

Silent movement in the tradition of native scouts

Understanding ancient artifacts

And many more….

 

Themes and Practices

Approaching the land as caretakers

Beginning each day with an attitude of thanksgiving

Communicating with respect and listening with compassion

Entering the forest with a practice of sensory awareness and mindfulness

Living towards accountability

Learning from the process of working together on common goals

Valuing stillness