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WildSpirit
Rediscover
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Upcoming
workshops:
Wild Plants - June 6, 2010
10am
- 3pm. $50
We
will discover the edible,
medicinal and poisonous properties of local wild plants. An important emphasis will
also cover ways
to learn about and connect with plants.
Previous Workshops:
Thriving Wild -
Wed July 15 (evening) - Sunday July 19, 2009
$295
Four days of learning ancient
skills of suvival and living: shelter and warmth, plant foods and
medicines, extending physical awarenss, bowdrill friction fire,
tracking animals, and more!
Coyote
Mentoring - Aug 28 - 31, 2009
$295
Coyote Mentoring draws on the
wisdom of earth-based cultures around the world. Gain
valuable attitudes and tools for your children, students or
yourself. This new/old way draws out the natural desire to
learn and empowers both mentor and student. Nature is the teacher; the
mentor is the guide. Humour and open exchange between
instructors and participants is important in this course.
Participants will:
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Experience for themselves how
powerful the "cultural context" is in education.
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Take home powerful images and
metaphors to cultivate a supportive learning environment
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Understand the
primary educational styles of the Coyote Mentoring approach
and how to use them
Wild Plants - Fall 2009
10am
- 3pm. $50
We
will discover the edible,
medicinal and poisonous properties of local wild plants. An important emphasis will
also cover ways
to learn about and connect with plants.
Shelter - Fall 2009
10am
- 3pm, $50
We
will explore the ecopsychology of shelter and learn how to build a
debris hut "survival shelter". This is a very important skill
if you are ever in a survival situation and it is a great way to
connect with the trees.
Firemaking - Fall 2009
10am
- 3pm, $50
Working
with the
elemental Nature of
fire, we will reconnect ourselves to our primitive ancestors and learn
to make
fires in the rain and a bow-drill friction fire (rubbing sticks
together).
Family Day
All ages
family fun.
We will play and learn nature awareness and wilderness skills together.
$10/
family and $5 if you bring another family
Nature
Awareness
10am
- 3pm. $50
In this workshop
we will journey together
to rediscover our connection to Nature through discussions, stories,
games and
challenges. You will:
- Enhance your sensory awareness
- Gain tools to nurture your
connection to Nature
- Be introduced to bird language
- Move silently through the forest
- Discover Nature-based/Coyote
mentoring
Scout
1 - Way
of the Shadow
$165
Become
invisible; move like a shadow
Become the "eyes and
ears of your people" as you expand your awareness
Discover the ultimate harmony with your surroundings
Wilderness skills intensive
$495
This is six days of learning and practicing ancient skills of survival,
living, awareness and community. You will learn to make fire
without matches, forage and hunt for food, make tools from wood and
stone, become one with your environment, and more. You will
be expected to discard some modern trappings and begin to depend on
your skills and the rest of the Pack.
Scout 2 -
Way
of the Shadow
$165
An extension of Scout
Skills 1 which is a prerequisite
Scout 3 -
Way
of the Shadow
$165
An extension of Scout
Skills 2 which is a prerequisite.
Bird
language
Understand
concentric rings - disturbance
ripples
Identify
bird alarms
Tracking
Introduction
to the 6 Arts of Tracking
"Survival"
Intensive (multi-day)
Shelter,
fire, and water
Earth
Spirit
Discover
your personal medicine area
Journey
throught the realms of sacred silence
Flintknapping
Theory and
practice of making stone tools
Rediscover your Paleolithic self
Brain-tanning
(multi-day workshop)
Make
beautiful, soft buckskin
Plant
Technology
Cordage,
basketry and more
Costs: $50 for single day workshops (10am - 4pm)
Email/Call
Bruce to register wildspirit@shaw.ca
338-8431
Bruce
Carron is a graduate of
Tom Brown’s Tracker school and the Wilderness
Awareness School. He is also a co-founder of the Oak and Orca Bioregional
School in Victoria and the Firemaker Primitive Skills
Society.