TrackersTEAMS Weekend Teen Immersion
Fall 2008-Spring 2008
Ages 14-19
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A monthly weekend Immersion Program for those teens that want to take wilderness skills to the next level.The TrackersTEAMS Weekend Teen Immersion program is for those teens dedicated to learning wilderness skills in a powerful and intense team environment. It features our Nature of Teams model, a cutting edge tool for collaboration, community and other facets of hunter-gatherer awareness. |
TrackersTEAMS: Teen Weekend Immersion moves beyond conventional schooling and returns to this timeless way of learning that is both collaborative and rich in experience. We believe our culture needs to make 'common sense' common again. We train children and adults in competency and accountability through a deep, experiential connection to nature and community.
We see the natural world as much more than an outdoor classroom; our survival depends on our collective health; both the health of humans, and that of the land. Our programs don't just teach children about nature, we make the natural world an everyday reality in our lives.
This hands-on program reclaims adventure from TV and video games by creating participatory experiences that guide the senses, offering an opportunity for parents, children, and instructors to fully explore our own rich stories. Our staff is committed to building an inclusive team spirit with an eye for the individual participant's needs and safety in the outdoors. Through continuous conversation of everyone involved, we take the time to develop a diverse range of experience in many areas, including wild edible plants, animal tracking, awareness of ecology, wilderness living skills, outdoor savvy, martial arts, theater improv and much more.
At TrackersNW we reiterate our commitment to families who choose home schooling and unschooling. Many of our instructors and core founders spent their youth in independent and self-motivated learning environments such as home schooling. Working with home school families is the best way we can foster more powerful learning relationships. Through our support for these families, who make independent and intelligent choices for their child's education, we help shape the greater health of the community, where people are more connected to one another and to the land.
The weekend and evening format makes it simple to participate in this thorough and intensive series. Our year begins with the OPTIONAL Nature of the Village week program where participants gain a foundation to become ambassadors for healthy village life. From there you journey through our ReWild Guide to develop the eye, mind and heart of the tracker. Onenight a week you participate in SHIFT, our bio-regional martial art, learning boxing and kali stick fighting arts. Most importantly, we meet monthly, for weekends of wilderness skills and awareness; these are times we truly hone that intense connnection the natural world. Finally, you have the option of serving as an apprentice for a week at TrackersNW summer camps 2009.
OPTIONAL Bow-Hunting Track Build a bow, learn to track, and embark on a late season archery hunt for deer. We are all on a journey back to more real relationships with the land and each other. Growing up in the city, country or suburbs, many of our grandfathers or grandmothers were never able to take us hunting, fishing or wandering in the woods. Together we can change that. Hunting is called the Great Dance by the bushmen of the Kalahari. We move as the animal to follow it. Stopping where it stops, Seeing what it sees. Hunting by traditional methods means getting closer to the animal. You need to know it VERY well. As well as a brother or a sister. It feels like a form of wordless conversation with the animal itself. For hunter gatherers this is life and this is death. As TrackersNW we honor this heritage in ourselves while we recognize and honer a diversity of sensibilities and opinions. So while we do hunt and harvest animals, we ONLY hunt in weekends specified for it. TrackersNW honors all animals as relations and life that sustains our own.
Schedule Weekends begin each Friday evening, pick up at the Scout Pit
OPTIONAL Week Long Nature of the Village Week Long, Sept 7-13, 2008
Weekend 1 Basics of Survival, Sept 19-21, 2008
Weekend 2 The Art of Tracking , Oct 11-12, 2008
Weekend 3 Hunter-Gatherer, Nov 21-23, 2008
Winter Check-In Both Parents and Teens Attend, Dec 10, 2008, 6:00pm-9pm:
Weekend 4 ReWild Fashion and Craft, Jan 16-19 (MLK day), 2009
Weekend 5 Advanced Skills of Survival, Feb 13-15, 2009
Weekend 6 Wild Edible Plants, March 20-22, 2009
Weekend 7 Coastal Harvest & Fishing, April 17-19, 2009
Weekend 8 Rite of Passage, May 22-25 (Memorial Day Weekend), 2009
Evenings SHIFT Training every Monday night included
Check-in meetings once every two weeks 1-hour before SHIFT
Additional time for OPTIONAL Hunting Track (deer)
Bowmaking Days Oct 17-19, 2008
Archery & Stalking Practice TBA
Hunter Safety Days TBA
Late Season Hunt 1 Hunter-Gatherer, Nov 21-23, 2008
Late Season Hunt 2 December 5-7, 2008
TrackersTEAMS Weekend Teen Immersion includes
Who Ages 14-19 Standard Application To ApplyApply by email, send us a WORD document (can't open this, Contact Us) |
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