Community and Culture Change

Join us as the family TrackersNW, our friends, and our community, both locally and nationally, come together to recreate and learn from the experience of a functional and healthy Village. We begin with key natural building and food projects, gaining critical skills for a localized and sustainable economy. Everything is hands on this week, working, singing and relaxing through the day. We eat together, celebrating at a table and around a campfire. We play music every night, carrying us into the evening. All this, plus we REMOVE environmental educators (that's us) from the center as we help families and friends to discover their own ways to connect themselves and our children to the natural world and each other.

Team Leadership: The New Foundation For healthy community and families we need to learn how to give and receive support in the most efficient way possible. This does not mean always sacrificing or comprising, it means using energetic new tools of communication and organization to find more efficient ways of getting the necessary work done. The "Nature of Teams" model is our starting point. You then make it your own. We learn how meeting the core needs of the individual is a priority for survival. Shelter, water, fire and food are four elements essential before we can even begin to have a conversation about other more abstract ideals. We look to one another as collaborators. Our children benefit as they are empowered to be more competent and grow into true caretakers of their families.

For more of our core curriculum see the right sidebar.

The Vision Being able to take your choices and begin to grasp what they mean for the generations now and into the future involves the weight and breadth of the past. This is where our Village really comes to life and looks beyond themselves as individuals and we begin to truly celebrate why we are here. This is at the core of the Nature of the Village, how does every choice and every action affect the future. Join us, and together we will always be solving this riddle!

• Overnight Camping in the Out of Doors
  
• Fresh healthy meals, much of the food is wild and organic
• The Nature of Teams organizational community model
• Highly functional and nonhierarchical self organizing team leadership
• Hunter-Gatherer Wild crafting Skills
• Nature Immersion
• Intensive Fitness and Movement Arts Training
• Improv and Theater Skills (no experience required)
• Local and sustainable gourmet meals
• Learn and do woodworking and other handcraft
• Nightly ho-downs and campfire celebrations
• Guest presenters and storytellers
• Storytelling and oral tradition
• Drop spinning and fiber arts
• Wild edible and medicinal plants
• Open Space social technology
• Tracking and Nature Awareness
• Building vision for community
• Honoring our ethnic roots
• Stewardship and new permaculture
• Foundations of organizational and social change
• Family support
• Analogy and application for educators and parents
• Reclaim adventure from television and movies
• Help initiate our TrackersTEAMS Immersion Program students into their year

Who Ages 0-190 (and older)
When Overnight, September 13-19, 2009
Where Sandy, OR
$650 early registration - Paid by June 1, then $875
$300 with previous attendance
$500 Senior Citizen Discount
$200 Spouse Discount
$150 Each child
More scholarships available, especially to families. Children 4 years and under attend free!