WILD TENDERS MONDAYS

Come join our Wild Tenders program, where kids spend their days on the land getting to intimately know the beings that live there, and building deeply meaningful relationships with the natural world, the wild ones, mentors and each other!

Participants in Wild Tenders get to:

-Learn through play (a method found to require 40 times less repetitions to be effective): exciting, engaging, physically challenging games, teamwork and cooperative projects (shhhh, they actually don’t realize they’re learning!!)

-Strengthen sensory awareness: building observational skills, noticing detail and spending time in quiet reflection

-Learn about nature and survival skills: plant identification, tracking, bird language, shelter building, fire tending 

-Develop curiosity, thoughtfulness and problem-solving: learning through artful questioning and wonder

-Grow strong self-tending and social-emotional skills: understanding and responding to the needs of self and other, building relationships in a supportive environment, being part of a community where thoughts and opinions are respected

-Connect to lineage and learn through metaphor: impactful stories and heartfelt, meaningful songs

….all this, and they think they’re just having fun!