Adult Outdoors Skills Days Saturdays
Adult nature lovers are invited to join us around the campfire to practice skills such as fire making, campfire cooking, wood carving, sensory awareness, tracking, wild edibles, nature connection mentoring, community building and more.
Saturdays 2/20, 3/13, 3/27, 4/17, 5/8 and 5/22 at Nature and Nurture Farm, 7100 Marshall Road, Dexter, MI. Times will vary (classes may be longer as it gets warmer). Updates will be posted here and on Facebook.
Saturdays 2/20, 3/13, 3/27, 4/17, 5/8 and 5/22 at Nature and Nurture Farm, 7100 Marshall Road, Dexter, MI. Times will vary (classes may be longer as it gets warmer). Updates will be posted here and on Facebook.
Campfire Storytelling Class!
This class will focus on storytelling and campfire skills. We'll meet on zoom, on Thursday, 3/11 at 7 pm, to discuss storytelling skills and to practice. Then we'll meet in person, at the farm, on Saturday, 3/13 from 1-4 pm. We'll practice building campfires, working at various levels. Some folks might want to work on a basic newspaper and matches fire. Others may want to practice with a sparker and tinder or a bow drill.
Once we've got a good blaze going we'll settle in for a little more story swapping. We'll also plan to meet the opportunities of the day. Whatever nature offers up (tracks, etc.) we'll notice, discuss and play.
The rain date for the in-person session is 3/20. We'll shift to the rain date if the forecast calls for extremely cold, wet or windy weather.
Once we've got a good blaze going we'll settle in for a little more story swapping. We'll also plan to meet the opportunities of the day. Whatever nature offers up (tracks, etc.) we'll notice, discuss and play.
The rain date for the in-person session is 3/20. We'll shift to the rain date if the forecast calls for extremely cold, wet or windy weather.
Suggested donation for two story/fire classes is $10-30/person, and can be done by PayPal to naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com or by cash or check at class. Pre-registration is required.
Questions? Email naturelearningcommunity@gmail.com or call 734-531-8330.
Masks
Please come with a mask. We'll take them off when we sit around the fire, and at other times when it's possible to maintain distance. We'll wear them when we're up and moving about, or at any time when we might need to pass close to each other. Enrollment will be limited to 8-10 students, to enable each person to enjoy the fire while safely spaced apart.
Please come with a mask. We'll take them off when we sit around the fire, and at other times when it's possible to maintain distance. We'll wear them when we're up and moving about, or at any time when we might need to pass close to each other. Enrollment will be limited to 8-10 students, to enable each person to enjoy the fire while safely spaced apart.
Secret Agenda!
This class is for all adult nature lovers! But there's a secret agenda. The world needs more nature connection mentors. While we explore outdoors skills together, we'll also be building mentoring capacity. Where you deploy your mentoring abilities is up to you. Friends, family, children and strangers - we all need gentle, non-intrusive mentoring in our lives.
Nature Learning Community also needs more skilled helpers for our classes, and this program is a training ground for our current and future staff. Let us know if this might interest you!
Nature Learning Community also needs more skilled helpers for our classes, and this program is a training ground for our current and future staff. Let us know if this might interest you!
Instructor
Rowena Conahan is a founder of Nature Learning Community, where she teaches nature connection and outdoors skills and consults with educators seeking to increase outdoors experience for their students. She’s an anthropologist, healer, storyteller and Montessori teacher, with a background as a homeschool parent and assistant in a Waldorf-based forest kindergarten. She attended Tom Brown’s Tracker School in New Jersey and Wilderness Awareness School’s Art of Mentoring and is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training program. She volunteers for the global 8 Shields movement. Rowena is also a founding member of Sunward Cohousing Community, where she’s lived and learned for more than 20 years.