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Twin Eagles Wilderness School
eNewsletter - November 2016
Greetings from Twin Eagles Wilderness School! As autumn gives way to the short days and long nights of winter, the air we breathe is cool, crisp, and clear. Mountaintops are covered in snow, and the valleys are just now seeing the first snowflakes. Some birds migrate south, while others begin to flock up for the cold season ahead. How do the changing seasons impact you and your family?
It is a wild world out there folks, what with the election and everything unfolding at Standing Rock. Yet in the midst of this, as always, we're presented with the opportunity to look at the blessings in our lives. We're full of gratitude for the peace of nature, the strength of community, warm fires, and our beating hearts. What are you grateful for today? It's this place of gratitude that forms a foundation from which we can bring our best gifts into the world.
Here is what we have in store for you in this months eNewsletter:
- Fall Harvest Report
- Youth Programs 2016-2017
Fall Harvest Report
This past month we hosted our twelfth annual Fall Harvest community celebration! We had a great turn out from community members in Sandpoint, Spokane, and beyond, as we celebrated the harvest time together with primitive cooking. Kids young and old feasted on clay baked apples and fresh caught rainbow trout, ash cakes, wild berry muffins cooked in our own handmade rock oven, and we even made our own wild elderberry syrup, all right here on the land using primitive cooking methods that our earth based ancestors have used for tens of thousands of years.
We wove cattail dolls, sang songs of gratitude, played raucous games, had timeless wanders on the land, discovered tracking mysteries, and wrapped the bundle of the day with The Giving Circle, a simple ceremony of thanksgiving that unified the hearts of our whole community. It never ceases to amaze me how simple and powerful these old practices are, and what good medicine they offer to us in this modern day and age.
Twin Eagles Youth Programs 2016-2017!
Winter Break Camps
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Spokane, WA
Tue Dec 27, Wed Dec 28, & Thu Dec 29 · 9 am - 3 pm
Get your kids outside this winter with Twin Eagles Winter Break Camps! Winter here in the Inland Northwest is a magical time. The landscape is transformed by a blanket of snow, and there is a stillness upon the land. Rather than holing up, get outside this winter! Like all Twin Eagles Youth Programs, our winter break camps bring out the best in kids by connecting them deeply to the natural world, forging strong community, and developing genuine self-awareness. Our highly trained instructors draw out kids' passions through nature based activities like tracking wild animals, building snow shelters, learning primitive skills & crafts, storytelling & songs around a warm campfire, and much more! Click here to learn more about our Winter Break Camps!
Weekly Homeschool Youth Nature Program
Twin Eagles Community School
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Sandpoint, Idaho
One day per week, 9 am - 3 pm
Autumn, Winter, & Spring Seasonal Blocks
Come join our original weekly program for homeschool youth that explores deep nature connection and the wilderness arts through nature based mentoring. Students truly steep in a timeless experience of the natural world with teachings of the naturalist, the tracker, the wanderer, the herbalist, the ecologist, the survivalist and the scout. Now in its twelfth year, Twin Eagles Community School is a tremendous opportunity for youth to experience knowledge of place and nature awareness all in a powerful atmosphere of cultural mentoring. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Community School!
Twin Eagles Monthly Youth Programs
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Spokane, WA
One Sunday per month · October - May
We are pleased to be bringing traditional ecological knowledge to the Spokane community on a monthly basis! Kids have a rare opportunity to slow down to nature's pace and experience themselves in a community of passionate nature based learners through activities such as fire by friction, local species interrelations, songs, animal tracking, group challenges, wild edible & medicinal plants, natural shelter building, storytelling, sensory awareness and much, much more. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Monthly Youth Programs!
Spring Alive! Spring Break Camps
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Spokane, WA
Tue Apr 4, Wed Apr 5, & Thu Apr 6 · 9 am - 3 pm
Spring in the Inland Northwest is an amazing time, full of inspiration. The snow has melted, and the landscape is coming back to life with all kinds of flowers blooming, frogs & salamanders crawling about, and young animals & birds being birthed into the world. Indeed, all of life is being renewed! Twin Eagles Spring Alive! spring break camps are the perfect way to help get your kids outside to enjoy this precious time of year. Like all Twin Eagles Youth Programs, our spring break camps bring out the best in kids by connecting them intimately to the natural world, forging resilient community ties, and developing authentic self-awareness. Click here to learn more about our Spring Alive! Spring Break Camps
Weekend Teen Wilderness Programs
Twin Eagles Seasonal Teen Rendezvous
For teens ages 13 - 18 · Locations throughout the Inland Northwest
Weekends run Friday evening through Sunday Afternoon
Autumn, Winter, & Spring Sessions
Twin Eagles Seasonal Teen Rendezvous offers awesome experiences to teens throughout the Inland Northwest and beyond to sink deep roots to the earth through wilderness skills while soaring high through full-on group adventures. Teens learn leadership by working together as well as applying their sensitivities through ancient earth based skills and crafts. This is a powerful opportunity for teens to encounter the wild around them. As well, teens have a chance to touch their own inner wildness by giving unique voice to their inner selves amongst a community of peers and mentors. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Seasonal Teen Rendezvous!
Teen Mentor-In-Training Program
For teens ages 15 - 18 · Sandpoint, ID & Spokane, WA
Twin Eagles Mentor in Training (MIT) program is an incredible opportunity for teens to step forward into becoming authentic nature based mentors. Twin Eagles MITs receive guidance from Twin Eagles' seasoned adult staff to move into a mentoring role with Twin Eagles Youth Program students, thereby experiencing themselves as powerful role models and leaders. It is a rare opportunity to be mentored into their greater potential as they experience the joy of mentoring others into a deep relationship with the earth. The MIT Program runs alongside all of our Youth Programs, so teens are able to select which one(s) they wish to participate in. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Mentor in Training Program!
Blessing of Peace from the Wild Places,
Tim Corcoran
co-Director & co-Founder
Twin Eagles Wilderness School
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