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Twin Eagles Wilderness School
eNewsletter - October 2024
Greetings from Twin Eagles Wilderness School! Autumn rain is here along with an incredible pallette of colors as the trees present their final hurrah before dying back for the year. All manner of life continues to prepare itself for the cold winter ahead. Red Squirrels cache seeds and nuts, deer and elk are growing their winer coats, songbirds begin to migrate south, and humans rekindle hearth fires to keep our homes warm. With the falling leaves, this is the season of letting go. What are you releasing in your own heart right now to make space for what is to come?
Here at Twin Eagles our autumn programs are mostly complete, having wrapped up our closing ceremonies and two mentor open houses. We're crafting new offerings for the coming seasons, grateful to be in rceiprocity with commnuity.
Our 2025 youth, adult and family programs are open for registration, many of which are already filling up. Take a look at all we're offering below and see what calls to you!
Here is what we have in store for you in this months eNewsletter:
- Medicine Circle Work Party
- Homeschool Youth Nature Program - Autumn, Winter & Spring Blocks 2024-25
- Monthly Youth Program in Spokane - Autumn 2024 - Spring 2025
- Spring Alive Spring Break Camp
- Wild Women!
- Girl's Rite of Passage
- Mother Daughter Program
- Father Son Wilderness Program
- Wilderness Skills Instructor Training Program
Medicine Circle Work Party
Saturday, November 16, 2024
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Medicine Circle Eco-Retreat Center, Priest River, Idaho
You’re invited to our Autumn Medicine Circle Work Party!
Come join us to celebrate and give gratitude to the land at Medicine Circle by coming to our work party! If you are able-bodied, able to focus, age 13 and up and would like to be of service please join us!
Medicine Circle is an Eco-Retreat Center that has hosted Twin Eagles deep nature connection mentoring programs for the past 19 years. This work party is about participating in a circle of reciprocity and contributing to a balance of giving and receiving that our ancestors have taught us about so well. Our purpose is to help support the land to thrive in beauty for Twin Eagles students and recycle the resources of the land for the use of future programs.
Work Projects will include lifting and carrying things as we spruce up the forest at Medicine Circle and prepare firewood for the next seasons of Twin Eagles programs at Medicine Circle.
Twin Eagles will provide a hearty lunch (vegetarian and meat options) for all who join us.
What to Bring: Work gloves, sturdy boots, ear protection, personal dishes for lunch (plate, bowl, utensils), warm layers, water bottle and rain gear.
Please RSVP so we know how many people are coming and if you have any specific dietary needs. We will send you a map with directions.
Coordinator: Jeannine Tidwell call/text: (208) 597-5544
We hope to see you there!
Homeschool Youth Nature Program
Twin Eagles Community School
Weekly on Fridays in Sandpoint, Idaho
9:00 am - 3:00 pm · For kids ages 6 - 13
Autumn, Winter & Spring Seasonal Blocks
Come join our original 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 twentieth (!) 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 Program
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Spokane, WA
one consecutive Sat and Sun per month · Sep, Oct, Mar & Apr
We are pleased to be bringing traditional ecological knowledge to the Spokane community throughout the school year once again this year! 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. Join us as we meet one consecutive Saturday and Sunday per month, for the months of September, October, March and April for a total of eight day long sessions that run from 9 am - 3 pm each day.
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 8, Wed Apr 9, & Thu Apr 10 · 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
Wild Women!
For women 18 and older
Friday April 18 - Sunday April 20, 2025
Gathering all Wild Women! Come join us for an amazing outdoor deep nature connection adventure to connect with your innate wild, soulful essence. This is an opportunity to reconnect with your wild, instinctual animal nature and deepen your understanding of the wild woman archetype through a direct immersive experience.
Click here to learn more about Wild Women!
Girls Rite of Passage
For 13 - 16 year old girls
Thursday May 1 - Sunday May 4, 2025
JDK Ranch, Valleyford, Washington, Washington
The journey from childhood to adolescence is a dramatic time of development. Just like the fledgling bird that leaves the nest, the Girls Rite of Passage is an opportunity for girls to expand their wings and begin to take flight. It's a crossing. A place where two roads meet. Those two roads are where your daughter was once a child and is now emerging into adolescence.
This program is a coming of age ritual that has been taking place since humans have been on the planet. These types of traditions are common throughout the world and across cultures. It's a unique blueprint that stands apart from every day ordinary life and at the same time, brings new depth, understanding and meaning to it.
Learn more about Twin Eagles Girls Rite of Passage here, and please help spread the word!
Mother-Daughter Program
For mothers and their 8 - 13 year old daughters
Friday May 16 - Monday May 19, 2025
Medicine Circle Eco-Retreat - Priest River, Idaho
Imagine having a time where you and your daughter can retreat to nature to nurture your relationship with one another. Imagine being nestled in a community and the common bond of other mothers and their daughters in the sanctuary of nature. Accompanying you on this adventure are female guides who can hold you and your relationship with your daughters as sacred and support the growth of your relationship when and where it counts. It's a time to really be present to your journey as a mother and to that very special gift in front of you - your daughter.
Learn more and sign up for our Mother Daughter Program here.
Father-Son Wilderness Program
For fathers and their 8 - 13 year old sons
Thursday May 22 - Monday May 26, 2025 (Memorial Day Weekend)
Medicine Circle Eco-Retreat - Priest River, Idaho
Imagine taking five days with your son(s), and connecting deeply with nature and your boy(s) through ancestral wilderness survival skills, all within a small "tribe" of other fathers & sons that are like minded with similar values. During this program, we'll make fire by friction, build and sleep in natural shelters, learn traditional hunting and gathering techniques, and track wild animals. Primitive wilderness survival isn't a "Man vs. Wild" scenario, it is an opportunity to build a deep relationship with the Earth. As you and your son do so, you'll find that your relationship with your son deepens in powerful ways.
Interested in our Father Son Wilderness Program? Learn more here.
Twin Eagles Wilderness Skills Instructor Training Program
10 Days: Wednesday May 28 - Friday June 6, 2025
Adults 18+. Motivated older teens considered on an individual basis.
Camp Stidwell, Sandpoint, Idaho
Are you yearning to build confidence in wilderness skills?
Do you wish to cultivate your nature connection mentoring skills?
Are you seeking a community of like minds & hearts?
Twin Eagles Wilderness Skills Instructor Training Program is a ten day intensive that provides adults a rich opportunity to immerse themselves in the teachings of the Earth and develop themselves as nature connection mentors. Wilderness survival, wildlife tracking, wild edible & medicinal plants, naturalist training, bird language, nature based mentoring, outdoor leadership, and inner tracking become pathways to a transformational journey of deep connection with nature, community, mentoring, & self.
This experience will give you the chance to slow down and embrace time-tested, ancient practices of connecting deeply with nature and earth based approaches to education that we've been successfully facilitating for nearly twenty years. You'll steep in a culture of nature based mentoring with peers that will feel more like family by the end of the experience. You'll be guided by experienced, gifted, open-hearted mentors to discover your authentic self.
In a fast paced world that is increasingly fostering disconnection, this opportunity is designed from the ground up to holistically develop resiliency, a sense of place, confidence, vision, peace, meaning, leadership, mentoring, and connection. It is an opportunity to build relationships with what is truly important in life.
The Twin Eagles Wilderness Skills Instructor Training Program is for adults with a passion for nature, community, mentoring, and self-discovery who are ready to transform from yearning for deep connection to nature and mentoring, to living a life of deep connection with nature and mentoring.
"Wow! My cup is so full with inspiration and connection. I have deepened my own connection with nature and I'm excited to facilitate deeper connection for young people. This experience was a beautiful blend of nature knowledge, spiritual attunement and community building. I can confidently say that by doing this program I am taking a step in creating the culture I want to live in."
- Lindsay McMahon
Learn more about the ten day Twin Eagles Wilderness Skills Instructor Training Program here, and please spread the word about this amazing opportunity!
Autumn Blessings,
Twin Eagles Wilderness School
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