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Twin Eagles Wilderness School
eNewsletter - March 2025
Late Winter Greetings! Here in Sandpoint, the landscape is just beginning to awaken again. Old Man Winter seems to be letting go of his grasp on the landscape early this year. Most of the snow is melted down in the valleys and American Robins are already back starting to establish their territories with their classic "cheerily-cheeriup" songs. Soon Spring will be here in full force!
Here at Twin Eagles, our Spring Programs are just about to begin, and there is lots of energy being spent getting ready for summer camps. Be sure to read our update below. Check out our programs, we'd love to see you and your with us soon!
Here is what we have in store for you in this months eNewsletter:
- Spring Alive Spring Break Camp
- New Summer Camps!
- Bozeman, MT Summer Day Camps
- Seeking Summer Camp Instructors!
- Parents, become a volunteer instructor at our summer camps!
- Seeking Summer Interns!
- Teen Mentor-In-Training Program
- Homeschool Youth Nature Program
- Wild Women!
- Girl's Rite of Passage
- Boy's Rite of Passage
- Mother Daughter Program
- Father Son Wilderness Program
- Wilderness Skills Instructor Training Program
- Wilderness Vision Quest
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
New Summer Camps!
Back by popular demand, we're pleased to add an additional session: Wilderness Survival Day Camp in Spokane, happening August 11-15. This is one of our most popular day camp themes, and we're glad to be able to offer it this summer in Spokane!
Most of our summer camps still have openings. So far, only two of our sixteen summer camps are full. All of our other summer camps have space remaining, so be sure to register now!
Click here to sign up for our summer day camps now!
At Twin Eagles, we believe that connecting deeply with nature is critical to whole child development. The experiences we offer bring kids back to a simpler, more connected way of life where their senses are honed to once again hear the call of the wild, revel in the feeling of mud squishing between their toes, delight in the beauty of wildflowers, and listen to the music in mountain streams. Kids develop authentic resiliency through real world challenges and traditional earth based skills as they experience the deep peace of the natural world.
Our highly trained instructors draw out kids' passions through nature based activities like:
- Making fire by friction
- Learning edible & medicinal plants
- Exploring natural mysteries
- Tracking wild animals
- Building natural shelters
- Discovering the language of the forest
- Training as the native scouts of old did
- Learning earth based crafts, stories, songs
- and much, much more!
For full information on our summer camps, check out our Twin Eagles Summer Camp web page here.
New Bozeman, Montana Summer Day Camps!
This year we are once again offering two weeks of summer day camps in Bozeman, Montana! This is just our second year doing so. These camps are happening June 16 - 20 and June 13 - 27, 2025. Both will be our Nature Adventurers themed day camps for 6 - 12 year olds, and they will happen at Gallatin Valley Botanical at Rocky Creek Farm, just ten minutes east of downtown Bozeman!
Please help us spread the word about our Bozeman, Montana summer day camps! Thank you!
Find full info about our new Bozeman, MT summer day camps here!
Seeking Summer Camp Staff!
We are currently looking to hire for the roles of:
Program Director, Lead Instructor and Assistant Instructor
We're offering paid positions based on experience, with accommodations & meals provided for overnight camps. Have a blast working in a powerful deep nature connection mentoring culture, and deepening your mentoring expertise while supporting a common Vision of restoring hope in today's youth!
Click here for more info on working at Twin Eagles this summer!
We are also currently looking for Volunteer Assistant Instructors who are interested in a transformational experience being professionally trained as a Deep Nature Connection Mentor. Volunteers will learn new wilderness skills, network with other nature based mentors, and develop a powerful sense of place, all while supporting a worthy cause. As you steep in our authentic nature based community, you'll develop passion, purpose, gratitude, confidence, and leadership. You'll have tons of fun experiencing a truly inspirational vision of hope as you are mentored to develop your fullest potential in service to the Earth and future generations!.
Click here for more info on volunteering at Twin Eagles!
Attention Parents, become a volunteer instructor at our summer camps!
Parents, are you interested in volunteering at Twin Eagles as an assistant instructor? Volunteering with Twin Eagles is a great way to gain a deeper understanding of the magic that is Twin Eagles, and also have some fun! As a Parent Volunteer Assistant Instructor, you'll get to step into the community aspects of raising kids, seeing firsthand how "It takes a village to raise a child". You will get to be a part of our collaborative staff team, including receiving training in nature connection, leadership, and mentoring.
This will help you bring some of the potency of the Twin Eagles culture into your own family and your role as a parent and community member. You'll get to be a witness and contributor in the weaving of a powerful learning experience for your child/children. As a parent, you bring an important perspective that benefits the camaraderie and powerful unity, compassion and understanding to our staff. This is a great opportunity to recharge in a natural setting and remember the joys and timelessness of childhood close to nature.
Parent Volunteer Assistant Instructors receive professional training and experience as a deep nature connection mentor while volunteering as an assistant instructor at any of our youth programs for kids ages 6 - 18, including any of our summer camps. Parents choose at least one program to be a part of, and receive 50% off the tuition of any children attending that program, priority placement of their kids into our programs (including our very popular summer camps), a free Twin Eagles Wilderness School t-shirt, and other benefits!
"When I joined my 2 kids at Twin Eagles summer camp as a volunteer staff, I sunk into a whole new understanding of nature connection. It is such a privilege to lead my own kids through a process of deep nature connection within the context of a wider group - to watch them master skills, learn new concepts, and experience the many layers of connection to the land. However, the greatest joy is listening to them share their deep thoughts and impressions around the fire. I get to hear firsthand how their souls were connecting with the loving kindness of nature around them, whether that be through a story shared around a fire, or the sighting of a red tail hawk, or the tracking of a moose. Life is short - and there is no place I would rather be than at Twin Eagles allowing the magic of nature and mentoring to guide both myself and my children together."-Lisa Bowman-Trefts
Click here for full info on becoming a parent volunteer assistant instructor at Twin Eagles!
Seeking Summer Interns!
We're very proud of our internship program as a pathway to experience the transformational deep nature connection mentoring culture here at Twin Eagles Wilderness School. Summer Internships at Twin Eagles are an opportunity for an immersive experience in deep nature connection within a culture of conscious mentoring. Interns will experience a plethora of tools for connecting with the land, self, and others. Benefits include professional training as a deep nature connection mentor, transformational personal growth & self discovery, learning new wilderness skills, experiencing authentic nature based community, having tons of fun, and much more! Our summer internships last anywhere from two weeks to two months between mid-June and mid-August.
Click here to learn more about the Twin Eagles Internship Program!.
Teen Mentor-In-Training Program
For teens ages 13 and older
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!
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!
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!
Boy's Rite of Passage
For 13 - 16 year old boys
Wednesday May 7 - Sunday May 11, 2025
How many men can look back to the moment they stopped being a boy? How many men can say that they were initiated into the mature masculine by caring, emotionally mature male mentors? How many men developed deep self confidence in their early teens to carry them through the tumultuous time of adolescence?
Once again this year, we're offering the Twin Eagles Boy's Rite of Passage to our broader community. The Twin Eagles Boy's Rite of Passage is:
- A conscious, authentic, formal initiation to mark the leaving behind of boyhood and the entrance into adolescence for boys ages 13-16
- Rooted in real relationships, nature, ceremony, and nurturing the psyche.
- A deep acknowledgement of who the boy is becoming.
- A process to meet the growing developmental needs of his body, mind, heart, and soul.
- Big support for him to develop emotional maturity.
- Deepening long term relationships
Please reach out to Tim Corcoran directly if you're interested in the Twin Eagles Boy's Rite of Passage.
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!
Wilderness Vision Quest
For adults 18+
September 5-14, 2025 - Selkirk Mountains, Idaho
A 10-day live, in-person immersion into the mysteries of Wild Nature and Wild Soul, carefully curated by Tim Corcoran.
Be held in a conscious mentoring culture led by two experienced nature-based & soul-based mentors as you prepare, quest and integrate a pinnacle transformational experience of connecting with your deepest life vision, the largest conversation you are capable of having with the world.
A timeless ceremonial process rooted in traditional earth-based wisdom, adapted for humans living today to facilitate the journey of ecological awakening and soul initiation.
You can learn more about the Vision Quest by clicking here.
Please note that this link takes you to the Purpose Mountain website, which is the organization Tim founded to focus on Nature Based Purpose Discovery and Visionary Development.
Winter Blessings,
Twin Eagles Wilderness School
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