Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program is a nine month journey running September through June that provides adults a rich opportunity to immerse themselves in the teachings of the Earth. Wilderness survival, wildlife tracking, wild edible & medicinal plants, naturalist training, bird language, permaculture, nature based mentoring, and inner tracking become pathways to a transformational journey of deep connection with nature, community, and self.

Do you feel the call of the wild,
yearning to be at one with nature?

Are you seeking a community of like minds and hearts,
rooted in the ways of the Earth?

Are you yearning to truly discover yourself,
and your greatest contribution to the world?

Then come join us. The Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program experience will give you the chance to slow down and embrace time-tested, ancient practices of connecting deeply with nature that we've been successfully facilitating for over fifteen years. You'll steep in a culture of nature based mentoring with peers that will probably 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, and connection. It is an opportunity to build relationships with what is truly important in life.

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Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
Overview

We created the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program for adults with a passion for nature, community, and self-discovery. This program is designed to help you transform from yearning for deep connection, to living a life of deep connection with nature, with community, and with yourself.

The Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program is a nine month long, profound experience of connecting deeply with nature, community, and self. The program meets from September through June, running three days per week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays. There are also many expeditions and intensives throughout the course of the year adding to the depth of the experience. It covers eight core areas, the full spectrum of what we offer here at Twin Eagles:

• Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills
• Wildlife Tracking
• Ethnobotany - Using wild plants for food, medicine, & tools
• Permaculture & Regenerative Design
• Nature Based Mentoring & Cultural Restoration
• Naturalist Training
• Bird Language & Native Scout Teachings
• Inner Tracking - Nature Based Self-Discovery

Each area of focus works in concert with the others, developing a powerful, holistic synergy that results in a potent, life changing experience.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
Lasting Results

When you come to Twin Eagles, you'll develop a deep, meaningful, and intimate relationship to nature. You'll experience the interconnectedness of holistic community, and the clarity of vision that comes from traversing your inner landscape.

The experience at Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program is life changing. Participants consistently report the following:

• Feeling the true freedom and self-sufficiency that only comes from providing your basic human needs of shelter, water, fire, and food directly from the Earth through primitive wilderness survival skills.
• Feeling tremendously alive in your body and senses, at one with the Earth, experiencing a highly perceptive state of sensory awareness and connection to instincts through nature awareness practices like wildlife tracking and bird language.
• Feeling at peace with the Earth, being able to live not just a sustainable life, but a regenerative life, giving back to nature as your needs get met with abundance through permaculture and regenerative design.
• Feeling a deep sense of connection and belonging, taking this journey amongst a community of like minded individuals and families.
• Feeling authentic self-confidence, being authentically praised by an interconnected community as you share your gifts through nature based mentoring, guiding others into this same powerful experience of connection.
• Feeling a profound sense of meaning and vision in life that can only come from discovering who you are and why you're here; from discovering your contribution to our world and from living your passions, your dreams, and your purpose.
• Living life to the fullest, being the change you wish to see in this world, and honoring those that have come before us as you work to leave behind a true legacy for future generations.

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2016-2017 year.
To apply, click the button below to download an application packet.
You can also contact us to request an application packet via US Mail.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program 2016-17

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Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
Areas of Focus

Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills

Learn to provide for your most basic physical needs of shelter, water, fire, and food directly from the natural world. Build and sleep in single person and group primitive survival shelters, long term shelters, and snow shelters. Learn to identify and purify diverse water sources in a variety of ecosystems. Train in a variety of primitive friction fire making methods. Experience the fundamentals of hunting and gathering, including primitive traps, primitive weapons (like bow & arrow and throwing sticks), and gathering wild edible plants, mushrooms, and insects for sustenance. Acquire primitive living skills like brain tanning buckskin, flint knapping stone tools, basketry, coal burned bowls, and more.

Wildlife Tracking

Learn the ancient art and science of wildlife tracking as a tool for exponentially expanding your awareness of the world around you. Gain both a broad and deep experience of tracking through clear print identification, sign tracking, substrate analysis, gait studies/trail patterns/interpreting behavior, strategic track aging methods, ecological assessment & big picture analysis, trailing animals, developing empathetic connection to animals via animal forms (imitating animal movement through your own body), and synthesizing all these methods into intuitive tracking ability. In the end you'll discover that the landscape is the greatest book ever written, with a constant stream of stories and mysteries just waiting to be unraveled.

Ethnobotany- Using plants as medicine, food & tools

Gather detailed knowledge of traditional plant use through experiencing herbal remedies, edible wild plants, and indigenous plant technologies. Learn a multitude of medicinal plant preparations including the practices of ethical and sacred harvesting, proper processing, preservation, and administration of tinctures, salves, poultices, compresses, infusions, syrups, liniments, decoctions, and more. Encounter the astonishing wealth of nutrition present in both local native and alien invasive wild edible plants, including roots, stalks, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds. Unearth ancient plant technologies such as primitive cordage making, natural fiber arts, and gathering plants for hand drills, water filters, arrow making, and more.

Permaculture & Regenerative Design

Learn how to craft vibrant ecosystems that are bountiful and abundant for ourselves and future generations. Go beyond sustainability and create regenerative living systems rooted in deep nature connection and knowledge of place that foster healthy communities and continue to strengthen over time. Experience skills like soil building, growing fruits, vegetables & medicinal plants, composting, seed saving, water collection, gray water systems, natural building, watershed restoration & erosion control, site planning, and more. Ultimately, as you discover practical ways of living that are in balance with the flow of nature, the lines of separation between human settlements and the wilderness grow fainter as a greater oneness prevails.

Nature Based Mentoring & Cultural Restoration

Learn Twin Eagles' exceptional mentoring model that builds resilient connections amongst people, nature, and self. Practice one on one mentoring techniques designed to inspire students to experience the joy of discovery, as opposed to the mere quest for knowledge. You'll experience indigenous cultural practices that are desperately needed in our modern world today. Learn group mentoring techniques that maximize the potential for learning via setting up a nature based culture of education. Learn how to truly inspire hope and responsibility for the Earth via nature based mentoring. This is a powerful step towards becoming a competent nature based mentor, instructor, and community leader.

Naturalist Training

Experience the true breadth and depth of knowledge of place that was the foundation of our indigenous ancestors' ability to survive and thrive. Study the species identification, taxonomy, and natural history of hazards, mammals, plants, ecological indicators, trees, and birds of the Inland Northwest. Discover how having a comprehensive and holistic understanding of naturalist skills and knowledge of place actually stands as the groundwork for all other nature skills. For how can you be an expert survivalist without thorough knowledge of the trees? How can you develop regenerative living systems without in-depth understanding of natural systems? How can you master inner awareness without outer awareness?

Bird Language & Native Scout Teachings

Discover the true secret of the natural world known to the native scouts of old that allows you to both detect movement and move undetected, at one with the land. You'll learn the "language" that every adult bird and animal knows; that the sounds and movements in nature all contain great meaning, and that meaning gives you great insight. You'll learn skills that will dramatically increase your awareness and up close encounters with wildlife. You'll discover that this alarm system of concentric rings utilized by elusive wild animals is also the key to learning how to blend and flow with the landscape. This is the true path of natural camouflage, stealth, and invisibility.

Inner Tracking - Nature Based Self-Discovery

Discover how to change the world by changing yourself, and by truly knowing yourself. Learn a powerful set of inner awareness practices that unlocks your creative potential and frees you to craft the life you dream of. Learn how to navigate your inner landscape of shadow and light, and touch your true power. Find deep self confidence and inner security that travels with you throughout your life and all your endeavors. Take measurable steps towards claiming your passion and purpose. Learn how to listen to the wisdom of your heart and let it be your guide. Cultivate authentic leadership that is sourced from the indomitable spirit of nature. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2016-2017 year.
To apply, click the button below to download an application packet.
You can also contact us to request an application packet via US Mail.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program 2016-17

This application is a fillable PDF form. Please be sure you are using the latest version of Adobe Reader to fill out these forms - it's free!

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
Expeditions and Intensives

Throughout the course of your year at the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program, you'll experience a variety of overnight expeditions and intensives, each of which lasts three to seven days. These powerful, immersive experiences happen about once every five weeks, and bring an unmatched depth and power to your journey. The program typically involves twelve overnight expeditions or intensives that include:

• Opening Intensive - We begin the journey by jumping right into five days spent at our main campus.
• The Art of Mentoring - an annual gathering of renewal where we rebuild an intergenerational nature based village.
• Tracking Expeditions - to some of the best wildlife tracking spots in the west.
• Winter Snow Cave Expedition - in the spectacular Selkirk mountains of North Idaho.
• Bird Language Intensive - the best way to learn a new language is to immerse in a culture of it.
• Seasonal Inner Tracking Intensives - as landmark events in your journey.
• Wilderness Survival Challenge - That puts to test all the skills learned in the program.
• Closing Intensive - To "wrap the bundle" of the nine month experience.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
The Location - Pristine Sandpoint, Idaho

The Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program is based out of our beautiful campus outside of pristine Sandpoint, Idaho. Sandpoint was named the nation's "Most Beautiful Small Town" by Rand McNally and USA Today, and for good reason.

It sits on the northern shore of magnificent Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho's largest lake at 43 miles long, and is nestled between the Selkirk and Cabinet mountain ranges which encompass millions of acres of national forest, native habitat of wolves, grizzlies, cougars, wolverines, and the last remaining caribou in the continental 48 states.

This is a land of spirit and of uncompromising natural beauty, home of the traditional territory of the Kalispell Tribe of Indians, a thriving arts community, the top rated Schweitzer ski resort, and a progressive small town community. Indeed, Sandpoint is known as the “hidden gem” of the northwest!

When it comes to selecting a wilderness immersion program, don't underestimate the importance of the location. Beyond just setting the context for your learning journey, the location is something that you will make a visceral connection with, something that you will merge essences with throughout your experience.

We chose the Inland Northwest because it is wild, and off the beaten path. It contains some of the largest tracts of unspoiled wilderness in the continental US, and is rich with diversity and it includes a variety of unique ecological niches. Pristine wilderness is the norm here. Even our little town of Sandpoint is all about nature, full of progressive earthy folks and old back-to-the-land'ers. When you come to Twin Eagles, you'll truly be immersing in the wilderness.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
Instructors

At the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program, we're proud to have an instructing team comprised of highly passionate and gifted instructors steeped in deep nature connection, the art of mentoring, and inner tracking. Our team is led by Twin Eagles Wilderness School directors and founders Tim Corcoran and Jeannine Tidwell, as well as Barry Moses from the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Lead instructors and apprentice instructors offer significant support throughout the journey. In addition, we have various staff specialists come in throughout the programs, focusing on specialty areas of instruction.

Each member of our leadership team has over 15 years experience in the field, having been trained by renowned elders and mentors themselves and then, more importantly, made the teachings their own. We haven't just practiced and learned these skills, we've lived them. As a mentoring team, our approach is sourced from the natural world, giving us an uncommon strength, unity, and resiliency.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program:
The Community

At the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program, you'll journey through the experience with an intimate group of approximately six to sixteen peers that will probably feel more like family before the program's end.

This tightly knit convergence of passionate learners is supported by a greater inter generational community of families, students, graduates, apprentices, staff, and elders all supporting the Twin Eagles vision. We often times will have other community members join us for portions of our program, including community elders offering potent reflections on the participant's journey.

Community isn't something on the sidelines; it's an essential part of the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program experience, interwoven into your learning journey. It's a resilient, diverse ecosystem of mentoring that is synergistic in nature and adds a distinct depth to your learning experience.

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2016-2017 year.
To apply, click the button below to download an application packet.
You can also contact us to request an application packet via US Mail.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program 2016-17

This application is a fillable PDF form. Please be sure you are using the latest version of Adobe Reader to fill out these forms - it's free!

What Makes Us Unique?

Here at Twin Eagles, we recognize that how we do things is at least as important as what we do. We've made some very different choices in our approach to crafting a holistic learning environment, which is a big part of why we stand out amongst wilderness schools and deep nature connection organizations:

Depth Mentoring - The Twin Eagles Experience

One of the keys to Twin Eagles' success is our unique expression of nature based mentoring. Traditional indigenous wisdom, modern brain research, and decades of our own personal experience mentoring thousands of people all agree that the very best way to learn something is experientially, under the guide of mentors. The cycles of the natural world form a blueprint for learning that guides this journey of connection.

In our early years, we had the blessing of being guided by truly exceptional mentors and elders. They showed up powerfully for us, and we developed lasting mentoring relationships. Not only did they guide us to form our own deep relationships with nature, skills, practices, community, and Earth based philosophy, but they mentored us through the inner journey as well. We were consistently being guided to look within. It was being mentored in this duality, to take the inner journey alongside the outer journey, that ultimately made all the difference and supported our long term success on this path.

As an organization, we're committed to this high quality experience of depth mentoring, especially for each of the students in the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program.

When you come here, you'll have experienced mentors who truly show up powerfully for you, holding space for you as you travel deep into connection with nature, community, and yourself. Mentors who really see you with compassion and understanding and also hold a high bar for you to grow into. A big part of our role is to train you with new skills, and then present challenges for you to face. We're here to help you see that you are more capable that you might realize. Having experienced mentors guide your journey results in learning that is more holistic and more efficient. We help guide you to draw forth previously untapped potential within yourself to meet the challenges at hand. Through the process you'll develop a new, more powerful sense of self. We're here to guide and support you to emerge into your greatest potential.

At Twin Eagles deep nature connection mentoring is a way of life. At our wilderness immersion program, you can expect to be mentored by caring, rooted, knowledgeable, skillful, and experienced instructors who will meet you where you are at and artfully guide you forward on your journey of discovery. In the end, you'll own your accomplishments as your own. You'll feel the power and resiliency of your interconnected relationships to the greater web of life. The skills, practices, and mindset learned will last a lifetime.

The Inner Journey

Here at Twin Eagles, we recognize that the natural world is the original and ideal context for deep, authentic self-discovery. We work to combine the best of indigenous and modern processes to support a powerful and deeply transformative experience of self-awareness. Having been a part of wilderness immersion programs and facilitated transformational, community based, long term, deep nature connection mentoring over the last seventeen years, we've seen people both thrive and stumble on this journey, and time and again we've seen what makes the difference.

Long ago, we learned a secret to success on this journey of deep nature connection mentoring. It is also one of the great secrets of life itself. The only blocks that really matter are the ones on the inside. Your ability to sabotage your own passion, power & purpose, to get trapped in fear and doubt, the unconscious resistance that causes bold visions to fade away, these are the real blocks. If you can clear these inner blocks and truly learn to trust all of yourself, that's when life gets good.

Having navigated the inner journey ourselves through the years, and supported many others through it as well, we've discovered efficient ways to clear the path, and found that we have a great passion for this work we call Inner Tracking. Inner Tracking isn't just one small part of our curriculum, it is actually woven into the fabric of our mentoring culture. We're committed to supporting our wilderness immersion program students to take this inner journey. We have gone through the fire, taken the hero's/heroine's journey, and we're here on the other side to guide you through.

It is one thing to teach a person new physical skills like making fire with a bow drill kit or crafting medicinal tinctures. But it takes hard earned experience and a very special quality of mentoring to guide a person through the inner journey. This is where our passion really shines. You'll make a palpable connection to your passion, power, and purpose, and experience greater self-confidence, intuition, and creative potential to co-create the life you dream of.

Cultural Restoration and Knowledge of Place

The Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program is a part of a greater journey of deepening one's connection to a specific place and restoring earth based culture.

Throughout history, human societies have created communities based on a deep understanding of the natural environment of their traditional territories. Indeed, whole cultures have evolved in relationship with the land. Every plant, animal, mountain, forest, and river of a particular region contributes to the distinctive cultural heritage of the people who live among them, and after hundreds of generations, the specific "knowledge of place" becomes inseparable from the cultural identity of its people.

However, most Americans in the 21st century have largely lost touch with the cultural heritage of their forebears, and they no longer live in relationship with the environment. As a result, many people experience a sense of loss and a longing to find some deeper meaning to life.

Many feel a need to connect in meaningful ways and to form an intimate relationship with their place, their community, and their own sense of self. This is the journey of cultural restoration.

We at Twin Eagles hold that cultural restoration begins by deepening one's knowledge of place, and the more we build cultural practices that reflect the unique character of our environment, the stronger our communities will become. We're working towards a deeply intimate relationship with our place, with the people of our place, and with our own selves. This journey spans more than just a year, or a decade, or even a lifetime. This is a multi-generational journey. Our native elders have told us this. The work of cultural restoration is some of the most important work that needs to be done in the world.

At Twin Eagles, we are honored and blessed to have been taught by many native elders and mentors who have supported us in learning to live in relationship with the land. What they have offered has been priceless, and has fundamentally impacted us as an organization and as a community. Our relationships with native people are essential to our work of cultural restoration.

In particular, we are honored to receive the support of Barry Moses. Barry is a member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, and he provides multicultural training to a wide variety of community organizations, school groups, and institutions of higher learning. He has given his support towards our journey of enduring cultural restoration, and is serving as our Inner Tracking Staff Specialist at the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program.

You're probably a great match for this program if:

• You have a passion for nature, community, and self-awareness.
• You are fit for challenges and adventures in both the outer and inner world.
• You value learning experientially, learning by doing.
• You respect indigenous wisdom.
• You want to discover ways to bring the wisdom of nature back into the modern experience.
• You are willing to challenge your fears.
• You're ready and willing to invest significant time and effort into your passions
• You want to discover and feel in your body how you fit in to the greater interconnected web of life.
• You are ready to wake up to a new level of consciousness, to discover a new possibility of what it is to be alive.
• In your heart, you deeply desire to live your life to the fullest.

You're probably not a very good match if:

• You're not really passionate about nature, community, and self-awareness.
• You don't like challenges and adventures (in either the inner or outer world).
• You are physically challenged in a way that would impede you from participating fully.
• You are a busy person who doesn't have much time on your hands to give yourself fully to this program.
• You would have to work a lot during your year with us in order to meet your financial needs.
• You're not going to put in the effort to make lasting change in your life.
• You don't want to wake up to a higher level of consciousness.

You're probably an especially great match if:

• You're a person on a quest to find yourself, looking for clarity and direction on your path, asking the question, "Who am I really?"
• You are fed up with the old, fundamentally degenerative paradigm, and want to change the world.
• You get that that means changing yourself.
• You want to become a nature based mentor.
• You want to find your power, and a deeper experience of confidence and worthiness.
• You wonder, "What if I could find a deep and sacred meaning to my life, a true vision rooted in the heart of nature?"
• You feel called or guided to be here.

Applications are currently being accepted for the 2016-2017 year.
To apply, click the button below to download an application packet.
You can also contact us to request an application packet via US Mail.

Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program 2016-17

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