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Outdoor Education

The Coyote Mentoring Workshop inspired me to open my senses and to discover over again my own joy and awe and respect of the wilderness...and it gave me tools to creatively bring this enthusiasm home to share with my daughter and other kids. -Amy Wolff

View our Teacher Workshops & Mentoring Courses

Native societies did not send their children to formalized schools to acquire nature education. Instead, they surrounded their young people with a powerful mentoring culture. Our co-founder Jon Young often calls this education system an "Invisible School." Invisible Schools used everyone in the village and all the elements of the landscape to draw out their student’s curiosity and inspire hands on learning.

Our unique nature education model and mentoring techniques create an Invisible School that combines the best of native wisdom and modern science. Using universal children’s interests and passions to engage them in practicing Core Routines of Nature Awareness, mentors improvise with Storytelling, the Art of Questioning, and a limitless bundle of games, activities, and challenges. Our "Coyote Mentoring" tools inspire children to connect deeply with nature and send them home with a sparkle in the eye.

View our internet television special now!

It includes a discussion of the art of mentoring, coyote mentoring, nature education, No Child Left Inside and Richard Louv, how to draw out a student's natural intelligences, how to create an "invisible school," how to nourish oneself as mentor and teacher and renew the passion for teaching others. Also, information on the mentoring programs at Wilderness Awareness School. This CoyoteTV web tv special features interviews with Warren Moon, Executive Director, and John Chilkotowsky, Program Director from Wilderness Awareness School, along with Ellen Haas, co-author of "Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature." 33 minutes.

Some articles of interest from our NatureSkills.com site:

• The Art of Questioning - by Paul Houghtaling
• Storytelling for Inspiration - by Evan McGown
• The Natural Learning Cycle - by Warren Moon
  

2011-2012 Teacher Workshops and Mentoring Schedule