Welcome to the Village!
The Village course has been cancelled for 2011-2012.
This page will be updated when we schedule this course again.
This unique program combines survival skills camp with enriching personal and community experience. Each one-week session will reflect, internally and externally, what is essential for survival in that season! Students will walk away with inspiring personal and community development tools, as well as solid exploration into primitive living skills.
Skills covered will include: shelter, fire, edible & medicinal plants, tracking and more! Community practices will include primitive art skills, storytelling, seasonal rituals, journaling and more!
Fall Session: The Harvest and Community Celebration
(Begins in October 2011!)
During the fall we travel to Eastern Washington where we focus on harvesting and processing wild plants for food and medicine, processing game animals and making clothing. The community explores celebration and peacemaking practices as well as song making and storytelling.
Winter Session: Snow and Integration
In winter we travel to the Methow Valley where we focus on cold weather survival and personal integration of our year. Skills taught include snow shelters, primitive tools, tracking and fire making. The community delves into internal contemplation and personal growth with a solo, sweat lodge/sauna, journal activities, storytelling and primitive art projects.
Spring Session: New Growth & Inspiration
In spring we roam through a unique and awe-inspiring landscape in search of spring plant foods, fibers, and medicines. Skills learned and practiced incllude primitive fishing and cooking, bird language and scout skills. The community will express the beauty of spring, engaging in a celebratory spring fast for part of the trip.
Summer Session: Joyful Labor & Adventure
In summer we set out on a mobile survival expedition, choosing our course to find needed resources with minimal support. This expedition will inspire and test your skills as we forage, make fire, build shelters, and find water. Students must have prior expedition experience and meet physical standards to apply for this course.
Register for The Village
| Cancelled | Ages Adult $925 Food and camping included (primitive). Fall Session: October 2-8, 2011 9:00am Saturday-4:00pm Sunday East Slope of the Washington Cascade Mountains; Airport shuttle available |
Instructor Biographies
Lindsay Huettman is an instructor with our Expeditions and Special Programs,
as well as a Youth Programs instructor. Her primary passion is connecting humans to wilderness through the use of native plants. This inspired her to complete a degree at WWU in Ethnobotany Stewardship Education. This can include anything from eating Hemlock cambium and discussing its nutritional benefits, to making baskets out of Cedar roots and dying them with lichens! Other passions include leading wilderness survival, whitewater rafting and kayaking expeditions; writing and playing music. She has a background in organic farming, landscaping, horse packing & training, and is an avid plant dork when it come to biochemistry.
Dan
Corcoran is the Director of the Kamana Naturalist Training
Program, and an instructor with our Youth Programs and Adult Programs
as well. After receiving his B.S. in Biology from Indiana University in
June of 2000, Dan moved to the Pacific Northwest to pursue his love of
nature with Wilderness Awareness School. He graduated from the Anake Outdoor
School in 2003. As a Kamana graduate, he aspires to inspire more people
to finish the program. He continues to push his edges with attempts to
touch a deer, flintknap a clovis point, and hear a cougar bird-alarm sequence.
Dan is also a Wilderness First Responder.
