Sign up for Heartwood Wilderness Skills adult apprenticeship!

Newtown CT

02 August, 2021

11:11 AM

Description

Join the Heartwood Wilderness Skills Apprenticeship Program and find community with other adults who are rediscovering a sense of belonging in nature. This program will meet monthly from September 2021 – June 2022. Enroll today! For ten months, “Oakhearts” will be mentored in wilderness skills in order to foster a deep relationship to the landscape and our local ecosystem. You’ll learn how to walk into the forest and find the materials you need to make primitive tools & crafts and build a fire or a shelter. You’ll forge personal connections to the animals, plants, and trees that share your local habitat. In this program you will see that it’s not just people in stories or on TV who can make fire without matches, know which plants to eat and which to avoid, or tell you what animals live in a place by the tracks in the mud. You will come to understand that there is a large and diverse community of people bringing these skills into their lives and you are already invited to join in. Reconnecting with your inner wildness just takes some “dirt time” to practice your newfound skills, and to develop new habits that encourage curiosity and quiet observation. Our nature connection approach to wilderness skills does not focus on having the perfect gear, or the best tools and clothes. Our goal is to help you feel comfortable in nature by experiencing how many of our needs can be met in the woods rather than in the store. Read more about the schedule, locations, and topics covered in this course. Sign up with a friend and get 10% off! Contact [email protected] to find out more.