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Visual Calendar of Courses. Adult & Family Training Camp Weeks (for adults, teens with prereqs) Fall-Spring Class Series (for adults and teens) Summer Weekend Stayovers (for youth and families) ----------- Summer Residential Intensives: Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship Permaculture Pioneer Facilitators Program Recreational Administration Internship Fall-Spring Residential Intensives: Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey Permaculture Pioneer Case Study Future Scout Tracking Intensive Wild Healers Herbal Exploration Seasonal Primitive Skills Preparation leading to the Stone Age Living Experience Cool Stuff • Music & Stories Nourishment • Our Book Series Camp Locator Map & Driving Directions CONFIDENTIALITY: Wolf Camp was voted 1 of 2 Best Camps in the Northwest Family News Reader's Poll of 2001, the only year they ran a poll, and we were also chosen as one of the five "best camps ever" by YM Magazine in its March 2003 issue. |
Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey 2009-10Scroll Down or Click for Specifics: • Program Dates, Deadlines, Prerequisites; Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey Dates: August 17, 2009 - August 22, 2010 with optional extension to October 31, 2010, has the prerequisite of successful completion of any of our summer residential intensives. We have availability for 4 adults, or teens with parental support, in this program for 2009-10, so reserve your spot by applying right away. Registration Deadlines: Apply simultaneously for the Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey and for any of our summer residential intensives (Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship, Permaculture Pioneer Facilitators Program, Recreational Administrative Internship, or the Youth Mentoring CIT Program for ages 13-17) and the total cost will be $3,000. If you successfully complete a summer residential intensive, there is no extra fee for the fall-spring Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey, except for 10 hrs/wk work trade while living on campus. In addition, if you have already graduated from earth skills courses in the past, then you will receive a discount on your fees. During fall-spring, there are some travel and food expenses, required health insurance, and optional fees for participation in external earth skills gatherings. The Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey is open to adults, and to teens with parental support. The program focuses on participation in four week-long group learning experiences in the fall, eight classes which run 9-5 on Mondays & Thursdays in the fall and eight classes which run 9-5 on Mondays & Fridays in the spring, at least six half-day individual mentoring sessions with your program facilitator, thirty-eight independent study weeks at camp (16 required, 22 optional) plus optional participation at any of the other courses in which space remains available during the autumn through spring. Note taking (or tape recording) during every class is required, along with weekly blogging. Attendance at earth skills gatherings taking place around the country are optional, travel expenses are shared, and tuition for those are at your own expense. Your independent study coursework follows the field exercises in Wolf Journey Parts 1-4. The volunteer work you do over the summer is the reason that you may complimentarily attend any of the courses we offer in the fall and spring for as long as your relationship to the Wolf Camp community remains healthy and happy. Of course whenever living on campus between fall and spring, we all contribute at least 10 hrs/wk work trade, and we cover our own travel and some food expenses, required health insurance, and fees for participation in external courses. And finally, graduates become eligible to receive some of the highest teaching salaries available anywhere in the outdoor educational field as a Wolf Camp instructor, though hiring is dependent on enrollment and the ongoing development of your skills. Goals of the Trackers Training In addition to learning in-depth earth skills during all the courses we offer that you want to attend throughout the year, there are 3 main objectives for this program: • Live an ultimate naturalist lifestyle, based on your rhythms and the rhythms of our micro-climate and bio-region. You will help develop a wall-size naturalist mentoring internship calendar to document the best times for us to harvest wild resources and cultivate the land, while developing your own personal medicine wheel of health. This naturalist lifestyle includes a daily routine of visiting your secret place, making primitive fire, working on shelter, taking care of yourself, caretaking the land, doing some service work, and of course, working on an earth skills craft. • Study the Wolf Journey or similar curriculum, and work toward a certification in your chosen area of specialization within the field of earth skills. You can set your own goals here, and live as close to the land as you choose: in one of our earth lodges, in a tent, yurt, or cabin, depending on space, while studying alongside participants in the Wild Healers Herbal Exploration, the Future Scout Trackers Training, the Seasonal Primitive Skills Preparation, and the Permaculture Pioneer Case Study. • Help caretake the land, lake, farm and earth skills facilities for as many seasons as you choose to remain here, in an effort to make Wolf Camp as healthy, self-sufficient, sustainable, abundant and beautiful a place as possible. You graduate from the program when you have completed all our courses and reached the learning objectives you set at the start of your program. No matter your previous experience, you will be expected to fully participate in every possible training opportunity to push your skills to a higher level of excellence, although your health, including rest and rejuvenation, will be the priority. The goal is to always develop ourselves into better and better naturalist mentors. Specialty Skills Learned Experiential Skills Introduced Earth Skills Educational Skills Schedule (see one of the summer cooperative intensives pages for your schedule from June-August which must be completed before embarking on the Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey schedule) Take a look at our Calendar for a visual perspective, and click on Training Camp Weeks for descriptions of initial courses. International Students: The INS just added some extra hurdles, so please inquire as to the latest status on obtaining a visa for study with us. Your summer volunteer work during our youth camp season, though the best education in its own right, also results in the following benefits: The schedule for the fall-spring Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey runs from August 17, 2009 - August 22, 2010 with optional extension to October 31, 2010. Our program is designed for you to arrive at Wolf Camp in May or June, receive intensive training during summer camps, then study Wolf Journey field exercises at your study site through the fall, winter and spring, plus share your skills with new students in your second summer. In reality, you are welcome to extend your Naturalist Survey to last as long as you wish, staying until it is manifest, for as long as your relationship with the Wolf Camp community remains healthy and happy. Again, there is no fee required for the following schedule as long as you successfully completed one of the summer cooperative residential intensives, and you continue to contribute 10 hrs/wk work trade in exchange for living at camp. Travel and some food expenses, along with your health insurance and care, are your own responsibility, as are fees for optional participation in external training courses which we may attend together • August 17-23 Attend and assist with the GeoTRIP overnight youth camp, accomplishing a key goal of overviewing the many wonderous bioregions in our state. • Monday, Sept 7: Wolf Journey Reflections, Wilderness Medicine & Mushrooms is the core class of your program. • Sept 12-19: You can choose to study Wolf Journey Field Exercises and Projects in exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade, or travel with us to the Rabbitstick primitive skills rendezvous at your own expense. • Monday, Sept 29: Wolf Journey Reflections, Wilderness Medicine & Mushrooms is the core class of your program. • October 3-12: You can choose to study Wolf Journey Field Exercises and Projects in exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade, or travel to the Falling Leaves Rendezvous with us at your own expense. • Monday, Oct 20: Wolf Journey Reflections, Wilderness Medicine & Mushrooms is the core class of your program. • October 25-26 You can complimentarily attend our 12th Annual Harvest Party for alumni, friends and family. • Nov 17 - Dec 19: Optional independent study weeks to further manifest your case study and continue with the Wolf Journey Field Exercises and Projects in exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade when living on campus. • March 6-8: Cooperative Intensives Reorientation, with tentative trip to the Mountain Man Rendezvous here in Monroe at your own expense. • Monday, March 9: Wolf Journey Reflections and the Hidden Wilderness is the core class of your program. • March 16-20: In exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade, participate in the following optional events: Group meeting and mentoring on Monday; St. Patrick's Day party on Tuesday; rebuilding the medicine lodge on Wednesday, equinox sweat on Thursday and equinox wandering day on Friday. • Monday, March 30: Wolf Journey Reflections and the Hidden Wilderness is the core class of your program. • April 4-12: Optional independent study week to further manifest your case study and continue with the Wolf Journey Field Exercises and Projects in exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade when living on campus. • Monday, April 20: Wolf Journey Reflections and the Hidden Wilderness is the core class of your program. • April 25 - May 3: Study the Wolf Journey Field Exercises and Projects in exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade, and schedule a half day mentoring session with your program facilitator. • Monday, May 4: Wolf Journey Reflections and the Hidden Wilderness is the core class of your program. • May 9-18: Optional week to further manifest your case study and continue with the Wolf Journey Field Exercises and Projects in exchange for 10 hrs/wk work trade • Tuesday, May 26: Herbal Gardening and Seashore Wildcrafting optional class if space remains available. • June 13 - July 4: Start putting your skills to the test during the Earth Skills Proficiency Challenge and complete a review of your safety procedures during the following two adult training weeks. Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey History and where graduates are now: Nikki was the first Wolf Camp apprentice in 2000, before it was an official program, after attending our adult classes in 1999. She became the most advanced student we ever had at Wolf Camp and a lead instructor in 2001. She is the most advanced student we have had who progressed through the Wolf Journey curriculum. In 2004, she went on sabbatical to test her primitive living and survival skills in the western wilderness for a couple years. Click here for a Written Message from Nikki that will blow your mind. Click Here if you would like to listed to an Audo Recorded Greeting from Nikki for which you may need the free RealOne Player if it's not already installed in your system, and there is also an Audio Recorded Camp Greeting from Chris for you to listen to if you like as well. I hesitate to make list of the people have shared their experiences with the Wolf Journey curriculum since I began writing it in 1998. Each experience has been unique, and I am now planning to post all the field exercises online, so I can't imagine how many will use Wolf Journey as a guide to unveiling the secrets of nature in the future. Some just read it, while others whip through the field exercises with incredible depth. I hope you proceed through it at a steady and fulfilling pace, and it always excites me to share the experiences with the few who get to do this right here on the Wolf Camp property. I'm looking forward to a personal tour of your chosen study site after you arrive! - Chris Here's what Scott had to say after a year at Wolf Camp: I came here wanting to learn new Earth Skills. I got them. I came here wanting to help children learn them and to love nature as I did. I helped them. I came here seeking a community of like-minded people who loved the earth and wanted to live with her, not on her. When I arrived, these people were there, smiling. This year my teaching style emerged thanks to the many teachers and apprentices that I've worked with at Wolf Camp. I have gained solid skills in relating to students as well as organizing class schedules based on age groups and the natural progression of a lesson. My influences were many but they all started back in training with (visiting waldorf teacher) Janet Jewell. Janet gave me a clearer understanding that different aged children have totally different needs, from the youngest needing simple stories and experience without nagging questions, to the oldest who need autonomy and reason for what they do plus exciting stories of the teacher's adventures. Later I began to learn from Carol how to keep a class in control by constant learning and loving discipline. Carol's classes also opened me to the spiritual side in Wolf Camp and how it can seamlessly integrate itself into the classes if the students are ready. After Carol my attention was drawn to Ryan and Krista who gave me both the framework to teach daycamps and how to deal with a younger, more rambunctious age group. Once again, I saw a loving sternness and keeping everyone on task by keeping the tasks coming. Later I studied with Kate who showed me how perfection means demanding perfect practice and perfect mistakes, or rather by learning everything that was missing to lead to a mistake. Kate also taught me something that I feel is one of Chris' main strategies. They taught me to have a bag of tricks or extra prepped activities ready on hand or in mind to do when things go wrong like rain, or trees blocking the road. Application Process for the Wolf Journey Naturalist Survey To apply, first call Chris Chisholm at 360-799-1997 or 360-319-6892, and send him a short initial email with your full name, address, phone numbers, and specific interest. When you are ready to apply, begin by choosing one of the following summer residential intensives, and follow the application directions found at these links: • Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship This is a definitely the ultimate way of life in my opinion - the life of a naturalist - and your participation in nature will help make the Wolf Camp community, as well as the earth, an even greater place. Looking forward to sharing it with you! - Chris |
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Employment: We only need instructors with experience running camps and teaching in the field of Earth Skills, including Permaculture, Tracking, Primitive Artisanry, Advanced Herbalism, or Wilderness EMT training with real outdoor survival practice. If you would like experience as a teacher and learn skills of the Naturalist, Tracker, Herbalist, Scout, Hunter, Artisan, or Permaculture Pioneer, apply to become an instructor through our Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship. SITE MAP This site is updated often, so be sure to tell us if you find a missing link, erroneous information or other problem. Thanks! |
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