Deep Nature Connection
Transformational Journey for children and adults
The OSIN DNC Programs are
designed to reconnect you or your child with Nature. It offers the
opportunity to forge lasting personal relationships with all aspects of
the Natural World in a healthy, fun, and regenerative way. You will
deepen these relationships through core routines of awareness, tracking and bird language,
along with hands on skills and crafts. They will have fun getting wet, dirty,
muddy, cold, and tired as well as enjoy the
warm breezes and comfortable coastal climate.
All activities will be playful and safe while challenging
adults and children and stretching your ‘comfort zone’.
Some of the activities and routines:
Identifying hazards, locating edible and medicinal plants, recognizing animal track and sign, practicing primitive skills, like fire by friction, shelter building,
playing awareness games that awaken the senses, sharing stories, music,
interpreting the language of the birds,
and more....
What is Dirt Time?
We will explore the Land and the Natural World in a hands on experiential way. Developing and enhancing personal relationships with the elements of the land.
Along the way, we will discover our edges of awareness and knowledge
of place, as we expand our comfort zones in safe and playful ways .
“Dirt Time” looks like unstructured play, in the structured container of the
8 Shields Mentoring Model, often referred to as the "Invisible school"