Sometimes we need a reminder that we are Human Beings, Forms of the Earth
Nature Connection Inside and Out
Connecting People with Themselves
Each Other
And the Natural World
Deep Nature Connection ~ Transformational Journey
The OSIN DNC Programs are designed to reconnect you and 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.
We 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’.
Here is just some of what your child will experience on our adventures: Competence and awareness building around safety, and hazards in nature. Confidence building experiences, deepened communication skills, teamwork and collaboration, inner strength and self worth.
Tree climbing, rock hopping, tide pooling, general mucking around and mystery solving. Tracking animals, and finding them, setting trail cameras, making track casts, learning where animals live, what they eat, what eats them, where animals hide from people.
Discovering what plants you can and cannot eat, and what plants can be used for medicine and first aid. Wandering and timeless exploration in forest and field. Music, singing and storytelling.
Survival Skills such as, shelter-building, primitive fire-making and other ‘earth living skills. ’River, creek, pond and ocean exploration.
Listening for and understanding the language of the birds, and the forest, as all the other animals do. Lots of Games, mimicking animals, hide and seek, camouflage. Running, hiking, play and laughter
Awareness of natural cycles such as, seasonal changes, decomposition, phases of the moon, weather etc. 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"