TrackersVILLAGE Immersion Fall 2008-Spring 2008
Ages ADULT
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A monthly Immersion Program for those who want to create a new way of sustainability.
The TrackersVILLAGE Immersion program is for educators and individuals dedicated to learning wilderness skills and developing social and mentoring technologies in their community. It features our Nature of Teams model, a cutting edge tool for collaboration, community and other facets of hunter-gatherer awareness.
The weekend and evening format makes it simple to participate in this thorough and intensive series. Our year begins with the Nature of the Village week program where participants gain a foundation to become ambassadors for healthy village life. From there you journey through our ReWild Guide to develop the eye, mind and heart of the tracker. One night a week you meet your cohort for conversation and storytelling, along with the optional SHIFT: bio-regional martial arts and fitness. We also meet monthly, for weekends of wilderness skills, awareness and our Nature of Teams model. Finally, you have the option of serving as mentor for a week at TrackersNW summer camps 2009.
Schedule Weekends begin each Friday evening
Week Long Nature of the Village Week Long, Sept 7-13, 2008
Weekend 1 Harvester, Oct 17-19, 2008
Weekend 2 TrackingTEAMS, Nov 7-9, 2008
Weekend 3 Storyteller, Jan 9-11, 2009
Weekend 4 Survival Skills, Feb 6-8, 2009
Weekend 5 Edible Plants, Mar 6-8, 2009
Weekend 6 Gatherer, April 10-12, 2009
Weekend 7 Rites of Passage, May 8-10, 2009
Evenings SHIFT Training either Monday or Thursday nights. Story night one night a week.
Teams: The New Foundation
For healthy community and families we need to learn how to give and receive support in the most efficient way possible. This does not mean always sacrificing or comprising, it means using energetic new tools of communication and organization to find more efficient ways of getting the necessary work done.
The "Nature of Teams" model is our starting point. You then make it your own. We learn how meeting the core needs of the individual is a priority for survival. Shelter, water, fire and food are four elements essential before we can even begin to have a conversation about other more abstract ideals. We look to one another less as mentors and more as collaborators. Our children even benefit from this new level of quality; trusted with more responsibility that successfully contributes to the health of the village, youth are empowered to be more competent and grow into truly powerful caretakers for their families.
Laughter and Tragedy: The New Story
Skill building games for improv and theater help build your ability to shake off the stilted, passive and dull communication found in many "consensus processes". We learn that every emotion is critical for "peacemaking". Like a large Italian family or a rowdy Irish clan we give ourselves the freedom to be expressive and make communication an almost theatrical and celebratory experience, one endowed with laughter and intense creativity and clarity.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Old Way of the Old Steward
How hunter-gatherers connected to the land is a wealth of stories so diverse that elude full and complete text on the subject. They held a constant conversation and court with the deer, the nettle and the oaks. The hunter tracked and listened. The wapato gatherer foraged attentively. Elders are people who saw the land growing over 80 years while relying on the even older stories of their own grandmother or grandfather to shape their own unique choices. There was never a static answer, humans are capable of constantly and naturally mapping their landscape with questions of how we can create healthier and richer relationships. At the core of this is tracking, mapping of both individuals and their relationships in systems. Awareness of our place is often seen as the most relevant survival skill for now and many generations to come.
Wild Health: Happy People
Doctors and healers are useful yet the regard for ones own health is even more critical. Through SHIFT, our bioregional martial art, we are empowered to think about nutrition and health not only for ourselves but for our children. We discover that there is no distinction between the health of our environment and the health of our bodies. We move like we are really alive, our hands start to form callouses and show the lines of life. This is how we reclaim adventure from television and the media, bringing a zest for life back into the day to day.
Family, Food and the Land: The Table and Sitting Down Together
Our old men- and women-gardeners are tenders of this tradition. The cutting edge of horticulture is taking up the baton. We will challenge what is commonly thought of as "gardening or permaculture" using tracking and systems mapping with a 'rewilding' mind to reshape a more holistic and functional view of stewardship. This is about the fruition driving the design, the celebration of the table becoming a reminder and result of the unending depth of relationships.
The Vision
Being able to take your choices and begin to grasp what they mean for the generations now and into the future involves the weight and breadth of the past. This is where our Village really comes to life and looks beyond itself as individuals and we begin to truly celebrate why we are here. Sitting at the core of the Nature of the Village, we find the question: how does every choice and every action affect the future? Join us and we will discover the answer to together.
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