It is a central mission to connect humans with the more than human world in multiple ways.
You can incorporate skills into puzzle and game experiences or
we offer engaging guided lessons & workshops, guest lectures, tutoring, and courses in outdoor skills and foraged crafts, science, nature connection, game & puzzle design, and more!
We also offer professional development workshops, seminars, and lectures for instructors interested in exploring new perspectives in education.
Workshops & Classes
Wilderness & Survival Skills
FIRE BUILDING
Build skills in friction fire and an appreciation for the attention required to generate a spark, a coal, or a flame using match, flint and steel, hand drills, and bow drills.
SHELTER BUILDING
Learn how to build tarp shelters, debris huts, and lean-to shelters. Learn about the basics of sustainable forest harvesting and the process of weather and waterproofing.
ARCHERY & STEALTH
Challenge your dexterity in stealth and build your skills and accuracy in archery or axe throwing.
FORAGED CRAFTS
Learn to make new things from your environment: wood, needle, clay, pigment, and more.
Learn new tools or how to use old ones in new ways.
Science & Nature Connection
ANIMAL TRACKS
Take private or group lessons on how to identify animal tracks & behavior!
Interact with specimens and learn about evolution and comparative anatomy!
Learn about our role in natural history & ecology!
PLANT WALKS
Learn to identify native and invasive plants in our region!
Understand their natural history and medicinal & edible uses!
Make your own field guides!
We can bring the education to you, lead a guided hike, or run interactive educational games!
Tutoring
We offer engaging supplemental tutoring
in science, math, language arts, social studies, executive functioning, and more
both in person or online
for all ages
at $50/hour.
For students that benefit from a more interactive instruction to improve understanding and motivation in foundational conceptual areas.
Professional Development
COURSE ON GAME AND PUZZLE-BASED PEDAGOGY
Games and Puzzles as Educational Worldbuilding (Crow's Path and Castleton University, Vermont, July 10-14, 2023) - SYLLABUS
INVITED TALKS ON OUTDOOR IMMERSIVE LEARNING
Scaffolding Outdoor Learning for All K-8 Developmental Stages, Standards, and Environmental Access (Independent Schools Association of the Central States, March 2022)
Outdoor Learning and Growth Mindset (Independent Schools Association of the Central States, October 2021)
