Resources:
The Brain / Mind Relationship
The Nervous System
Building your Relationship with Nature
Wilderness Programs
Vision Quests
The Brain/ Mind RelationshipBuddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius
Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom publishes free bulletins at: http://www.wisebrain.org/tools/wise-brain-bulletin
The Nervous System
Building your Relationship with Nature
Wilderness Programs
We are lucky to live in an area where we have public lands and open space on all sides of us, and ample green space (parks, Boulder Creek) within the city itself. Additionally, there are numerous programs in Boulder that serve both children and adults who would like to learn more about connecting to nature. I have personal and professional experience with almost all of these programs, please feel free to contact me with questions!
Laughing Coyote Project
The Laughing Coyote Project serves both adults and children by teaching primitive skills and nature awareness. Children and teen programs include both after-school and summer camp, and adult classes are generally one-day weekend classes on topics such as felting, primitive fire making, and foraging for wild edibles.
Women’s Wilderness Institute
The Women’s Wilderness Institute’s mission is to create a better world by empowering women and girls through outdoor adventures. Girls’ programs run from day camps to two-week backpacking trips; women’s courses involve rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, and fly fishing. Scholarships available.
Feet on the Earth
Feet on the Earth nurtures deep nature awareness and connection in both children and adults through after-school programs, summer programs, and rites of passage. Feet on the Earth has a significant amount of programming dedicated to girls and women in particular.
Wilderness Awareness School and Kamana
Kamana is a home-study, do-at-your-own-pace series of nature awareness courses. The central practice in Kamana is the sit spot (or secret spot), a local place where you regularly practice sitting and observing quietly in nature. Kamana also guides you through journaling activities where you learn names, characteristics, and roles of plants, animals, and birds in your local area. This naturalist-based approach encourages deeper knowledge and understanding of the land on which we live.
Vision Quests
Animus Valley Institute
School of Lost Borders
Both of these programs serve teens and adults through facilitating and teaching ceremony, soulcraft, and rites of passage. One of their primary forms is the vision fast or vision quest: a 3 or 4 day solo in the wilderness, starting and ending with group councils and storytelling.
The Brain / Mind Relationship
The Nervous System
Building your Relationship with Nature
Wilderness Programs
Vision Quests
The Brain/ Mind RelationshipBuddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius
Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom publishes free bulletins at: http://www.wisebrain.org/tools/wise-brain-bulletin
The Nervous System
Building your Relationship with Nature
Wilderness Programs
We are lucky to live in an area where we have public lands and open space on all sides of us, and ample green space (parks, Boulder Creek) within the city itself. Additionally, there are numerous programs in Boulder that serve both children and adults who would like to learn more about connecting to nature. I have personal and professional experience with almost all of these programs, please feel free to contact me with questions!
Laughing Coyote Project
The Laughing Coyote Project serves both adults and children by teaching primitive skills and nature awareness. Children and teen programs include both after-school and summer camp, and adult classes are generally one-day weekend classes on topics such as felting, primitive fire making, and foraging for wild edibles.
Women’s Wilderness Institute
The Women’s Wilderness Institute’s mission is to create a better world by empowering women and girls through outdoor adventures. Girls’ programs run from day camps to two-week backpacking trips; women’s courses involve rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, and fly fishing. Scholarships available.
Feet on the Earth
Feet on the Earth nurtures deep nature awareness and connection in both children and adults through after-school programs, summer programs, and rites of passage. Feet on the Earth has a significant amount of programming dedicated to girls and women in particular.
Wilderness Awareness School and Kamana
Kamana is a home-study, do-at-your-own-pace series of nature awareness courses. The central practice in Kamana is the sit spot (or secret spot), a local place where you regularly practice sitting and observing quietly in nature. Kamana also guides you through journaling activities where you learn names, characteristics, and roles of plants, animals, and birds in your local area. This naturalist-based approach encourages deeper knowledge and understanding of the land on which we live.
Vision Quests
Animus Valley Institute
School of Lost Borders
Both of these programs serve teens and adults through facilitating and teaching ceremony, soulcraft, and rites of passage. One of their primary forms is the vision fast or vision quest: a 3 or 4 day solo in the wilderness, starting and ending with group councils and storytelling.