Program Info

Holistic Outdoor Education

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We are devoted to playful and holistic education; supporting children’s physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual development. We encourage healthy social connections and provide nature adventures that boost children's immune systems, confidence and overall well-being and resiliency.

Children learn through exploring nature and exercising their creativity and incredible minds, bodies, and spirits. We celebrate each unique being and help them grow more capable and confident!

We emphasize social-emotional awareness, kindness, and respect for self, others, and the natural world.

Nature Connection

Through unstructured play as well as guided activities, exploring nature and enduring the elements, participants gain strength to overcome physical, emotional, and intellectual challenges. They get to feel a sense of pride and belonging in being a part of protecting this magical forest. Children learn through play, real-world experiences, experimentation, making art, and gardening. We develop awareness through observing seasonal changes and celebrating the wheel of the year to connect to the cycles and wisdom of the wild. Our curriculum is nature-based and child-centered. We customize it to meet each child's unique needs with space and encouragement for them to follow their individual interests. All of our programs emphasize social-emotional skills, kindness, compassion, communication, gratitude, and respect for self, others, and the Earth.

Music Days

Tuesdays and Thursdays, in addition to our daily nature-based activities, such as imaginative exploration, creative expression, plant and animal identification, reading aloud, and storytelling, children develop their cognitive abilities and team building with learning how to make music together and build awareness of their feelings and bodies with mindfulness practices, games, songs, dance and yoga. Little Wild Ones are encouraged to cultivate compassion, courage, and collaborative innovation. Rhythm time, nature-based seasonal songs, creative stories, music, cooperative games, dance, and play make up the unique curriculum. Children in our programs recognize and celebrate their authentic expression, as they witness and help each other grow more capable, creative, and confident!

Yoga & Mindfulness

In all of our programs we incorporate team building games, kids' yoga, meditation, mindfulness practices, dance, music and expressive arts. We build essential life skills that children can carry with them into adulthood, including increased body awareness, strength and flexibility, self-expression, confidence, emotional awareness and regulation techniques, and important life and social skills.

This is done through a playful, emergent, and amusing exploration of the cycles of life, lessons from nature as our greatest teacher, supplemented with books, puppets enacting moral stories, dancing, yoga, music, and more!

Confidence & Teamwork

Through risky play and learning critical thinking skills in a cooperative environment with story-telling, group challenges, as well as self-directed activities and projects. Students are mentored to see their natural gifts, how they can contribute to the team, and feel seen and appreciated. Through practicing conflict resolution, compassionate communication and various social-emotional skill sets, children receive guidance in their interpersonal growth. They are also supported to grow in confidence and leadership skills by taking on real responsibilities on the mini-farm caring for animals and tending the gardens.

Creative Expression

We encourage children to explore their natural tendencies for creative expression and imaginative play! We provide ample time to explore various musical instruments, art projects, and creative activities to help develop your child's passions, interests, love for learning, and innate abilities.

We support the holistic health of our children through developing mindfulness, embodiment, and connection with their senses and the wonders and medicine in nature. Participants experience reduced stress and anxiety and greater mental, physical and emotional well-being.

We believe learning through experience and collaboration in nature supports the holistic growth of the individual. Our multidisciplinary educational approach allows students to learn & explore distinct subjects from various perspectives.