Coyote Mentoring
20 Clock Hours available
for teachers
The Coyote Mentoring weekend is a fantastic introduction to the basic
principles of our nature-based educational approach. It is designed
for educators, parents, and anyone interested in significantly expanding
their teaching repertoire and mentoring skills.
This course provides the foundational tools for crafting powerful experiences of learning and deep connections with the natural world for your students, family, employees, or even yourself. We invite you to join us as we re-discover the sense of wonder for nature’s mysteries that all children share. (See background and more information for educators)
Register for Coyote Mentoring
| Add to Cart | Ages Adult $275 Food and camping included. April 9-11, 2010 4:30pm Friday-4pm Sunday Duvall, WA Airport shuttle available. |
| Add to Cart | Ages Adult $275 Food and camping included. July 30-Aug. 1, 2010 4:30pm Friday-4pm Sunday Duvall, WA Airport shuttle available. |
Lead Instructor Biography
Nate
Summers: Nate coordinates the Anake
Leadership Program, and serves as a Core Instructor for the Anake
Outdoor School. He has been mentoring adults and youth in the outdoors
since 1995. Nate's journey with ancient living skills started as a teenager
at the Ancient Lifeways Institute in Southern Illinois. This exposure
to stone age living at a young age sparked a life-long interest in anthropology,
hunter-gatherer lifestyles, and indigenous cultures. In the past, Nate
has served as both Youth Programs Director and Adult Programs Director
for Wilderness Awareness School, and has worked with such organizations
as King County Parks and Recreation, Seattle Parks Department, and Outdoor
Connections/WildLore. He is the founder of
Pathfinder Outdoor School, an internal martial arts enthusiast, a
practitioner of Chinese Medicine, and a dad.
Sol
Marie Doran is a Coordinator & Lead Instructor at Wednesday and Friday Roots and Wings (ages 4-6) and Lead Instructor at Thursday Coyotes (ages 10-12). In the summer, she also teaches at various teen and adult programs, including the Art of Mentoring. She has been working with children since 1997 and has been mentoring with the Wilderness Awareness School methodology since 2002. She came to Wilderness Awareness School in 2004 from southern California, where she worked with Wilderness Youth Project, ran an early childhood outdoor program, and earned a B.S. in Ecology. She is finishing her last Kamana field pack (naturalist studies), is a 2-time Tracking Intensive graduate, has trained in herbalism at Ravencroft, and has studied since 2008 with Kim Scanlon on various arts, including modern cultural development, leadership, emotions (especially cultural griefwork), pleasure in life, and beauty.
About Coyote Mentoring
(especially helpful for Educators)
Education used to be a very holistic endeavor--teachers and educators were charged with the development of young people into fully responsible adults. Many educators today, however, overwhelmed with large class sizes and increasing lists of information that must be covered, cannot devote much attention or energy to the holistic development of their students. Ironically, lack of attention to the overall development of students makes it much harder to teach even the basics, because students are less prepared to receive information, and much less engaged with the learning process.
Coyote Mentoring is a distinctive and highly effective educational approach developed by Jon Young and Wilderness Awareness School over the past 25 years that uses children’s innate enthusiasm for the natural world as a context to actively engage them in the learning process. This approach develops the capacities of students for learning, problem solving, and full expression, and re-awakens their natural sense of wonder.
Through a combination of lecture, storytelling, discussions, group activities, and peer teaching sessions, participants will learn...
- The importance of heightened awareness in students, and how it relates to critical thinking and problem solving.
- How to use symbol and metaphor to create a powerful educational environment.
- The role of brain patterning, and the natural flow of the human learning process.
- How stories, song and other artistic expressions open a doorway to authentic student growth.
- Essential routines found throughout the world that ground students in their senses and expand awareness.
Learning Outcomes As a result of taking this course, participants will...
- Experience for themselves how powerful the "cultural context" is in education.
- Take home powerful images and metaphors to cultivate a supportive learning environment in their classrooms.
- Acquire concepts to facilitate development of their student's full potentials.
- Learn how to use stories and storytelling as an educational tool
- Understand the primary teaching styles of the Coyote Mentoring approach and how to appropriately utilize them when working with students.
Note The Coyote Mentoring approach is appropriate to all educators, but will be especially helpful for school teachers and outdoor educators with a large amount of contact time with their students.
Clock Hours available!
Wilderness Awareness School is pleased to offer clock hours
for interested Coyote Mentoring participants through the Puget Sound
Educational Service District. 20 clock hours are available for this
weekend class. You must inform us of your intent prior to
the course – a form will be provided with your letter of confirmation.
Clock hours details:
Individuals will receive clock hour materials during the class. Payments
for clock hours are to be made at the end of the class by check, Visa
or Mastercard. Fees for clock hours are $2.00 per clock hour, (therefore
the cost is $40 for 20 clock hours at Coyote Mentoring).
