Join Fianna for a week of wild games, skills, stories and challenges. Our fun-packed camps offer a different adventure every day, supporting curiosity and connection, guiding young people into a sense of belonging with the forests and beaches of our home.
Dear Powell River Families. We are not running summer camps this year, but we will be back in Sept with lots of yearlong programs for your kids. Please check out our Yearlong Section for more info.
Survival Camp
Join Fianna for an awesome adventure into the art of surviving in the wilderness. We will explore the four essentials for survival: shelter, fire, water, food. These skills will be incorporated into games, stories, and activities that engage our passions and nourish our aliveness.
Where:
Willingdon Beach
Day and Time:
TBA
9am - 1pm (4-7 yr olds)
9am – 3pm (8-12 yr olds)
Ages:
4-6 and 7-12
Cost:
$198 (4-6 yr olds)
$290 (7-12 yr olds)
REGISTRATION OPENS IN LATE SPRING
Wild Nature
Fianna instructors will draw on the innate sense of adventure and wild imagination of the group. We will explore our animal nature and our capacity to be both playful and attentive while we move through the forest and coastline. This will be an extravaganza of nature connection, forest and beach games, and epic explorations.
Where:
Willingdon Beach
Day and Time:
TBA
9am - 1pm (4-7 yr olds)
9am – 3pm (8-12 yr olds)
Ages:
4-6 and 7-12
Cost:
$160 (4-6 yr olds)
$232 (7-12 yr olds)
REGISTRATION OPENS IN LATE SPRING
FULL INFO:
Campers will spend some of the day in a multi-age group, and some of it in smaller groups (ages 4-6, and ages 7-12). They will learn (without even realizing!) about responsible harvesting, medicinal and food plants, natural materials, wild crafting, navigation, tracking and stalking, bird language, ancestral heritage and local ecology. With strong core routines of play, gratitude, circle sharing, singing, storytelling, observing, inquiring, and mentoring each other, we cultivate a nature-connected, community-minded group culture, grounded in relationships of respect and reciprocity.
The 8 Shields “Coyote Mentoring” approach we use was developed by Jon Young at the Wilderness Awareness School, formalizing the child-led, experiential schooling methods apparent in nature-based cultures. This approach focues on connection: cultivating children’s curiosity and innate wisdom, guiding them into personal and collective learning experiences that reveal their gifts and support their development towards healthy maturity and wholeness.
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