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Youth Programs: Yearlong

Fianna Wilderness School is offering forest and farm programs for kids throughout the mid-island and on Gabriola Island. Our programs are for kids ages 4-6 and 7-12. We offer yearlong nature-based mentorship in the 8-Shields model, an approach to education that was developed by Jon Young at the Wilderness Awareness School. The 8-shields “Coyote Mentoring” approach formalizes the child-led, experiential schooling methods apparent in nature-based cultures. This approach cultivates our 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.

Your kids will learn 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 gratitude, circle sharing, singing, storytelling,  mindful “sit spots”, and mentoring of each other, they will experience and incorporate a nature-connected culture, grounded in relationships of respect and reciprocity. 


We are committed to low student/staff ratios for quality mentoring of your kids. Our programs have a ratio of 1 staff for every 6 kids.

Making Multiple Registrations?

To view a complete list of our  2022/23 Programs, through our registration portal, click on the link below. 


If you find that the program is full, please join our waitlist. If we get enough kids on the waitlist, we will attempt to add an instructor and open up another group. Please sign up to make this happen.

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Yearlong Programs for 2022/23

Cumberland

Town of Comox - Seal Bay

Comox Valley - Teens

Forest program for kids ages 4-6 and 7-12 in the village of Cumberland

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Comox Valley - Teens

Town of Comox - Seal Bay

Comox Valley - Teens

A weekly nature and survival skills program for teens. Ages 13-18

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Town of Comox - Seal Bay

Town of Comox - Seal Bay

Town of Comox - Seal Bay

Forest programs for kids ages 4-6 and 7-12 at the awesome Seal Bay Nature Reserve

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Fianna Farms

Gabriola Island

Town of Comox - Seal Bay

Weekly and monthly farm programs offered at three different farms in the lovely Comox Valley

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Gabriola Island

Gabriola Island

Gabriola Island

Yearlong nature and farm programs for kids ages 4-7 and 8-12

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Powell River

Gabriola Island

Gabriola Island

Weekly forest adventure programs for kids ages 4-6 and 7-12

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Horizons - Mainland

Horizons - Mainland

Horizons - Mainland

Horizons - a monthly adventure program for youth ages 12-15.

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Sunshine Coast

Horizons - Mainland

Horizons - Mainland

Monthly forest and backcountry programs for youth around the Sunshine Coast

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Campbell River

Horizons - Mainland

Campbell River

Weekly forest programs for kids ages 

4-6 and 7-12

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