Yearlong Registration Opening Apr 29 for Current Families and May 6 for New Families
We are excited to offer a pilot blended learning opportunity for learners of grades 4-7. Alongside Fianna lead instructor, Allie Livesey, now a BC certified teacher, students will practice our classic core routines of nature school in combination with classroom time to support study of literacy and numeracy, integrating their nature-based learning.
This is a monthly empowerment program designed to cultivate a deep connection between girls and the natural world whilst nurturing their personal growth and self-awareness as young women.
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 6/7 kids.
Forest program for kids ages 4-7 and 8-12 in the village of Cumberland
A weekly nature and survival skills program for teens. Ages 12-17
Farm programs for kids ages 4-7 and 8-12. Weekly and monthly options. Herbalism program for ages 10-14.
Forest programs for kids ages 7-12 at the awesome Seal Bay Nature Reserve. Weekly and monthly options.
Yearlong nature and farm programs for kids ages 4-7 and 8-12.
Weekly forest programs for kids ages 4-7 and 8-12 at Willingdon Beach Park.
To view a complete list of our 2024/25 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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