The Guelph Outdoor School
Transformative full nature immersion and mentorship programs for a generation of kids who are compassionate, resilient, service-oriented, and joyful.
Start date: Monday, September 9 2019.
Schedule:
On Monday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
From 9/9/2019 until 6/15/2020
GOS Stone Road Site
Resource person: Chris Green (519) 400 - 9507
Location: GOS Stone Road Site | 733 Stone Rd E, ON , Guelph, ON, N1L 1B8
Description:
Designed for, but not limited to the home school community.
Cedar Grove is full outdoor immersion throughout the year and changing seasons. The program delivers invisible learning and healthy development through responsive mentorship, sensory awareness games, bushcraft skills & self-sufficiency challenges, as well as timeless journeying among surrounding swamps, waterways, cedar groves, open fields, hardwood stands, and rocky outcroppings. Key moments and discoveries are integrated into group learning and culture through well placed questions, pouring over field guides, sketching, stories, mapping, and repeat visits to best locations.
As with all Guelph Outdoor School programs, Cedar Grove balances the practical skills of self-sufficiency with the so-called 'soft skills' of careful listening and using best words, of co-operation, gratitude and sharing stories of the day.
Cedar Grove Full Year features opportunity for more long term projects and better reflects our commitment to sustained mentoring relationships. Professional facilitators have an increased opportunity to identify areas for growth and development for the individual and group. Our model seeks to foster the character attributes of resilient, capable, and service minded people. Our daily work promotes Quiet Mind, Common Sense, Aliveness and Agility, Inquisitive Focus, Caring and Tending, Service to Community, Awe and Reverence, and Self-Sufficiency. The learning experience is dynamic, emergent, multi-sensory and exciting. The emphasis is on connection before facts, questions as much as answers, wonder as much as knowledge.
Mandatory membership(s):
- Annual Membership
Please note that there is no class on the following date(s):
- Monday, October 14, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Monday, December 23, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Monday, December 30, 2019 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Monday, February 17, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Monday, March 16, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Monday, April 13, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Monday, May 18, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Available: Full
Price: $0.00 Taxes not included
Required age: 7 - 12 on the day of the activity
Notes: Cedar Grove is a Full Year Commitment. It is this level of commitment that allows us to deliver this great option, with many benefits: - Sustained & Long Term Mentorship Relationships - Extended & Refined Projects - A rich, multi-season experience of our wild space - Our most cost effective program. - Consistency & group cohesion As such, we require that registration with Cedar Grove be understood as a commitment to the full year and full fee.
Tags: Cedargrove Weekly Kids
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