Moon School 2024-2025

Responsable : danielle@theguelphoutdoorschool.com

Lieu : GOS Stone Road Site | 733 Stone Rd E, ON , Guelph, ON, N1L 1B8

Description :

Each Moon School session is crafted to reflect what is emerging on the landscape in the changing seasons. Together we'll build naturalist skills like plant and tree identification and animal tracking, and practice ancestral skills like sensory awareness, fire-making, natural crafts, medicine-making and storytelling. At Moon School we learn in community through games, skills, conversation, song, and timeless exploration of thickets and riverbanks, forests and fields.

Now in its 5th year, Moon School is hosted by instructors Danielle Gehl Hagel and byron murray. We are nature nerds, artists, writers, folk ecologists and lovers of the Eramosa River valley and the complex web of floral, faunal and fungal relationships that make their homes here.  We intend Moon School to be an inclusive, anti-oppressive space, and are attentive to the challenges inherent in exploring interconnection and right relationship as white settlers on stolen land. 

Moon School runs in the late afternoon and early evening, intentionally inhabiting the liminal space  between day and dusk (and night in the darkest times of the year), creating a unique opportunity for firelit conversation and sensory awareness. No other program at GOS is like it. 

Moon School consists of 13 sessions or a full lunar year. We meet one Sunday a month, rain or shine, from 3-7pm. 

A typical Moon School session might include…

• Exploring riverbanks, meadows, trails and forests, engaging with the land through the changing seasons

• Using field guides to identify plants, trees and animal track and signs 

• Focused naturalist study of topics like bird language, botany, geology and their interconnections

• Engaging with local plants by tasting teas and preparing wild foods and medicines

• Games and sensory awareness activities to get us in our bodies 

• Fireside discussion of nature-based writing that moves us

Moon School is for those looking for…

• An approach to nature connection that values ancestral (re)connection, decolonization, and reciprocal relationship with the other-than-human world

• Hands-on, embodied learning in a small group setting

• A place to learn about the land through a lens of ecological and social justice
   

2024-2025 Program Dates

May 26, 2024
June 23, 2024
July 21, 2024
August 18, 2024
September 15, 2024
October 20, 2024
November 17, 2024
December 15, 2024
Janurary 12, 2025
February 9, 2025
March 16, 2025

 

Disponibles : Disponible

Prix : 936,00 $ Taxes en sus

Âge requis : 18+ au jour de l'activité

Étiquettes : Adult Workshop

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