Coyote Mentoring

Organizer : Wilderness Awareness School

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About this Course

For Everybody

The Coyote Mentoring Weekend is a fantastic introduction to the basic principles of our nature-based educational approach. It is designed for educators, parents, and anyone interested in significantly expanding their teaching repertoire and mentoring skills. This course provides the foundational tools for crafting powerful learning experiences and deep connections with the natural world for your students, family, employees, or even yourself. We invite you to join us as we re-discover the sense of wonder for nature’s mysteries that all children share.

Contents

What’s Covered?

Through a combination of engaging lectures, storytelling, discussions, group activities, and peer teaching sessions, you will learn:

  • The importance of heightened awareness in students and how it relates to critical thinking and problem-solving.
  • How to use symbols and metaphors to create a powerful educational environment.
  • The role of brain patterning and the natural flow of the human learning process.
  • How stories, songs, and other artistic expressions open a doorway to authentic student growth.
  • Essential routines found throughout the world that ground students in their senses and expand awareness.

Learning Outcomes

As a result of taking this course, participants will:

  • Experience for themselves how powerful the “cultural context” is in education.
  • Take home powerful images and metaphors to cultivate a supportive learning environment in their classrooms.
  • Acquire concepts to facilitate the development of their students’ full potential.
  • Learn how to use stories and storytelling as an educational tool.
  • Understand the primary teaching styles of the Coyote Mentoring approach and how to appropriately utilize them when working with students.


Structure

Weekend class

Prerequisites

None

Packing List

Packing List is online

Board & Overnight

Tent camping on our land. All food is provided. 

Teachers

Coyote Mentoring

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