Wild Village Camp
9am - 3pm
Ages 5 - 8
Session 1: July 1st - 3rd
Tuesday - Thursday (3 days)
$200 (Sliding scale $170 - $230)
Session 2: July 7th - July 11
Monday - Friday
$335 (Sliding scale $305 - $360)
WILD VILLAGE CAMP: Let your young coyotes run wild for a week packed with adventure, intimate connection to nature, and fun new friends. Guides will introduce them to the wilds of the forest, learning awareness skills, plants, animals, birds, and ecology. We’ll play games to test their agility, stealth and capacity for fun that will have them howling for more. Our relationship with the natural world will grow though direct experience of fire building, wildlife tracking, navigation, shelter building and other wilderness skills. All this while building lifelong skills like teamwork, curiosity, adventure, resilience, connection, and more.
This program explores...
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Interactive nature games
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Unstructured free play
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Hands on exploration
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Wilderness skills like fire building, animal tracking, navigation, wild edible plants
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Inquiry based learning
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Fueling childhood passions
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Plant and animal basics
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Storytelling and songs
White Rocks Immersion
Ages 5 - 8
Fall Session
Tuesdays, Sept 17th - Oct 15th
5 weeks, 10 am - 3pm
Ages 5-8
$ 250 (full cost)
Sliding Scale $210 - $280
White Rocks Picnic Area
Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation
Located off of Route 140 east at the junction on Sugar Hill Road
White Rocks Immersion is a weekly children's outdoor program that encourages exploration and connection with nature. Join us for a session of outdoor fun, skill building, growth, adventure, and more. Let your children fall in love with the outdoors through interactive play based lessons that teach about ecology, wildlife, plants, and the nature world. They'll build confidence through practicing wilderness skills like hiking, fire building and tending, shelter making and more. Additionally, their guides will foster invaluable life skills like teamwork, leadership, curiosity, conflict resolution, self advocacy and more. All this while being held in the basket of community, the community of peers, mentors, and the more than human world.
This program explores...
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Interactive games and unstructured play
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Hands on exploration
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Plant and animal basics
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Storytelling and songs, and imaginative play
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Fire building and tending
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Way of Council
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Ceremony and Ritual
Final Deadline Extension
Friday 13th!
White Rocks Location: White Rocks Picnic Area, Wallingford, VT 05773
The classroom is the forest... Part of the Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area of 22,624 acres, there is plenty of forest to explore. With a river close to the parking area, a truly beautiful forest with a host of wildlife, and prominent geology features, this is an ideal location to deepen into nature.
Fire Circle
Our Fire Circle Gathering is a vibrant outdoor event that brings together a community of people through the art of fire tending. Each gathering revolves around a central fire, with themes that vary according to the season. It's a beautiful space to share stories, connect with nature, and explore the power of communal fire.
Tracking Club
Wildlife tracking is a connection to the land and a way of belonging to a community. It is an art of pattern recognition, observation and identification of wildlife. Through tracking, we can gain insight into the behaviors, movements and territories of the wildlife around us. By care taking this knowledge, we can create a better connection with the land and the creatures that inhabit it.
Wisdom Keeper Council
The Wisdom Keeper Council is a council of elders and mentors, dedicated to exploring meaningful conversations about life, culture, and the community. Participants gather around the fire to share stories, be heard, and gain insight from the wisdom of the council. All are welcome.
Earth Lovers
Earth Lovers is about land stewardship through tending, skills sharing, and reciprocity out of a deep love for the earth. We strive to create a community of diverse people who want to explore the outdoors
viewing her as a beloved partner with whom we can share our skills and resources. Come to learn more about land stewardship, gain the new skills, or share your own knowledge of care-taking our planet.
Summer Camp
Ages 6-14
Six Week Immersion - 6 sessions
Fall, Winter and Spring Immersions
The forest is the classroom, the trees are the teachers, and you are the curriculum. Join us for this forest immersion to learn and experience Vermont without walls. Learn how to build a fire, track wildlife, use plants for medicine, and create a home in the woods. This is the perfect setting to practice skills like teamwork, communication, resilience, curiosity true belonging, soulful leadership, and personal reflection. The best part is it all happens through direct hands-on experience and playing fun games that keep the body, mind, spirit and soul growing.
Raven Rendezvous
Ages 14-17
3 Weekends each Session
Fall, Winter, and Spring Sessions
What if as a young, coming-of-age adult the Earth invited you to a gathering with the forests and the rivers, the beaver and the deer, the raven and the chickadee? What if fire and water, stone and wind were sharing their wisdom too? Raven Rendezvous is an invitation to open into a bigger possibility of who you are within a small community of humans and the larger Earth community. With games to be played, new skills to practice and insights to behold, this program opens doors to exciting journey's.
Rites of Passage
Ages 12-17 and 18-25
Spring, Summer and Fall Sessions
This is a supportive path that guides you on your journey into adolescence or adulthood. This is the space of thresholds. This is the space of transformation. This is the space of becoming.
Join our wilderness guides on an adventure into the trees, mountains, and wilds of Vermont. Go deeper still into your inner terrain exploring themes of self-reliance, true belonging, group dynamics, conflict resolution, self-discovery, and more. Spend solo time in nature, experience the power of ceremony, and be guided by the wild. The gifts, strength, and experience you find here can be carried into your next chapter of life.
Nature Mentoring
Ages 5+
One-on-One with a Guide
Group Sessions Avalible
Let yourself be guided by the wisdom of the trees, the knowledge of the rivers, and the songs of birds. Far deeper than knowing their names, or their species' characteristics, they have secrets to share. Lifelong lessons and skills like curiosity, aliveness and agility, self-sufficiency, quiet mind, common sense, caring/tending, and service to the community.
Let Yourself Be Guided Deeper Into Nature
Being WOW
More than just an organization, A way of living
Our mission is to invite the world into wholeness through community, connection, and consciousness rooted in deep Earth practices. We provide a supportive and transformative experience to explore what it means to be alive, human, and soulful on this Earth.
We connect people with nature, teaching the basics of the natural world (our home) through naturalist skills, wildlife tracking, navigation, fire building, ancestral skills and more. We use the art of questioning, core routines, natural cycles, and mentoring while playing hard and getting muddy. We honor our ancestors and their life ways of being on this planet as we investigate and question our own.
We model life skills and ways of being that contribute to harmony, growth, and foster powerful soulful leadership. From working through individual challenges like spinning a bow drill coal, to the teamwork and communication required to build a group shelter. From the deep listening demanded by council circles as well as deep sharing and speaking from the heart.
We invite the sacred by honoring ancestors, ourselves and each other in the creation of ritual and ceremony. We agree to suspend known reality as we enter ceremonial space to let go of what no longer serves and invite new possibilities.
We use the tools of consciousness and awareness.
We use the tools of nature and wildness.
We use the tools of community and village.
We use tools of heart and soul.
WOW is a way of being. Being whole. Integrating wisdom. Loving the Earth. Becoming ourselves.
Teaching Philosophy
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Natural Cycles and Flow Learning
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Programs follow ancient cycles of the Earth and take us on a journey of discovery to awaken enthusiasm, focus our attention, experience directly, and share inspiration.
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Core Routines
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We practice these often to deepen our connection to the natural world, sharpen our awareness, and practice belonging.
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Invisible School and Coyote Mentoring
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We are a school without a classroom, guiding by tapping into children's passions and inspiration like games, adventure, and imagination and hands-on experiences.
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Kinship and Naturalist Skills
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We practice being in relationship by learning about the plants, animals and ecosystems in which we live. This includes natural history, biology, bush crafts uses, medical uses and more.
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Cultural Skills
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We practice being together though ways of council, showing up for others and ourselves, in ceremony and more.
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Ceremony
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WOW invites the sacred into programs through ritual and ceremony. These are intended to welcome people no matter their beliefs and religious backgrounds.
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Consciousness and Awareness
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Consciousness gets us out of judgment of ourselves and others to guide us toward the freedom to choose. Awareness grows our knowing
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“Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.”
― Michael Meade
Inviting the world into wholeness through community, connection and consciousness rooted in deep Earth practices
Welcome Home,
Take Off Your Shoes,
Get Your Feet Wet
"There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread."
The Way It Is by William Stafford
Ecology
Tree and Plant ID
Foraging
History of Place
Art of Council
Storytelling
Teamwork
Rights of Passage
Ceremony
Resilience
Self Discovery
Curiosity
Consciousness
Graditude
Friction Fire
Bird Language
Natural Movement
Aid-less Navigation
Wild-crafting
Programs
Programs designed to learn deep earth practices, meet your edges, open your consciousness and more. Youth, adolescents, adults and elders all can be witness and participant in gathering with intention.
Coaching and Wild Mentoring
Connect one on one with a nature mentor/coach to deepen your own personal journey. We also welcome groups to explore the infinite possibilities of gathering in council circles.
Community and More
Looking for true belonging, connection, and healing? These offerings are designed to provide spaces for intentional gatherings, collective growth, and more.
A Story to Behold
Mission
and
Vision
Core
Values
Our Guide
Team
Story of
WOW
Every dream. Every experience. Each soul — whether embodied or not in that person's life — is a story longing to be told. The world itself is a story; indeed, it might be more accurate to say the world is made up of stories than to say it is made up of atoms, earth, trees, and other things.
- Bill Plotkin
Awaken Your Inner Fire
WOW is the smile on a childs face when she sees her first campfire in the woods. It's the celebration as he lights his first 1 match fire. It's the wonder as they learn how to tend that fire from small flames into sustainable coals, how to light it with a fire striker, and eventually a bow drill. WOW guides him to learn the best kindling, and wood to burn. It's the magic as a snow storm threatens to put out the fire and she relies on the wisdom of experience to keep it going. WOW is the magic of their tending the fire for the community and then teaching others how to light their own flames to carry into the world.
Our fires are far more than physical flames. They are the fires of our hearts, the lights of our souls, the gifts we each bring to this world. The dreams we are willing to say yes to, the journies we are each on.
Experience the Outdoors Like Never Before
Experiences that immerse, awaken, and connect you powerfully to what matters.
Life Skills
Resilience
Self Discovery
Curiosity
Consciousness
Graditude
Ancestor Skills
Friction Fire
Bird Language
Natural Movement
Aid-less Navigation
Wild-crafting
Invitations
This is your invitation into something bigger, into something beyond the current reality of normal, average, and real. This is your invitation to step into a way of being with more wholeness, connection, aliveness, and purpose. Our programs are designed with the intention to guide you and follow the threads of purpose that lie beyond the roles you've taken on, beyond the overcultures ideals of what it means to be happy, and into the deeper realm of the soul. Are you willing to answer the call?
Programs
Programs designed to learn deep earth practices, meet your edges, open your consciousness and more.
Mentoring and Coaching
Connect one on one with a nature mentor/coach to deepen your own personal journey.
Community and More
Looking for true belonging, connection, and healing? These offerings are designed to provide spaces for intentional gatherings, collective growth, and more.
Welcome to
Wilderness Outdoor Wisdom
Our approach to outdoor activities is unique, as we combine tradition and modern-day knowledge to create an experience that's spiritual, educational, and fun. With a focus on ancestral connections, personal growth, and the importance of service, we strive to help our clients feel more connected to themselves and the world around them. No matter your age or experience level, we invite you to join us in experiencing the outdoors in a new and profound way. Let's embark on a journey together that will leave us feeling more alive, inspired, and grateful than ever before.
Journey Guides
A teacher imparts knowledge
An instructor equips and trains
A guide sends you on a journey
Wild Rose
The one who powerfully co-creates with mystery
Cultivating and protecting cultural mentoring rooted in deep connection to earth to foster relationship, awareness and change
Scott Campbell aka Wildheart
Wizard
Reaching deeply into healing and the connections that bring all beings closer to our truth through heart-centered mentoring and coaching
Invitation
A request
from the wild earth
to go deeper
into soil and soul
Indicators of Awareness
Self Sufficiency
Awe and Reverence
Service to Community
Caring and Tending
Quiet Mind
Common Sense
Aliveness and Agility
Inquisitive Focus
Calender
Coming soon...
We are excitedly developing workshops, invitations, and more! The details are being finalized and the space is being prepared.
Check back here as we begin our first programs and offerings this spring of 2024!
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Help Us Manifest A Wall Tent
Our Goal is $4,500 by May 1st.
We are dreaming of a wall tent to...
- store our equipment
- protect us from inclement weather
- provide additional space for programs, ceremonies, and more
Our Goal of $4,500 is to cover the cost of the canvas tent, the wood stove, and
the lumber to construct a platform base. We are grateful for your contributions
to our go-fund-me campaign below.