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Assistant Instructor Requirements
Group Facilitation Skills:
- Boundary setting
- Familiarity with team building activities and games
- Ability to facilitate at least a few team building activities and games
- Charisma with children
- Ability to foster a fun, safe learning environment
Outdoor Safety Skills:
- Ability to assist fire building in cold & rain
- Ability to assist shelter building with tarps
- Recommended, but not required: Heart Saver CPR and American Red Cross Basic First Aid or equivalent
Wilderness Curriculum:
Ability to assist activities that teach some the following skills:
- Natural rope making
- Friction fire & fire building
- Wild edibles and plant remedies
- Natural shelter building
- Plant identification
- Bird language
- Wildlife tracking
- Spinning, weaving, basket making, and other natural fiber arts
- Carving and wood craft
- Making and using projectiles, such as: bows, slingshots, throwing sticks, atlatls
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