We will mix guided, play-based learning with structured skill-building activities to help youth develop resiliency, empowered self-reliance, confidence, and community.

Our activities include a wide variety of team-building games, which require youth to flex their decision-making muscles, voice their ideas, and cultivate a plethora of leadership capacities, including awareness and sensory acuteness, self-care and care of others, quiet mind and patience, cooperation, empathy and embracing differences, puzzle solving, detecting patterns and tracking changes, and healthy assertiveness.

We cultivate self-assuredness by teaching youth earth-living skills and the ability to make useful and beautiful crafts.

Activities might include:
– Tracking
– Fire building and fire-by-friction
– Stalking and the art of camouflage
– Wandering with awareness
– Sensory games
– Navigation
– Storytelling
– Discovering natural mysteries
– Shelter building
– Making natural cord and rope
– Crafting
– Being outdoors through different seasons and weather
– Games and play
– and more!

Youth are given opportunities to learn and develop skills, test themselves in exhilarating situations and have new and fun experiences with mentors and other youth their age.

Our activities include a wide variety of team-building games, which require young men and masculine-identifying youth to flex their decision-making muscles, voice their ideas, and cultivate a plethora of leadership capacities, including awareness and sensory acuteness, self-care and care of others, quiet mind and patience, cooperation, empathy and embracing differences, puzzle solving, detecting patterns and tracking changes, and healthy assertiveness.

The name Artemis (aar-tuh-mus) comes from greek mythology, Artemis being the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, vegetation, young women, the moon, and much more! The exact date of Artemis’ story is unknown, but dates back generally several thousands of years.

Artemis is typically depicted with bow and arrows, a crescent moon, a deer, hunting dogs, and other natural phenomenon. You can see some of these symbols represented in our Artemis group logo design.

Ages 9 to 14, Artemis – for femme identifying youth, open to all
Ages 9 to 14, Atlatl – for masc identifying youth, open to all
Ages 14 to 17, Ropes – for all teens in high school

Why are Youth Year-Round Programs gender-based?

We have polled our campers and staff and have learned that during this formative time being with a group of any gender(s), masc, or femme, identifying peers is what supports them most in feeling safe, seen and celebrated.

Though these groups have different names the curriculum arcs are similar throughout. We trust all campers and families to choose the group that most supports their identity and needs.

Wild Earth strives to make our programs accessible for all. If you have a disability and are interested in attending this program, please reach out to discuss with our team to see what may be possible.

Wild Earth Office | (845) 256-9830, hello@wildearth.org