Mystwood

We warmly welcome you to Mystwood!

Mystwood is a nature connection program for 6-9 year olds that are looking to stay connected to Wild Earth throughout the school year.

Together, we will safely explore the elements and build lasting friendships out in the woods. At Mystwood, children are a part of creating a community in the woods that will meet once a month to witness the changes in the forest and in one another.

Mystwood is the first chance for young children to join Wild Earth for a year round experience, honing in on their skills and braving the wintry months.

Each day begins with a morning circle where thanksgiving, songs and silly movement games bring us further into our bodies. The day’s activities are a blend of both guided play-based learning and structured skill-building activities. Together our days will be spent playing nature-based games that expand our awareness, learning earth living skills, hearing oral stories from skilled instructors and visiting elders, singing songs inspired by nature’s beauty, exploring the land for mysteries and beauty, building forts and shelters in the leaves, wandering the caves and boulders and building life long friendships with other children and the land.

Each day is filled with team-building games that cultivate a wide range of skills such as 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.

Children walk away from Mystwood feeling at home in nature and at home in themselves. Our staff is filled with seasoned teachers and naturalists who meet children where they are and help them to find harmony and joy both in the group and in the forest.

The Mystwood program uses wilderness living skills, awareness games, and naturalist elements to facilitate curiosity in the following areas:

• Awareness and sensory acuteness
• Self-care & care of others
• Quiet mind & patience
• Cooperation
• Empathy & embracing differences
• Puzzle solving
• Detecting patterns & tracking changes
• Healthy assertiveness
• Supportive leadership
• Aidless Navigation
• Tree & plant ID
• Use & stewardship of wild plants
• Friction fire
• Fort and shelter building
• Wildlife tracking
• Natural container making
• Nature research and journaling
• Singing and songwriting
• Acrobatics, balancing & juggling
• Handwork & natural crafts
• Drawing & painting
• Storytelling & remembering

The instructors at Mystwood strive to use our curriculum to inspire and develop connections with self, community, and place/nature within your children.

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