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SUMMARY:Spring Holiday Program
DESCRIPTION:Don’t let restrictions get you down!\nWe have so many exciting ways to connect in with a wonderful nature based community these holidays!\nYes it’s online\, but it will be fun- we promise!!\nLets get outside and inspired this spring!! \nIn our holiday program sessions you will get to hang out with real nature connection mentors\, in real time. They have lots of energy and excitement to meet you and explore\, ask questions that will get you out\, wandering and wondering. \nOur holiday program welcomes participants of all ages\, the Village Cafe and the Deepeing Nature Connection Connection session are specifically aimed at adults and teens\, the rest are usually kid-centric\, and welcoming of nature-curious folks of all ages. \nWe are asking folks to book one ticket per household\, which gives you entry to all of the 11 events. That’s 14 hours of community nature connection events and mentoring!! \nHere is what we have planned for you: \n1 Cartoon Story Catching\, Stretching and Hatching with Trace Balla\n– Tues 21st Sept 10-11am \n2 Imagination & Storytelling with Steph Brophy\n– Tues 21st Sept 4-5pm \n3 Scavenger Hunt with Logan Timmins\n– Thurs 23rd Sept 10- 11:30am \n4 Equinox Mandalas with Amy of Green Heart Ecotherapy\n– Thurs 23rd Sept 4-5pm \n5 Song Circle with Indrani Perera\n– Thurs 23rd Sept 7-8:30pm \n6 Deepening Nature Connection & Curiosity with Mel Turnbull & Claire Mosley\n(Adult focussed session)\n– Sun 26th Sept 10-12 midday \n7 Roleplaying Nature with Kat Hampton\n– Tues 28th Sept – 10-11am \n8 Nature Art with Claire Mosley\n– Tues 28th Sept 4-5pm \n9 Wild Bodies with Skye and Tanya\n– Thurs 30th Sept 11-12:30pm \n10 Nature Trivia Quest with Mel Turnbull\n– Thurs 30th Sept 4-5pm \n11 Village Cafe with Katrina and Aurora (Rita) of BeRegen\n(For Adults & Teens )\n– Thurs 28th 8-9:30pm \nMore details will follow \nNot convinced that we can do nature connection online?? \nHere is some of what folks have been saying about our recent online sessions: \n“I’m surprised how much I got from this session in just 2 hours. I am feeling so connected to people and feeling so inspired to continue these journeys and to keep showing up\, even online\, just using what we have. Thank you so much\, I can’t wait to show up to the next one!” Kellie\, teacher and mum\, Castlemaine \n“It was the right mix of connection with people in big groups and small groups as well as sending you out on adventures in nature so you’re not just stuck on a screen\, thankyou so much!” Indrani\, crafter\, poet and home educator\, Melbourne \n“I came in this morning feeling meh\, a bit flat\, and the things that we did today\, i feel so much better\, I feel like it has been medicine for me\, doing this work\, and participating with the prompts\, I feel so much better\, thanks so much!” Al\, Environmental educator\, Shepparton \nWe can’t wait to see you these holidays! \nBiig love from the Firekeepers mentor team
URL:https://www.firekeepers.com.au/event/spring-holiday-program/
LOCATION:Online- via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Adults Programs,Camps,Community,Holiday Programs
ORGANIZER;CN="Firekeepers":MAILTO:villagecamp@firekeepers.com.au
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SUMMARY:Village Camp- Spring 2021 - Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:It’s been a long 18 months of lockdowns\, social isolation and slow emergence for Victorians. We have all been boxed in at home much more thant we expected. Last year adults quickly learned how to work from cupboards and bedrooms\, lost their employment or soldiered on in essential services. Kids of all ages were cooped up inside on screens for hours for school. Homeschoolers’ groups and activities have been cancelled. Teens and young adults stuck at home missed hanging out with their peers and marking key rites of passage. Young kids too skipped important transitions and have had much less interaction with children their age. Parents have been champions juggling work and parenting and remote learning in a very uncertain atmosphere. Single folk have done it tough being separated from family and friends. And elders have been shuttered up with fear and isolated from their communities. Pwoah! \nOne wonderful aspect that came out of the lock downs has been a greater appreciation of the importance of nature\, wild spaces\, and for the simple things\, like vegie gardens and birds in our backyards. If this was you\, then we are sure that nature connection can continue to support us as we more fully emerge from our year of disconnection. \nDo you hear the call to stretch your wings and get out a bit further… without crossing state lines (!)\, to smell the comforting smell of a campfire\, to hear kids voices trailing through the bush\, to relax into conversations with adults and friends old and new? \n\n\nSo\, it is with excitement and relief that we present our Spring Village Camp!\n\nAfter such a time of forced isolation and separation from people\, many folk found solace in the more than human world. In emerging from lock-down\, for many folks we hope that nature will continue to be an ongoing support in our healing.\n\n\nFeel the call to unwind and reconnect with a beautiful\, connective\, earthy community? Autumn Village Camp is what you have been looking for to ease your weary heart and soul.\nRediscover your inner wild.\nCome alive with a vibrant community of humans.\nImmerse yourself in the wonder and wisdom of nature.\nGather by the campfire and learn earth based skills.\nWatch your kids become more comfortable in the wild.\n\n\n“Attending Village Camp was a turning point in my life … There was a magic at camp that has stayed with me\, long after my tent was packed away. I left feeling so inspired\, it was a remembering\, an opening to possibilities for living that I had never conceived before.” Becky\, mentor and mother of two young children.\n\n\n~Come and reweave our village together~\n\n\nArrive to a warm bush welcome and settle into our beautiful surroundings as village life awakens around you. Explore the wonders of the natural world\, practice earth-based crafts and skills\, share stories around the campfire\, laugh\, sing and relax into the rhythm of the earth. Learn\, practice\, play\, gather\, rest as together we breathe life into the village.\n\n\nAdults\, kids\, teens\, parents\, elders and littlies will all find magic to discover in the village. In the past\, villagers have woven baskets from grass fibres\, made fire without matches\, practiced listening to the language of birds\, slept out in bush shelters\, engaged their senses to follow tracks and signs of life in the wild\, played wild games for hours\, eco-dyed garments in a bubbling pot over the camp fire\, shared adventurous stories and songs circles under the stars. What will we create together next school holidays?\n\n\nEach morning\, awaken to the gentle\, melodic tunes of our morning singers (or awaken earlier to the chorus of birds emanating from the surrounding bush!)\nAfter breakfast\, gather with the whole village before the kids\, teens\, littlies and adults go their separate ways for a morning of play and adventure.\n\n\nKids venture into the bush to experience a free flowing exploration of the surrounding bush with experienced nature connection mentors. Together the mentors and kids immerse in story and song\, play games\, follow their curiosity and creativity as they wander and explore\, find animal tracks and practice wild skills and crafts. Over the days\, they will open into a deep awareness of the wild world as they connect with plants\, earth\, animals and each other.\n\n\nAdults choose their own adventure: learning earth-based skills and exploring nature observation and ecological literacy. With the kids off with mentors\, there is time for adults to engage in their own playful nature with awareness games and bushcraft activities – this is a chance for your archetypal ‘wild child’ to come alive. Some folks opt for deeply connective adult sharing circles where parents and adults alike are held in a safer space to share how folks are really traveling. A warm and welcoming wellbeing space catches tired bodies and souls throughout the day\, with tea and cushions and rugs a plenty.\n\n\nLittle ones who are still “in the pouch” gather together with their parents and mentors to play and have adventures a little closer to camp.\n\n\nTeens are empowered to lean in and co-design their own journey. This may involve deepening their nature-based skills and exploration\, epic adventures further afield\, leading and honouring rites of passage\, weaving their energy in with the adult program\, or being in service and supported to mentor younger kids.\n\n\nWith our village reunited after adventurous mornings the afternoons are free flowing. Villagers play with new friends\, practice their new skills\, share their talents with an impromptu workshop or board game or just chill out. Some might wish to head off for a wander or take some quiet time to rest and relax.\n\n\nAs the sun sets\, delicious smells waft from our fabulous cooks in the kitchen and with song\, hungry villagers gather to share in wholesome home cooked dinner around the fire. A natural storytelling space opens as the day’s tales of adventure and discovery and laughter bubble up to be shared.\n\n\nWhen the fire dies down and the stars come out\, tuckered out little ones are sung off as they wander off to their tents. Some nights lend themselves to after dark bush adventures too\, before a sleeping close to the earth and waking to the morning chorus again.\n\n\n“This camp is organised from the heart\, and holds connection to oneself\, land and community in a truly caring balance\,” village elder\, mother and artist.\n\n\n“From 2 kids saying ‘Do we have to go’ to ‘When is it happening again?- I don’t want to leave!” Journalist and parent of two boys 7 & 9\n\n\nWill you be there this time? Who and what will you bring with you for this magical experience?\n\n\n-Logistics-\n\n\nWho is this for?\nEveryone! This is a family friendly\, drug and alcohol free event\, with the program open to all- from babies to elders and everyone in between.\n\n\nProgram:\n\nTickets include a Welcome to Country\, nature connection mentoring and facilitation\, morning and evening program\, camping accommodation (with flushing toilets and hot showers!)\, hot camp cooked dinner each night and workshop materials.\nParticipants need to bring a tent and camping gear.\n\n\nMorning mentoring program: 8:30-12:30\nSeparate programs for kids\, teens\, littlies (0-3) and adults\nKids aged 4 and up and teens go out in small similar aged groups with experienced nature connection mentors.\nAdult program of sharing circles\, earth-based skills\, nature observation and ecological literacy.\nA Roo & Joey program for parents and their children under 4 who are still “in the pouch” they stay closer to camp\, and go on smaller adventures.\n*All of our mentors have Working With Children Checks and we have qualified First Aiders.\n\nThe kids return to their parents for lunch and an open space afternoon.\nDinner is served around 6 and an evening program follows.\nAll members are welcome to participate as much or as little in the activities as they need to feel at home in the village.\n\n\nFood:\nEach villager or family will bring their own breakfast\, lunch and snacks. Depending on fire restrictions\, there may be some space for campfire cooking\, but if you want cooked breakfasts or lunches\, it’s a good idea to bring your own camp cooking equipment.\nWe provide 4 delicious and kid friendly evening meals. Catering for omnivorous\, vegetarian\, vegan\, gluten free and dairy free dietary requirements if notified on booking. If you have further requirements\, you may need to bring extra food to supplement.\n\n\n“We left with a deep sense of belonging and community. A connection with earth\, ourselves\, each other” Village Parent”\n\n\nUntil 2020 village camps were happening just 3 times a year- Spring\, Summer and Autumn. In these times however\, we unfortunately can’t know when the next one will be.\n\nWe will be chopping wood and spinning the hand drill stalk ready to welcome you back into community and nature again\, will you join us for a yarn around the camp fire these school holidays?\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.firekeepers.com.au/event/spring-village-camp-spring-2021/
LOCATION:Riddles Creek
CATEGORIES:Adults Programs,Camps,Community,Holiday Programs,Home Ed Programs,Mentoring,Music,Rites of Passage,Young Adult
ORGANIZER;CN="Firekeepers":MAILTO:villagecamp@firekeepers.com.au
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