COMING HOME TO THE WILD
Survival Course and Rite of Passage for Adults
Salt Spring Island, BC
May 11 & 25, June 1 & 22-23 (overnight), 2024
Registration is now OPEN!
Navigation • Shelter • Food • Water • Fire
Awareness • Gratitude • Empathy • Initiation
Can you imagine yourself spending a night alone
in the wild with close to nothing,
feeling at ease, confident,
grateful for being fully alive, and
growing to a new level of awareness and vitality?
In earth-based cultures, some form of this foundational deep nature connection initiatory experience has always been a part of every person’s journey to becoming an adult anchored in his or her core self.
Get in touch with your own Wild Nature!
Join us for this amazing opportunity to experience an INITIATION into knowing your Self, your fundamental relationship to all of Life and to your own gifts, through this unique workshop and direct sensory experiences in Nature.
Three learning-rich Saturdays of training are followed by a 24 hour solo experience of survival in the wild; a Rite of Passage including a Welcoming Back ceremony in community. You will be prepared at every level–spiritually, psychologically, emotionally and physically–for learning and practicing the skills necessary to feel at home in the wild. And you will be supported by a cultural container of mentoring and community throughout your experience. This is a transformational course! You’ll feel fully alive, at home in nature, and connected to the wild, inside and out!
Course content includes:
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Deepening Awareness and Expanding your Senses
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Navigation and Finding your Way on the Land
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Shelter Building
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Water
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Bow-drill Friction Firemaking
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Wild Edibles and Food Foraging (Traps and Seafood may also be covered)
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Fibres and Cordage
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Invisibility and Natural Movement
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Cultural Repair, Community, and Initiation
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Tying the Bundle
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24 hour Solo Rite of Passage with Sending Out and Welcoming Back Ceremony
“If you have not taken the survival training with Wisdom of the Earth, I cannot recommend it enough. It was one of the most amazing things that I did last year. It will totally transform your life, your connection to nature, and how you go about walking through the world. Having mentors like Jean-Claude and Ingrid so close to home is not something that happens often.”
~Bradley Morris ~ Meditation and Life Coach
2024 Dates
Saturdays 9:30am-3:30pm: May 11 & 25, June 1 workshops
Saturday June 22 through Sunday June 23 for 24-hour solo (plus send-off and welcome back)
Saturday May 11, 2024 : Shelter. Expanding the senses, Deepening Awareness, Navigation (the latter three will be deepened every week).
Saturday May 25, 2024 : Making Fire without Matches, Water, Working with the Sixth Sense. “Tying the bundle” (harmonizing the skills).
Saturday June 1, 2024 : Wild Edibles and Food Foraging.
Saturday June 22, 11am, through Sunday June 23 at around 2pm : Sending Out Ceremony, 24 hour Solo; Welcoming Back Ceremony..
Instructors
Jean-Claude Catry has over 35 years of experience in mentoring and practicing these skills.
Jean-Claude will be joined by several guest instructors during the course, including Ingrid Bauer and Ayden Catry-Bauer.
Click to read more About Us.
Cost
$460 includes all 3 Saturdays and 24-hour solo overnight.
Bring a friend at regular price and you get it for $410 ($50 discount), or share the difference.
If space permits, we will consider participants for individual sessions on the first three Saturdays: $100 per session.
This workshop is intended for adults. Older teens considered with special permission.
Space is limited, to assure for individual attention.
Non-refundable deposit will hold your spot.
Contact info@wisdomoftheearth.ca with any questions.
