Custom Designed for Outdoor Education Centres
Camps, Wilderness Outfitters and Resorts

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Helping to facilitate meaningful, educational, and fun experiences with nature, while meeting the diverse interests of the groups we work with, is our passion!

We have a wide range of knowledge and experience to help us put together a custom program that meets the needs and interests of your staff and clients.

We also partner with the P.I.N.E. Project out of Toronto to run a weekend staff training seminar open to staff of all the camps, resorts & outfitters. This years workshop will be May 28th – 30th. More info can be found at the bottom of this page.

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Earth Mentorship Programs was founded on staff training seminars. Helping businesses provided powerful educational experiences in the outdoors is our passion. Here are some of the organization we have done custom staff training for:

- Outward Bound Canada

- Northern Edge Algonquin

- Kandalore Outdoor Education Centre

- Northern Tier High Adventure

- Fern Resort

The founder and lead mentor for EMP, Chris Gilmour has worked in outdoor education and wilderness guiding for the past 8 years. One of his consistent observations after working for several different wilderness guiding and outdoor education companies was that although many outdoor educators and guides today have great hard skills such as first aid, paddling, and rock climbing, many people lack a strong naturalist knowledge of the land that supports those activities. Some of the common “lost” skill sets include starting fires in wet weather or without the use of matches, ancient bush craft skills, the ability to read and interpret animal tracks and bird calls, the ability to navigate in the wilderness without modern tools, and the names, uses, and ecological significance of trees, plants, and native animals.

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Custom Staff Training Programs

We offer customized programs that aim to help and empower educators and guides to:

- Deepen their personal connection to nature

- Increase their knowledge of the land

- Deliver more meaningful and powerful programs

- Learn fun, educational & engaging activitiesusing natures gifts to share with you clients

- Lean to better read the landscape & weather for safety, survival & fun

- Learn to create a culture of nature connection

- Learn ancient wilderness living skills that help to deepen their ecological and historical understanding of nature while building more self-sufficiency in the outdoors.

Some potential workshop topics can include but are not limited to: wet weather fire making, friction fire making (bow and hand drill), wildlife and human tracking, in depth track interpretation, sensory awareness exercises, uses of plants & trees, navigating with or without maps and compasses, wildlife studies, basket & container making, rope from tree bark, roots, and plants, stone & bone tools, bird language basics (cocentric rings), ancient cooking techniques, natural shelter building, coyote mentoring philosophy, and much more.

Program Pricing:

Workshop prices may vary depending on the group size, program length, location and topics covered. To discuss a custom training program for your etablishment please e-mail us and/or give us a call at: 705-788-1210

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Wilderness Skills & Naturalist Knowledge Staff Training Weekend – May 28 – 30, 2010

This program is designed to give camp staff the skills, knowledge and experience to implement powerful nature based mentoring and programming at their camp, on canoe trip, or anywhere you find nature. The course acts as a model for participating staff, providing opportunities to experience highly effective tricks and techniques to deliver nature based education and mentoring. Curriculum includes wilderness living skills, naturalist knowledge, and tools and inspiration to continue to grow personally, and grow a powerful program at Camp. The course is hosted at Camp Kandalore, just North of Minden, ON along Highway 35. Room and Board is included.The weekend will focus is on four key areas:

• Nature Based Mentoring techniques and creating a powerful learning environment
• Wilderness Living Skills and Inspiring “Bush Craft” skill sets
• Building Naturalist Knowledge and Awareness of Place
• Nature Based Games, Activities, Songs, and other fun ways to engage with Nature

We find that programs like these are are far more successful when multiple people can go back to camp together having shared the same experience. It allows for support, promotes team teaching, and gives new ideas and skill sets a small community to flourish in, and then spread. To support this, we offer group incentive pricing.

To register for the staff training weekend please vist the P.I.N.E. Project web page at: http://www.pineproject.org