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Wilderness Youth Project
5386 Hollister, Ste D
Santa Barbara
CA 93111
(805) 964-8096
(805) 456-3838 Fax
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Kids Programs
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The Children are Our Future |
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In the many years of being with youth in the wilderness, we have seen a pattern of how young people learn and grow into healthy adults. We are committed to introducing these core routines in creative and exciting ways in all our youth programs.
Our vision is to help foster the empathy in each child so s/he may see his or her connection to everything and everyone. All of our programs for kids are designed to foster healthy and active bonds within a mentoring relationship.
As we explore the world around us, we help the kids discover how to find the answers rather than give them the answer. Our 4:1 mentoring ration allows the perfect opportunity for individual passions to be explored.
Our Core Routines
- Circle of Thanksgiving
- Sharing words of thanksgiving for what we have and appreciation for others
- Awareness Games
- Scout skills, blindfolded drum stalk, camouflage, and more
- Wandering
- Outdoor exploring of the many magical things in nature
- Storytelling
- Telling our stories with words, journaling, acting
- Art of questioning
- The answer always leads to more questions…
- Sit Spot
- Knowledge of place by observation and experience
- Primitive skills
- Learn fire by friction, cordage, tracking, archery and more while building relationships with materials you use
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