Overview

Student-Teacher Ratio 8:1

Spring Next Level Skills; Stewardship and Nature Led Connection Program

This class will focus on advanced hard skills that make a human useful in a wilderness setting. Each student should bring a journal to class. We will start with fundamental skills, moving through the following curriculum:

Fire making:

  • single match/ how to build a fire
  • ferro rod and fatwood fire
  • hand drill use
  • bow drill use
  • pitch creation with sap

Projectiles Proficiency:

  • Throwing Stick
  • Archery

Shelter Building:

  • Site selection and insulation basics
  • Tarp Setup 
  • Choosing Your Clothes

Naturalism:

  • Common Trees and Ecosystems
  • Common Birds of the area
  • Scat and where animals go
  • Fundamentals of Tracking 
  • How to Journal 
  • Native Plant ID and Wild Edibles & Medicinal Plants
  • Mushroom and Fungi discovery and ID

Forest Ninja Skills:

  • Stealth and silence in the forest
  • Balance 
  • Stalking

Knife Use:

  • Knife Cert and usage

Once our class has mastered these fundamental skills we can move into deeper facets of land connection like Bow and tool making, Leatherwork, Planning a Backpacking and Trip, First Aid, Edible and Medicinal Plants, Mushroom ID, and more! 

Lessons will be mixed with activities and games designed to grow connection, stealth and camouflage, balance, and fun. 

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Summer Programs:

Description of TEEN Nature-Led Leader In Training (LIT)​:  

Leaders In Training will take an active role in helping us build communities of outgoing natural stewards!  A major role for the LITs will be  their contagious enthusiasm while assisting.   

Teen Leaders will become Leaders in Training are 13 and up, (preferable 13 but may invite 12 year olds and upeach can apply if they have been students with us for 2 years or more)

in our outdoor programs, or another outdoor program, a babysitter, an older bro or sis, or inquire as more may be fitting!. An Intern can also apply .

LITs will assist with various wild projects and outdoor activities throughout the day.   

LITs may support the coaches with teaching/demonstrating sports and/or art projects, take photographs, set up and clean-up activities, and organize camp supplies. Both may also assist various ways such as: aid minor injuries, snack break, story telling and aid in bathroom supervision.

Join our Teen Leadership Training  program!

Leadership skills with BEan In Nature begin with a week or more of camp leadership experience. Sign Up Now! 

Work with expert outdoor educators to develop your own Nature-Led connection through ancient living and wilderness skills, as well as, safe social emotional skills.  Our program includes a 1 week long training, either 4 Saturdays or 1 Week in your selected Teen Leadership Training Camp.

This will prepare your TEEN to step into Leadership with us this SUMMER!  They will get their official BEan NATURE-LED TEEN LEADERSHIP IN TRAINING CERT and from there SIGN UP to come out and assist the teachers, the staff,  in camps this summer and beyond!

Your registration fee is all-inclusive, covering both the Training Week and Summer Camp Field Weeks. 

DATES and Training

Schedule for Camp Work

Every day is different and flexibility and willingness to take direction and change direction at a moments notice are imperative. Most importantly, they  will interact and engage with the campers, sharing stories, promoting enthusiasm, energy, fun in games and nature awareness skills.  Prerequisites for TEENS preferable 13 but may invite 12 year olds and up

Please take a moment here, pause and digest and we will chat about these in one form or another…

  • Share your experience with teaching and why you’ve chosen to step into outdoor leadership?

  • What are your outdoor interests?

  • What are your hobbies?

  • Why do you want to  assist in outdoor nature program with children?

  • What other talents, skills do you have that might support our very busy nature program?

  • and tell about your experience  if you have been a student with us or another outdoor programs, or assisted another teacher or program such as an art teacher or a theatre teacher/ group, perhaps you have been a babysitter, or an older bro or sis, or inquire as more may be fitting!. 

  • An Intern can also apply.

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5.0 (2)
(Teen Leadership and Next Level Skills)
January 29, 2023 - Lauren Doud
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This was my daughter's (just turned 13) first time trying this overnight camp, and she loved every minute of it. She did not attend with any friends, and she said it was easy to make friends. She felt really supported staying away from home, and she said the food was fantastic. She learned a lot of great nature skills too. She also really liked the leaders. We would not hesitate to recommend this program to anyone that loves nature and learning new wilderness skills.
Bean In Nature
March 23, 2023
Hi Laura! Thank you so much for your kind testimonial and vote! We look forward to more weekends with your daughter!
(Teen Leadership and Next Level Skills)
May 15, 2022 - Simon Johnson
Without BEan IN NATURE, so many students wouldn’t get to experience first hand what a outdoor program has to offer. BEan IN NATURE teaches throughout most of the Bay Area allowing families that move or change school districts to stay connected to there bean community.
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