This Tuesday during homeschool at our West Hill location, the children earned enough “party points” this week – gained from answering questions correctly in our naturalist’s corner – for a celebration filled with feast and games!
A few weeks back, I sent Primitive Pursuits Co-Founder Jed Jordan an email asking for a few spare minutes to interview him about his work up at the Arnot Forest.
My heart was pounding. I was covered in quickly drying clay, charcoal, twigs, leaves and I was crouched in a dry stream bed listening closely to the woodland sounds. I was listening to the chickadees calling from the lowest branches of the maple trees. Their two-tone call meant everything was normal. Then they went silent.
Primitive Pursuits brings magic into people’s lives by meeting them where they’re at and connecting them to the natural world in ways that push them to be their most imaginative, present, and uninhibited selves.
Here are some of the tools of mentoring we use when working with young people. You can use them too.