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Coyote Mentoring – Educators Retreat
May 23 - May 25
Registration is now open!
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Please also reach out to Tanin to sign up for the retreat itself by emailing [email protected].
Welcome to the “Coyote Mentoring” educators retreat, for the first time ever hosted in Canada at beautiful Johnsons Landing Retreat Center! This retreat is a rare opportunity to dive-deep into mentorship culture, connect/network with other educators, schools and organizations, and learn directly from Twin Eagles Wilderness School’s co-founder Jeannine Tidwell. Designed for school teachers, outdoor educators, nature enthusiasts, and anyone passionate about becoming a better teacher, guide and mentor to those they work with.
Retreat Description
Ideas and concepts of good mentoring are crucial as we rediscover effective, natural ways of helping people develop deep connections to nature and their communities. Equally as important for people who may not have grown up surrounded by a natural mentoring culture, is the opportunity to experience it firsthand, to develop a “felt sense” of how it works. The Art of Mentoring is an immersion into this culture of awareness.
Participants come together for an immersion into storytelling, ceremonies, celebrations, singing, group activities, adventures, time to wander alone and reflect within the beautiful landscape of Johnsons Landing Retreat Center. Integral to this experience is a gathering of like-minded spirits, passionately exploring the skills of living intimately with the earth, and discovering more about themselves in the process. This retreat will alter your view of today’s youth and create a possibility for the future like you may not have experienced before.
Included in this retreat are:
Over 15 hours of instruction delivered by Jeannine and her assistant
Fun and engaging group activities
Peer mentoring sessions
Group circles and discussions
Overnight stay in one of Johnsons Landing Retreat Center cabins/lodge rooms/campsites
Over the course of this training, facilitators and mentors will create a living cultural basket to surround your experience. Together we discover what it means (and how it feels) to play a part in re-establishing a healthy, vibrant culture of awareness. This experience is essential for anyone interested in bringing mentoring to his or her own community. Many people come together to explore their connection to others who share the same vision, restore their hope and swap stories of lessons learned.
Through a combination of lecture, storytelling, discussions, group activities, nature connection, and peer mentoring sessions, participants will learn the importance of heightened awareness in students, and how it relates to critical thinking and problem solving. We will discover how to use symbol and metaphor to create a powerful educational environment, the role of brain patterning, and the natural flow of the human learning process. We will dive into how stories, song and other artistic expressions open a doorway to authentic student growth while exploring essential routines found throughout the world that ground students in their senses and expand awareness.
About Facilitator: Jeannine Tidwell is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School. She has been of service in the work of earth-based living skills and mentoring for over 25 years and has been mentoring people of all ages for over two decades. She offers coaching in leadership and personal growth and development and as well as programs for girls and women in Rites of Passage.
As a result of taking this course, participants will:
- Have an opportunity to meet and network with other educators, mentors and guides in the area
- Experience first-hand what it feels like to be masterfully held within a culture of deep nature connection and mentorship
- Experience for themselves how powerful the “cultural context” is in education
- Take home powerful images, metaphors, and tools to cultivate a supportive learning environment in their classrooms and respective learning environments
- Acquire concepts to facilitate the development of their student’s full potential
- Learn how to use stories and storytelling as a powerful educational tool
- Discover and practice time-honored mentoring tools
- Deepen their bond with self, community, and the natural world
We look forward to having you in the circle with us for this incredible deep-dive into the Art of Mentoring.
About the Leaders
Jeannine Tidwell
Jeannine Tidwell is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School. She has been of service in the work of earth-based living skills and mentoring for over 25 years and has been mentoring people of all ages for over two decades. She offers coaching in leadership and personal growth and development and as well as […]
Keren
Keren works as an Assistant Instructor at Twin Eagles Wilderness School. She has a deep love for nature connection, creativity, and collaborating with others. Keren feels most alive when she is connected to the earth and surrounded by community.