Earth Path Education is an organization committed to supporting a regenerative culture in connective relationship with the natural world.

Our Vision

At Earth Path Education, we practice Place-Based Education and Deep Nature Connection Mentoring, guiding participants to connect with forest ecology, inner ecology, and community ecology.

Through hands-on learning—fire-making, bird language, ancestral crafts, wild food harvesting, and sensory awareness—we cultivate deep relationships with the earth, ourselves, and all living beings. Using the Eight Shields Model, we align with nature’s rhythms, fostering a sense of belonging and purpose.

Through storytelling, song, wild tending, and peacemaking, we regenerate culture, honoring and celebrating life while contributing to thriving communities and ecosystems.

What is Deep Nature Connection Mentoring?

Nature Connection Mentoring is learning through experience, curiosity, and awareness—not through expertise or rigid instruction. It fosters deep, evolving relationships with the natural world, encouraging us to truly notice and engage rather than simply identify.

By asking thoughtful questions—

“How big was it?” “What colors did you see?” “Did it have an odor?”

we guide learners toward greater awareness of nature’s patterns and energy flows.

This approach also nurtures inner ecology, inviting reflection:

“How did you feel when you saw that?”

“Where in your body do you sense it?”

Through curiosity and sensory aliveness, Nature Connection Mentoring empowers participants to fully awaken, thrive, and follow their passions on a lifelong journey of discovery.

Core Programming:

We will often begin the day with an opening circle where we seep in our gratitudes and sing songs, we connect our hearts and minds through this circle to each other and the forest ecology. 

Nature & Sensory Awareness Games
Through play, we become animals—moving like predators, hiding like prey, and seeing through the eyes of an eagle. In the spirit of Coyote Mentoring, we learn effortlessly in the "invisible school." Through practicing Sit Spots, we understand the wisdom of stillness in nature in heightening our senses & our understanding of natures cycles.

Earth Songs
We sing to celebrate, grieve, give thanks, and create beauty. Song is a powerful survival skill—medicine for the heart, the family, and the village. Every voice is welcome.

Storytelling
Stories are how we learn, integrate, and make meaning. We invite the storyteller in each child to emerge, weaving personal tales into myths and epic journeys that hold and connect us all.

Core Routines in Earth Path Programs:

• Sit Spot

• Singing

• Story Telling/Story of the Day

• Animal Forms

• Animal Names

• Mind's Eye imagery

• Sensory Awareness practices

• Nature Awareness Games

Core Curriculum in Earth Path Programs:

• The way of Council, all are respected and listened to, safe sharing space. 

• Teamwork

• Edible and Medicinal Local Plants

• Tree Wisdom

• Plants For Food, Medicine, Fiber

• Herbal Medicine Making

• Flower Essences

• Biodynamic Gardening, Natural Building, and Seed Saving

• Bird Language and Bird Identification

• Animal Tracking and Animal Gaits

• Basketry

• Cordage (Primitive Rope-Making)

• Pottery

• Ancient Fire Making: Bow Drill and Hand Drill Friction Fire,  Flint and Steel

• Leather Work: Medicine Pouches, Knife Sheaths, nature journals, etc. 

• Drumming, dancing and Rhythm

• Shelter Building

• Flint-napping

• Earth Based Rituals and Ceremony

• Navigation

• Fiber Arts: Felting, Natural Dye

• Beekeeping

• Herbal First Aid

• Wilderness Safety

• Self, Community and Earth Awareness

• Community Service

• Storytelling 

• Singing

• Swimming

• Hiking

• Theatre