Winter Village Boat Building and Folk Craft Skills Share

Remake the village

Join us at the TrackersHQ for 5-days of boat building and sharing skills. In the heart of Sellwood and honoring Trackers urban DIY roots, this is a unique and affordable skills share you can bus, bike or walk to. Every day we come together lending a hand to rebuild a grand sailing vessel that seems to arise from the mysts of an ancient past. And in Open Space style, we share many primitive and fine folk craft. From fire by friction to leather crafting and sewing, from tracking to winter tinctures and teas, this is the place where community comes together, bringing to life to a new vessel of the sea and teaching one another the skills vital to rebuilding the village.

Plus! Wild and Local Foods Potluck and Square Dance Janaury 8, 2009, 6pm-10pm All are welcome to join us for a rolicking good time. Bring your favorite local or wild foods (label ingrediants please) and at 7pm we will have a ol' timey square dance hosted by local caller Micheal Ismerio www.michaelismerio.com. No RSVP required for the potluck.

Work trade scholarships are definitely available. This may involve helping care take for space and land, attending with a key skill or contributing to the health of Trackers as community in some way. We reserve the right to see if this is a good match and to stipulate terms. Please Contact Us to learn more about work trade.

Powered by Open Space

Open Space Social Technology is a consensus process for group gatherings, which leaves participants more energized at the end than they were at the beginning. It provides a forum storytelling, sharing and action emerging from the passions of the participants. It fundamentally changes the organization, village and the people it serves by affirming and renewing life with a family voice and song. Jump in during the first hour of the first day, setting the agenda with all other participants and then holding the reins for collaborative learning and community building with friends both familiar and those you have yet to meet.

A village for every season

Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter The next village is a continuation of the one before it. Friends, and our community, both locally and nationally, come together to recreate and learn from the experience of a functional and healthy community. TrackersNW instructors and all the participants facilitate and inspire learning powerful new skills and ideas. From ways to harvest your own food to tracking the local wildlife, from making a bow to learning other traditional skills, with collaborative nature of open space, everyone should be prepared to be surprised. The village is where anything can happen and trust and faith are the norm. This is a practical model for natural community skills, one that helps families and friends to discover empowering and collaborative ways to connect themselves and our children to the natural world and each other.

Who should attend this program This program is for people that have a voice, a gift and a care to offer real skills the village. People who believe that coming together in support and family, in care for the natural world is truly are human calling. Even if you have attended before, its gets better every time you come back. The goal is to hold space for a natural and real history to evolve.