Portland, OR
Outdoor & Environmental Educator Training Program
Environmental education Trackers style is what I always felt like it should be. I get to be free and do real things with kids. I mean we've built a boat, blacksmithed, kids whittle with knives, David and Tony tracked a bear with my kids. Seriously, I learned from a-lot of places, this is the first place I really feel like I'm experiencing. -Laura Carson, Environmental Educator Training Student
Free Informational Evening February 2, 2012 7pm-9pm, Portland, OR
Immersion Information Session Learn more about Trackers and our Environmental Educator Training Program.
Contact Us to RSVP 5040 SE Milwaukie Avenue, Portland, OR
Train in Environmental Education & Outdoor Skills
Train Outdoor Skills with Trackers Earth. Save on nearly all tuition costs for our Outdoor Weekend Immersion programs while you learn to apply those skills in our unique model of environmental education as an assistant in our youth camps.
Please Note This is an application based program. Only the best fits will be selected. Apply soon.
Learn Real Outdoor Skills
We offer leading courses in outdoor lore and immersion. With our Outdoor & Environmental Educator Training, you get an opportunity to develop the skills of your choosing while applying them as an apprentice outdoor educator in our youth camps. It works this way...
Option Summer Assistant & Year Long Weekend Immersion...
Part 1 You work for 5-10 weeks learning as an assistant in our summer youth camps.
Part 2 With the multi-week commitment in our youth camps, you can take our outdoor skills immersion programs for adults (1-3 weekends a month September to June).
The time in our youth camps followed by training in our adult programs is one of the best outdoor and environmental educator training programs available.
The Training
You choose where you want to focus. The time in our youth camps followed by training in our adult programs create one of the best outdoor educator training programs available. Skills in our weekend immersion programs include...
Rangers Guild Wilderness Survival, Animal Tracking and The Curriculum of Shadows
Wilders Guild Wild Plants, Homesteading and going Beyond Permaculture: The Wilders Garden
Please see below for more details.
Register for Outdoor & Environmental Educator Training Program
Ages Adult
$449
non-refundable membership fee due upon acceptance Program Commitment Varies with Training Commitment See below Various locations in the Pacific Northwest |
Membership Fee
Membership is a $449 non-refundable fee due upon acceptance in the program.
How it works…
1) Fill out the program application below
2) We call you for an interview to see if the program is a good match
3) You come in for an interview to outline your custom program
Important Dates…
Orientation June 9-10, 2012, Overnight in the Marmot Valley
Program commitment options...
Youth Summer Camps Various weeks June-August
Youth Off-Season Camps After school, Homeschool and Winter or Spring Break from Sept-June
Skills training options...
Year-Long Weekend Immersion 1-3 weekends a month September-June
Adult Training Options
1-Weekend a Month Outdoor Immersion (9-months) Attending 1-weekend a month of our year long immersion courses and 5-weeks of apprenticeship at our summer youth camps.
3-Weekends a Month Outdoor Immersion (9-months) Attending 3-weekends a month of our year long immersion courses and 10-weeks of apprenticeship at our summer youth camps.
The Rangers Guild
The Legend of the Ranger
The Rangers are hunters and scouts for the village. They are versed in the arts of wilderness survival, tracking and awareness. In their listening they find a silence, one that compels them to protect what is Wild.
Flow is the Way of the Ranger. They follow the trail of the cougar, deer and other animals. With finely honed senses they become the eyes and ears of the village, living completely with the land and tending to it as if an invisible ghost.
The Remembering is here. There was a time you forgot who you were, how it feels to release an arrow, the music of the bowstring resonating, the route of your blood, the path of those who came before.
You felt you were asleep for a long while. The world engined on. And then, one day, you woke up.
Learn more about the Rangers Outdoor Immersion Program...
The Wilders Guild
The Way of the Wilder
The Wilders are caretakers. They tend to the balance of their village. They listen to the land as they help abundance flow. They guide the needs of the people into harmony with the needs of all life around them.
The tools of a Wilder is remediation through mycology, animals, plants and life itself. They change the land by asking and courting certain ways of life to grow and take root.
The Remembering is here and its time to ask ourselves the question: Do we own the land or do we belong to it? A place can be like our family, familiar and sewn into the day to day of our lives.
As people we can define ourselves by how we care for that family and village. This kinship is reflected in how we tend to the Earth and the Wild that sustains us.
Learn more about the Wilders Outdoor Immersion Program...
Many outdoor education training programs focus only rote curriculum. Trackers takes it up a notch.