COYOTES GUIDE TO CONNECTING WITH NATURE including Postage to anywhere in Australia
“You feel deeply the value of direct experience with nature in your own life and want to transmit it to others. Some of you were fortunate to grow up free to roam and hunt and fish and build tree houses in the wild places near your home with parents and mentors who encouraged you – and you want to pass on the tradition. More of you are members of the first generation that didn’t have that privilege – and you want to resurrect the tradition.
Parents, teachers, counselors, guides, and mentors, all who find this book in your hand, Jon, Evan, and I have written it for you. We want you to be confident that Coyote’s Guide can be adapted to work wherever you are, in situations as diverse as we can imagine.“ Ellen Haas
“You feel deeply the value of direct experience with nature in your own life and want to transmit it to others. Some of you were fortunate to grow up free to roam and hunt and fish and build tree houses in the wild places near your home with parents and mentors who encouraged you – and you want to pass on the tradition. More of you are members of the first generation that didn’t have that privilege – and you want to resurrect the tradition.
Parents, teachers, counselors, guides, and mentors, all who find this book in your hand, Jon, Evan, and I have written it for you. We want you to be confident that Coyote’s Guide can be adapted to work wherever you are, in situations as diverse as we can imagine.“ Ellen Haas
“You feel deeply the value of direct experience with nature in your own life and want to transmit it to others. Some of you were fortunate to grow up free to roam and hunt and fish and build tree houses in the wild places near your home with parents and mentors who encouraged you – and you want to pass on the tradition. More of you are members of the first generation that didn’t have that privilege – and you want to resurrect the tradition.
Parents, teachers, counselors, guides, and mentors, all who find this book in your hand, Jon, Evan, and I have written it for you. We want you to be confident that Coyote’s Guide can be adapted to work wherever you are, in situations as diverse as we can imagine.“ Ellen Haas
$69 includes postage to anywhere in Australia. Ships from Bellingen, NSW.
How is this curriculum guide organized?
It’s a field guide and a cookbook, made of a Mentor’s Manual and an Activities Guide.
I. Mentor’s Manual
Shifting Routines and Core Routines of Nature Connection explain the practices that learners do. Repeating these invisibly and visibly all the time, in every way and in every situation, develops good habits for connecting with nature.
Child Passions as Teaching Tools, Questioning and Answering, Storytelling, and Music Making highlight the universal instincts that children and playful adults possess, and show how to use these as doorways through which Core Routines and knowledge of natural history may enter the lives of "children from 1 to 100," that is, everyone.
Book of Nature points to the most fertile places to start when connecting people with natural history. It narrows down the infinite possibilities by emphasizing meaningful relationships.
Natural Cycle and Learning and Teaching Cycles convey a vision of how energies move through a day, a week, or a lifetime, giving you a feel for the rhythm that allows you both to plan and improvise for success.
Indicators of Awareness paints a handful of universal character traits fostered through connecting with nature. They describe the goals of Coyote Mentoring in terms of personal growth that emerges naturally through practicing these routines and activities.
II. Activities' Guide:
Activities begin with a Primer Story, provide a brief How-To, take you Inside the Mind of the Mentor, and expand into Alternatives and Extensions. Each activity cross-references to the Mentor’s Manual.
As you choose activities for your lesson plan, consider which Core Routines to practice through the activity, which Child Passions to tap into, which parts of the Book of Nature could be emphasized, where the activity fits in the Natural Cycle, and which Indicators of Awareness you want to cultivate.
This interweaving allows you to create, adapt, or otherwise "cook" your own activities in your own local ecosystem.