Wild Community Events
From Spring until Winter each year, the LIVING BOOK OPENS and The Wild School hosts a series of village events, an opportunity for the wider community to take part in our 5 Sacred Pathways of Cultural Repair:
Food as Medicine, Nature Connection, Art, Ceremony & Village Making.
Our calendar of Wild Community Events begins in Spring 2023 & runs for the 9 month duration of The Wild School Live Program!
We come together with The Wild School students during these community events and Changeover Pathways.
GRADUATION and SOLSTICE CEREMONY!
Come & Celebrate the Village and the new WILD SCHOOL graduates as they complete their 9 month journey through the 5 Sacred Pathways of Wild School!
Further Details to be announced - check back here soon!
PATHWAY 5: VILLAGE MAKING
PATHWAY 5: VILLAGE MAKING
The 4 previous pathways culminate and the Village emerges!
Express your highest gifts to your community: leadership, kinship, regenerative design all weave together as a foundation for the rest of your life.
Experience the magic of true village.
$1000 OR $700 in PATHWAYS PACKAGE
PATHWAY 4: CEREMONY & RITUAL
Join us for 5 days as we explore the 4th Pathway for Cultural Repair; CEREMONY & RITUAL.
This is the pathway of pattern and cycles, creating new traditions. Just after Easter 2-6 April we gather for Ceremony and dive into personal rituals for wellbeing and connection.
PATHWAY 3: ART AS MEDICINE
PATHWAY 3: ART AS MEDICINE
Join us for 8 days of creative expression and exploring the healthy expression of your personal gifts in service to the Village. We are all CREATIVE artistic beings in Cocreation with a living Universe.
$1000 or $700 in PATHWAYS PACKAGE
PATHWAY 2: NATURE CONNECTION
2ND PATHWAY OF WILDSCHOOL: Nature Connection Pathway
Learn skills in direct connection to Nature. Deep nature connection practices for reconnection and wellbeing - foundations for LIFE!
$1200 per adult or $900 in the PATHWAY PACKAGE
PATHWAY 1: FOOD AS MEDICINE
FOOD AS MEDICINE PATHWAY, the foundational pathway for The Wild School. Available only to Wild School participants in 2023.
This pathway is about fully inhabiting the body to reinstate body as physician- reclaiming our personal relationship to the all providing Mother Earth, and our capacity to heal and thrive in a self-empowered, relational way, with Nature as ally.
Preparing the Body for reconnection to Creation, to Country. This pathway is critical for preparing the body for the journey ahead, and is the foundational pathway.
PERMACULTURE, SYNTROPICS, AGROFROESTRY, REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE .
First food experiences are critical in people’s deep psyche, people embody their trauma through their food experiences. Absorbing culture , maintain or detering connection through the food one eats and the culture around food. Reclaiming and nourishing the epigenetic response and health in relation to place.
This pathway Includes personal dietary questing, detoxing, learning permaculture, herbal medicine, natural remedies, regenerative agriculture, organic cultivation, wild foraging and developing a village food culture
This year’s Food As Medicine Pathway includes at the weekend the community event “NEVER LAND” with Stephen Jenkinson, ”Culture, Agriculture & the Striving for Belonging” and “A Night of Grief and Mystery” here on Gumbaynggirr Country, Bellingen NSW Australia.
$800 as part of Pathways Package ONLY. Never Land weekend is available to the public and can be booked separately here.
A Night of Grief & Mystery - Rough Gods World Tour
A Night of Grief & Mystery combines stories and observations by author/culture activist Stephen Jenkinson, drawn from his decades of work in palliative care, with original songs/sonics by recording artist Gregory Hoskins. These two Canadian artists have been exploring the intersection of their work for 8 years, across 3 continents, in 3 recordings and 2 short films. They come to the road now in 2023 as they did in the beginning: the two of them, a singer and a storyteller, out into the mystery days. The year will bring the pair to Israel ,USA, Scandinavia, UK/Scotland, Australia/New Zealand before travelling across our home country, Oh Canada.
Concerts for Turbulent Times they surely are. Not poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. The Nights are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. Love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would you call such a thing? They called it Nights of Grief & Mystery.
Never Land ~ Culture, Agriculture and the Striving for Belonging - a weekend with Stephen Jenkinson hosted by The Wild School
The Wild School welcomes you to our first weekend in the Village Events calendar ~ NEVER LAND: a weekend with our friend & teacher Stephen Jenkinson.
Join us in The Promised Land, Gleniffer, Gumbaynggirr Country (10 minutes out of Bellingen township) NSW Australia, from Saturday afternoon from 4pm, through to Sunday Evening 10pm. We will share a supper on Saturday evening and a long lunch together on the Sunday afternoon between sessions.
Full program will be provided to ticket holders.
Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW is a worker, author, storyteller, musician and culture activist. In 2010, he founded Orphan Wisdom, a house for learning skills of deep living and making human culture that are mandatory in endangered, endangering times. It is a redemptive project that comes from where he comes from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time he won’t live to see. When not on the road, he makes books, succumbs to interviews, tends to labours on a small farm, mends broken handles and fences, and bends towards lifeways dictated by the seasons of the boreal borderlands.
A former counseling director of palliative care at a major Canadian hospital, Stephen is renowned for his speaking and writing on the subject of death and dying. In fact, the breadth of his thought and work extends far beyond the death trade, touching on many aspects of culture, notably language and etymology, money, agriculture, and the ‘unauthorized history of Western civilization.
From Stephen on Never Land:
“People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do?
The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this would entail a kind of intolerable inheritance. We’d quickly become the ancestral monsters no one would claim as their own. It’ll be a psychic DNA whose indelible stain won’t be amenable to cosmetic fixes.
We are children of strange times. Our birthmarks are both troubled and troubling. We do not, most of us, belong. We inhabit, we own, instead. Being in the world but not of it: that was once a foundation of Western spirituality. It will end up being a stain by which we will be held in disrepute. Our way with the land entrusted to us bears the marks of our unbelonging. Given the fact that we don’t have a long time here, we should proceed with an undesperate degree of urgency in the matter of land stewardship. There is a fine decision to be made: we bear the mark of our unbelonging either as an affliction or as an assignment.
Those coming to this event may have, voluntarily or not, opted for the latter.
In this gathering we will raise these questions until they attain deliberateness and intention. We will work on inheritance, prejudice, spirit work, grief and wisdom. We will work with what is difficult to recognize and hard to live with.”
– S.Jenkinson
