Bay Area, CA
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, Assistant Instructor
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. You get an opportunity to develop the skills of your choosing while applying them as an apprentice outdoor educator in our youth camps. Programs the Our Outdoor & Environmental Educator Training Program applies to includes…
Outdoor Skills Immersion Program Attend 1 weekend a month for 9-months. Train the skills of your choice
Our Outdoor Weekend Immersion Program includes wilderness survival and primitive skills, animal tracking, The Curriculum of Shadows, wild plants, homesteading crafts and regenerative design and restoration.
Taking the above class as a Our Outdoor & Environmental Educator Training Program program and the significantly reduced tuition also entails multi-week commitment to working as an assistant in our youth camps. Please see below for more details.
Register for Outdoor & Environmental Educator Training Program
Ages Adult
$95
non-refundable membership fee due upon acceptance Program Commitment 5-weeks in the summer See below Various locations in the Bay Area, CA |
Membership Fee
Membership is a $95 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 TBA in June
Youth & Summer Camps Various weeks June-August, plus winter and spring breaks
Outdoor Skills Immersion 1 weekend a month September-June
Program Commitment
1-Weekend a Month Outdoor Skills Immersion (9-months) Attend one of our weekend immersion courses requires 6-weeks of apprenticeship at our 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.
Core Studies Include...
Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills Learn how to tend to your needs of shelter, water, fire and food while also tending to the land around you.
Animal Tracking See through the eyes of ancient tracker. Develop the ability to follow and find bear, bobcat, cougar and deer.
The Curriculum of Shadows: Nature Awareness and Stealth Take your nature awareness to the next level. Learn how both survival and tracking are actually be about flow. Plus, train to vanish like a frakking ninja.
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.
Core Studies Include...
Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants Train to not only feed yourself from the land but to restore and intensify it through our harvest of both wild foods and medicine.
Homesteading Crafts Live life self-sufficiently while making places for family community to thrive. We cover sustenance gardening, livestock, sustainable livelihood and fiber arts.
The Way of the Wilder: Regenerative Ecological Relationships Hunter-gatherers reshaped their landscape towards generative stability and diversity. This did not come from design, but instead from an intensive culture and deep relationship with the land. Cultivate that same relationship in yourself.
Many outdoor education training programs focus only rote curriculum. Trackers takes it up a notch.
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