Bay Area, CA
Outdoor Skills Immersion

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 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.

The Tale of the Mariner

The Mariners run the waterways. They build boats, fish and connect our world by wind and sea. A Mariner charts their course by the stars. By trade and salty wisdom they demand respect for the rivers and oceans and all the life in their depths.

Wind on sail powers their movements across nearly three quarters of our planet. Paddle by muscle takes them up rivers, on lakes and the all water veins that run through the mountains to the valleys. They hold law for those that bring ruin to the waters, recognizing the sea as the source of all life on Earth.

The Remembering is here. We have forgotten about the ocean. It has lost an awe and mystery to us. Though, the vastness of its depths weather you in a way unmatched by any force on this Earth. By storm and calm, by power and emptiness, the sea changes you.

Core Studies Include...

Fishing Catch fish not only for the dinner table but to also build connection with the waterways of the land you live. The Mariners go out on monthly fishing excursions in all weather.

Water Ecology Immerse yourself in the natural history of our rivers and ocean. Through field trips to the coast and our local lakes and rivers, we also focus on mariner lore as a core component to connecting to the life blood of our land.

The Story of the Artisan

The Artisans are theater, music and fine crafts folk. Their trade and circus opens our eyes to both noble purpose and subtle, quiet reflection. They carry the stories that remind us of where we've been. They tell the tales that reveal to us who we truly are.

The Artisans are our Storykeepers, travelers bare-of-foot, walking and sleeping under the twilight sky. They evoke drama and humor born by living root in the land. They recall a timeless grief and praise from the very stars above. Their gift is played in celebrations marking the seasons for the children in our stead, asking the moments between these festivals to be filled with a fantastic passion for the day to day of life.

The Remembering is here. Our Story is one of love, forgetting, and an unknown future. This haze we walk through must be assailed. These fears with which we burden ourselves must be shaken loose. At center stage is our very survival, and the choices we make will soon become the Story we Remember.

Core Studies Include...

Theater Improv The ultimate skills for thinking on your feet. Learning to work as a high efficient team is not only about rules of order. On the contrary, the ability to play "extremely well" hones our awareness of creative solutions for every situation.

Fine Craft Work Get hands on experience with blacksmithing, woodworking and more.

Guild Leadership We all the leadership studies of our guilds: The Curriculum of Shadows, The Way of the Wilder and The Flow of the Mariner and combine them into a path of awareness. Great leaders present compelling stories and visions to everyone around them. But this is not simply inspirational speeches or new age philosophy, instead we put you through intensive scenarios that challenge your capacity to strategize and overcome intense obstacles as a team. Every skills comes into play, Ranger, Wilder, Mariner and Artisan.