Living Compass Maui NVC Nature Awareness Family Camp
Deepen your connection to self, Nature and each other playing, learning and growing through Compassionate Communication & Deep Nature Connection in a healthy regenerative community context. Life at its fullest!
Join Living Compass Maui community with Maren Metke, Ingrid Bauer & Jean Claude Catry as we explore feelings, needs and our connection to place in vibrant relationship w/ earth and all Her inhabitants. Food, camp space, amenities provided. Email now to reserve your spot. Limited space available.
Dates: June 27th-29th, 2015
Cost: $395/adult, $175/keiki Location: TBA
Contact: Email: [email protected]
Website link: www.livingcompassmaui.com
Vision and Founding Principles of Living Compass Maui
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono
Our homeschool community learning alliance is founded upon a mentoring model of holistic education. We offer an educational approach wherein close relationship, creatively inspired learning and somatic, experiential inquiry are the fundamental motivating and successful principles for personal and community skill building and healthy interaction between children and adults. Our programming maintains a weekly focus of reading, writing, math, movement and art with wilderness skills, nature awareness, social skill building, ecological outreach and cultural integration at its core.
We offer Thematic Pedagogy through an educational template which is ‘Somatically’ based (inquiry based learning which engages the entire Ecology of the Human Being: psyche and soma, intellect, imagination, feelings, senses, emotions, will and intuition in innate connection with all of creation), offering the children consistent opportunities to fully engage their learning via embodied exploration. Through mentoring and low teacher/ student ratio supported by a richly creative, dynamic and fluid curriculum, we strive to assist each child in recognizing and developing their own innate, unique gifts as how they relate to the whole, while discovering how to healthfully share them with their community and beyond.
We bring our keiki out onto the land to foster deep relationship with Nature as Primary Mentor, cultivating and supporting strong, lasting relationship and connection to place. We venture into the wilds to immerse them in their educational experiences while building earth -centered community connection, growing and harvesting food through the seasons, implementing land and ocean restoration, reforestation and preservation of native ecologies.
Learning Cooperative – Helping Your Child Find Their TRUE NORTH!
* Building sustainable community through holistic education
* Integrated Experiential Somatic Education with mentoring, thematic pedagogy, nature awareness and cultural integration at its core, alongside reading, writing, math, movement and art
* Music, movement, storytelling, cultural skills and arts integration
* Returning to Earth Based Wisdom
* Individualized Learning targeting YOUR child’s unique gifts, needs and ways of learning
* Multi-age learning environment, low teacher/student ratio
* NVC ~ Compassionate Communication classroom
* Multi-cultural peacemaking and relational skill building
* Reclaiming wild intelligence
* Reestablishing our children and ourselves as responsible and thriving stewards of our Earth and positive changemakers for our planet
