Ongoing Programs

Women in the Woods: Owl and Turtle Clans
Seasonal overnight adventures in wilderness skills, with four weekend gatherings each year. Make crafts from the gifts of the land, share stories around the campfire, learn to make fire without matches, increase your navigational skills, build shelters, and develop your knowledge of the trees and plants of this land. Learn how the earth provides for you, and feel the exhilaration and rejuvenation of meeting natural challenges with the support and fun offered by a community of wild women. Spaces are available now for October 2009.

Chickadee Rain
Weekly wilderness mentoring for homeschooled boys; Tuesdays during the school year from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with an overnight each semester. Learn about nature, the art of survival, and wilderness awareness through making fire, shelters, and nature crafts; hearing  stories, playing games, and taking adventures; and learning how to survive in the woods in a way that respects the Earth. In Chickadee Rain we learn to understand nature as a family of friends and relatives who have a great deal to teach and  provide us. Spaces are available now.
12 Tuesdays, beginning Feb. 23, with a sleepover in May; $550.
E-mail info@flyingdeernaturecenter.org for more information.

School programs
Flying Deer Nature Center offers weekly and biweekly nature education programs during school hours, working within each school's and grade's study plans to co-create an exciting and educational cross-curricular experience. Current school programs include a collaboration with Mountain Road School in New Lebanon, NY. For more information on setting up an FDNC program at your child's school, e-mail info@flyingdeernature.center.org.

Sisters of the Earth
Two exciting days of wilderness mentoring for girls ages 8 to 13; location this spring is in Harlemville, New York. Through games, crafts, shelter-building, and study of the land, girls grow their strength (internal and external), self-confidence, and self-knowledge within a fun, supportive community of peers.
April 6 and 7, 9 am to 3 pm each day. $105.
E-mail info@flyingdeernaturecenter.org or call 518-794-6687 for more information.

Moon Tribe
Coming-of-age program for adolescent girls. This program is currently closed; enrollment will begin in late summer 2010.

Sacred Fire: Boys' Rite of Passage
Coming-of-age program for adolescent boys. This program is currently closed; enrollment will begin in late summer 2010.

For more information on our ongoing programs, e-mail info@flyingdeernaturecenter.org or call 518-794-6687.