Coyote Series is in its 5th year, full @ 25 participants each time. This is a unique option to study and practice bringing nature connection and mentorship back into the fabric of community.

Consider a year-long journey, and taking a lead on being the adult, parent, auntie, uncle, grandparent, community leader you always wanted to be. The one who inspires young and old to get out the door into a wider world. The one who creates healthy communities through simple gestures and ways of being.

This yearlong course for adults introduces the tools and process of the 8 Shields Model for Nature Based Mentorship as practiced at The Guelph Outdoor School. Participants engage monthly video, reading, and journalling home-study resources and then meet at the GOS on a monthly basis to unpack the learning together, and experience the content first hand. This unique, effective, and timely course is an excellent option for parents, educators, social workers, occupational therapists, and anyone with young people in their lives, and anyone who knows that the nature connection journey is central to individual and community health.

Getting kids nature connected requires nature connected adults. As such, this course focuses on the creating nature connected adults, who can in turn, be effective mentors. That is, while this is all about the tools of mentoring kids and supporting nature connection in young people, in this course, we use those tools on ourselves first :)