“We are not separate from nature; we are nature expressing itself.” Joanna Macy

Satisfies High School volunteer hours requirement

Earth Sense Apprenticeship

Attune to Nature. Imagine Together.

Learn from the Land. Lead in Your Community.

Spend the summer outside — learning from nature, from indigenous wisdom, and from each other. Then bring what you discover back to your school and community.

  • Learn how nature regulates your nervous system — and why that matters for stress, anxiety, and focus.

  • Learn how to listen deeply to Earth and how indigenous wisdom can guide you.

  • Learn grounding practices rooted in nature — not screens.

  • Design and lead your own project for your school or community.

  • Earn volunteer hours learning and making an impact.

Sign up by May 31st. Orientation June 7.

🌍 DEEP LISTENING

Deep Listening starts with slowing down — and actually paying attention to the world around you. In this program, you'll learn that the natural world has been communicating all along. Indigenous cultures have known this for thousands of years. We're just remembering how to tune in.

✨ REIMAGINING OUR NEW WORLD

A lot of what we've been taught about our relationship to nature — and to each other — isn't working. This is your space to question that, dream differently, and imagine what a better world could look like. Not alone, but together as we harvest and integrate the messages we receive from nature.

Three Foundational Modules:

#1 Understanding the Mind 

#2 Reclaiming our Earth Bodies 

#3 Heart resonance with Nature

SUMMER 2026: Learn Earth-based practices

  • Choose at least 3 of 6 outdoor nature immersion experiences:

  • June 17, June 24, July 8, July 22, Aug 5, Aug 12 (Wednesdays, 3 hours between 2:00-6:00pm) » 3-15 volunteer hours

  • Optional monthly check-ins during office hours

Embodied practices will guide you to your innate wisdom and how to share your unique gifts with the world.

FALL 2026: Dive deeper. Create your peer-to-peer Ripple project

  • Meet with mentors and cohort at least once a month

  • Earned volunteer hours will depend on hours invested in individual projects

  • Optional Wilderness trip

❋ Collaborative Energy

Some of the most powerful moments happen in the group. You'll meet peers who think differently, feel deeply, and want to make a difference — just like you.

❋ Expert Facilitation

Led by experienced guides who know how to hold space, encourage participation, and engage intention.

Not teaching wisdom at you, creating conditions for you to sense your way back to something you already carry within.

What You'll Walk Away Knowing

  1. Being present is actually a superpower

  2. Your body holds wisdom your mind hasn't caught up to yet

  3. The Earth is not a resource — it is a relationship

  4. Feeling disconnected isn't your fault, and you're not alone in it

Codes

  1. Protect life 

  2. Cultivate awareness

  3. Act with compassion

  4. Live in reciprocity

  5. Speak truth with courage

  6. Build what heals 

  7. Never turn away from suffering

Phases

  1. Awakening

  2. Inner Transformation

  3. Interconnection

  4. Sacred Leadership

Remembering we belong to Earth.