Earth Sense Apprenticeship

Attune to Nature. Imagine Together.

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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.

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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 2:00-5:00pm) » 9-18 volunteer hours
Locations TBD: Local parks, beaches, trailheads in/near Santa Barbara
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.

Individual peer-to-peer projects:

Once you learn and experience Earth-based practices, you will have an opportunity to learn how to facilitate the ones you liked best.
You can choose how much time, creativity and passion you put into it.
You could teach a lesson, facilitate an experience, create regular gatherings, or use any type of media to share your new knowledge.
These can be tailored to one or more friends, family, or an entire group you are involved in (class, club, team, extracurricular activity, etc.).
Opportunities to earn volunteer hours (or boost your resume) include (1) learning how to facilitate, (2) being mentored to develop and carry out your project, and (3) facilitating peers and reporting back about it.

FALL 2026: OPTIONAL Deeper Dive

Create your peer-to-peer Ripple project based on what inspired you
Tailor your project to your community of choice
Meet with mentors and cohort at least once a month for project support
Earned volunteer hours will depend on hours invested in individual projects
Wilderness trip ~ Vision Quest

Examples of projects:

You are part of an environmental stewardship group, and you incorporate nature-based mindfulness to boost the group's emotional resilience to sustain the effort.
Your peers are struggling with the pressures of career and life choices, and you facilitate a nature immersion experience for them to ease the process.
You start a campaign to gather like-minded peers to practice nature-connection regularly at a convenient location.
Your class has a lesson on something related to what you've learned during this Earth Sense Apprenticeship (physiology, psychology, ecology, environmental/social justice, indigenous wisdom, etc.), and you offer to share about or lead an Earth-based practice for your class.

❋ 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.