WildCraftPlay.com

This is a self-paced training with online support when you are ready.

More About our Wild Craft Play Training

General Details for Founding Members:

We are looking for 10 teachers/community program leaders, facilitators,  who can each assemble  a group of between 6 and 30 young people between the ages of 8 and 12 (grades 3-7).

December until February you will experience an online support program that helps facilitate adventures outside. In the process you will become a Master of Adventure.

This pilot training uses new software to make the learning experience for teachers much more palatable. These are some of the topics we cover;

• How to run Wild Craft Play
• Risk and Hazard Management
• Nature Connection Practices
• Financial and Ecological Literacy
• Coping Mechanisms for Youth with Varying Needs
• Free-Cycling and the Creative Arts
• Place Conscious Ecological Practice
• The Arts of Storytelling & Story-Catching
• How to Integrate Curriculum and Objectives into the Game
• Gamification VS Gameful Design
• External Motivation vs Internal Motivation
• Self-Care and Support

I’ve had many educators and leaders reach out to me asking for my help.

So I had this idea to build a compass to guide teachers and leaders through a “choose your own adventure” App. Filled with videos that you can use to hook young people.  In the back-end, teachers and leaders have access to a ‘how to’ for many different skills and resources such as:

• Facilitating a game as engaging as a videogame, but it’s all in real-life, outside
• Quest writing
• Storytelling, and story catching
• Flexibility and adaptability to teachable moments
• Character development for you and the youth
• Hand skills like making and playing with foam swords or archery 
• Heart skills like coping mechanisms, simple group decision making and conflict resolution
• Wilderness First Aid techniques 
• Appropriate outdoor gear
• Facilitating natural consequences
• Walking gently as a non-indigenous person with reconciliation and preventing cultural appropriation
• Narrative inquiry and the power of story
• To support with self-care practices and much more.

This type of training and online support is crucial not only to the mental health and wellbeing of young people, but to the educators that lead young people. With Covid, young people are bored, overwhelmed, more stressed, less focused, and generally experiencing higher mental health struggles. 

Maybe teachers or leaders are struggling to find engaging ways to get their group outside. Maybe people aren’t used to packing resources in a pouch that leads to endless imagination and creativity. Sounds to me like you may need something that will hook them. Provide confidence for your teachers and leaders in adventurous outdoor play.

No fluff. No messing around, just a simple plan to take teachers and leaders from teaching in the classroom or community center to becoming a Master of Adventure in and outside!

We can help.

With more teachers wanting to practice the art of outdoor education, seeking effective content that meets the Core Competencies, with over 20 years in the field as professional outdoor guides, coaches and educators, Wild Craft Play is a community platform for any teacher to integrate the new BC Curriculum specifically for grades 3 to 7. Whether it is a project-based, “centers” type of activity, each unique teacher is supported to lead their own adventure.

Key elements of engagement are met through our core practices:

• Imaginative and creative play
• Child-lead learning
• Place conscious ecological practices
• Entrepreneurship
• Character identity and development

• Risk management
• Group dynamic management
• Increasing engagement
• A community of support for teachers to discuss and integrate best practices.

More About our Wild Craft Play Training

General Details for Founding Members:

We are looking for 10 teachers/community program leaders, facilitators,  who can each assemble  a group of between 6 and 30 young people between the ages of 8 and 12 (grades 3-7).

December until February you will experience an online support program that helps facilitate adventures outside. In the process you will become a Master of Adventure.

This pilot training uses new software to make the learning experience for teachers much more palatable. These are some of the topics we cover;

• How to run Wild Craft Play
• Risk and Hazard Management
• Nature Connection Practices
• Financial and Ecological Literacy
• Coping Mechanisms for Youth with Varying Needs
• Free-Cycling and the Creative Arts
• Place Conscious Ecological Practice
• The Arts of Storytelling & Story-Catching
• How to Integrate Curriculum and Objectives into the Game
• Self-Care and Support

I’ve had many educators and leaders reach out to me asking for my help.

So I had this idea to build a compass to guide teachers and leaders through a “choose your own adventure” App. Filled with videos that you can use to hook young people.  In the back-end, teachers and leaders have access to a ‘how to’ for many different skills and resources such as:

• Facilitating a game as engaging as a videogame, but it’s all in real-life, outside
• Quest writing
• Storytelling, and story catching
• Flexibility and adaptability to teachable moments
• Character development for you and the youth
• Hand skills like making and playing with foam swords or archery 
• Heart skills like coping mechanisms, simple group decision making and conflict resolution
• Wilderness First Aid techniques 
• Appropriate outdoor gear
• Facilitating natural consequences
• To support with self-care practices and much more.

This type of training and online support is crucial not only to the mental health and wellbeing of young people, but to the educators that lead young people. With Covid, young people are bored, overwhelmed, more stressed, less focused, and generally experiencing higher mental health struggles. 

Maybe teachers or leaders are struggling to find engaging ways to get their group outside. Maybe people aren’t used to packing resources in a pouch that leads to endless imagination and creativity. Sounds to me like you may need something that will hook them. Provide confidence for your teachers and leaders in adventurous outdoor play.

No fluff. No messing around, just a simple plan to take teachers and leaders from teaching in the classroom or community center to becoming a Master of Adventure in and outside!

A bit of Wild Craft Play History:

The program has already been tested and proven successful. The outcomes have been remarkable. I’m looking for people to:

1. Experiment with this new delivery system of an Online App, Online Support and accessing Tools and Resources, and
2. Study together, the findings of my research, and more recent work to find the optimal techniques for engaging young people today.  

To grab one of the remaining spaces email jamie@wildcraftplay.com

Testimonials:

I shared this system with Adrianne, Program Lead at Oak and Orca Bioregional Forest School and the results the youth achieved shocked us both.

⭐ Adrianne says “One of the things that really stood out for me was for the kids to really self-organize. Through Wild Craft Play they were able to see ways that they could organize events, or organize workshops, or sell at a shop. It wasn’t necessarily that ‘your workshop or concert should look like this’  they were able to play and be creative with it.  Kids having roles to be ticket collectors, MCing. Some of the students who were doing those things were some of the harder students to engage in our program. It was really really cool. From a personal perspective, I really loved seeing them work together on things that brought them joy, rather than making a lot of money, but bringing the community together. Like teaching everyone about spells with the wands we made, or about bugs and slugs. I felt that it gave them a really good platform to do that from. It gave them motivation to share some of their gifts.”

“The training and website offered a tonne of information, with clear background on this.”

“I really had fun making my character and getting into character. I really enjoyed being part of the game, rather than an outside facilitator who wasn’t engaging with the kids. That was really neat.

“As a player in the game, who was also facilitating, I would bring a job or opportunity, then they would learn how to do it, then they would do it and teach others.”

“It brought out the entrepreneurial aspect out in the kids”  ⭐

Here’s what you would need to commit to:

• Day 1: Saturday – to prep on Zoom for 2 hours, review training for 2 hours and be in the field (where you will be playing with youth) for 2 hours (a total of 6 hours)
• A few Weeks – to prepare the props, the resources and your plan and prepare your families for the shared learning journey which will start when you are ready – prepare for a January start (or if you want to get a jump on it, early December) 
• Late January, start integrating these resources, techniques and tools into your class.

As founding members, you will work closely with me to learn the Hummingbird Approach, outdoor leadership skills, and prop creation that will hook your young people so that they crave more.

Does that sound exciting to you?

As a Founding Member you Receive:

To Guide Young People to Mental Health with Wild Craft Play so that when you facilitate groups outside, they are super engaged, and you left feeling ignited. 

👉 Your Quest is guided by the Hummingbird Approach, which is a unique facilitation system to  engage youth in a way that encourages them to lead, solve their own problems, and thrive. You need to commit to that 1 day training, and make time to prep resources and plan, then offer a 6-8 week adventure.   

✅ Regular Mastering the Adventure online support calls through Zoom

✅ Weekly Lessons including video for children to watch, pre-written quests to print out and simple how-to to follow as is, or adapt

✅ Private One-to-One Coaching to ensure you get the results you say you want – 1 hour per week

✅ Your own App to download training that you can watch offline, while in the field with your youth

✅ 6 Complimentary 20 minute training videos for teachers and leaders, from professionals across the Pacific North West to add tricks, tips and tools to your tool belt.

The best part is, you will get all of this for a huge discount as a founding member! 

When I do the full public launch, the price will be $997CAD for this program. 

But I have a sneaky reason for giving you a huge discount…

I’m looking for 10 Founding Members, who I can work with closely over the next 8 to 10 weeks to get them incredible results.

I’m looking for future testimonials for what I’m calling the Earth Guide movement!

All I need from you is $297CAD.

“This program brings back the magic and wonderment in the children.” Kelli Rosenbeck

To grab one of the remaining spaces email jamie@wildcraftplay.com

If you are still sitting on the fence, here is what you need to know…

👉 When does it start?

✅ Day 1: Saturday, then you have a few weeks to prepare for a 4- 6 week practicum. We only have a few spots left.

Founding Members of Guide Young People to Mental Health with Wild Craft Play will kick off their journey working closely with Jamie Black, founder of Wild Craft Play to achieve facilitating outdoor programs in a way that leaves youth thriving withOUT fear and self doubt.

👉 Who is it for?

✅ The program is specifically designed for teachers, program leaders and facilitators of groups of youth ages 8 to 12. Designed to put an end to not feeling good enough, not knowing what to do or how to do it. It’s designed for people who’ve tried running programs and “failed” or have attempted and still haven’t been able to engage youth so that they are craving more.

👉 What’s included?

✅ You’ll get personalized coaching, group insight from people around the world and in-the-field invaluable training, valued at $997CAD. 

👉 Will I need a ton of resources?

✅ The core resources that you need can either be purchased or hand-crafted.  You can get creative.  

👉 Will it take a ton of time?

✅ This training is set up to unfold as you complete each section, so that you don’t have to worry about reading a bunch of material at the beginning, or master it all at once, plus the videos are made to be shown directly to the youth, so your “Hook” is made for you!  

👉 I’m not sure if a remote coaching program is for me?

✅ We get that online isn’t nearly as effective as in-person, but direct access to an experienced guide, training that is accessible at your fingertips without needing wifi, and an on-going support system to pull from, is this better than what you currently have? 

👉 Don’t think you have the time, money or energy?

✅ Commit 1 hour a day for 6 weeks, and level up your leadership skills, not to mention transform the lives of these youth

To grab one of the remaining spaces email jamie@wildcraftplay.com