Youth Summer Day Camps
(ages 6-15)
Relational Nature Education, Movement, Mindfulness, Art & Wildcraft
:: Community circles ::
:: Movement ::
:: Mindful Wandering ::
:: Art & expression ::
:: Wildcrafting ::
:: Games ::
:: Journaling ::
:: Stories ::
:: Closing circle ::
Skills & themes
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Daily Flow:
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relational education: (building relationship between self & nature)
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co-creating community
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choice & autonomy
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artful expression
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using nature as a co-regulator
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mindful awareness
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ease and curiosity in wild places
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."
-John Muir
This camp will allow your child to explore different aspects of themselves through drama, art, nature connection and movement. The instructors for this camp are Bri, Andre and Shea at the amazing Confluence Arts Center.
Over the week we will teach and practice new skills and avenues for creative expression, culminating in a creative, emergent "performance" of authentic creative expression at the end of the week.
We utilize the following modalities to support creative expression in a safe container: role play, community building, improvisation, expressive movements, handicrafts and visual arts, mindfulness, somatic (body) awareness and nature as a mirror. 15 spots available
Morning: Community circle, movement & mindfulness (infusion of dance, yoga, qi gong or other somatic supports)
Mid morning: collective drama activity, story, songs, or wilderness experience
Lunch: Please pack a lunch from home
Afternoon: Arts, crafts and creative expression
Late afternoon: Games, free play & closing circle
This camp will allow your child to retreat into a full nature immersion, with hands on skill building. Drawing upon the Wilderness Awareness Institute, and their practices in nature education, this. is an opportunity for your kid to learn things that are often not taught in school..
This is a great opportunity for kids to begin to feel at home in the natural world, discover their interests, pique the curiosities about the way things work and put skills and questions to use. We will engage in community building with eachother and the natural world. And will practice skill- building such as: cordage, knife skills, fire-building, wild foods, working with clay, handicrafts, and sensory awareness games.
15 spots available
Our Flow:
Morning: Community circle, movement & mindfulness (infusion of yoga, qi gong & other somatic supports)
Mid morning: collective game, story, songs, and wilderness excursion or experience
Lunch: Please pack a lunch from home
Afternoon: Focused skill building & creative wildcrafting
Late afternoon: Games, free play & closing circle
This is an all girl's camp collaboration with Wild Rivers Collective (Maggie, Hanna & Shea). 12 spots available.
A sweet, safe and whimsical place for tweens/teens to explore their own blossoming and foster loving, healthy relationships with others, along with receiving strong, rooted mentorship. This camp is for those who have bodies with wombs, all genders welcome. We will touch on the following themes:
- self care & self love
-community building and trust building with other girls
-healthy communication practices, truth speaking
-body rhythms and supports for coming moon time
-listening to intuition & noticing synchronicities
-connecting to nature as a mirror
-creative expression (song, visual arts, handicrafts)
Morning: Community building, movement & the art of council
Mid morning: mythic story telling, educational experiences, or land-based experiences
Lunch:: Please pack a lunch from home
Afternoon: Skill building & wildcrafting (herbal medicine, natural dyeing, uses for flowers, wand making etc.)
Late afternoon: Games, free play & closing circle
Youth Physical and Emotional Safety Policy:
We hold contract with program leaders who are licensed educators, educational assistants, or have at the very least received a basic background check. Our adult to child ratio is always 6 youth-1 adult. Since we are doing a majority of our educating outdoors, there is always at least one guide who is CPR trained and basic first aid care.Our focus is creating safe agreements for youth to speak their truth, feel both physically and mentally safe. We do this by creating basic community agreements that we reflect upon each day. We utilize non-violent communication practices and focus on repair vs punishment when solving problems between youth or staff.
Payment policy: Please note full payment for camps is due by May 1st. Payment links will be sent upon registration and will be due by May 1st.
Cancellation policy: `Please note the cancellation deadline is May 1st. If you cancel before May 1st that gives us enough time to offer the spot to another child.
Refund policy: Full refunds are offered in lieu of an emergency, otherwise any collected payment will be credited towards future offerings.
Sickness policy: If the instructor(s) is sick, or out for an emergency, you will receive a credit towards the future offerings.
Meet the Guides
Shea Bodine- Lead Guide
Hannah Kullberg- Lead Guide
Shea Bodine is a mama, mentor, educator and nature-lover. She grew up in the Southwest and continues to enjoy learning about the plants, animals and indigenous peoples of the PNW. She is a mama to two boys and her heart is most illuminated when spending time with kids in nature. She is a licensed bilingual K-12 educator. When she’s not outside with kids, she works as an resilience coach in public schools and leading teen rites of passage offerings You can find her working in her garden, making music, playing by the river, crafting or baking.
Mother, Farmer, Nature-Lover, Hannah brings her joy of the seasons, medicinal plants, flowers and seeds. Hannah leads with love, celebrating the creativity and wild joy of children. Choosing to see all of us for our gifts and our best abilities and support through transmutation of shadows. Hannah has led plant education with Oregon Outdoor School and farm-fresh cooking education with youth with the Poughkeepsie Farm Project.
Andre Dimapilis- Lead Guide
Founder Rooted Resilience
Founder Wild Rivers Collective
Nature-based Educator
Rites of Passage Guide
Licensed K-12 educator
Kid's mindfulness and movement facilitator
Bilingual: Spanish
Brianna Taylor- Lead Guide
Brianna Taylor is a dance artist and educator, yoga instructor and bodyworker based in Jacksonville, FL and Oregon. Her work as an artist and educator is rooted in collaboration and community care, improvisation and experimentation, and practices of listening to and honoring the wisdom of the body. She founded Confluence Performance Project in 2014, and recently opened Confluence Arts Center in Scotts Mills, OR, in collaboration with Andre Dimapilis and her family. Brianna’s work has been shared around and outside of the US, where she’s also collaborated and performed with many amazing artists. Brianna has been teaching dance and yoga to students of all ages for 20+ years, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Florida. She has previously taught at FSCJ, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, Elon University and Salem College.
Andre Ignacio Dimapilis is a Filipino-American culture-bearing theatre artist, educator, and peaceful warrior. He specializes in using theatre and performance to invite participants to creatively process their feelings and think critically about the world around them. Andre has been sharing spirit & love through the healing power of sound with his sound healing business, Kalayaan Sound. Andre has an MA in Applied Theatre at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and has 22+ years of experience as Drama Teacher, Teaching Artist and Social Justice Facilitator.
Sam Kirkpatrick- Asst. Guide
Sam Kirkpatrick is new to Oregon but not the PNW, she and her family recently moved back from the midwest. She has two dogs, two kids, an assortment of poultry, and a deep love of nature. In her free time she can be found learning new skills or looking for rocks! She has a wealth of knowledge of all things wildcraft, art and practical skills.