Adventures, Bush Crafts, Survival Skills, Fitness, Nature Connection, Invisible Learning
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Let’s get kids outside, having fun, learning life-saving bush skills and connecting with others.Â
Learning by creating, exploring, being.
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Location: Wildcraft is licensed to operate at the Dungog Common.
If you have a group, we can come to you.
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Aims
To keep traditional bush crafts, survival skills and nature connection practices alive so they keep getting passed on as they have been for thousands of years.
To keep traditional bush crafts, survival skills and nature connection practices alive so they keep getting passed on as they have been for thousands of years.
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What we do each session has so many flow on effects such as…..
- Building children’s confidence and resilience
- Increasing knowledge of and in the outdoors and hence their own ability to survive
- Keeping kids fit and healthy
- Developing teamwork and other life skills
- Allowing time for creativity through crafts, singing, drama and story
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Carers stay with Children under 5 or those who need support. Carers can drop off Children who are capable and 5+years old. Carers are also welcome to stay and join in the activities.Â
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Your Guide
Nikki Brown is the lead guide. Nikki spent a year in the bush living in a shelter that she made herself and learning many survival skills. She has learnt from many of the leading survival skills teachers like Tom Brown, Jon Young, Malcolm Ringwalt, Kate Rydge, Sam Robertson, Claire Dunn, Gina Chick, and more. Nikki’s passion is getting back to basics, using our own hands to create things we want and need, working together and having fun. She loves sharing these ancestral skills with anyone who is keen to learn and for helping people to reach their full potential – mind, body and spirit.
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‘Flow’ gram:Â
Arrival – Meet and greet – forms
Connection to country – welcome – song – warm upÂ
Bushwalk and Bush Skills – often includes a picnic, sit spot, games and activities
Story and Closing Circle
Finish
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Going with the energies on the day.Â
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And because Dungog Common has such amazing bike tracks and the pump track – after we finish the Wild Ones session and have lunch, we often go for a ride on the bike tracks – just for fun.Â
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Pictures and stories can be found on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WildcraftAustralia
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NOTE: This program is designed to be playful, creative and fun and at the same time help kids learn important life skills and survival skills. Carers are welcome to become part of it and the request is that they join in for the games and embrace the spirit of having a go, being kind and playful. We aim to use language that gives choice eg rather than say ‘you have to do this’, we say ‘you get to do this’ or ‘it’s more fun if you do this’. We also aim the keep the sessions screen free and if taking photos, to take them invisibly rather than getting kids to pose for a photo.
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Wildcraft Australia is insured and licensed to operate at the Dungog Common. All guides have WWCC and first aid qualifications.
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