Responsable : danielle@theguelphoutdoorschool.com

Description :

Join us for a year-long exploration of nature connection as reverence, resilience and cultural transformation.  Rooted in joyful celebration and critical reflection, Moon School takes up the questions:  How might we practice nature connection to cultivate webs of care for the land and each other?  What does an embodied, reciprocal relationship to the more-than-human world look like in an age of extinction and human-driven climate change?

Each Moon School session is crafted to reflect what is emerging on the landscape in the changing seasons. Together we'll build naturalist skills like plant and tree identification and animal tracking, and practice ancestral skills like sensory awareness, fire-making, natural crafts, medicine-making and storytelling, and explore how these land-based practices can invite us into reciprocal relationship with the land we live on. At Moon School we learn in community through games, skills, conversation, song, and timeless exploration of thickets and riverbanks, forests and fields.

Now in its 8th year, Moon School is hosted by instructors Dani Hagel and byron murray.  We are nature nerds, artists, writers, folk ecologists and lovers of the Eramosa River valley and the complex web of floral, faunal and fungal relationships that make their homes here.  We intend Moon School to be an inclusive, anti-oppressive space, and are attentive to the challenges inherent in exploring interconnection and right relationship as white settlers on stolen land.

Moon School runs in the late afternoon and early evening, intentionally inhabiting the liminal space between day and dusk (and night in the darkest times of the year), creating a unique opportunity for firelit conversation and sensory awareness.  No other program at GOS is like it.

“Moon School was always a highlight of my month and helped me refocus my busy life around what matters most; connection with people and the natural world.” - Past participant

A typical Moon School session might include…

• Exploring riverbanks, meadows, trails and forests, engaging with the land through the changing seasons

• Using field guides to identify plants, trees and animal track and signs 

• Focused naturalist study of topics like bird language, botany, geology and their interconnections

• Engaging with local plants by tasting teas and preparing wild foods and medicines

• Games and sensory awareness activities to get us in our bodies 

• Fireside discussion of nature-based writing that moves us

Moon School is for those looking for…

• An approach to nature connection that values ancestral (re)connection, decolonization, and reciprocal relationship with the other-than-human world

• Hands-on, embodied learning in a small group setting

• A place to learn about the land through a lens of ecological and social justice

2026-2027 Program Dates
Sunday May 11, 2026
Sunday June 8, 2026
Sunday July 13, 2026
Sunday August 10, 2026
Sunday September 7, 2026
Sunday October 5, 2026
Sunday November 2, 2026
Sunday December 7, 2026
Sunday January 4, 2027
Sunday February 1, 2027
Sunday March 1, 2027
Sunday March 29, 2027

If cost is a barrier, please see our Economics for a Changing World page for sliding-scale and mutual aid options

Places disponibles : Disponible

Prix : 955,00 $ Taxes en sus

Âge requis : Plus de 18 ans au jour de l'activité

Étiquettes : Adult Workshop

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