Learning Through Play About Our Habitats Together…
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"Our daughter has been a part of Wilding Education for over six months. She’s learning essential wilderness skills and how to be kind and responsible in nature. Storm has created a safe and supportive environment that allows her to be herself. Her teachers are caring, creative, and highly skilled in working with kids. They are also very engaging and communicative about the happenings at school. We are so very grateful to have this educational opportunity."
-Mei Tien
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"We have watched our two children blossom in many ways under the mentorship of Storm Stewart and his Wilding Education curriculum. Spotting birds and eagles, edible plants, nests in trees, and animal tracks in the mud, sharing their new knowledge of plants and animal habitats, their eyes are opened to the many nuances of the natural world in a way they weren't before this year. The mix of outdoor education and nature and play based learning, as well as social emotional learning in a group of their peers has helped them grow in such beautiful ways this year. Storm is a wonderfully playful, patient, grounded, calm and thoughtful mentor. He is receptive to both our children's needs, and ours as parents, and eager to communicate with us for the greater good of our children. But perhaps the greatest testament to Storm's skills and his wonderful program are that our children absolutely love going to school on the days they attend his program! They love him as a human, and they deeply look forward to the time they spend with him and their peers in the woods. As parents, that is the best outcome we can wish for."
-Rain Blond
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"We chose Wilding Ed for our child’s Kindergarten year and have been so pleased with the experience that we plan to continue for another year. We love that our child is spending 18+ hours a week outdoors, learning skills he’ll have forever, like knife work, fire safety, fishing, animal identification, and I’m sure many more. The mentors have fostered close relationships within each group and my child loves going to school each day to see his friends and the group mentors. We love the community of parents and feel lucky to have stumbled on this opportunity."
-Beth Martin
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“We [mother, father, daughter and son] are so grateful for you [Storm]. We all love you! It is so wonderful Sophie and Ari have you in their life! Your empathetic style, kindness, strong leadership and fun loving playfulness add a touch of sunshine school day in gloomy Seattle!”
-Mother of two Forest School Students
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Having walked with elder naturalists by trade like Will Steger, Dan O'Brian, and others, I found that during one on one time of wilderness exploration with Storm Stewart and his approach helping me learn how to ask a whole new set of questions to the approach of the details out here. There is hope in the growing numbers of naturalists in our midsts and to become one and taking a journey with Storm helped me see the tapestry of hope in that it is happening, we are re-wilding, some of us and we are greater than the sum of us and we are to become the elders of the future in greater number. In our curiosity and passion we are the hope.
-Emese Vudy