Program Description:

This course helps you delve deeper into the survival skills and craft work that were introduced in the Family, Youth and Teen Experience. We will teach advanced shelter, flint knapping, quickie bow making, bark baskets, advanced fire making, brain-tanning hides, advanced stalking and movement, coal burning bowls, pottery and much more. As we create from nature we build our relationship with it and really start to experience living as one with the Earth.

Ages and Prerequisites: Families with children age 7-17

This program is designed for families to attend together and is open for youth and teens age 10-17. Parents must participate in the program with their children. During the program, kids are divided into age appropriate groups and the parents, while participating sometimes with their children, also have their own group to learn the skills. Students must have completed the Family, Youth and Teen Experience course before attending.

Date/Location:

September 13-18
Camp Sheppard’s Mill, New Jersey

Fees:

$1315 for first parent/child
$600 for each additional family member
$795 single youth

* Please note fees increase by $30 if registering after the Early Registration Deadline.

Deposit:            $200 per person attending is due at registration. 
Balance:           The balance for this program is due:      Friday, August 24th
                            If paying by credit card, you may indicate if you’d like us to
                           automatically charge the balance at the due date.

* Financial Assistance is available.  Click here for our Scholarship Application

Registration Deadline and Procedures

Early Registration Deadline:     August 13, 2009
*Registrations are taken past the deadline, but if sufficient registration is not received by the deadline, the program will be cancelled.  This allows time for our staff as well as participants who are flying to make transportation arrangements without fear of program cancellation.  If flying in, please do not book flights until after the deadline.
           
Registration Procedures:
Print the registration form from the website or contact the office to receive via mail. Please make sure a separate medical information page is completed for each family member who will be attending. Submit completed application with the appropriate deposit. You will receive a confirmation including directions and equipment lists upon receipt.