Family Deep Nature Connection Overnight - 2 Nights

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For Families with Kids Ages 5-12 / Maximum 6 families ​🌏 Location: Aldeia do Vale, Mafra, Portugal - precise location shared upon registration.

2 nights with your child(ren) to timelessy immerse in the nature of your parent-child relationship. Play, explore your bond, eat and share with other parents and children who share your curiosities within a wild landscape.

​🌟 What Awaits You:

​🌿 Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants ​🦦 Games for Nature Connection ​🌄 Exploring Wild Places ​🏕️ Bushcraft Skills ​🧙 Expert Nature Connection Mentoring ​🍂 Sensory Awareness ​🌅 Storytelling ​🕯️ Knowledge of Place ​🍃 Making Friends With Nature 😉 Parents-only and Kids-only Moments

​🌚 Overnight Experience: Immerse your family in a guided journey through games, meals, naturalist and survival skills, stories, and adventures all crafted to bring us into direct relationship with nature and each other.

Our adventure will be steered by the 8-Shields mentoring model, a holistic approach to expanding our knowledge of place and deepening personal relationships with the natural world. Biophilia! Developed in close collaboration with people of earth-based cultures who hold the highest standard of naturalist knowledge, sensory awareness and connection with all living beings, the 8-Shields model guides us through regenerative culture and joyful nature-connection mentoring. Learn more about nature-based mentoring and the 8-Shields.

⛑️ Safety: We intend first and foremost to provide an experience in which participants can come to realize that nature is Safe, Fun, and to be Respected. The safety of us all is our priority. There will always be an instructor with First Aid Certification in all programs.

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🥬 Food: We’ll open our adventure on Friday with a shared potluck dinner! You bring a dish to share. After that, foraged and farmed, high-quality, nutrient-balanced, meals will be provided for the duration of the program. We are driven to support a healthy earth by feeding our bodies with healthy food. We will accommodate your dietary needs when you state them at checkout.

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🏡 Accommodation: "When you take civilization on your back, you put a barrier between you and the mother – and then we wonder why we're disconnected from the Earth."† In the spirit of connection, we will minimize our sleep setups, while ensuring safety and wellbeing. Bring your own tent or tarp and appropriate sleeping gear, or sleep in your own vehicle. We'll spend our days and evenings with tall pines, shining acacias and fragrant rock rose. † Paraphrased from Tom Brown Jr

⭐️ ⭐️ Reviews from past participants⭐️ ⭐️

"The main idea was to spend a different weekend to bond in nature with a program that resonates with our values.  We were happy to go on a little adventure, opening up playfulness to learn new games in nature and meet other families that also resonate with this way of educating our children. The experience met our intentions of bonding as a 'newly reconstituted' family with meeting inspiring facilitators in the field! Thank you so much for this wild opportunity which we will highly recommend to others."

- Jaya, Mother

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