Mythology, Poetry & Nature
A Language Arts Educators Retreat
with special guests from the UK/London
Jonny Walker & Adisa the Verbalizer
April 26-28, 2024
“Have you no more memories?'
I am made of memories.
The memories come, and come.
We are all there, goddess and mortal
and the boy who was both.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Rediscover ways to harness the power of nature, creativity and poetry with your students, in this immersive weekend of forest writing. Across the three days, you will take part in a writing experience, which has been developed into a pedagogical approach by the retreat facilitators, who are traveling from London to deliver this course. We will utilize the twin themes of Greek myth and the Four Elements of earth, water, fire and air, in order to shape a lively, practical learning experience for educators, which can galvanize your own creative practice.
This program will empower you to bring transformative, child-centered pedagogies back into your school settings, and will equip you with a rich spread of arts and creative writing activities and ideas that you can immediately put into practice.
Taking place in the unique setting of Hawk Circle, you'll have space to think, to grow, to connect with yourself and to reaffirm your own values as an educator.
获取您可以使用的活动、游戏和工艺品！
无论您正在运营或创建什么样的自然项目，本次住宿培训中的技能和第一手知识都可以帮助您建立信心并填补您的“森林秘诀”。
我们分享在学校、组织、城市环境中工作的技能、游戏和活动，以及具有更多自然区域和更少限制性安全准则的“实地计划”（如允许篝火等）。
您将带着如何使用自己的程序重新创建这些内容的工作知识离开，并重新获得目标感、兴奋感和灵感，从而对您的社区产生积极影响。
这是你将学到的
荒野技能
学习生火、建造避难所、打结、寻找野生食物、用石头当刀、了解动物足迹、学习树木等等
评书
在篝火或餐桌周围为森林教育者分享和学习讲故事。 探索神话原型激发学生的方式。
程序设计
制定课程计划和活动课程，帮助学生学习减压、放松、发挥创造力并随心所欲。
自然工艺品
制作树皮篮、天然纤维绳、编织香蒲、从土地上收集天然材料、制作柳树盘、羊毛毡等等。
Jonny Walker
Jonny Walker is a London-based teacher and children’s book writer, who specializes in the teaching of mythology, creative writing and outdoor literacies. In addition to teaching mythology and poetry students across the UK and India, he has taught 1000+ students online, on the Outschool platform. Jonny is a prolific author of
children’s early reading books, and is published by HarperCollins, Oxford University Press and Scholastic UK. He has also authored a book on how to teach
poetry, with the former UK Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen. He leads the Poetry Teaching Network for the London Borough of Hounslow, and is a former English lecturer for an Initial Teacher Training programme.
Adisa the Verbalizer
Adisa the Verbalizer is a dynamic performance poet, also London-based, who has been working across the UK and internationally for the last 20 years, with people of all ages. Adisa’s poetry focuses on celebration of identity, on family and on the elements. His workshops, both in business and in schools, are famed for their high energy, thought-provoking content and
inclusivity.
His mango-flavored metaphors and lava-filled performances are legendary on the London performance poetry circuit. Adisa is also a passionate cyclist and martial artist, and draws upon this vitality within the retreats.
Ricardo Sierra
Ricardo is the co-founder and co-director of the Hawk Circle Wilderness Education & Retreat Center. He is the host and creator of the Forest Educator Podcast, and several 'Forest Education Training Programs', leading educators, teachers and counselors in skills and approaches that have been successful for decades.
Ricardo has worked in nature based education for adults, families, children, youth and staff for over 35 years, and he's worked in a vast spectrum of educational settings throughout the US as well as in New York State.
“如果您正在向孩子们教授‘森林技能’，那么从您自己的直接经验中了解这些技能的工作原理至关重要。”
我成为“森林教育者”的黄金法则之一是我只教授我自己实际完成的技能或领导活动，所以我了解我的学生在尝试编织篮子或蒙眼走路时正在经历什么，或者建立一个庇护所。 老实说，这些可能令人沮丧， 可以教孩子如何管理产生压力的事件并在我们的支持和指导下找到实现目标的方法。 该程序为您提供多种第一手知识手工艺品、游戏、技能和活动，因此您可以带着自己的课程或学校所需的一切返回。 -Ricardo Sierra_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194-b b3b-136bad5cf58d_
食宿
如果愿意，参与者将留在有暖气的小屋或帐篷中，并在整个强化课程期间享用家常饭菜。 （我们可以提前通知一些饮食限制。）
到达这里
我们位于纽约中部的库珀斯敦附近，可提前通知从纽约奥尔巴尼安排机场、巴士或火车接送服务，但需额外付费。
获取我们的路线地址这里如果你在开车！
六天，在纽约州北部。
计划日期： 2023 年 5 月 28 日至 6 月 3 日
课程费用： $1,600
包括整个一周的住宿、膳食以及所有教学和工艺材料。