Bush Kids NWT
Based in Yellowknife, we provide training and mentorship to educators to bring their practice outdoors. We envision all educators in the NWT spending time connecting with nature and community as a regular and integrated part of their practice. Bushkids offers mentorships to teachers, with their students, to help them to feel comfortable implementing on-the-Land learning into their pedagogical approaches delivered in the public school system. Land led learning should be accessible to all children and youth. We are grounded in a Land-based philosophy where Indigenous and Euro-western world views co-exist in a mutually respectful and welcoming space (i.e. “ethical space”).
Supporting Wellbeing
Supporting Wellbeing provides tools and resources for individuals who deliver land-based programming, helping equip them to mitigate and respond to mental health challenges while on-the-land. The program was designed by and for Northern, Indigenous, land-based programmers.