Art of Mentoring: Creating Resilient Mentors, Village, & Community
Dear Friend,
For anyone looking to deepen their experience as a mentor and trainer, and to experience the art and alchemy
of what it takes create a village... we recommend the upcoming Art of Mentoring - facilited by Jon Young,
the 8 Shields Institute, and a team of experienced mentors and facilitators from around the country and
world.
This year happening in the Santa Cruz Mountains the second week of August.
More Information below.
-Living Mandala
Art of Mentoring
Creating Resilient Mentors, Village & Community
August 6-12, 2012
Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Facilitated by Jon Young, Mark Morey, Lauren Dalberth, David Hage & a Team of experienced leaders,
facilitators, and educators from around the world.
For More Information Click Here
Because it Takes a Village to…
Engage the gifts of our elders
Create essential rites of passage for our teens
Ensure parents are supported and thriving
Welcome our babies into a world of open arms
Feel deep compassion and gratitude for All of Our Relations
Understand your gifts and how to apply them in service to the people.
Course Description
The Art of Mentoring is a week-long, experiential, nature based program designed to help us remember these
old ways and learn to apply them to our modern communities. Guided by a team of experienced leaders and
facilitators from around the world, Art of Mentoring participants come together to experience, learn
from and co-create a joyful, engaged learning community. You will walk away with tools and embodied
practices of regenerative community design, mentoring techniques, deep nature connection, and an
amplified passion for learning. Deep in all of our roots, there are stories of our ancestors living in
healthy, regenerative communities—villages where people of all ages were in deep relationship with
the land, each other, and themselves. Our hope is to activate and inspire you to create healthy
communities right in your own back yard!
The course is taught through group experiential activities, lectures, storytelling, and music. We will
be both indoors and outside exploring in the field.
This is a Family Friendly Event!
Creating a village where the whole family is welcome, supported and growing together is an important
element to the Art of Mentoring culture. In that spirit, there are youth nature connection programs for
children aged 4-12 and a teen program for youth ages 13-18. Both the teen program and the youth program run
concurrently with the adult program, overlapping for most meals (read further for more information).
Youth Program
The Youth & Kids’ programs include sensory awareness games and exercises, earth living skills, native
scout skills, arts and crafts, music and storytelling, and getting to know the natural world through
“native eyes.” Children learn these skills and knowledge through artful mentoring that taps into
their passions and interests.
The Youth Program for children 7-12 old and the Kid’s Program for 4-6 year-olds make it possible for the
whole family to attend the Art of Mentoring and is a critical part of the living culture of awareness. The
children add the spark of playfulness as they interact with workshop participants at mealtimes and the
evenings. Participants also get to witness mentoring at work with children as the children explore,
imagine and play outside with the guidance of a regional network of instructors. The children in turn have
an enlivened experience of what it might be like to live in a village surrounded by adults looking out for them.
AOM Teen Program: Mountains to Sea Teen Rendezvous
The AOM Teen Program is designed to immerse teens in wilderness living and adventure. Guided by a team of
experienced nature connection mentors, the teens will connect more deeply to the natural world, their
peers and themselves through daily activities including primitive skills, tracking, awareness games,
scout skills, team building, etc.
The week will culminate with an overnight backpack leaving from the Art of Mentoring base camp and heading
out from the mountains to the sea and back again.
Enriching the experience and making it more than “overnight camp,” the Teen Program will have
connections with a community of elders, aunts, uncles, and youth that have formed around the Art of
Mentoring. The teens will leave with an embodied experience of what it might be like to live in a village
surrounded by adults looking out for them. They will play an important role in bringing back the stories of
the landscape to the village at large.
Opportunities for Returning Participants!
This year there is a 2nd level experience in the Art of Mentoring for folks who have previously attended an
Art of Mentoring and want to deepen their experience being a mentor for others. This “Ring 2 experience
will include staff guided nature connection and core routine activities deepening your capacity to
guide others in nature connection and core routines. There is a limit of 20 in this program.
For more Information please email: laurendalberth@...
For More Information Click Here
Living Mandala
Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary Transformation
www.LivingMandala.com
Find Living Mandala on Facebook!
Dear Friend,
For anyone looking to deepen their experience as a mentor and trainer, and to experience the art and alchemy
of what it takes create a village... we recommend the upcoming Art of Mentoring - facilited by Jon Young,
the 8 Shields Institute, and a team of experienced mentors and facilitators from around the country and
world.
This year happening in the Santa Cruz Mountains the second week of August.
More Information below.
-Living Mandala
Art of Mentoring
Creating Resilient Mentors, Village & Community
August 6-12, 2012
Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Facilitated by Jon Young, Mark Morey, Lauren Dalberth, David Hage & a Team of experienced leaders,
facilitators, and educators from around the world.
For More Information Click Here
Because it Takes a Village to…
Engage the gifts of our elders
Create essential rites of passage for our teens
Ensure parents are supported and thriving
Welcome our babies into a world of open arms
Feel deep compassion and gratitude for All of Our Relations
Understand your gifts and how to apply them in service to the people.
Course Description
The Art of Mentoring is a week-long, experiential, nature based program designed to help us remember these
old ways and learn to apply them to our modern communities. Guided by a team of experienced leaders and
facilitators from around the world, Art of Mentoring participants come together to experience, learn
from and co-create a joyful, engaged learning community. You will walk away with tools and embodied
practices of regenerative community design, mentoring techniques, deep nature connection, and an
amplified passion for learning. Deep in all of our roots, there are stories of our ancestors living in
healthy, regenerative communities—villages where people of all ages were in deep relationship with
the land, each other, and themselves. Our hope is to activate and inspire you to create healthy
communities right in your own back yard!
The course is taught through group experiential activities, lectures, storytelling, and music. We will
be both indoors and outside exploring in the field.
This is a Family Friendly Event!
Creating a village where the whole family is welcome, supported and growing together is an important
element to the Art of Mentoring culture. In that spirit, there are youth nature connection programs for
children aged 4-12 and a teen program for youth ages 13-18. Both the teen program and the youth program run
concurrently with the adult program, overlapping for most meals (read further for more information).
Youth Program
The Youth & Kids’ programs include sensory awareness games and exercises, earth living skills, native
scout skills, arts and crafts, music and storytelling, and getting to know the natural world through
“native eyes.” Children learn these skills and knowledge through artful mentoring that taps into
their passions and interests.
The Youth Program for children 7-12 old and the Kid’s Program for 4-6 year-olds make it possible for the
whole family to attend the Art of Mentoring and is a critical part of the living culture of awareness. The
children add the spark of playfulness as they interact with workshop participants at mealtimes and the
evenings. Participants also get to witness mentoring at work with children as the children explore,
imagine and play outside with the guidance of a regional network of instructors. The children in turn have
an enlivened experience of what it might be like to live in a village surrounded by adults looking out for them.
AOM Teen Program: Mountains to Sea Teen Rendezvous
The AOM Teen Program is designed to immerse teens in wilderness living and adventure. Guided by a team of
experienced nature connection mentors, the teens will connect more deeply to the natural world, their
peers and themselves through daily activities including primitive skills, tracking, awareness games,
scout skills, team building, etc.
The week will culminate with an overnight backpack leaving from the Art of Mentoring base camp and heading
out from the mountains to the sea and back again.
Enriching the experience and making it more than “overnight camp,” the Teen Program will have
connections with a community of elders, aunts, uncles, and youth that have formed around the Art of
Mentoring. The teens will leave with an embodied experience of what it might be like to live in a village
surrounded by adults looking out for them. They will play an important role in bringing back the stories of
the landscape to the village at large.
Opportunities for Returning Participants!
This year there is a 2nd level experience in the Art of Mentoring for folks who have previously attended an
Art of Mentoring and want to deepen their experience being a mentor for others. This “Ring 2 experience
will include staff guided nature connection and core routine activities deepening your capacity to
guide others in nature connection and core routines. There is a limit of 20 in this program.
For more Information please email: laurendalberth@...
For More Information Click Here
Living Mandala
Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary Transformation
www.LivingMandala.com
Find Living Mandala on Facebook!
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