Our Belief:
To know joy and be fully alive, to demonstrate respect, compassion and an eagerness to help others, to approach life authentically and with confidence, to live purposefully with a burning desire to “know,” to walk in balance and experience a sense of connection to place and others; this represents the best of who we are as people.
Our Mission:
To create opportunities for people to discover the best of who they are.
Our Approach:
Nature Awareness and Wilderness Living Education is more important than ever before. At Four Feathers, we recognize the Earth to be our greatest teacher, for it perfectly reflects back to us exactly who we are and what we have yet to learn, free from judgment or criticism. Through nature awareness practices and wilderness living skills such as shelter building, fire making, animal tracking, knowledge of wild edible and medicinal plants, participants not only experience a kinship to the land, but to parts of themselves they scarcely knew existed. We guide the children in our classes through highly motivating, fun, safe, age-appropriate experiences that feel like play, yet help them learn in a deep and powerful way. Adults taking our courses tell us that their experiences were not only grounding and transformative, but helped them reconnect to their joyful, playful, childlike selves.
Cultural Mentoring is the process by which individuals are educated, raised, and mentored by their communities and cultural surroundings. At its most developed stages, a culture will be rich with words of thanks, supported with strong systems of communication, and balanced with equal parts fun and focus. It will foster practices that promote self-nurturing and reflection, celebrate successes, provide rites of passage to help individuals transition from one life stage to the next, and hold a place of honor for its elders. At Four Feathers, we strive to build a cultural basket that will provide people of all ages with an authentic and supportive experience that will serve them as they become designers of their own lives.
Life Coaching is the practice of guiding individuals toward achieving a deep and powerful sense of happiness by helping them explore and dissolve their limiting belief systems so that they may know and trust their true and essential selves. Through coaching we strive to help individuals recognize that the world, and everything in it, is happening for them, not to them. With this realization, everything in life may be seen as a gift that takes us farther along our journey and deeper into the core of who we are.
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