Iluka Bush School Term 1 Tuesdays

Bush School – Creating a sense of wonder, fun and curiosity

Join our community of Bush School families to inspire and help your children to learn through outdoor play.

Our goal is for all participants, both children and their carers’ to connect with nature to achieve the personal attributes of inner happiness, commitment to mentoring, empathy and respect for nature, being truly helpful, full aliveness, love and forgiveness, and a quiet mind.

The philosophy of Bush School is to encourage an exploration of nature and the cycle of the seasons through interactive learning with play.

Session Formats

Our Bush School commences with a warm welcome for new and returning participants followed by a range of activities including:

• · Sit Spot – is simply a favorite place in nature that you visit regularly to cultivate awareness as you expand your senses and study patterns of local plants, birds, trees, animals, etc.

• Story of the day – An opportunity to be able to share experiences, though acting out, show and tell, singing etc. and to be truly listened too.

• Expanding our senses – Animal forms, mind’s eye imagining, activating our quiet mind.

• Tracking/Exploration – Pursuing mysteries, asking questions, exploring.

• Nature mapping – Drawing, telling stories.

• Journaling and nature art – Awe and reverence.

• Animal forms – Imitating animals, acting out stories.

• Wondering – Self-sufficiency, aliveness, inquisitiveness.

• Bird Language – Listening and watching the surrounding birds to understand their basic language. Singing, companion calling, alarms, juvenile begging, territorial aggression.

• Survival living – Self-sufficiency, fire lighting, finding water, shelter building, safe knife usage.

• Gratitude and thanksgiving – a time to reflect and say what made you happy

Our sessions are run every Thursday from the 9th of Feb to the 6th of April. (9 sessions)

The 9-session voucher is $315 and can be used as you will.

Casual drop in is $40 a session for the family. Simply let me know and we will welcome you.

Please talk to us 0447231198, about

• Scholarship availability
• Embracing the gift economy.

Parent/care giver are required to participate and do so for free.

Children and Families

The philosophy of Bush School is to encourage and inspire individuals of any age through an innovative, long-term, educational approach to outdoor play and learning in a bush environment. We believe that when human development is put first, academic, artistic, and vocational successes arise seemingly without effort.

Our goal is for participants to achieve the personal attributes of inner happiness, vitality, commitment to mentoring, empathy and respect for nature, being truly helpful, full aliveness, love and forgiveness, and a quiet mind.

Our mission is to constantly inject into Bush School sessions is a sense of wonder, fun, and curiosity.