[Sdpg] Summer Apprentorship Program for Teens in Natural Building and Permaculture Design

[Quail Springs]

This July of 2006, Quail Springs, a 450 acre Learning Oasis and
Permaculture Farm, operated by the co-founders of Wilderness Youth
Project and Mentoring for Peace, will be offering its first
“APPRENTORSHIP RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM” for TEENS.
 
This unique and innovative 3-week intensive will offer the youth, aged
13-18 an opportunity to gain hands on personal development and
vocational skills in natural building, permaculture design, sustainable
food systems, composting, energy orders, simple aquaculture, ecological
restoration, animal stewardship, wild animal tracking, healthy food
preparation, nature appreciation and awareness, personal and community
relationship building, “old way” earth skills, and many other activities
and learning around the farm and in the surrounding wilderness.
 
Youth participants will have the opportunity to gather essential tools
that will allow them to begin to navigate the journey of uncovering an
appropriate vocation in relation to their inherent gifts and abilities.
Our innovative program design inspires the participants to gain valuable
hands-on experience in a wide variety of life supporting and affirming
tasks, and to bridge the learning-experience gap that most modern youth
encounter by offering immersion in relevant work, life and community
success strategies. Our groups are small which allow for intensive
one-on-one counsel and which give the participant an opportunity to go
through their own experiential processes at a pace that supports their
unique learning capacities. 
 
During the last weekend of the three-week program we invite the families
of the youth to Quail Springs to camp and celebrate the learning and
accomplishments of their children.
 
- words of teens at Quail Springs -
I’ve had so much fun here and this was such a life changing experience.
You’ve taught me so much about my life that I didn’t know.
Thanks a million for everything, Cuyama has changed my life! 
I feel at home when I’m here, I can’t wait to come back.
 

If you are interested in knowing more about this unique program offering
and other programs at Quail Springs, please go to our website at
www.quailsprings.org or call 805-886-7239.
 
 
Dates: July 3-23, 2006
Cost: $1,500 (Some partial scholarships are available)
Where: Upper Cuyama Valley (Central California Mountains, 2 hours into
the mountains east of Santa Barbara)
 
 
In Peace,
 
Warren Brush
Co-Founder
Quail Springs
Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm
w at quailsprings.org 
 
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