Intensive Skills Programs
See our NEW
Skills Quest Programs for 2012!
An alternative to the "randomness" of individual classes, the specially designed curriculum for each Intensive Skills Program provides a wholistic experience to both the learning and the teaching process, through which you will increase your knowledge and abilities exponentially. But even more important, you will gain a thorough and visceral understanding of the connections between the skills.
Designed to be practical for almost anyone participate, these programs
will NOT require you to quit your job, be away from your family or uproot
your life.
- Each Intensive Skills program is limited to a maximum of 4 or 6 people.
- Participants will meet for one weekend each month for 4 or 6 months. Hunter-Gatherer tribes meet for 3-day weekends, all other programs meet for 2-day sessions on Saturday and Sunday.
- There are no minimum (or maximum) skill-level requirements for any of the Intensive Skills programs. Whether you are a skilled outdoorsperson, someone who has taken classes over the years, or one who has to this point been only an armchair enthusiast makes no difference.
World of the Hunter-Gatherer
Weapons: Tools of the Hunter
Ultimate Hunter: Spirit of the Hunt
Delve deeply into the skills
and resources
needed to thrive in a Hunter-Gatherer
lifestyle. Learn in a wholistic manner,
leaving the randomness of individual skills
behind. Discover a whole new way of
truly becoming a part of the world
around us all and test what you have
learned in the week-long survival outing
that is the culmination of the program.
Throughout the ages the weapons of the
Hunter have changed, but their goal has
remained the same: to protect and feed
the Tribe. Taking lessons from Hunters
around the world, you will learn to make
and to wield a variety of traditional
weapons, and a few more modern ones
as well, including Throwing Sticks, Throwing
Knives, Tomahawks, Slings, Atlatls, Blow
Guns, Bows, Staffs, Spears and more.
Immerse yourself into those skills which were second
nature to the ancient hunter: Stalking, camouflage, tracking, trailing,
awareness, patterning & more.
Learn to use silence, stealth, strategy
and concelament to get closer to your animal than ever before.
Whether you hunt with a camera, a
firearm, a bow, atlatl or stick, this
program will provide you with the tools, skills and strategies to get close to
any animal, any where at any time.
The Heart of the Guardian
The World of the Bow
Secrets in the Stone
More information will become available
on this program in 2012.
Building the perfect bow is a lifetime pursuit,
and making a truly great Arrow is even
more of an challenge! Beginning with
learning to read the bark of a bow-wood
tree, how to cut a stave, and what
"straight" really means when chosing an
arrow shaft, you will plunge full on into
these ancient and traditional arts.
For millions of years stone sustained our
species; without it we simply would not
have survived. Let the ancient art of
Flintknapping guide your journey through
history as you go from creating the basic
tools of early man through to the advanced
flintknapping techniques of the Clovis and
Folsom cultures, and on to methods used
by modern knappers around the world.