SCHEDULE OF CLASSES & GATHERINGS
January - November 2010

*Courses which are open to the public are marked with a star*.

January 30 – February 22 Arts of Life, Hawai‘i / Nurturing the Roots, Mentor Outreach, Polynesia. We will travel to O‘ahu for our annual work with the Kamehameha Schools (grades 1 & 2 ), musician Brother Noland, our mentor group and others.

March 22–29 TTPHI/ NTR, O’ahu & Molokai . John Stokes will join Brother Noland and Miki Maeshiro to work with the members of our TTPHI mentor training. We will also take part in a leadership camp on Molokai with a focus on sustainability, organized by Noland and Mike McCartney.

April (dates to be determined) The Arts of Life, Olympia, Washington. This year, our host Ruth Musgrave is planning a weekend camp with selected students from the Boston Harbor Elementary School. The focus of our visit will be nature awareness, survival skills and wildlife preservation.

April 21 – May 4 The Art of Tracking / NTR Mentor Outreach, Brazil. John Stokes will travel to Brazil for a series of courses together with the members of our Brazilian mentor network. We have tentative plans to hold courses in Alta Floresta and Brasília.

May (dates to be determined) National Indian Youth Leadership Program (NIYLP) staff retreat, New Mexico. John Stokes and a team from The Tracking Project will join the staff of NIYLP once again for a three-day retreat and leadership camp.

June 4–13 Nurturing the Roots / TTPHI, New Mexico. For the third and final year of their mentor training, the Hawaiian participants of TTPHI/ NTR will travel with Brother Noland to the Land of Enchantment to experience the wildlife and mountains of northern New Mexico.

* June 25–27 The Art of Seeing, The Way of the Tracker, New Mexico. Joel Glanzberg (teacher of permaculture and landscape design) will join John Stokes for an immersion experience in the art of seeing. Together John and Joel
blend the pattern recognition / literacy of permaculture and tracking into a deep exploration of Nature, sustainability and whole systems. For information and registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $250. Click here for more information.

* July 10–17 Hawkeye Training, Cuba, New Mexico. A week-long skills camp for boys ages 12–18, held near Cuba, N.M. Skills include tracking, survival, Nature awareness, music, story, dance, comedy and the martial arts. Limited to 30 boys. This will be the 24th year of the Hawkeye camp! For information and registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $550. Click here for more information.

* July 10–17 Hawkeye Scout, Cuba, New Mexico. This will be the twelfth year for this advanced training camp for young men. Skills include advanced tracking, stalking, movement and living on the land. Limited to 13 young men. For information and registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $550.

* July 24–31 Dreamtracking, Cuba, New Mexico. Our week-long skills camp for girls, ages 10–16, now in its fifteenth year. Offering basic tracking and survival skills, music, story, dance and natural movement training, this camp is a counterpart to our Hawkeye Training camp for boys. Limited to 30 girls. For information and registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $550. Click here for more information.

* September 11–18 Tracking in the Southwest, New Mexico. Join us for this Southwestern tracking intensive—a hiking, camping and tracking journey to the heart and soul of northern New Mexico. A unique opportunity to learn about animal tracking, survival skills, Native cultures and the Arts of Life while camping out in the land of the Anasazi. This year Brother Noland from Hawai‘i and Master Greg Vaccaro from Montana will join our staff to share music and the martial arts! Limited to 25 people. Cost: $950. Click here for more information.

October (dates to be determined) The Art of Tracking / Brazil. Our team will travel to Brazil for a series of gatherings and tracking classes. The cities we visit will depend on the groups we were able to work with in May. Possible sites include Fortaleza, Campo Grande and Florianopolis. Please note: We take part in many other gatherings and events throughout the year. These listings are the dates which were fixed by publication time (December 30, 2009).

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