SCHEDULE OF CLASSES & GATHERINGS
January - November 2009

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

January 31 - February 23 Arts of Life , Hawai’i / Nurturing the Roots, Polynesia. We will travel to O‘ahu for our annual work with the Kamehameha Schools (grades 1, 2 & 7), musician Brother Noland and others.

March 25 - April 1 TTPHI/ NTR, O’ahu, Hawai’i. John Stokes will join Brother Noland and Miki Maeshiro to work with the members of our TTPHI mentor training, now in its second year.

April 17 - 19 Emerging Leaders/ Santa Fe Mountain Center, New Mexico. We will join Ian Sanderson and other staff from the Santa Fe Mountain Center for this leadership training program in northern New Mexico.

April 22 - 26 The Arts of Life, Olympia, Washington. We will join our host Ruth Musgrave for a series of school visits and gatherings with the staff and students of the Boston Harbor Elementary School, grades K - 5. The focus of this visit will be wildlife preservation through education.

May 11 - 24 The Art of Tracking/ The Arts of Life, Brazil. John Stokes will travel to Brazil for a series of presentations with the members of our Brazilian mentor network. A course for youth focusing on the biodiversity and ethnobiology of the Pantanal region is being planned in conjunction with the University of Mato Grosso.

June 6 - 13 Nurturing the Roots / TTPHI, Hawai’i. A team from The Tracking Project will travel to O’ahu and Moloka‘i for the second year of our mentor training with Brother Noland and the participants of TTPHI/NTR.

* June 26 - 28 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: TheTracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $225. Download brochure (pdf).

* July 4 - 11 Hawkeye Training, Cuba, New Mexico. A week-long skills camp for boys ages 12-18, held near Cuba, NM. Skills include tracking, survival, Nature awareness, music, story, dance, comedy and the martial arts. Limited to 30 boys. This will be the 23rd year of the Hawkeye camp! For information and registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967. Cost: $550. Download brochure (pdf).

* July 4 - 11 Hawkeye Scout, Cuba, New Mexico. This will be the eleventh 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: TheTracking Project, (505) 898-6967, Cost: $550.

* July 25 - August 1 Dreamtracking, Cuba, New Mexico. Our week-long skills camp for girls, ages 10 - 16, now in its fourteenth 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. Download brochure (pdf).

* September 12 - 19 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. Limited to 25 people. Cost: $950. For information and registration, contact: The Tracking Project, (505) 898-6967
Download brochure (pdf).

* September 25 - 27 The Art of Tracking / The Arts of Life, The Hollow, New Park, PA John Stokes, Paul Wanta and others from The Tracking Project will join Jamie Moran to offer this tracking course for people on the East Coast. This class is for artists, educators, trackers and others interested in how the art of tracking can deepen their connection with the natural world. For details and registration contact: Jamie Moran, jmoe@earthtones.com , ph. 717-382-1083. Cost: $260 adult, $210 full-time student.

October 6 - 22 The Art of Tracking / Brazil. Our team will travel to central Brazil for a series of gatherings and tracking classes. We are planning a tracking
course in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso as well as meetings with members of our Brazilian mentor network to plan for Círculo dos Saberes IV, a youth and elder gathering dedicated to the preservation and celebration of indigenous knowledge, scheduled to take place in May 2010.

* 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 for this newsletter (December 26, 2008).

<back to top>