Fall Term

Postponed until 2012

The Fall season is when we build your team communication, sailing and permaculture design skills.

Dates

Sail Training, Team Building and Ki Training*
9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, Berkeley, CA
The first weeks are spent learning the essentials of sailing and navigation, preparing for the voyage North. We also focus attention on connecting, building trust and establishing the culture of mutual support that is foundational for our experience during the rest of the immersion program. Training in Ki and Aikido provide embodied as well as mental preparation for the potentially challenging situations we may face throughout our experience together.

Coastal Passage Making*
24/7, Pacific Ocean
Sail the 49' Ketch "Windfish" from the San Francisco Bay north along the coast to Fort Bragg, CA. Practice your new found sailing and navigation skills in the most intensive classroom on the planet. Explore the coves and harbors of the rugged California Coast, learn to use the land as cover as we anchor in a new place each night.

Tracking, Bird Language & Survival Skills
9am-5pm, Comptche, CA
Hone your tracking skills, learn to identify different gaits over a variety of substrates. Practice scout skills such as stalking, camouflage, and tactical thinking. Train wilderness survival and connect to the land around you.

Offshore Sailing and Navigation*
24/7, Pacific Ocean
Sail Windfish on open ocean overnight offshore passage. Our destination is Monterrey, CA, here we practice our primitive navigation and discover how ancient people moved safely across the globe. We put these skills into practice as we head offshore once more on our way back to the San Francisco Bay.

Travel to Costa Rica
Make your way to Costa Rica. Students are responsible for their own travel expeneses to and returning from Costa Rica.
Optional 2 week internship at Punta Mona farm, developing infrastructure and setting up for the PDC. Contact Us for details

Permaculture Design Course
24/7, Punta Mona, Costa Rica
Through a 2-week Permaculture Design intensive, you learn the basic principles of permaculture design and recieve your design certification. Get in touch with the land and turn your observations into productive natural designs. Harness the passive energy of the world to increase diversity, accomplish human needs, design food forests, water catchment and filtration, and waste management systems among other things.

Naturalist Studies/Edible and Medicinal plants/ Survival skill basics
9am-5pm, Punta Mona, Costa Rica
Learn from a local naturalist about the patterns of birds, mammals and sea life in this region. Become confident identifying plants of the region both for food and medicine. Practice basic survival skills like lostproofing, friction fire, cordage making, and shelter.

Permaculture Installation Intensive
9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, Berkeley, CA
Work with experienced Permaculturists and put your newfound design skills to work. Go more in depth with real construction and problem solving of our permaculture designs. These installations provide locals with clean water and other life giving systems. In this section we slso spend time discussing the current situation in the world from agro-business and pollution to grassroots organizations and government measures around sustainable human development.

Tuition

3-Month Fall Term Postponed until 2012
All Wilderness Immersion Programs require a deposit of $1200 (including $500 non refundable application fee)
*Transportation fees not included
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