Become an Outdoor Nature Skills Instructor

Creating leaders in the nature connection community

-Looking to help the next generation get outdoors more?

-Want to create a nature-based program for your school or organization?

-Seeking a community of passionate environmental educators?

How would you like to spend two full weeks traveling around Austin while learning how to connect children to nature by helping lead outdoor expeditions that include building shelters, making fires, collecting wild waters, making clay pots and wooden tools, eating wild edible plants and using plant medicine to heal our wounds while on our wild adventures? That’s why Natureversity has created the Nature Guide & Teacher Training Program. To help parents, teachers, troop leaders and organizers to have the training and capabilities necessary to execute an inspirational and exciting opportunity for kids in the outdoors. To challenge themselves, learn to work together as a team, build self confidence and find a sense of happiness when it comes to going outside to play.

What Will You Learn?

A balance of Outdoor Wilderness Skills & Nature-based Mentoring

The foundation of our approach to nature mentoring and outdoor leadership training is hands-on learning in order to learn Wilderness Skills of:

• Natural History & Ecology
• Survival & Primitive Skills
• Wildlife Tracking
• Outdoor First Aid
• Traditional Archery
• Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants

With this basic set of skills as the cornerstone of our education curriculum to connecting with the outdoors, apprentices will also learn all about Nature-based Mentoring that include areas of study such as:

• Outdoor classroom etiquette & organization
• Managing and leading small and large groups while outside
• Working with other outdoor educators as a team
• Managing disruptive behavior in the outdoors
• How to develop hands-on nature-based curriculum for outdoor learning
• Practice leading nature based games, activities, challenges and organize projects
• Outdoor agreements that aid in safe play, respectful communication and leave no trace principles
• What safety measures and hazards should you be aware of when leading an outdoor classroom
• Learn about what inspires children about nature and how to tap into child passions to use them both for teaching
• How to use the natural cycle of learning in the outdoors
• and so much more…

Natureversity Outdoor School has been providing transformational learning experiences in the world of nature connection for youth and adults for over ten years. This highly experiential and hands-on workshop is the same training that that our award-winning staff receive each year and you’ll be surrounded by these teachers during your training to ask questions to, hear stories from and develop some meaningful relationships with.

Testimonials

“Ive been to many “nature teacher” trainings across the country and this was the one I was hoping to receive when I first began my journey in the world of nature connection years ago. The depth of the program has given me all the missing ingredients to make my nature program what I envisioned so long ago. If I could recommend only one outdoor teacher training, this would be it.”
– Andre M.

“I was seeking a new direction when it comes to education for children and I stumbled upon this training only to realize I myself was so disconnected from nature and what it means to me. This training not only gave me the tools and skills needed to begin that new path, but also how to reengage with the natural world around me in a whole new way. What was the most exciting moment for me was discovering all the unique natural history that there is to learn about Texas.”
– Ruth B.