“Guelph Outdoor School, and nature connection programs like it, nurture positive development on all fronts: social, cognitive, emotional, physical, and academic.”
-Richard Louv, Author. Last Child in the Woods, & The Nature Principle
Self-Sufficiency & Co-Operation. Skills, Games That Teach, and Time for Timelessness.
Financial Assistance & Ride-share | Options to make GOS Programs possible for your child and your family.
An effective, non-clinical, fun, preventative avenue towards well being and healthy childhood functioning.
Field Trips, School Visits, Professional Development. How to bring your classroom outdoors, and how to bring the outdoors into you classroom.
Building nature connection & mentorship back into community. A year-long course for adults. 2019 Session is FULL.
Outdoor School for Adults.
By Popular Demand :) A year-long exploration of herbalism, tracking, fire making and foraging through sensory awareness story telling and play.
Intro to Practical Magic. You really can make fire from “rubbing two sticks together”. And it’s best learned in a group :)
Tried and true strategies for getting your kids outside and fostering a lifetime sense of well-being and belonging through time spent out-of-doors.
Awareness, Focus, and Adventure. Thrilling games to challenge the senses, sharpen awareness, and stretch focus. Hiding, Sneaking, Listening, Watching, staying still, and moving fast. It’s like a day of leveled-up hide and seek.
Guelph Outdoor School provides a dynamic, full nature immersion learning environment and active mentorship for powerful results in all areas of development: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, academic.
Our programs are an effective, fun, and non-clinical approach for overall health and well-being, growth and learning.
Foundations of Guelph Outdoor School Programs
Meet Our Staff of Community Leaders, Mentors, & Role Models
Some Words from other parents and kids.
