Wilderness After-School Programs on Northern California Coast

2012-2013 After-School Program Offerings

After-School Archery Pre-Teen/Teens

• Dates and times: Wednesday 3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry
• Prerequisites: None
• Location; Scotts Valley, CA
• Open to: Preteens and Teens
• Cost: 15/hr

Archery is a discipline that can be practiced a lifetime. WSI's director is a US Archer Community Coach who focuses all of our archery programs on establishing good solid fundamentals in archery form bringing the same teachings that the US Olympic Coach KiSik Lee has the US World team follow. As the archer develops it is our goal that along this journey the archer will never have to relearn any thing.

WSI supports 3 different archery disciplines, Field Archery, Target Olympic Archery, and 3D Archery. Having good solid form will make for good solid shooting in all three of these disciplines for a life time.

For a more complete description of our Field Archery, Target Olympic Archery, and 3D Archery programs check our archery page.

After-School Blacksmithing Skills Pre-Teen/Teen

• Dates and times: TBD
• Prerequisites: None
• Location; Los Gatos, CA
• Open to: Preteens and Teens
• Cost: 15/hr.

The participants will use heat to shape and temper steel to make tools and articles of every day life using the tools and practices of the 1800s.

After-School Ancestral Crafts Pre-Teen/Teen

• Dates and times:TBD Open Entry Open entry
• Prerequisites: None
• Location; Los Gatos, CA
• Open to: Preteens and Teens
• Cost: 15/hr.

Go back to a time when objects of everyday life were objects of art and pride.  Go back to a time when there was no zip lock bags, Tupperware, cardboard boxes, plastic buckets, plastic combs, brushes, eating utensils, synthetic fiber, rope, or fabric, or acrylic paint. Go back to a time when we used baskets, pottery, and canteens  made with tulles, clay,  rawhide and leather.  When we combed our hair, put on our shoes, ate our meals with object made of wood, bone, or horn.  When we used plant and animal fibers for clothing, cordage, or rope. When we used soil, plants, and animals for dyes and pigments. 

After-School Nature

• Dates and times: Fridays 3:30 to 5:00 Open Entry
• Prerequisites: None
• Location; Santa Cruz, CA
• Open to: Preteens and Teens
• Cost: 15/hr.

Each day the participants take a short hike into the pristine redwood forest for supervised undirected free play and exploration in the trees and along the creek. The participants will be introduced to the core routines of deep nature connection including wandering and sit spot, story telling, music, and journaling, expanding senses and awareness, questioning and tracking, Animal forms,  mapping, exploring field guides and science-based natural history, thanksgiving, primal crafts.