The Anake Outdoor School Formerly Wilderness Awareness Residential Program

A quick note to let folks know that I am now in Washington State, currently Redmond at the Wholefoods. I am sitting with Marcus Reynerson, Core Instructor for the Anake Outdoor School. We are on our way to Duvall, foothills of the Cascades, to share some good times and teachings with that gang at Malalo [...]

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Cincinnati Region of Ohio Hosts Nature Mentoring & Peacemaking

This past weekend found me flying through Houston to Northern Kentucky, and onto Cincinnati where I met up with Dr. Randall Eaton. His newest book, From Boys to Men of Heart, is just released and I joined my good friend to celebrate his excellent work. Here’s a great link to a review on Randall’s book [...]

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Wrapping Up Austria Event

The Altar of Tirol as seen from Ron & Geli’s in Grinzens, with a “hat” meaning good weather.(Photo courtesy of Geli Bachmann).The Altar of Tirol with a “sword”, not such a good sign for weather. (Photo: Geli Bachmann). Willa, Nicole, Jon & Finch Young on the last day of the community event in the Alps. [...]

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Gimple, Simple

Hi again from Austria. More snow. Nice. My son Liam, and Aji Palar went out for an exploration with two locals, Tom and Fabio. They had a great day as evidenced in their very animated story of the day sharing with the rest of us. Really fun. Check out this bird they photographed (Tom)… The [...]

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Austria Community Training

Aloha from Austria… Alex Meffert of Corvus of Bodensee, Germany, and I are waiting here at the Innsbruck Airport for my family to arrive. My wife Nicole is about to arrive here with my son Liam, daugter Willa and baby Finch. Andreas Lelley from the Stuttgart region is here also with his soon-wife-to-be Tina and [...]

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Austria Community Event in Alps

Greetings from Austria. So many people have gathered from Germany and Austria for our weekend on Enduring Networks of Peace. Ironically, President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, it’s all hopeful if a bit confusing at times. Here is a view of local favorite bird foods. The amsel (remember Beatles’ song “Blackbird”, it’s that [...]

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UK for Nature Connection

Just had a great weekend in London. Working with Andrea Smith, Jennifer Cubitt-Smith and Victoria Mew, we had a great Saturday evening presentation on the future of Coyote and Cultural Mentoring in the UK. On Sunday we ran a one-day event sampling a taste of the Art of Mentoring. All this because we will be [...]

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