Winter solstice is here, the longest night of the year. Time to look back on the past year, to be grateful for all the good and the challenging experiences and time to celebrate! We met around the fire to share stories and food, as well as love and joy. Moon and stars were dancing while Mother Earth slept, covered in a white blanket. The bird people sent their greetings – wild geese flying south at midnight, a robin watching our breakfast.
Good bye, 2021! CT
A tarp, a fire, some good food in the pot, singing and good company. Former Wildnismentor graduates as well as current course participants in training of all yeargroups were joining an evening to celebrate spring equinox. When later in the evening Christine was inviting us in for a candle ceremony all of us started singing…
From 25.04.-04.05.22 Potsdam´s Wildnismentors were having guests from Sweden and Romania. The visit formed the last part of an Erasmus Strategic Partnership Project. After getting to know the base of the German Wildnismentors by circling the island of Hermannswerder in canoes our guests received some input on the Coyote Mentoring approach. They also followed a…
Extend your `core routines`, combine them and awaken further senses by applying so called animal forms to your sitspot routine. Experience `foxwalk, `owl eyes` and `deer ears`. `Foxwalk` Did you ever get to see how a fox is sneaking up on its prey and jumping onto it? Foxes live mostly solitary and are on a…
Although still summer in Potsdam when we started in early September it felt quite like autumn up north near Särna: yellow birch trees, red leaves on blueberry bushes, night temperatures below zero. Swedish mentors in their second year course QVF took us on a canoe trip on fascinating Björnan river, spent a week of handcrafting…
In January 2023 EWM course partcipants and their two German mentors experienced winter outdoors in Northern Dalarna together with four Swedish Friluftsliv mentors of Sjöviks Folkhögskola. As you can see in the film we were treated with fantastic weather and severe frosty conditions. At the cabin camp Nysätersvallen we practiced skiing, went on a longer…
As days are getting longer birds´ voices are becoming even more noticeable. It will be many more in some weeks time. The repetitive melorhythmic stanza of the wood pigeon, the clacking sounds of starlings who also imitate exotic birds they might have met while being away, the tawny owl calling more often now, woodpeckers competing…