SUMMER CAMP 2024
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NEW ALL SUMMER FLEDGLING FOREST EXPLORERS!; NEW JR LIT and LIT TW/Teen Leadership Camps!
We teach through ‘coyote mentoring’, i.e inquiry based teaching; where we focus on child-directed experiential learning, acute observation and questioning, whereby campers are "learning by doing".
Your camper’s weeklong Nature led nature immersion camp will be guided by creative, professional nature-led teachers, who skillfully, safely facilitate nature awareness, wilderness and ancestral survival skills and wild forest play.
Your summer camper's 2024 weeklong experience will change each week, we follow a general guideline as described, with new offerings to be added and implemented, with each week you choose!
Your BEan IN NATURE’S Summer camp will allow your camper to develop their:
strong sense of self
true independence
confidence to try new things
natural love of learning
contagious enthusiasm, fun and friendships
whole imaginations, creativity and balance
Each Camp has its own curriculum , some of which is listed here. 2024 curriculum will vary with new and old amazing skills and crafts!
Table of Camps
Click on each square below for program details, dates, & more!
Wilderness Survival Skills: Fire, Food, Fishing, Forts, & Plant Mysteries and/or Mythical Lore
Morgan Hill, Cupertino,Woodside
Ages 5.5 - 8.5 yrs
Teen/Tween Leadership Program
NEW JR LIT w/ Archery Mornings
Cupertino
Ages 9 - 16 yrs
Ancestral Survival Skills with Archery
Ancient Living Skills
Cupertino
Ages 9 - 12 yrs
Girls’ Ancestral Survival Fairy Camp
Cupertino and Woodside
Ages 5.5 - 13 yrs
Ancestral Survival Skills: The Art of the Scout and
Ancient Living Skills
Cupertino and Woodside
Ages 9 - 12 yrs
Fledgling Forest Explorers
Cupertino
Ages 3 - 5 yrs
Stealth and Survival Games AND
Wild Skills Camp
San Jose
Ages 5 - 12 yrs
Wilderness Survival Skills: Fire, Food, Fishing, Forts, & Plant Mysteries and/or Mythical Lore Camps
Ages: 5.5 -14.5 yrs old
Locations: Morgan Hill, Cupertino, Woodside
Each Camp has its own curriculum , some of which is listed here, 2024 curriculum is now being created!
Learn the skills of wilderness survival, to strengthen our connection to the earth and it’s creatures. Master the most important tools in the wilderness through skills and projects designed to strengthen your child's wilderness survival.
Learn how to craft a fire, carve and whittle, fish, create food over the fire and make medicinal salves and tinctures from healing plants!
With Mythical Lore …Journey through our make believe forest, learning the ways of Nature from the Mythical Mystery in the Forest.
We will hone our wilderness survival skills (above) in the magical wild forest creating, crafting, designing, and becoming a mythical BEan black~smithy and build wild shadow skills.
Finally, we discover our story's magic following our imaginations that may lead us to the mysterious, mostly friendly dragons, fairies, elves and dwarves who dwell in the enchanted woods.
Each camp group will engage an age-appropriate activity!
June 24-28 - July 1-3 | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Location: Anderson Park, Morgan Hill, CA
June 10 - Aug 9 | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Locations: Stevens Creek County Park, Cupertino, CA | Huddart Park, Woodside, CA
ANCESTRAL SURVIVAL SKILLS CAMPS with ARCHERY
Ages: 9-14 years old
Locations: Cupertino
NEW! Just added Archery mornings to 2 Ancestral Survival 9-14 year old; 9-3pm Camps!
Your student will learn the ancient skill of Archery and the Slavic draw with Coach Steve!
2 Camp Weeks of June 24-28 or July 22-26th
Archery will begin in their camp week, on the 2nd-4th Camp mornings.Your student will meet up at Bow Hunters Archery Range, Eden Road, just 10 minutes up the canyon from their BEan Day camp location.
They will practice and learn archery for 1 1/2 hours TWTH mornings.
Staff with parent approval or parent will return student to their Ancestral Survival Camp at Stevens Creek to continue their camp program.
June 24-28th LIT Week with Archery| Monday - Friday
June 24-28th; 9:00am - 3:00 pm PDT
July 22-26th|Monday - Friday
July 22-26th; 9:00am - 3:00 pm PDT
ANCESTRAL SURVIVAL SKILLS CAMPS: The Art of the Scout and Ancient Living Skills
Ages: 9 - 14 yrs old
Locations: Cupertino and Woodside
Each Camp has its own curriculum , some of which is listed here, 2024 curriculum is now being created! J
Can my camper Join for more weeks!? Will they learn they have the same curriculum each week? NO! Our amazing staff are able to create new challenges and nature learning skills, each extra week your camper joins us, so that they can excel each additional week they join us!
Learn essential nature awareness skills to list a few:
Stealth and awareness, to become a protector of the unseen and unheard in the forest!
Honorable Harvesting with wild crafting
6 Blades Rules of essential principles for working with bladed tools
Focus on skills, games and knowledge for this more advanced age group.
June 24-28th w/Archery| Monday - Friday
Join our Leaders In Training 10 and above program see here with Archery
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Locations: Stevens Creek County Park, Cupertino, CA
July | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Locations: Stevens Creek County Park, Cupertino, CA
TBA | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Locations: Woodside, CA
Wild Bike Riding skills TBA…
Ages: 6 - 14 yrs
Locations: Morgan Hill, Cupertino
Campers experience the thrill of learning mountain biking as they hit the trails in our Mountain Biking summer camp. Campers will have the opportunity, if they choose, to try NEW SKILLS such as jumping mild dirt jumps by the end of the week. With help from our passionate instructors, campers spend the week practicing mountain biking skills, learning bicycle maintenance basics, and traversing the terrain in the area’s best parks and trails.
Your campers’ adventures are carefully customized so they progress as their skills and comfort grows. We offer by age range – 6-9 – 10-15 graders – to be sure they’re in good company as they build confidence and further their mastery of mountain biking and finally dirt jumps at the end of the week.
Please note: We strongly encourage campers to use their own bikes. Bikes should be tuned, fit campers well and be appropriate for riding on dirt trails (including hand brakes, gears and wider tires). If your camper needs a bike, you may rent one; we can give a bike rental location to rent from. If parent wants to join us please let us know and let’s chat!
June | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
Location: Anderson Lake County Park, Morgan Hill, CA
June | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Location: Anderson Lake, Morgan Hill, CA
June- Aug | Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Location: Stevens Creek County Park, Cupertino, CA
TNT (Teen/Tween) Leadership in Training Camp
Ages: 9-16 yrs old
Locations: Cupertino Summer
Join our Teen Leadership Training program! 12 and up (who will become Leaders in Training)
JR Leadership training progam is NOW HERE! 9 -12 years (who will become JR LITs)
Leadership skills with BEan In Nature begin with a week or more of camp leadership experience. INTERESTED! CONTACT US! beanregistrar2@gmail.com subject: LIT Program
Learn by doing with expert outdoor educators to develop your tw/teen’s own Nature-Led connection skills through ancient living and wilderness skills, as well as, safe social emotional skills.
What will my registration include? Your registration fee is all-inclusive, covering both the Training Week, Summer Camp Field Volunteer Weeks, Offsite Adventure Day/s during their training, and a huge TBA Teen and All Staff celebration day!
Has your tw/teen been students with us for 2 years or more in our outdoor programs, or another outdoor program, a babysitter, an older sibling, or worked with younger children elsewhere? Please Inquire, as more may be fitting! An intern can also apply .
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CHOICE OF: either 4 Saturdays or 1 Week
WITH THE FOLLOWING, during the camp days:
We will have 1 FULL DAY ADVENTURE: A WANDER AND WONDER TRAINING DAY! To explore the PESCADERO STATE BEACH MARSH
TRANSPORT AND/OR CARPOOL PROVIDED/ORGANIZED!
1 Teen Celebration - A possible over night camp TBA - at the end of the Summer evening we will converge back together in a Celebration of our time together!
This will prepare your TEEN to step into Leadership with us this SUMMER!
Next steps: They will get their official BEan NATURE-LED TEEN LEADERSHIP IN TRAINING CERT and from there SIGN UP to come out and assist the teachers and staff in camps this summer and beyond!
Again! Your registration fee is all-inclusive, covering both the Training Week, Summer Camp Field Weeks, Offsite Adventure Day during their training, and a huge TBA Teen and All Staff celebration day!
Description of TEEN Nature-Led Leader In Training (LIT): Leaders In Training (TW/Teens) will take an active role in helping us build communities of outgoing nature stewards! A major role for the LITs will be their contagious enthusiasm while assisting.
TEEN LEADERSHIP IN TRAINING CAMP with Archery Skill Mornings TWTH see details here
SUMMER
JUNE 24-28 Cupertino, Stevens Creek
CPR/FIRST AID ADDITIONAL TRAINING; optional and additional
Taught by Nicole Roma Thurrell, CTRS, WEMT on Zoom
Director, Institute for Wild Med
See registration for added cost
Read more here; and contact us with any questions.
Girl’s Ancestral Survival Fairy Camp
Ages: 5.5 - 12 years old
Locations: Cupertino, Woodside
Join us for BEan IN NATURE summer fun!
All Girls camp, with lots of Imagination, fairy world play and folklore, wild crafts, henna and face paint, art and wild craft time, fairy plant magic medicine making, fire, food, fun games and nature exploring!
We will engage a general plan of (2024 planning underway):
Fairy Songs and stories
Fire and fire tending lessons
Face Paint and Henna adornment
Wild Art projects with skins, fur, feathers, plants and more
Wild Weaving and Creek Time
Scout and Stealth Forest Fun
Plant mystery creations w/ potions, salves and food
Campfire creations and food celebrations
Friends, Fun, Fairy Magic Creations and Nature Led Connections.
July 22-26| Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Locations: Stevens Creek County Park, Cupertino, CA
July 29- Aug 2| Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Locations: Huddart Park, Woodside, CA
Fledgling Forest Explorers
Ages: 3 - 5 yrs old
Fledgling has their PPP independence. I can poop, I can pack and I can play!
Teachers: Teacher Roni and Marisa
Our Fledgling Forest Explorers program begins the process of Nature Led Immersion in the early stages of childhood development. Our intentions will be to promote a sense of belonging in nature and all its creatures, as well as connections with fellow students. Our Staff is skilled at nurturing the sensory integrative awareness skills for young children, and Parents have the opportunity to learn alongside their children each week! We plan to explore our expansive park or farmland bases at each class location.
Our Fledgling Explorer Summer Camp begins our day Gratitude circle and in song.
After this time we find a peaceful spot for snack and story, before we begin our wander, explore and adventure time!
We will share Songs and Stories with creative guidance from experienced BEan Staff.
As we grow our confidence, we will move out from our base camp and hike, explore our local habitat, streams, and forests, and play together.
On celebration day — our final day of camp — we may fold in with our whole camp tribe on some simple sweet ways for fire and food and stories.
June - August | Mon - Fri
9:30 am - 1:00 pm PDT
Location: Morgan Hill, Cupertino
Stealth and Survival Games Wild Survival Camp
Ages: 5 - 12 years old with Teacher Jennie G!
Locations: BEan at A Team; Bernal Church; San Jose
Learn the skills of wilderness survival, to strengthen our connection to the earth and its creatures. We will be outside in our amazing BEan Garden at A Team Bernal San Jose Location!
Learning traditional stealth and awareness skills is a form fun stealth and game playing, and using these skills allows us to connect to nature and each other, in fun and creative ways.
Investigate and learn in a hands-on, child led, exploration rich, play based, engaging outdoor class.
During the week we will provide a direct, safe animal encounter with some combination of reptiles from our home zoo!
Here are a few of the wild skills and wild crafts your Wild one may explore and engage in (TBA):
Wild Nature awareness Stealth and Games and team building educational games
Warrior/Ess Armory Crafting for Wild Games
Wild herbal tincture creations
Wild outdoor cooking
Each Day gathering in Opening and Closing community time, to set a positive environment as we gather together.
July 7/8-12 and August 7/29-8/2
9-12 pm; M-F
Location: BEan GARDEN @ateamcommunitybernal; San Jose, CA
“Our daughter has attended various BEan in Nature summer camps and the ongoing weekly Earth Education Program on Wednesdays. The positive impact to her overall development, both educationally and socially has been hugely significant. Her appreciation of nature and its fragility, increased empathy demonstrated by working collaboratively with others, and being receptive of different opinions are just a few of the areas she has grown during her time at BEan in Nature.”