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Wildcraft Forest School and Visitor Staging Area – Monashee Watershed – Barb Lake
Creighton Valley Road, Lumby, British Columbia, Canada – 250.547.2001
Wildcraft Forest Botanicals and Online Services
1981 Highway 6, Lumby, British Columbia, Canada
Wildcraft Forest School Extension is Canada’s leading centre for wild regeneration, this web portal represents extension work and services that the school delivers within its Sanctuary Forest Network and beyond.
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If you have registered and have found yourself unable to complete the program for whatever reason, we allow you to transfer your registration to a different party providing this is done within 30 days of registration. You may also postpone your participation indefinitely and pick up your learning at a later date and without penalty.
If you have made arrangements to attend a camp and cannot attend the dates you had planned for, we allow you to move your seat indefinably or until; there is a date that works for you.
Wildcraft Forest School - Online Programs
Rewild
“Rewild” is the distance learning program offered by the Wildcraft Forest School. The Wildcraft Forest is a collection of forests, ecosystems and wildcrafting farms which together provide a stage for this extraordinary school. Along with our in-person camp program we offer online certification courses, seminars, outdoor challenges; as well as environmental and spiritual restoration programs. Our programs provide an inspirational and creative environment for students ranging from children to adults and from beginners to professionals.
We seek to share quality experiences, from leading edge artists, thinkers and do’ers locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Our scope is to link nature-based understandings and leadership with wellness, the arts, creativity, food, tools for living, spirituality and activism.
Explore our Distance Learning Program menu. We have also listed a few programs on this page. You can check to see what we are offering as specials. Please view our promise and the current learning programs we have available as well as our registration information.
If you would like to discuss various distance learning options you can call us at: 250.547.2001 or send us an email.
Forest Therapy:
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Certification
The Wildcraft Forest School offers a unique approach to Shinrin Yoku, which is Japanese for "Forest Bathing" and means "taking in the forest atmosphere". Our approach to Shinrin Yoku incorporates wildcrafting, which includes a tangible understanding of the sentient forest. Our “Yasei Shinrin Yoku” introduces participants to the many spirit guides that dwell in the forest. We offer many different levels of training within Forest Therapy. You can begin with our Guide Training Program which is delivered through distance learning. This includes five lesson sections that are delivered through online components that are combined with outdoor fieldwork as well as virtual conferences.
This Basic Guide Program offers you a starting point and an opportunity to add additional certifications if you like. The program also provides a full credit which can be applied for the comprehensive Practitioners Certification.
You can also choose to start with Practitioners Certification Training which is delivered entirely online and will allow you to immediately build a 12 Session Forest Therapy Program in your community.
Visit the Yasei Shinrin Yoku Training Index to explore the different distance learning options we offer.
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Clinical Program
Bodywork & Spa Certification
Yasei Shinrin-Yoku Bodywork and Spa Certification is a clinical forest therapy program that provides bodywork and spa practitioners with enhanced opportunities that will compliment their independent practice. This certification introduces treatment methods that include "wild" massage oils, medicinal teas and essences within clinic or studio-based Yasei Shinrin-Yoku Bodywork programs. This certification provides planning support for practitioners to establish a Yasei Sanctuary Spa. This series provides an understanding of wilderness therapies and forms of wildcrafting-based nutri-ecopsychology.
The Wildcrafting Herbalist
An advanced wildcrafting program that offers a Wildcrafting Foods and Medicines Professional Certificate. This program provides a working understanding of wildcrafting and the growing and use of naturalized herbs; creation of food forests and stewardship methods. This professional wildcrafting program includes a six lesson distance learning section with virtual conferences and provides great learning opportunities for naturalists, healthcare professionals and food specialists. The series helps participants rediscover ancient forms of intuition that are linked to nature and includes wild plant identification in a number of wild ecosystems and focuses on the food and medicinal values belonging to many different wild species.
Alchemy
Certification Training in Historical and Contemporary Alchemy delivered within a semester program through distance learning. This Alchemy program presents the historical practices of alchemy which aimed to transform materials, create elixirs, and achieve spiritual enlightenment, contributing to the development of modern chemistry and herbalism. This program offers a contemporary approach to the ancient wisdom that first defined alchemical practice.
Knowledge of Alchemical practices can offer intuitive methods which can lead to advancements in practical chemistry, healing, art, design, economics, community and stewardship. This program also involves an understanding of Alchemy’s relationship with traditional herbalism, healing and energy work, where plants and their energies along with methods and exercises are seen as tools for healing and transformation within individuals, families, places, communities and organizations.
Training in Alchemy offers a path for personal and spiritual transformation, enabling one to achieve a deeper understanding of themselves, heal emotional wounds, and align with a higher purpose.
This program is delivered through online lessons and virtual conferences.
Shamanic Coach Certification
As a certified Shamanic Coach you will be helping people to navigate life choices in an effort for them to realize their true meaning and purpose. This online certification program takes a practical approach towards contemporary Shamanism as an important tool to nurture “meaning and purpose.” This program teaches coaches to deliver the 12 Session Shamanic Coaching Program to both individuals, families and groups and helps with developing aspects of spirituality and the science of body, mind and spirit and has been developed to support cross cultural understanding, and methods for making “First Contact” with energies, beings and ideas.
This program is delivered through a series of online lessons and virtual conferences. It is ideal for professionals in the fields of coaching, counseling and alternative healthcare; it is also ideal for those seeking personal improvement.
Bioregional Specialist Certification
As a Bioregional Specialist you will be consulting with individuals, NGO’s, businesses, communities and governments in order to help them deliver tangible long-term actions that supports the regenerative stewardship of local watersheds. As a specialist you will be introducing regenerative efforts that link economics and community development so that they work within natural systems linked to local watersheds and ecosystems. As a Bioregional Specialist you will be explaining that bioregionalism picks up where environmentalism leaves off, challenging everyone to emphasize not just sustainability but regenerative systems, that will define “community” to include all living species.
