Become a Master Wildcrafter
Wildcraft Forest School is the first educational center to offer a Wildcrafting Bioregional Studies Certificate(WBSC) and a Wildcraft Practitioners Diploma (WPD) for Master Wildcrafters. The school operates within a co-mentorship structure and connects students with ancient Shamanic teachings. The Wildcrafting Bioregional Studies Certificate is intended to strengthen Permaculture Design Courses and offers students an opportunity to learn and practice stewardship, restoration and harvesting in remote wildland areas. The following represents the course offerings presently avaiable for at Bioregional Studies Certificate(WBSC).

Wildcrafting Basics

Wildcrafting By Design

Registration and School Information
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Registration Section
The Wildcraft Forest is a working
plantation and farm and it is also a
workshop centre and wildcraft farm school.
We issue a Wildcraft Practitioners Diploma. We offer seasonal classes, seminars, fieldtrips and workshops which provide an inspirational and creative environment for students ranging from children to adults and from beginners to professionals. The studio village has been operating as a workshop centre for over 30 years. We seek to bring quality programming, from leading edge artists, thinkers and do’ers locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Our scope is to link the arts, creativity, permaculture, food, wellness and activism with wildcrafting.
Please view the current learning programs we have a available as well as our registration information.
Wildcrafters Promise
To register for this course please email us:
treks(at)uniserve.com
Or phone: 250.547.9812
This course is available for everyone and it can also be applied to the Wildcrafting Bioregional Studies Certificate (WBSC) and the Wildcraft Practitioners Diploma (WPD) for Master Wildcrafters. Participants can register to participate in one of our Animal Speak Camps, or you can take this course by correspondence, which includes lessons with online and phone support.
Mother Tree Camp - Six Days
$620 per person
Please register with us so that we can notify you of the next six-day camp. Upon registration you will be provided with the Mother Tree Distance Learning Series so that you may prepare for the camp. The Mother Tree camp schedule begins in April at the Wildcraft Forest School.
and the Power of Qi
Wildcrafting within the context of
life-force and Chinese Medicine

The Wildcraft Forest School presents this learning series that introduces students to the life-force found within a forest; and how a forest can contain different energies and strengths that are associated with Mother Trees.
Students will be introduced to a “forest or land-based qi field” (chu-chong) which refers to the cultivation of an energy field by a Mother Tree.

In traditional Chinese culture, qì or ch'i (qì, also known as ki in Japanese culture) is an active principle within all living beings. In a forest every tree is linked to every other tree underground and on the surface through yeast corridors. Through these various pathways, trees and plants communicate with each other and then channel certain energies and behaviors.
In this course students will be introduced to forest-based feng shui, a form of wildcrafted geomancy. By understanding a forests qi field one can calculate the balance of qi and certain interactions between natural frequencies. The retention or dissipation of qi within a forest location will affect the health, vigor, energy level and many other aspects of the tree, fungi or plant residing in that location.

By the end of this course participants will have a clearer understanding forest life-force, as well as tangible tools as they seek to steward the forest and provide foods, medicines, building material and craft to a growing number of people influenced by Chinese medicines and feng shui design and ethics. This course instills wildcrafting practices that enhance agape stewardship with a further understanding of sentient relationships connected to Mother Trees.

Once enrolled you will be provided with a pre-course package that explains further details about this course. Click here to Register.
Connecting the Mother Tree with Feng Shui
The forest seeks to function as a living organism. As it moves and expands it creates “seed trees” also known as “Mother Trees”.

The forest spirits the growth of these Mother Trees on her edge where she seeks to expand into a meadow or a savannah. She populates these edges with the spread of a great number of seeds and is assisted by messengers, which spread the seeds even further. The Mother Tree creates a forest community within a larger forest community interlocking a network of life and frequencies that link all the Mother Trees and then the greater forest nation.

This network of life creates sentient energies that are powered by the Mother Tree, which provides the “life force” for all that is connected to her. The forest has different energies depending in its locale from the Mother Tree and the ancients knew this power. Previous introductions about Ley Lines will be expanded within this course. In 1969 the writer John Michell associated Ley Lines with spiritual and mystical theories about alignments of landforms, drawing on the Chinese concept of feng shui. He believed that a mystical network of Ley Lines existed across Britain. Within ancient teachings, Ley Lines were never described within the context of a “thing” or even a word or name. The lines were the same as Mother Earth herself and represented where her energy field made contact with her surface – which in this course we describe as the “qi field”.

How this course helps with the mission of wildcrafting….
Applying wildcrafted feng shui:
  • Means that we would never cut down a Mother Tree.
  • Recognizes that wood for a house and home requires that it be harvested in an area where qi has the power of love and nurturing.
  • Recognizes that medicinal and food plants need to be harvested from areas where the appropriate elemental energies exist for the heart, mind etc.
  • Recognizes that wood for building a business structure requires that it be harvested in an area where qi has the power of prosperity and good luck.
  • Transforms Wildcrafters into lightworkers between the Mother Tree and humanity.
  • Encourages Chinese and Asians to not accept clearcutting methods because the wood is without proper qi and will be bad luck – this will change the current practice of industrialized resource extraction.
  • Sends a message that we need to protect and stay within reach of the Mother Tree.

Once enrolled you will be provided with a pre-course package that explains further details about this course. Click here to Register.
Location: Wildcraft Forest
Instructor: Don Elzer and Guests
Sponsor: Wildcraft Forest
Cost: 6 Day Camp - $620 per person (Discounts for members)
6 Month Distance Learning Program - $320 per person
Register by Email
Email: treks@uniserve.com
Phone: The Discovery Centre - 250-547-9812
The forest seeks to function as a living organism. As it moves and expands it creates “seed trees” also known as “Mother Trees”.
The Mother Tree
6 Day
CAMP
Mother Tree
6 Month Rewild
ONLINE
Mother Tree
6 Month Rewild Distance Learning Program
ONLINE
The Mother Tree and the Power of Qi
Wildcrafting within the context
of life-force and Chinese Medicine

The Wildcraft Forest School presents this distance-learning course that introduces students to the life-force found within a forest; and how a forest can contain different energies and strengths that are associated with Mother Trees. Students will be introduced to a “forest or land-based qi field” (chu-chong) which refers to the cultivation of an energy field by a Mother Tree.

In this course students will be introduced to forest-based feng shui, a form of wildcrafted geomancy. By understanding a forests qi field one can calculate the balance of qi and certain interactions between natural frequencies. The retention or dissipation of qi within a forest location will affect the health, vigor, energy level and many other aspects of the tree, fungi or plant residing in that location.
The Mother Tree and the Power of Qi
Distance Learning
$320 per person
To register for this course please email us:
treks(at)uniserve.com
Or phone: 250.547.9812
By the end of this course participants will have a clearer understanding about forest life-force, as well as tangible tools as they seek to steward the forest and provide foods, medicines, building material and craft to a growing number of people influenced by Chinese medicines and feng shui design and ethics. This course instills wildcrafting practices that enhance agape stewardship with a further understanding of sentient relationships connected to Mother Trees.

The Mother Tree and the Power of Qi is a six-month distance-learning program, which includes seven sections that are delivered through online components, which are then combined with outdoor fieldwork as well as guided interactions and challenges within the natural world. During this course you will be assigned a Wild Skills Guide who will provide you with online and phone support in an effort to help you become strengthened as your own guide, and able to explore the realm of forest-based feng shui.
Rewild
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Discovery Centre 250.547.9812 - Email: treks(at)uniserve.com - Web www.wildcraftforest.com
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