I was put onto another online training course, Im currently looking into this and thought Id share.
The Kamana Independent Study program is an experiential four-level home study course that will guide you down a path to becoming a skilled and knowledgeable naturalist. Kamana provides all the tools you need to connect with nature at your own pace, at your own place.
Wilderness Awareness School founder and original Kamana author Jon Young named this self-study course for a word meaning “apprentice” in the language of the Akamba people, natives of Kenya known for their holistic tracking skills and refined cultural mentoring practices. Unlike any other naturalist studies course you’ll find, Kamana is designed to initiate you into a way of seeing into natural mystery, a way of recognizing patterns that will entice you to follow them up into greater mastery. We pull you outdoors and get you to quiet down. We show you how to alert your senses – five and more of them. We show you how to use the field guides so that they act like living mentors as you wander through your studies. We focus your eyes and widen them to mystery at the same time.
The Nature Awareness Trail focuses on developing your awareness in an expansive way. It is about using your eyes and ears and other senses in ways not often challenged in academic training. Specific field exercises are presented and build on each other throughout the four levels of Kamana. If you work on them every day, the result will be new patterns in your awareness, an increase in your “mind’s eye” ability to visualize, a strengthening of your gut feelings, and an ability to be in the right place at the right time. In short, this trail invites you down the rabbit hole of natural mystery.
Learn to move safely and with confidence outdoors
Get to know the flora and fauna of your own backyard
Understand the language of the forest and see more wildlife
Discover the medicinal and edible plants of your area
Develop a deep connection to one place in nature
Gain perspective and find peace in grounding core routines
Jon Youngs’ books and cds are excellent and timeless.
The Wilderness Awareness school that used to facilitate the training based on his work joined the mainstream globalist agenda, got offended at the word native and apparently his materials. Jon Youngs’ work is sensitive and supportive of the first nations’ and any other indiginous people… I highly recommend buying his books online as they are unsurpassed.