Nature, Breath, Connection and Healing
I am so grateful you have found BEan IN NATURE Program! Every moment in BEan is sure to be filled with fun, adventure, exploration, learning, laughter, and trying many new things. Currently, with lots of breath and pause, we feel the suffering for our local and global difficulties and for our earth, for all life, its inhabitants, our families, our children and our communities.
The BEan In Nature, nature-led mentoring program offers students the unique opportunity to interact with the natural environment through many real-life and creative ways that are adventurous, challenging, exciting, and promote inquiry and observation skills, through ancestral teachings, ways and methods.
SUMMER SERIES IS NOW LAUNCHED! GET YOUR CHILD OUTSIDE, TO DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT!
It is said that nature connection helps create resilience and brings about healing. I have observed and know this to be true. BEan IN NATURE offers a place for our students, ages 3-16, to take a deep relieving sigh and connect with the natural world. It allows for a reprogramming of their nervous systems’ and a decompression from the external stressors, some may not yet understand.
Whether you choose our Nature Led Thursday outdoor program, our TNT ~Tween -Teen Weekend Camps, our BEan at A Team Eco Earth Garden Science and Earth Detectives programming, or our Summer Series; your student will be supported with amazing supportive teachers and a deep-connective-immersive curriculum.
Who, What, Where, How and Why?
BEan is a full immersion, hands-on, child led learning and inquiry based program. BEan In Nature nature-led educators facilitate learning by engaging children in earth lessons not by a ‘teach at the child’ didactic model, we use the skillful art of questioning, creative guiding and inquiry based teachings, experiential child-led focus and meet the child where he/she is at, where we share our contagious enthusiasm, our imagination, and our own love of the earth. Our caring, knowledgeable staff offer ancestral teachings with wild crafts, stewardship projects, science knowledge and discovery, and natural history lessons, to build upon children’s reverence and to create lifelong stewards of the natural world.
This means that our classroom is the natural open spaces, the oak trees, the creeks where we find the macroinvertebrates, the ground squirrel in the bay tree, the tracks on the muddy bank, the shifting winds, and our gardens we plant together and our outdoor classrooms ‘we call our invisible school’.. Rain or shine, wind or heat, our classroom is the perfect learning environment. As an outdoor program we create a structure that helps guide our days, yet we allow for the unknown events, as our nature can be unpredictable.
Our job, as earth educators in BEan In Nature, is to support, guide, role model, create safety socially, emotionally, physically and in all ways, for the multi aged students to engage, grow and learn; to role model boundaries; and to set safety parameters within the environment of supporting through healthy social-emotional boundaries, our core values support us with learning positive conflict resolution, all the while growing together in our nature connection and building a community of humans that will support the earth’s wellness for years to come.
Indigenous Acknowledgement
We at BEan respectfully acknowledge our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of the unceded land upon which BEan presently honors as land space for our camps. We wish to honor the Ohlone, Muwekma and Tamien Nation peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants
With much gratitude and hope, Marisa Bean, Director, Teacher, Mother, Grandmother