Wild Village Family Camps
Nature Philosophy's WILD VILLAGE FAMILY CAMPS invite your family to play, reconnect and thrive through our village experience.
The Wild Village is designed to bring your family’s connection to the natural world to life!
Joining the Wild Village will restore the power of your connection to the earth and gift your kids with nature-based free play.
The WILD VILLAGE experience...
5 blissful days surrounded by like-minded families, completely digital free and immersed in nature,
Nature Connection skills, primitive fire and basket weaving,
Men's & Women's Circles hosted by trained facilitators who are also parents,
Indigenous Parenting discovery experience,
Daily wild adventures and campouts for your kids facilitated by experienced Nature Connection Mentors,
Local Gumbaynngirr elder who shares with your family about Aboriginal culture, and
Fire side Storytelling, dance, music, tribe and so much more...
“I rate their village camp as one of the greatest experiences I have had with my kids.”
YOUNG PEOPLE
Every morning our Village Young People will be offered to gather up and head away from camp on a guided wander into the natural environment. These adventures are child directed and can include games, wandering through nature, playing with clay, storytelling, making primitive fires, swimming, exploring bush craft, survival skills and more... At all times the kids will have qualified bush skills mentors at their side – guiding, deepening and protecting their play. By lunch time this group will return to camp for an afternoon of relaxed unstructured Village time.
Children 4 years and under are welcome to spend their days close to camp and under the supervised eye of their parents.
FAMILIES
Each day families will be able to explore core nature connection skills such as Primitive Fire Making, Basket Weaving, String Bark Processing, Pottery, Shelter Construction and Nature Awareness Skills.
Participation in any activity offered is optional and dictated by the organic flow of the whole Village. The communal Village space is a beautiful place to sit and connect with other parents and families.
INDIGENOUS CONNECTIONS
Nature Philosophy's WILD VILLAGE has been deeply supported by local the Gumbaynggirr Community since it began in 2016. Visits from our beloved local elders have always been a highlight for our Village.
This time allows us all to deeply share in stories about Aboriginal culture, Gumbaynggirr wisdom, language and traditional bush foods.
Indigenous Parenting principles are also explored through Katie & Sam's direct experiences of community life in North-East Arnhem Land, NT. The Wild Village recognises both the Gumbaynggirr and Yolngu people as elders in our journey of exploring village connections and the power of earth-based communities.
OUR VISION
Nature Philosophy's Wild Village connects elders, parents, mentors, young people and children with wild sourced wisdom and earth based community. We acknowledge that our Wild Village members are the change makers of the future. In exploring and learning from the dynamics of the Wild Village each member makes a vital contribution to the transformation of modern culture.
The WILD VILLAGE family experience facilitates deeply relaxing into our wild surrounds so we can all unwind and organically move through our days with resting, playing, learning and yarning.
All Village members will be free to move in and through the area as their instincts dictate and, as per a truly earth based tribe experience, young children will be warmly welcomed into every aspect of our Village community.
The Wild Village allows us all to discover and know we belong to something bigger - bigger than the "me" ideology that so often dominates our modern world. We invite you to join Nature Philosophy's Wild Village and connect with a global movement where the ancient traditions of earth-based communities are once again finding their relevance in the modern world.
We are honoured and excited to offer this Village experience and look forward to hearing from you...
Katie Rydge & Sam Robertson
WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING…
“ It’s difficult to put into words what I witnessed last night in this boy.
It’s as if he returned to me with a weight lifted off him, allowing his true spirit to shine through. He appeared to have an inner contentment and happiness that I’ve not seen for a while. There was a lightness to his demeanour.
I’m intrigued by it and I love it.
Jed, Miller and Finn all found the Wild Village Camp exceeded their expectations. They all got different things out of it and they’ve arrived home in a better place than when they left.
Thanks Sam and Kate for initiating the empowering experience.”
— Renee Robertson
“Spending a week in village dynamic, with such whole human beings, freed from the four walls of the dominant paradigm, in an expansive dance with the ecology of all that is, with no distractions from connection and from presence has totally opened up all the channels of my heart that were clogged with responsibility.
What a beautiful feeling.
I am alive once more.
It feels akin to when I first became a mother: wonder, joyfulness, beauty, seeing through their eyes, playfulness, engagement, presence, I am awakened to their preciousness. I am awakened to their love. I am awakened.
Coming away, I wept at both gates.”
— LOUISA MIRANDA
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Your Family Investment:
$520 per child 3 yrs and above
$330 per adult attending with children (3 yrs and older)
$520 per adult with children 2 yrs or younger OR per single adult with no children attached.
** Children 2yrs and under attending with a family of older children join for FREE
Price includes a minimum of 5 hours/day for 5 full days of wild bush adventures, men's and women's circles and earth skills instruction with skilled mentors. Camping accommodation, dinner each night and workshop materials.
Arrivals & Departures: Arrivals are between 1 - 3pm on the first day of camp. Departures are from noon on the final day.
Venue: The WILD VILLAGE FAMILY CAMP is held in a beautiful wilderness setting on the North Coast of NSW, approx an hour out of Coffs Harbour, NSW.
There is ample room to camp and a beautiful dam for swimming. There is fresh drinking water available on site, feel free however to bring your own water.
Food: All dinners will be provided and ready by 5.30pm every night. Every family will need to bring food and an independant cooking set up for the rest of the day.
Communal Area Facilities: There is ample clean ground water available in the main camp. A communal camp fire cooking area & sturdy compost toilets. We suggest you bring your own cooking equipment, dish washing tubs and esky for the length of the camp.
