NatureQuest:WilderKin
Ages 6-8
Wilderkin is Nature Quest for our youngest adventurers – an enchanted introduction to forest life, community building, and nature-based learning. Through games, songs, stories, and hands-on exploration, children build trust in themselves, in the group, and in the world around them.
NatureQuest:Explorers
Ages 9-11
Explorers is Nature Quest for youth on the edge of middle childhood and early adolescence – a time of vibrant imagination, emerging self-awareness, and expanding capability. Here, story meets skill, and play evolves into purpose. Through guild-based learning, group quests, and real achievements, Explorers begin to step more fully into their role as members of a living, learning village.
NatureQuest:Pathfinders
Ages 12-14
Pathfinders is the culminating stage of Nature Quest – designed for youth who are ready to test their edges, grow real skills, and explore who they are becoming. Through meaningful challenge, peer collaboration, and deepening mentorship, Pathfinders walk a path of personal and collective growth. Participants work toward earning guild achievements that recognize effort, skill, and inner growth. With every fire lit, trail walked, and circle held, youth earn recognition not only for what they’ve learned – but for who they are becoming.
NatureQuest:Legends of the Wild
Ages 9-14
For Nature Quest participants ready to bring their learning to life, Legends of the Wild is a nine-month immersive EduLARP (educational live-action role play) that transforms forest learning into heroic adventure. Meeting once weekly in parallel with the core program, this offering weaves together bushcraft skills, guild virtues, and character-driven play to form a rich, evolving story world – one where students don cloaks of imagination and courage to become the heroes of their own mythic journey.
NatureQuest:Leaders In Training
Ages 15-17
The Leader in Training (LIT) program is the next step for teens who’ve grown through Nature Quest and are ready to lead, support others, and deepen their own learning. LITs are both learners and leaders – stepping into mentorship while continuing to grow their own skills, self-awareness, and confidence.
This is not just about helping out – it’s about real, meaningful leadership development in a supportive, nature-rooted community. LITs are not just assistants, they are Apprentice Guides.