Teaching Drum Outdoor School

 We scoured the web and found these sites of other outdoor/native skills schools. The descriptions provided come from the sites themselves.  

Headwaters Outdoor School - At Headwaters Outdoor School we teach skills Earth People have used throughout time to survive in kinship with the Earth. Our classes are held in areas chosen for their abundance of wildlife, creeks, meadows, forests and spectacular views. Class locations include the Marble Mountain Wilderness, the Mount Shasta area and the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School - Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School is a school of Primitive and Contemporary Living Skills.

EarthWalk Northwest - School of Primitive Living Skills - Earthwalk Northwest offers programs focusing on earth awareness and primitive living skills, including primitive bow making, fire by friction, wild edibles, and much more. Our unique courses provide in-depth, hands-on experience, allowing participants to deepen their understanding of traditional skills while learning how to wisely use and honor the many gifts the earth has to offer.

Wilderness Way - Primitive Skills, Tracking, Nature Awareness School - The school originated in 1993 as part of the founder's vision to use his love and experience of living close to nature to lead others back to their heritage, their connection to the natural world. His vision being that this will help heal our Earth Mother and ensure that the Creator's gifts to us, manifest in nature, will still be available to the future generations. Those who truly live close to the earth, in harmony and balance, become it's caretakers.

School of Self Reliance - The School of Self-Reliance operates from Los Angeles, and in that general area of southern California. We research, test, teach / guide, and publish in all aspects of self-reliance -- and also sell useful products. Outdoor skills include wild food foraging and orienteering. Indoor skills include recycling and gardening.

Boulder Outdoor Survival School - At BOSS, the traditional skills of indigenous cultures and the rhythms of the natural world combine to create an experience unlike any you will find elsewhere. From the depths of the Amazon Basin to the plains of the Serengeti to the mesas and mountains of the Four Corners area, we work hard to deliver an authentic wilderness experience for you to enjoy.

Jack Mountain Bushcraft & Guide Service - Jack Mountain Bushcraft & Guide Service offered traditionally outfitted and guided canoe and snowshoe trips, realistic courses in wilderness survival and traditional skills, fly fishing excursions, and the Earth Skills Semester Program.

Wilderness Awareness School - A non-profit environmental education organization established in 1983. Our mission is to foster people's understanding of their native environment through enhancing positive connections with nature, community, family and self. We offer a variety programs for adults and children of all ages throughout the United States, as well as our own unique line of educational products and services available world-wide. We seek to train people as naturalists, trackers, and mentors who take active roles in sharing their knowledge in their own communities.

Das Wissen der Wildnis - (German) Our goal is to help people of all ages and all walks of life to reconnect to the Natural World. We do a variety of programs throughout Germany and Austria and offer wilderness experiences in the Baltics and Canada.

Ancient Pathways - Ancient Pathways has been offering experientially-based courses in Desert Survival and Bushcraft Living Skills. Our programs are designed for those seeking to develop proficiency in both primitive and modern wilderness skills. For an intensive experience in bushcraft and traditional wilderness skills, check out our 3-month residential semester program.

Reevis Mountain School - Reevis Mountain School offers courses promoting self-reliance and an environment for people to truly reconnect with themselves, each other, and the earth, so that we might better understand nature and our human family coexisting on this living planet.

Earth Knack - Earth Knack has been offering primitive living skills courses and wilderness treks since 1990.

Medicine Bow - Medicine Bow is a wilderness school in the North Georgia Mountains that specializes in Native American survival skills (primitive skills) and nature classes.

Maine Primitive Skills School - Learn life skills that have been tested globally for twenty-five thousand years. Experience the freedom of entering the woods without a tool and not only surviving but flourishing, indefinitely. Develop your awareness beyond what you now think possible. Let us rock your perception of the real world.

Earthways School of Wilderness Living - Since 1988, we've been teaching people the ancient ways of living with the earth so they may hold a renewed perspective of love for all things and move forward with knowledge of both the past and present to freely choose their life's purpose.

First Earth Wilderness School - Programs and workshops are designed to give participants valuable life-saving survival skills and practical knowledge about the natural world. Our underlying goal is to help re-establish the sense of connection and reverence for nature that most of our culture has lost.

Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects: A Stone Age Living Experiment in Western Montana - Have you ever wondered if you could not only survive, but thrive in the wilderness using only the abundance that nature provides? Some of us learned these ways as children from our parents and grandparents. For others, the skills were lost and forgotten far back in our ancestry.

Skills Alive!! - Skills Alive!! is an organization of primitive skills instructors which allows participants to learn to re-create the daily living skills that were practiced by ALL our ancestors around the world thousands and thousands of years ago

Earth School - Earth School is a unique outdoor school for all ages that promotes and encourages self-confidence and a new awareness in each student. Our programs are designed to introduce children and adults to the natural world at a level of understanding that all of our ancestors shared. When we immerse ourselves in nature and all its wonder, we are brought back to a deeper appreciation and connection with the earth. These experiences show us how the lessons of nature can be incorporated into everyday life for the benefit of all creation. When we truly understand the delicate balance of nature, we learn to love, respect and protect our environment and ourselves.

Midwest Native Skills Institute - Midwest Native Skills Institute offers the most comprehensive Wilderness / Outdoor classes where you learn to use "The Old Ways" to work with Nature and survive. These nearly lost skills and secrets used in the past will give you the knowledge to be effective and efficient in the wilderness.

Wild Food Adventures - Wild Food Adventures provides expertise in wild edible plants through workshops, expeditions, teaching events, presentations, outdoor guiding, and outfitting anywhere in North America.

Lifeways Earth Living School - Lifeways Earth Living School teaches through hands-on experience. Our focus is on earth skills that inspire self-reliance, healthful living, awareness of self, conservation and appreciation of the earth, and respect of all life. As a school, we seek to teach in a respectful and loving atmosphere in harmony with the earth and each other.

Nature Awareness School - Our courses are designed to gently help students experience nature on a deeper and more personal level. As the student gains new insight into the gifts provided by nature, he or she will begin to experience how all things are connected.

We welcome the opportunity to create a reciprocal relationship with these other schools. If you would like your school listed, please contact us