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Pass it on · ebook & Wilding activity guide collection

Wilder Together

Bring people together. Create shared culture. Grow wilder together.

How do we grow a culture that keeps going?

Build a shared culture around the hearth, bring the skills to your group, and hold a group safely from first meeting to passing it on.

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🃏 Includes a printable card set: every Wilding activity guide as an A6 card (four to an A4 sheet) to spread out, plan with or use for a lucky dip. See a sample

The ebook
90 Wilding activity guides as printable PDFs
Templates and charts the Wilding activity guides need
A printable card set: every guide as an A6 card

Coming soon. Jay is giving this book and its Wilding activity guides a final proofread before they go on sale as downloads. Ask to be told when they're ready.

Safety first. Outdoor activities carry real risks. Each Wilding activity guide has safety notes, but you are responsible for yourself and anyone in your care. Supervise children, get permission, never eat anything you cannot identify with certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe.

The Wilding activity guides in this collection

Create culture

Ways of being together

Thank-you tangleCreate culture

Creating shared spaces

The home hearthCreate culture

Shared practices and traditions

Creating a campfire cultureCreate culture

Creating a tool cultureCreate culture

Animal callsCreate culture

Talking sticksCreate culture

Creating a culture of exchangeCreate culture

Creative connections

Music inspired by natureCreate culture

Art inspired by natureCreate culture

Connecting with people

Find your communityCreate culture

Wilding groupCreate culture

Edible garden clubCreate culture

Tracking clubCreate culture

+ printablesGroup bird sitCreate culture

Support circleCreate culture

Natural sounds & instruments

Nature sounds & whistlesCreate culture

Natural jewellery

Flower crownsCreate culture

Shared customs

Worry stonesCreate culture

Uncover nature's language

The five voices of birds

ContactUncover nature's language

The wrong answerUncover nature's language

Bird alarms

+ printableAlarm matchingUncover nature's language

+ printablesThe shapes of bird alarmsUncover nature's language

SentinelUncover nature's language

The invisible predatorUncover nature's language

Focused visionUncover nature's language

Live wilder

Fire

The ‘fire keeper’Live wilder

‘Wild’ fireLive wilder

Fire lighting and fire lays

Find something you can light with a matchLive wilder

Lighting a fire with childrenLive wilder

Laying & using a long log fireLive wilder

Tools

Selecting the right tool for the jobLive wilder

Woodcraft

“I am a stick”Live wilder

Useful campcraft items

Making a ‘tippy tap’Live wilder

Tree safety

Tricky treesLive wilder

Shelter

Erecting a group tarpLive wilder Rigging a parachute shelterLive wilder

Track & ask questions

Interpreting tracks and movement

Which way?Track & ask questions

Imitate nature

Camouflage and blending with the baseline

Conservation missionImitate nature

Silhouette

Campfire scoutImitate nature

Sound

SssshImitate nature

Spirit

What’s on your mind?Imitate nature

AmbushImitate nature

Animal behaviour games

Fight or flightImitate nature

Silent hunterImitate nature

Value nature

Living with gratitude

+ printableGratitude activityValue nature

KinshipValue nature

IntentionValue nature

The heart of natureValue nature

Living with love and reverence

ReverenceValue nature

Awaken your mind's eye

Visual memory and observation

Awaken your mind’s eyeAwaken your mind's eye

UniqueAwaken your mind's eye

Leaf identity paradeAwaken your mind's eye

Imagination and possibilities

Time machineAwaken your mind's eye

Tell your story

Sharing circleTell your story

InterviewTell your story

Stories with stonesTell your story

Getting started with nature journalling

Same but differentTell your story

Enjoy your sit spot

Sit spot trailEnjoy your sit spot

Group sit spotEnjoy your sit spot

Wander

“I lost my stone!”Wander

Imaginatively journal

Types of nature journal

Journaling from the ground upImaginatively journal

+ printableExploring special placesImaginatively journal

Support nature

Everyday care

Truly helpfulSupport nature

Wildlife surveys and recording

BioblitzSupport nature

Dive into field guides

Learning from guides and local knowledge

All about meDive into field guides

Invertebrates

Hunting in hidden habitatsDive into field guides

Exploring the understoryDive into field guides

Reading habitats and ecological connections

Plant succession crawlDive into field guides

+ printableHabitatDive into field guides

Exploring trees and woody plants

Bark matchingDive into field guides

Tree silhouettesDive into field guides

Exploring birds

Nest buildingDive into field guides

Motivating species & elements

SievesDive into field guides

Spoon or straw?Dive into field guides

Open your senses

Visual searching

Another worldOpen your senses

Low light vision

Night worldOpen your senses

Dusk walkOpen your senses

Focused listening

Pin dropOpen your senses

Sound shakersOpen your senses

Two ears are better than oneOpen your senses

+ printableNight noisesOpen your senses

Peripheral listening

Song of the seasonOpen your senses

Using touch

Squirrel touchOpen your senses

Noticing texture

Natural texture scavenger huntOpen your senses

Tickle, prickle, guess!Open your senses

Awaken your sense of smell

Badger noseOpen your senses

Awaken your sense of taste

Adder tongueOpen your senses

Awaken your sense of body awareness

Dormouse balanceOpen your senses

Sensory meditation and mindfulness

+ printableNature meditationsOpen your senses

More sensory exploration

Blindfold trainingOpen your senses

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Safety, and where the Wilding activity guides come from

Look after yourself and others. Outdoor activities carry real risks: fire, tools, water, weather, heights, plants, fungi, animals and getting lost. Every Wilding activity guide includes safety notes, but you are responsible for your own safety and for anyone in your care. Supervise children closely, get the landowner's permission, follow the Countryside Code, never eat anything you cannot identify with complete certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe. If in doubt, leave it out.

With gratitude to the lineage. Wilding and its Practice Keys are inspired by the work of Jon Young and colleagues: the core routines of nature connection in the 8 Shields approach, also known as Coyote Mentoring, shared in Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young, Haas & McGown). Many of the Wilding activity guides grew from those routines.

These ways of noticing and belonging are far older than any book. They grow from the knowledge of Indigenous and land-based peoples around the world, who have lived in close relationship with the land for thousands of years and have kept that knowledge alive, often in the face of great loss. Jon Young describes 8 Shields as built on patterns of nature connection he found in Indigenous cultures around the world, and on what his mentors taught him, including the teachings passed down through Tom Brown Jr. from Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Our own ancestors in these islands once knew the land in this way too.

I offer Wilding with deep respect and thanks to all of them. It does not claim or copy any culture's ceremonies or sacred practices. It is a UK way of carrying forward simple, shared human ways of paying attention, giving thanks and belonging to a place. — Jay