The Trackers Village Immersion is a hands-on training program for entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders looking to teach real-world outdoor skills. Through immersive experiences, mentorship, and practical application, this program empowers you to create meaningful nature-based education for your community.
Join Us!
Registration begins in Summer 2025 for our first cohort beginning in Fall 2026. Be among the first to join this movement. Fill out the interest form below to receive updates and early access to enrollment.
Choose Your Path
Each cohort provides hands-on training, expert coaching, and a supportive network to help you share Trackers Skills with the next generation:
Founder Cohort - The Entrepreneurial Track: For those ready to launch their own outdoor camp, forest school, or education program. Develop skills in wilderness survival, foraging, and tracking while receiving business guidance and mentorship to build a sustainable program.
Mentor Cohort - The Mentoring Track: For educators integrating Trackers Skills into schools, camps, and organizations. Gain structured mentorship, innovative curriculum, and hands-on training to enhance outdoor learning.
Connector Cohort - The Community Track: For parents and community organizers creating shared nature-connection experiences. Build local learning communities through Tracking Clubs, Skill Shares, Wild Food Potlucks, and cooperative mentoring initiatives.
Nature Connection
Nature connection is a journey of remembering our human roots. We rediscover adventure by building a survival shelter or creating fire by friction. We reconnect with our food by wading knee-deep into a stream to forage for crawfish or caretaking the forest through the seasonal harvest of wild foods. We return to the land by following stories written in the tracks of a bobcat, a fox, or a deer. And we keep these timeless skills alive by sharing them with our community and the children we mentor as educators.
The Four Guilds
Mentors with real outdoor experience are essential to this learning community. Trackers skills are divided into Four Guilds, each fostering learning rooted in seasons, natural cycles, and place-based awareness.
Rangers Guild: Rangers train in wilderness survival—shelter, water, and fire. Through the Art of Tracking, follow animal trails and deepen your awareness of nature’s patterns.
Mariners Guild: Mariners explore the waters, fishing and boating on rivers, lakes, and seas. Learn the art of orienteering, finding our way—both in the wilderness and livelihood.
Wilders Guild: Wilders steward the land through sustainable forestry and homesteading. Cultivate connection and caretaking while foraging from the land.
Artisans Guild: Artisans create art through woodworking, ceramics, and blacksmithing. Blend story and education as a survival skill to connect community to the land.
The guilds act as timeless archetypes, offering a unique curriculum to train in core routines essential for deeper nature connection.
Trackers Model
Students gain the skills to lead and the knowledge to build a sustainable outdoor education program. Only Trackers serves up to 20,000 students annually through our Trackers Adventure & Expedition model, making nature skills education accessible in both urban and rural communities. This program teaches you how to develop your own thriving programs using our time tested and proven framework.
How It Works
Trackers Village combines immersive retreats, real-world teaching, and ongoing mentorship.
Seasonal Retreats: Four immersive wilderness retreats (Thursday to Sunday) in Sandy, Oregon, where participants practice outdoor skills and mentorship.
Online Meetups: Weekly online meetups led by expert guides. Sessions include guided lessons, coaching, mentorship, and program development.
Independent Study: Self-directed skill-building in survival, tracking, foraging, and bird language. We coach you to form local cohorts for shared learning.
Optional Paid Internship
Gain real-world experience as a paid Summer Camp guide. Learn safety, logistics, and mentorship while earning back part of your tuition.
Program Timelines
Each cohort follows a tailored timeline designed to support their specific track.
Founder Cohort (2 Years)
Year 1: Skill training, program development, and summer internship as a paid Trackers instructor.
Year 2: Program launch with mentorship support.
Mentor Cohort (1 Year)
Year 1: Educators receive training to integrate Trackers Skills into existing programs.
Connector Cohort (1 Year)
Year 1: Parents and community leaders develop local skill-sharing events and nature-based initiatives with Trackers support.
Join Us!
We are launching registration this summer for our first cohort beginning in Fall 2026. Fill out the interest form below to receive updates and early access to enrollment.