April 2024 - May 2025
Join us for a year-long exploration of nature connection as reverence, resilience and cultural transformation. Rooted in joyful celebration and critical reflection, Moon School takes up the questions: How might we practice nature connection to cultivate webs of care for the land and each other? What does an embodied, reciprocal relationship to the more-than-human world look like in an age of extinction and human-driven climate change?
Each Moon School session is crafted to reflect what is emerging on the landscape in the changing seasons. Together we'll build naturalist skills like plant and tree identification and animal tracking, and practice ancestral skills like sensory awareness, fire-making, natural crafts, medicine-making and storytelling. At Moon School we learn in community through games, skills, conversation, song, and timeless exploration of thickets and riverbanks, forests and fields.
“Moon School was always a highlight of my month and helped me refocus my busy life around what matters most; connection with people and the natural world.”
Now in its 6th year, Moon School is hosted by instructors Danielle Hagel and byron murray. We are nature nerds, artists, writers, folk ecologists and lovers of the Eramosa River valley and the complex web of floral, faunal and fungal relationships that make their homes here. We intend Moon School to be an inclusive, anti-oppressive space, and are attentive to the challenges inherent in exploring interconnection and right relationship as white settlers on stolen land.
Moon School runs in the late afternoon and early evening, intentionally inhabiting the liminal space between day and dusk (and night in the darkest times of the year), creating a unique opportunity for firelit conversation and sensory awareness. No other program at GOS is like it.
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Moon School 2024 - 2025 : Every Sunday closest to the full moon, from 3 - 7pm.
Sunday April 21, 2024
May 26, 2024
Jun 23, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
Aug 18, 2024
Sep 15, 2024
Oct 20, 2024
Nov 17, 2024
Dec 15, 2024
Jan 12, 2025
Feb 9, 2025
Mar 16, 2025
Past participants say:
“Moon School got my inner child out and jumping in puddles and chasing cray fish again. I got to wander through the fields with other adults, steeped in awe, looking at flowers and shrubs and pulling apart owl pellets and falling in love with ferns. We got to sit around fires and reach into our ancestry and our dreams for the earth. Moon School is a place I'd been longing for for a long time, but never even knew I could find. Every time I left feeling energized, inspired and refreshed. It was fun, engaging and transformative.”
“Moon School was one of the major highlights of my month all year, but the value it brings goes so much deeper than that. I built skills, gained knowledge and was introduced to new interests every month, and Danielle and byron helped cultivate a new lens for looking at and interacting with the natural world and community around me that I will carry with me forever.”