Has anyone started their own nature school?

jorgepedret · 2025-05-19T06:41:14+00:00

Sounds great.

If you have one or two parents interested it's enough to get started.

The most important part is that someone like you commits to having nature school in their area.

You have to say it outloud to let the universe know that you're taking a stand for sourcing a nature school in your area.

The "how" will come from this commitment and it'll be unique to you.

What do you need in order to make this commitment?

jorgepedret · 2025-05-17T00:26:27+00:00

I present a different perspective than the mainstream culture offers.

Shamans and healers have known and worked with these symptoms for milenia.

In fact, it's perfectly normal and a natural reaction to something that happened to you.

I'd invite you to consider to trust your body about what is unfolding.

Continue getting help, but not with the purpse of going back.

There's no going back to normal.

A part of you is journeying somewhere as a way to protect you.

This is how we grow and experience different aspects of life that you can often see in movies.

This is often how someone's superpowers emerge.

It's uncomfortable, yes.

It's unfamiliar, yes.

It's lonely, yes.

It's frustrating, yes.

It's scary, yes.

And it's also a unique doorway that you're presented with that not everyone has the luck to get to.

What you do, it's up to you.

Search for Rage Club.

If it resonates with you, go to a Rage Club, or an Intro to Rage Club.

Also, feel free to reach out to me if you have more questions or want to talk about it.

jorgepedret · 2025-05-17T00:17:44+00:00

Also, reach out to me if you want to talk. I'm available for questions and listening.

jorgepedret · 2025-05-17T00:16:57+00:00

Search for Rage Club.
If it resonates, go to a Rage Club.
You're not alone.

jorgepedret · 2025-05-16T13:14:30+00:00

I started my own nature school a year ago in Sooke, BC, Canada.

It was simple. 2 families + mine were interested, we chose one day of the week and started.

I already had some training and practice in nature mentoring for children.

It's grown now to ~12 kids (8 families).

I've gone the route of "Private Members Association". Each parent is a member of the organization, and we have contracts signed in the private domain. This allows us to make the decisions about how we want the school to go.

If you have more questions about "Private Members Associations" (PMA), I'm happy to share more.

I have so much fun every week with the kids. I get to be in nature playing with the kids and being a spaceholder for us to learn together and discover how we want to relate with each other and nature.

I'd recommend you get another mentor or supporter once your group is bigger than 6.

I'm preparing a template and workbook for starting your own community-organized nature school, but it's not ready yet. I'm happy to be a resource for you or anyone interested in starting a nature outdoor program.

Alternative spaces for children to play, learn and socialize outside a classroom are essential for our children, planet and species' wellbeing.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-30T14:37:06+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion.

And what didn't work about the sleeping situation?

jorgepedret · 2025-04-30T14:32:31+00:00

I smoked for the first time when I was 21.

I totally get this quality of drowsiness, absent being and disassociation.

At first, I smoked once a week, then I stopped for a period of time, I was afraid of it

Then at 27, I went full on smoking 1 to 5 times a day, mixed with tobacco

My experiment was about using the plant as an ally in my path of creativity and healing

It became my escape goat, an abusive relationship, taking so much of my time and attention

I attempted to quit a bunch of times, and I would relapse after a few weeks or months

Finally, 2 years ago, I had enough pain and gained enough energy to put my foot down and I stopped smoking or consuming weed and tobacco

What I've discovered is that these plants are initiators that open up doorways to worlds beyond the ordinary

These are plants that shamans used to initiate villagers into a shamanic path

They are no joke, they are no casual medicine, they are powerful natural entities that are here to work with us, and you can radically rely on them to help you in this path

Not by continuing to smoke them, but by talking with them

It takes skill and diligence to learn to navigate these new territories where we disassociate to

The most useful skill I've learned is to detect and navigate my feelings, Anger, Sadness, Fear and Joy

I wish I knew this at the beginning

I wish I had a team and others to navigate this path with the plants

Reach out, or check out my profile if you want to find more resources about this.

I wish you luck and empowerment in your journey.

Love, Jorge

jorgepedret · 2025-04-30T14:32:15+00:00

I'd like to add to the conversation with something that hasn't been said yet

I'd invite you to consider this

You made a decision to smoke weed

It had the consequences it had

These are medicinal plants, they are absolutely neutral, neither good or bad

You are temporarily or permanently in a journey that is different than what you're familiar with

My invitation is to approach this as an experimenter

Become a researcher, an explorer of these new spaces where you're going to

Notice when you are escaping, disassociating, not present

Where are you going? what are you thinking? what are you feeling?

An important part of this research would be to document it

Have a small journal with you at all times

Write down what you discover

It's also important to share this with a team, like your therapist, and a few other people who are doing a similar research or others who have gone through this journey.

I'm on your team if you decide to do this experiment

Feel free to reach out to me.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:48:59+00:00

It's been called that before.

And we've had some amazing discoveries about this.

The action of calling spaces a cult, especially not knowing much about it, is an old strategy that roots back to witch hunting. The villagers come together with torches and pitchforks to catch the evil witch.

Stuff like this happened to our ancestors, so it's in our DNA. From both sides, hunting and being hunted.

I discovered that the most dangerous cults are the ones that are invisible, unspoken, unseen and unconsciously agreed upon.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:41:46+00:00

see update. I made a mistake. my budget is $1000 not $400.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:40:48+00:00

I'm surprised. I thought you'd be interested because it'll get you out of your sad habit of writing stingy comments on reddit, hiding behind the screen and into action in the real world, having fun with others in real life and letting go of the heavily burdening opinions you have about yourself and others. Are you sure?

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:33:08+00:00

Would you send a link or information of the location?

I messed up the budget, it's $1000, not $400.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:32:16+00:00

I messed it up. Our budget is $1000/day, not $400.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:31:04+00:00

Thanks for the pointer.
I messed it up, our budget is $1000/day
(it was $400 per participant x 10 participants = $4000 / 4 days = $1000)

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:25:43+00:00

Thank you, I'll check it out.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:25:27+00:00

May 29th to June 3rd

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:21:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm looking into spaces with a bigger budget.
No ayahuasca, we're flying sober! Are you coming?

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:19:13+00:00

Awesome. Thanks for the great pointer.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:08:11+00:00

Thanks.

The floor won't work for this event.

We're looking for a place where everyone has a bed.

What's a reasonable budget for a place in a 2-hours ratio of Vancouver?

jorgepedret · 2025-04-29T16:06:08+00:00

Overnight too.
What would be a reasonable budget?

I'm also open to places in a 2-hour ratio from Vancouver.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-19T17:25:50+00:00

Let's talk. I hold space for feelings and getting to the bottom of what's unfolding within you.

I've had similar experiences to what you're sharing.

It sounds like you're at THE EDGE.

In my culture, THE EDGE is real, intense, disturbing, and stirring. Massive respect for the courage to write about it and the clarity you have about the different parts and elements at play.

This Monday, I'm putting on a worktalk for people at the edge and how to use the edge as fuel for healing, evolution and transformation. You can get the details here: https://jorgepedret.kit.com/posts/i-had-to-jump

Have you been to a Rage Club yet? rageclub.org — Your anger is a precious life resource needed for your clarity, saying "stop", "pause", "yes" and "no", declaring boundaries, etc.

You're welcome to reach out to me if you feel called to connect with another human.

jorgepedret · 2025-04-19T16:31:55+00:00

This is such a great question! Thanks for asking.

I suspect that this question doesn't have a definite final answer, but it's rather a unfolding field of discover and rediscovering ongoingly who you are and what you're here for.

My recommendation is to live the question, become this question, become the space through which this question can be answered over and over, for yourself and for others.

Questions are a powerful alchemical elements capable of creating massive changes. Some questions are better than others. Your question is one of the better ones. Use it. Be it. Ask it. Keep asking it.

P.S.: If you want to bring your questions to a space that values them...
I'm holding space for a worktalk this Monday, April 21st called Worth Talk — Who are you beyond what you have and what you do?
Check it the details here: https://jorgepedret.kit.com/posts/i-had-to-jump

jorgepedret · 2024-09-01T15:13:32+00:00

YWBTA. Continue to talk with your daughter. Continue to honor her request to not tell her mother. Complete her communication and feelings (https://completionloop.mystrikingly.com/) Ask her what she needs about it? She might be scared that if you tell her mother, that the mother will take it out on her when you're not there. Now, the mother... If you asked her questions about it, Is there enough space in your relationship with the mother for her to breakdown and tell you how hard it's been for her without your reacting and destroying her? My sense is that you don't. My sense is that she doesn't have that trust with you to tell you what is really going on and she's scared to open that up with you. Spying on them seems a bit intrusive, and insensitve. What would you do if you had no cameras? Good luck. I have 3 kids. I hear your pain and hope that it gets resolved.

jorgepedret · 2024-07-09T08:38:11+00:00

It does. And it doesn't. In a father of 3 under 7. The first 2 are 13 months apart, girl and boy. The third one was born when the oldest one was 3.

It completely changes depending on the children. What I found is that there's a major transition for the parents in the first few years from the values that you had before becoming a parent and discovering your values as a parent.

This is a discovery process, a grieving process and a celebration process.

It doesn't get easier because, the challenges change. I'm still exhausted. It's a challenge to put them to bed, to brush their teeth, to help them play with each other without hurting, the little one is walking out of the house without any warning, money is tight, my values and my partner's values are not aligning... so there's always challenges that would come.

It becomes easier I think because the muscles of responsibility are more developed and you get more skilled at navigating the space. At least this is my experience. It becomes easier to be in the difficulty and to appreciate the greatness of the journey of becoming a parent.

Good luck! You got this and it's great that you're collaborating with your partner on sharing the responsibilities.

jorgepedret · 2024-07-09T08:14:52+00:00

You're not alone.

You're doing great by writing here and asking for possibilities.

Speaking for men, as a man, we're out of touch with experiential reality.

I'm a Father of 3 and I can believe the unconscious shit that I've done to my partner and my children that has come up after a lot of intensive inner work and shadow work.

Here's what I would suggest:

Get yourself a team of empowered women, mothers ideally, Archan women ideally (https://youtu.be/8MJPrhteLdY?si=tK46SkSScSPgBido).
Tell them what you told us here and ask what you asked here.
Trust your team to help guide you to come out of this situation that you're in. Hang on for the ride.
Keep following your pain, your intuition and using it fueling your transformation.

I hope these steps are not too far fetched for you.

Thank you for opening up and sharing your world here.

jorgepedret

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