Kamana Naturalist Training Program: A Simple Overview
WHY Choose Kamana?
What places Kamana above all other books and Naturalist training courses is that it works by exercising your awareness skills and building your bioregional knowledge over time. It can do this because it is a well-structured course that walks you through every step of the way.Your skills are "tonified" by regular routines just as your body is tonified with a regular, on-going exercise routine. This only increases your own commitment and dedication towards the wilderness arts and enriches your lifelong learning experiences.
Kamana was born from the multi-cultural founders of Wilderness Awareness School who designed an authentic experience that fits into a modern style of learning.
Simple Outline
There are four levels to the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and each level has two trails.The Nature Awareness Trail
This level focuses on developing your awareness in an expansive way. It is about using your eyes and ears and other senses in ways not often challenged in academic training. The result will be new patterns in your awareness, an increase in your "mind's eye" ability to visualize, a strengthening of your gut feelings, and a connection to the seasons and cycles of nature.The Resource Trail
This trail investigates six tracks of study. You will develop self-sufficiency in research and the ability to sort through nature's overwhelming diversity to focus on key species.Many have called the Kamana "The Field Guide to Field Guides" for we use the BEST field guides and books available to guide you through the Kamana journey. Many feel it has unlocked the mysteries of their field guides by making the information within them applicable to their learning processes.
The Kamana Naturalist Training Program builds the ultimate framework so you really USE your field guides.
The Six Resource Trail tracks include:
Hazards & Inspiration
Inspirational stories from native elders and people closely associated with the natural world; assessment of the modern environmental education movement; organization of resources; understanding the "mind's eye" technique for study; self-sufficiency skills in using resources; foundations of taxonomy; hazards of the wild.Mammals
Natural history, physiology, and strategies of mammals; tracking skills: identification of sign, aging, ecological tracking.Plants
Taxonomy and identification of plants; researching native use of plants in crafts and as food and medicine; overland?navigation techniques including aidless navigation.Ecology
Indicator species (invertebrates, amphibians and reptiles); prediction of animal behavior and plant species location based on knowledge of ecology; interplay of extremes and bird's eye viewing of land features; conservation ecology; the history of the land and the native people's staple resources; natural community dynamics; stewardship.Trees
Taxonomy and identification of trees; trees as they affect aspects of the landscape; researching use of trees for survival, food, medicine and in other native lore.Birds
Taxonomy, physiology and behavior of birds; migration and range maps; basics of understanding the language of birds.Click here to check out Kamana One, a great place to begin our naturalist training course.
