Gerhard E. Dekker
Regenerative Education Center
Nature programming for all ages in Southeastern Manitoba
We'll keep you up-to-date on new and upcoming programs throughout the southeast!
Ages 6 to 12
Thursdays, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Parc Tétrault Park, La Broquerie, Manitoba
Tuition $159.98 / month
Note: Coyotes is currently waitlisting for full seats. Three alternating week spots are currently available. Priority registration for next year is given to current Forest School students.
Skipperlings Cohort
Ages 6 to 12
Alternating Tuesdays, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Weston Family Tallgrass Prairie Interpretive Centre, Stuartburn, MB
Tuition $64.70 / month
Note A prorated registration fee applies.
For Skipperlings this is $100, for Coyotes, $200. If registering midyear, the registration fee is less.
Bursaries are available.
See Forest School Tuition Cost in FAQ to request financial assistance.
What is Forest School?
Forest and Nature School always takes place outdoors, in the same natural area, allowing kids to build a deep relationship with that place and its inhabitants. It is child led and emergent, and features lots of time for unstructured free play, which has been shown to have great outcomes for learning and holistic well being. This is a research-backed model of education rooted in supporting the ways children naturally thrive, learn and grow. Kids engage in inquiry, exploration, creativity, active movement, and various projects outdoors, on and with the land all day. Forest School leaders share skills such as woodworking, fire building, shelter building, nature based arts and crafts, and more, modeling respect and reciprocal relationship with others and with the land.
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Research on the Benefits of Forest and Nature School
There has been a lot of research done showing what many of us already know intuitively: being outdoors and learning in a context of free play, intrinsic motivation and respectful relating has amazing benefits to learning, health and holistic well being.
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We are grateful to this land for holding us here. We remember we are on Treaty 1 and Treaty 3 Territory, the Ancestral Land of the Ininew, Anishinaabe, Dene and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and National Homeland of the Red River Metis. We are committed to listening to, learning from, and meaningfully supporting Indigenous people in our programming, policies, and actions.
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Whether you'd like to participate in our programming, have any questions, or would like to explore volunteer opportunities and share your ideas and skills, we would love to hear from you.
