It is time to apply and register for the 2026-27 year of WOLF Programs. Be sure to do so soon before spaces fill up!
WOLF Kids OPEN HOUSE MAY 5th.

WOLF is a Deep Nature Connection immersion program for children, based on Nature Awareness and Coyote Mentoring, on Salt Spring Island that has served hundreds of children over the last 21 years. Our cutting-edge programs are unique in Canada and have received attention from educators and media across North America and Europe. We have three separate yet connected programs, on different days, in different locations, depending on age.

WOLF Pups for ages 5-7 (Monday - Tuesday, 9:30am– 2:30pm)
WOLF Kids for ages 8-14 (Monday - Wednesday, 9:00am– 3:00pm)
WOLF Teens for ages 14-17 (Mon - Wed or just Wednesdays 9:00– 3:00pm)

Our creative mentoring approach honours each child’s unique gifts and passions, encourages self-awareness in learning, supports a sense of belonging in community, and awakens a deep kinship with nature.

It supports youth to develop heightened awareness, empathy, and ancient earth-based skills so they can navigate the challenges of the modern world with confidence, competence, resilience, and a strong connection to themselves, to others, and to this earth which sustains us.

WOLF offers a very high adult to student ratio for individual attention, between 1:5 to 1:7. Mentors are highly trained and specifically chosen to match the age-specific needs of the children, and for teams that offer a rich and diverse complement of skills, personality and empathic mentoring.

WOLF emphasizes Nature as teacher, and offers naturalist and ancestral skills development, ecological knowledge, land stewardship principles, peacemaking, cultural repair practices, peacetending, leadership and community building skills, and awareness practices that inspire and empower students to continue their learning adventure well beyond the program and into the landscape of their lives.

All WOLF programs start in Sept and run through June, with a 6-week break for mid-Dec through January, and a 2 week Spring break. Students register and commit for the full year. This is not a drop-in program.

Parents may choose to also register for an optional Distributed Learning program on Thursdays offered by Heartwood or GO64 (we do not directly organize or provide this Ministry funded program, rather we work in association and communication with them and accept funding through them for individual children’s tuition). Some parents also choose Self Design, or Island Discovery, or their own homeschooling options.

If you have any questions about the program and if it is a good fit for your child, please contact us!

READ MORE and to REGISTER: https://www.wisdomoftheearth.ca/wolf-kids-program/
QUESTIONS or for Open House Info: info@wisdomoftheearth.ca